MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by peter_d_sherman | 2026-01-04 06:15:48+00:00
I asked Perplexity.ai to list all of the DRAM manufacturing companies that it could. What follows is that list:

Samsung Electronics – https://www.samsung.com

SK hynix – https://www.skhynix.com

Micron Technology – https://www.micron.com

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) – https://www.cxmt.com

Nanya Technology – https://www.nanya.com

Winbond Electronics – https://www.winbond.com

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (PSMC) – https://www.psmc.com.tw

Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit (JHICC) – http://www.jhicc.com

GigaDevice – https://www.gigadevice.com

Etron Technology – https://www.etron.com

Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. (ISSI) – https://www.issi.com

Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) – https://www.esmt.com.tw

Zentel Electronics – https://www.zentel.com.tw

Alliance Memory – https://www.alliancememory.com

AP Memory Technology – https://www.apmemory.com

AMIC Technology – https://www.amictechnology.com

Hua Hong Semiconductor – https://www.huahong.com

(Note that I have not researched each of these companies individually... There may be errors in the above list (some may be DRAM resellers, some may be defunct, etc., etc.))
by omgwtfbyobbq | 2026-01-04 06:16:03+00:00
Even without Elon, Tesla would do better than Ford.

And Tesla has to hit market cap and operation goals before any stock is awarded to Elon.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-what-elon-musk-needs-to...

If the Market cap isn't there, no stock. If the operational goal isn't there, no stock. They both have to be satisfied for the award.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-04 06:17:02+00:00
You keep submitting this repo (with dookahku), perhaps you could read the guidelines and share something that you're curious about next time.

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by nurettin | 2026-01-04 06:17:32+00:00
Yes, Rust boilerplate is LLM worthy work. It was never meant for humans. The ergonomics component is absent.

Unfortunately, there will be more tokens and context wasted as the LLM struggles with appeasing the compiler.

Example: say a function had two string view args which are bound to a single lifetime because both args at call site had the same scope. Now you have another call site where the args have different scope. Whoops, let me fix that, blah blah.
by lvspiff | 2026-01-04 06:19:00+00:00
I think this is something thats really missing. In the vacuum of power who is stepping in? If its someone who is just going to sell oil to the us who gets to continue to oppress and destroy the Venezuelan economy then is it really a win?

It be like the Russians taking out Trump only to have Vance take over. Hes still propped up by miller, hegseth, bondi, the house AND senate AND courts and the cavalcades of sycophants who really only are doing the whims of oligarchs who have no interest in helping society as a whole.
by eastbound | 2026-01-04 06:20:37+00:00
StackOverflow is famously obnoxious about questions badly asked, badly categorized, duplicated…

It’s actually a topic on which StackOverflow would benefit from AI A LOT.

Imagine StackOverflow rebrands itself as the place where you can ask the LLM and it benefits the world, whoch correctly rephrasing the question behind the scenes and creating public records for them.
by gnull | 2026-01-04 06:21:07+00:00
That's such a user-hostile design decision. I can't fathom what justifies it (other than kinky taste).

Makes your commands unreadable without a manual, leaves a lot of room for errors that are quietly ignored. And forces you into using a shell that comes with its own set of gotchas, bash is not known to be a particularly good tool for security.

And to those who stay this adds flexibility: it doesn't. Those file descriptors are available under/dev/fd on linux, with named options you can do --pk /dev/fd/5. Or make a named pipe.
by refurb | 2026-01-04 06:21:50+00:00
The problem is you’re getting all your information from the internet (I’ll bet social media?).

The impact of that is on display in this very thread. Random unproven accusations, conspiracy theories and repetition of “facts” that have been disproven long ago.

If your goal is to educate yourself about the US leadership, or really any subject, you’re not going to do it by what you see on social media.
by hansvm | 2026-01-04 06:22:15+00:00
Programming is a ton of fun. There are competing concerns though.

I recently wrote a 17x3 reed-solomon encoder which is substantially faster on my 10yo laptop than the latest and greatest solution from Backblaze on their fancy schmancy servers. The fun parts for me were:

1. Finally learning how RS works

2. Diving in sufficiently far to figure out how to apply tricks like the AVX2 16-element LUT instruction

3. Having a working, provably better solution

The programming between (2) and (3) was ... fine ... but I have literally hundreds of other projects I've never shipped because the problem solving process is more enjoyable and/or more rewarding. If AI were good enough yet to write that code for me then I absolutely would have used it to have more time to focus on the fun bits.

It's not that I don't enjoy coding -- some of those other unshipped projects are compilers, tensor frameworks, and other things which exist purely for the benefit of programmer ergonomics. It's just that coding isn't the _only_ thing I enjoy, and it often takes a back seat.

I most often see people with (what I can read into) your perspective when they "think" by programming. They need to be able to probe the existing structure and inject their ideas into the solution space to come up with something satisfactory.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that (apologies if I'm assuming to much about the way you work), but some people work differently.

I personally tend to prefer working through the hard problems in a notebook. By the time the problem is solved, its ideal form in code is obvious. An LLM capable of turning that obvious description into working code is a game changer (it still only works like 30% of the time, and even then only with a lot of heavy lifting from prompt/context/agent structure, so it's not quite a game changer yet, but it has potential).
by gifnotjif | 2026-01-04 06:22:32+00:00
The context being that USA Today had celebrated Levine as one of its "Women of the Year".

Or as the Babylon Bee put it:

"Levine is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he serves proudly as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman."

Far too blasphemous for Twitter's censors at the time.
by tpmoney | 2026-01-04 06:23:16+00:00
This is being pedantic though. Is there nothing in your life that you outsource because you just don't enjoy doing, or it would take too much time away from what you actually want to do? It's highly unlikely you grind your own flour at home from wheat berries, even if you do make your own bread. Plenty of people enjoy home brewing, and plenty of people would rather buy a good brew from a local brewer and have no interest in brewing. Even if you're into wood working, you're probably not milling your own boards. You might like cooking, but you're probably not mining your own salt. There's a pretty good chance that you don't make your own pasta from scratch. And also a good chance you're not butchering your own meats. Someone I'm sure is finding artistry and fulfillment in doing these things for themselves. And for other people they're distractions that take away from doing what they actually want to do.
by hexbin010 | 2026-01-04 06:24:52+00:00
Do people struggle with the concept that an old ruthless businessman continues to be a ruthless businessman?

I don't remember him setting up a foundation and giving away all his money and assets prior to getting into office!

Though I don't like it as explanation or topic as it ventures into "it's just business" and "business as usual" in a way that normalises it
by trhway | 2026-01-04 06:25:39+00:00
>They’re children. They don’t need to know where bacon and hot dogs come from.

not sure about that. Around age 7 i saw a full butchering of a pig at my grandmother's farm, and i was still happily eating pork for the next 20+ years, and i don't remember anybody in my childhood not knowing where the bacon is coming from. I stopped eating beef and pork though about 20 years ago exactly for the reason where it comes from.

Btw, "They don’t need to know where ... come from" can be said by the powers-to-be about people of any age.
by solumunus | 2026-01-04 06:26:50+00:00
> To say it could possibly be misunderstood is to say that there is a wrong way of understanding, but clearly there are at least multiple correct - or at least not incorrect - understandings!

There are multiple correct understandings but there are also understandings that are completely incorrect, no? You’re saying any interpretation is valid, even ones that are clearly nonsensical?
by OgsyedIE | 2026-01-04 06:27:34+00:00
Track maintenance is the single biggest cost sector of rail lines in good condition even on very low slopes. The ballast needs regular inspection and replacing even without adverse weather or underbed problems, and the track can develop cross fall or slew and/or creep in transverse and longitudinal directions over time, sometimes taking subsurface layers with it. Every other kind of gravity storage makes more sense on paper than this, even the tower crane rearranging concrete cubes proposal.
by cgriswald | 2026-01-04 06:27:35+00:00
I don’t agree. Yes, every work of art is open to interpretation, but that interpretation has to be informed by the art. There has to be supporting evidence and you have to consume the art holistically.

You can’t, for insurance, conclude that the meaning of The Princess Bride is that Sicilians are dangerous when death is on the line by focusing solely on a single character’s words, ignoring the fact that he is outwitted and dies, and ignoring that the book is primarily not focused on that character. I mean, you can; but then you definitely haven’t understood the film/book.
by AbraKdabra | 2026-01-04 06:28:25+00:00
All your "moral" comments don't matter, I live in Argentina and the ABSURD amount of venezuelans that migrated here in the last 10/15 years is nothing you'll ever see. I have 3 venezuelan friends here and a couple more that I only know (one is an Uber I once took and have a couple neighbors in the building), all were able to escape the dictatorship and left their family there, I just can't express with words the JOY I saw in their statuses from WhatsApp and Instagram today when the door to maybe go back to their country finally opened.

One of my friends is my motorcycle mechanic, met him in 2015 when I bought my first KTM, still my mechanic to this day. A lot of the bike services I stayed with him talking while he worked, I listened to a lot of his stories from back in the day, why he had to run, why his family stayed, how he had to send money to them to eat and some other horror stories.

In the name of my friends, if you think what happened today is bad, you can respectfully go fuck yourself.
by bluecalm | 2026-01-04 06:30:02+00:00
Looking at my own code one case I wouldn't get with defer and better switch is avoiding a flag pattern.

For example when you iterate over a block and check if positions are 0 (+ do some work) and once you encounter a non zero you jump to a different "non-empty" section but if it's zeros to the end you jump over non-empty to go to end section. Without goto you need to set a flag and add another conditional there.

Other than that what you mentioned: flatting the if structure is nice. When you have a few simple cases and then a complicated one and a finishing session at the end it's just cleaner and easier to read with goto.
It could be handled with a switch statement but not everything is "switchable" and the way most people write it it's another 2 indentation levels (1 with a convention of not indenting cases but I see C3 docs avoid it).

I get it's rare but goto (other than error handling) is rare and I don't think people have a tendency to abuse it. If anything people abuse "structured" construct building an arrow pattern with multiple indentation levels for no good reason.
by PlanksVariable | 2026-01-04 06:30:13+00:00
It’s estimated there are over a million Venezuelans in the U.S. who fled the country. Over 600,000 are currently under temporary protected status with asylum claims. 7 million in neighboring countries.

Who gets to decide that this is good, but removing the dictator behind this is bad? Who gets to decide that we must live with this chaos because taking action might not reduce the chaos.

> Today it is 'overthrowing a dictator'; tomorrow it will be 'correcting an election'

Why? Those are two completely different things. We have the capacity to evaluate whether overthrowing a dictator is good or bad on its own terms.
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-04 06:30:35+00:00
The main problem with this and many such ideas is that G (the universal gravitational constant) is just so damn small. Making this system store any serious amount of energy in a small footprint is limited by the density of materials you can raise and the height available. In a large footprint you need a lot of infra (eg: loooong rail) which has maintenance cost, and still, very small per-liter and per-m^2 efficiency.
by dangus | 2026-01-04 06:30:45+00:00
> Liquid Glass isn't an optional decoration, it's the name of the new system-wide UI

Of course it’s optional. Some of the most popular apps on the planet ignore the local UI conventions of their parent OSes entirely.

TikTok is a Flutter app. It looks identical on iOS and Android. It uses basically no native UI elements.

It’s a pretty well-known strategy to create apps that look identical on all platforms so that you lessen your customer confusion and your support burden. The fact that Spotify, Facebook, Uber, and Reddit look exactly the same no matter what platform you’re on is more important than complying with OS design guidelines and UI elements.
by heavyset_go | 2026-01-04 06:31:23+00:00
I thought the XDNA line was related to Xilinx's Versal (or Alveo, I forget) lines that use FPGA fabric?

Or maybe I'm misinterpreting press releases, as evidently Notebookcheck.net lied to me years ago :(

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-details-4-nm-Zen-4-Ryzen-7...
by namrog84 | 2026-01-04 06:33:02+00:00
The downside of this is what happens in other places. You won't neccesarily stand out.

The entities doing endless reposts are building faster bigger audiences and might or will repost your stand out piece.

If you care that you wrote it and that people enjoy it. All is good. But I'd you wanted to stand out with it or build around it. The low effort reposters might take that from you.

In a rare occasion I've even seen a reposter shorten or better edit the original piece.

Though I am still hopefully optimistic that in the long run for the good
by comfysocks | 2026-01-04 06:33:14+00:00
In a way, America didn’t ask for what it got. America voted for a guy who claimed to have never heard of Project 2025. It got Project 2025.

Also, Trump ran on a populist message. Yet if you look at what he has done materially since he got into office, it seems his true allegiance is with the billionaire elite.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-04 06:34:08+00:00
But people are looking at C3, Odin & Zig because they've determined that C is the wrong language for them; many have determined that it's too sharp. C3 has "safe" in its title, they're expecting fewer sharp edges.

I'm not asking for useful optimizations like constraints to go away, I'm asking for them to be properly communicated as being sharp. If you use "unsafe" incorrectly in your rust code, you invite UB. But because of the keyword they chose, it's hardly surprising.
by jshier | 2026-01-04 06:35:06+00:00
Xcode 26.2 is a 2.1GB download, which expands to 8.63GB on disk, which includes the macOS SDK. The iOS SDK and simulators are another 8.38GB. Luckily Xcode versions can share iOS SDKs now, so you only need to install them once. Really the biggest disk eater is Xcode's default behavior of creating a huge set of simulators for every platform.
by dfajgljsldkjag | 2026-01-04 06:35:07+00:00
Did you even come up with the idea yourself or just ask chatgpt to do it like you asked it to write all the code and readme?

If you actually did any thinking about the idea yourself, maybe try to explain in your own words what it's actually about, and how it builds on other papers and differs from similar techniques.

You really didn't even bother to replace [your-username] that chatgpt put in there with your actual username. And is that even your name?

@misc{genreg2024,
author = {Payton Miller},
title = {GENREG: Evolutionary Neural Network Training Through Trust-Based Selection},
year = {2024},
publisher = {GitHub},
url = {https://github.com/[your-username]/genreg}
}

Questions, suggestions, or collaboration inquiries: [your contact info]

Project Link: https://github.com/[your-username]/genreg
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-01-04 06:35:27+00:00
From what I gather, most of the food insecurity in Venezuela arose pre-2017 back when Obama was doing narrowly targeted sanctions on key individuals. You can see undernourishment rockets upward after Maduro takes power in 2013:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prevalence-of-undernouris...

Nothing Trump has done to Venezuela was justified or sensible. I just want to clarify that the nation's dysfunction does not seem to be primarily due US activity. (Maybe if we wait a little bit, it will be!)
by stale2002 | 2026-01-04 06:36:07+00:00
Oh I very much have a lot of facts. I'm just not going to waste my time writing a multi paragraph response when we both know that you don't care what the answer is.

Feel free to go ask ChatGPT for some answers if you like though.

You can just say that you don't care. It's fine. Lots of people don't care about other people's opinions.
by liampulles | 2026-01-04 06:36:51+00:00
If one likens coding to carpentry, then enterprise software development at a small company is not building a beautiful carved coffee table, it's more akin to the contents of a farm workshop. I'm talking about shelves and tables and "tools" quickly made from cut-up 2 by 4s, screws, and nails. It works for the scale of a small farm. If something needs improvement, you tack it on or cut away somewhat haphazardly, and thing gets a little uglier and more cumbersome. The marker of skill is how well you can do this in a fixed, short amount of time.

If that farm manages to grow to become a "big farm", then some of those wood constructions are not going to cut it anymore (though some parts still can), and good quality expensive tools/tables will need to be bought. This might require some persuasion when talking to higher ups, because they've been used to cheap stuff up until now. And you may never get thanked for averting a disaster.

If you accept this as the nature of business, then you can move forward. Aim to minimize shit, not maximise perfection. Leave if your management can never see reason.
by thejazzman | 2026-01-04 06:37:07+00:00
> Apple does not license MacOS for use on hardware they don't sell. It can be argued this feature does not have any legitimate functionality.

Anymore. They don’t license it anymore. And the answer is money. So much money it is part of one of SV’s favorite success stories.

They don’t appear to give a ahit about hobby use. If you are running macOS commercial on non Apple hardware they will figuratively murder you.

And you’re allowed to run macOS VMs on top of macOS hosts, so the functionally is sound in that context
by eastbound | 2026-01-04 06:37:09+00:00
It seems you deny each problem that everyone sees in SO. The fact is SO repulsed people, so there is a gap between your interpretation and reality.

> It is as though people think they are being insulted when they are immediately given a link to where they can get the necessary answer, by volunteers.

This, for example. Question can be marked as duplicate without an answer. In this case yes, it feels insulting because the other is asked in such a weird way, that no-one will find the old when they search for the new (for example after a library change) and marking it as duplicate of an unanswered answer if a guarantee that the next SEO user won’t see it.
by zahlman | 2026-01-04 06:37:20+00:00
To the extent that moderation ever prevented questions from getting answers, that was by closing them.

When a question gets closed before an answer comes in, the OP has nine days to fix it before it gets deleted automatically by the system.

The value proposition is getting an answer to a question that is useful to a reasonably broad audience. That very often means a question that someone else asked, the answer to which is useful to you. It is not getting an "answer" to a "question" where an individual dumps some code trying to figure out what's wrong.
by PlanksVariable | 2026-01-04 06:37:38+00:00
I do not acknowledge that. If you want to make an argument that overthrowing a dictator is always wrong on principle, go ahead. But I will not accept this as axiomatic.

Claiming this could “destabilize” the country suggests that the country is stable. It’s not.

You mention the 30+ million people who live there, under the dictatorship, but ignore the 8+ million who have fled the country in recent years and the instability that has unleashed on country and the entire region.
by ACCount37 | 2026-01-04 06:38:30+00:00
It would be certainly be bizarre if the 8086 architecture, never designed to be a foundation of all home, office and server computation, was the best CPU architecture ever made.

And it isn't. It's merely good enough.

That's what LLMs are. A "good enough" AI architecture.

By "AGI", I mean the good old "human equivalence" proxy. An AI that can accomplish any intellectual task that can be accomplished by a human. LLMs are probably sufficient for that. They have limitations, but not the kind that can't be worked around with things like sharply applied tool use. Which LLMs can be trained for, and are.

So far, all the weirdo architectures that try to replace transformers, or put brain-inspired features into transformers, have failed to live up to the promise. Which sure hints that the bottleneck isn't architectural at all.
by steve_adams_86 | 2026-01-04 06:39:27+00:00
Exactly. And what worries me is that they are essentially greasing the groove for these synapses, growing the neural network around deception and dishonesty. If they get into gambling in 5 years or so and happen to have a partner, they will already be somewhat adapted and practiced in hiding this activity quite effectively rather than seeking and accepting help. It's worrying. It's all foundational to very self-destructive habits from my perspective.
Show HN: CacheKit – an async Rust cache abstraction from a production system
by indykish | 2026-01-04 06:40:18+00:00
CacheKit began as an internal feature tightly coupled to Redis and our Rust API framework. We later extracted it into a standalone async crate with a smaller, more explicit public API, while keeping the production constraints that originally shaped it.

I wrote about the process of shipping the crate, including how multiple coding agents were used, where they helped, and where human judgment was still required—especially around correctness, API clarity, and DX.

Write-up:
https://medium.com/@indykish/shipping-a-production-grade-rus...