MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by short_sells_poo | 2026-01-29 10:27:09+00:00
The issue is that wages in London are much lower for tech than in SF or NY. If you want to make good money in London, you have to work in finance, and preferably in the investment business.

London is a very expensive city, and the median income is actually very low compared to it. There is a high concentration of people who are very well off, but everyone else is struggling.
by tomaytotomato | 2026-01-29 10:27:10+00:00
Over the last year I have seen some really nice exploration posts on HN with people poking around on:

- Splinter Cell

- Deus Ex

- Thief

- Civ

This is great work and will help tell the story of how these games were made.

It would be great if all games after a certain period of time were opensourced like some companies are doing:

https://github.com/electronicarts

https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games?tab=readme-ov-fi...
by roryirvine | 2026-01-29 10:27:16+00:00
The full details of the tender are available from https://ukri.delta-esourcing.com/delta/respondToList.html?ac...

Not so much of the "long term vision and plan", but plenty of aligning stakeholders, as well as discovering, researching, and managing third party resources - and then there's the requirement to run the service for a further 18 months.

£4m is enough to pay for about 15 consultants for 18 months at typical rates paid by the public sector. But since this is a standalone project, call it a dozen plus overheads. That feels roughly right as a finger-in-the-air estimate for a project of that sort of scope.
by simondotau | 2026-01-29 10:28:50+00:00
For interactive entertainment, I see no moral obligation for Apple to adopt any particular policy unless all major digital game store operators (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Valve etc) are subject to the same requirements.

For all other apps, I agree that alternative payment processing should be permitted for one-off transactions. And I can agree for subscriptions as well, provided the developer can meet a high standard for simple, frictionless cancellations.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-29 10:29:52+00:00
> I don’t see why any developer should be allowed free rein on anyone else’s platform

Is it a "platform" the way a console is or is it a public marketplace? I'd think the distinction comes down to size relative to the rest of the market. If I run a private club that caters to a only a few people I'm not impacting anyone else. Whereas if I run a giant chain of so called "private clubs" that in reality 50% of the town purchases their groceries from then perhaps some scrutiny by the regulator is in order.
by Fokamul | 2026-01-29 10:30:52+00:00
So weird, why do you need Patreon dedicated app in appstore?

There is really so many people visiting Patreon, only because it's in Crapple appstore?

Or is this because they want to support as many payment methods as possible. And Apple Pay support requirements is to have an app?

Would be great, if they simple take a hit and gutted the app and redirect all people into website.
by danv_vdx | 2026-01-29 10:30:55+00:00
That is a much bigger question, and of course.

Like a lot of people, I am concerned with the pace and alignment of technology.
AI in particular is usually wasted or badly used - slop generation etc. I think we could do better there, in ways that actually help communities; this app is a test in that direction.

You could avoid that headache in other ways - like living in a forest and fishing - if you can, sincerely more power to you!
by xerox13ster | 2026-01-29 10:31:20+00:00
It is insane to me that they ask that question in the title of the article and then go on to spoil the big first surprise.

“How do we talk to people about these games without spoiling it for them? Oh, I know I will spoil it for everybody who reads this article!!!

“It’s one of my favorite in the genre (maybe the best) and it requires a level of secrecy because it takes away the wow factor if you learn details about it early, but ANYWAYS here’s some details about it!!!!!!!!”
by sylvain-h | 2026-01-29 10:31:35+00:00
Hi there. I really want to apologize for entirely missing this comment. I dropped the ball. Thank you so much for trying, it's early days so things can be unstable even though I do my best to keep it up.

Hopefully the recent updates should have fixed the failure you faced.

If you ever try again, make sure to let me know, I'll be happy to hear your thoughts.

Thanks.
by tildef | 2026-01-29 10:31:41+00:00
It seems their main app is proprietary. See https://lmstudio.ai/app-terms#restrictions-on-use. Example excerpt--though many of the other points in the ToS also makes it very un-FLOSS:

>> You agree that You will not permit any third party to, and You will not itself:[..] (e) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software[..]
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 10:31:53+00:00
bro I am human what do you want me to say and stop saying that my post reads like AI

I won't change how I write just because of osmething you write. but I honestly get pissed hard when someone says that my comment sounds like AI slop because man if that's the comment you want to give? then I guess the incentive for me is to stop writing comments.

You can go and read my comments, I just don't know what to say man to ya right now but I am sad :<
by ben_w | 2026-01-29 10:32:34+00:00
> The more totalitarian a state is, the more out of touch with reality it can be in its statistics.

That's more of an American problem than an EU one at the moment.

We're not the ones shooting unarmed protesters in the head ten times after removing their legally owned gun, nor faking arrest photos, etc.

Even before that, our leaders have not* called for the death penalty to be used against politicians reminding troops of their existing obligations to not follow illegal orders.

Even before that, the US government shutdown at end of last year means some economic data was never collected at all.

Even before that, DOGE having Musk at the helm had obvious conflicts of interest with regards to e.g. ongoing investigations against Tesla.

* to my knowledge, but TBH wouldn't be surprised if Orban has, but also Hungary is to the EU as, IDK Wyoming perhaps, is to the USA.
by simondotau | 2026-01-29 10:33:40+00:00
You quoted a sentence fragment that, when read in isolation, conveys a position I emphatically reject.

To answer your question directly: I contend that when it comes to operating a marketplace for interactive entertainment, an iPhone is no different from a Nintendo Switch, and if you want to impose rules, they must be imposed equally. For all other apps, I think Epic made some valid points.
by causalscience | 2026-01-29 10:33:56+00:00
That's because those people are all brainwashed.

They were told: buy guns because freedom, and they repeat "we buy guns because freedom".

Then they were told: never mind freedom, lets shoot this unarmed person, and they repeat "never mind freedom, shoot the person".

"we need our guns to protect our freedom against the government" idea could have some merit, but the reason right wingers say it is different. They say it because that meme has infected them, and uses them to replicate. A meme in the original sense

> A meme is a term referring to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another.
by epolanski | 2026-01-29 10:34:07+00:00
There are multiple social studies linking welfare with security.

https://ideas.repec.org/p/cge/wacage/548.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263466102_An_analys...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
by a2tech | 2026-01-29 10:34:38+00:00
Tesla is a meme stock. Its being buoyed up by retail investors (Elon Musk fanbois) and, its been said, by Saudis and others who were trying to curry favor with him (possibly to try and get Trumps ear or other greasy bullshit). The stock is completely divorced from reality, which also attracts further investment--as long as its disconnected from the fundamentals of being a company that has to make a profit, you can argue its worth 100 million billion dollars or a googel, both are just as valid.
by uyzstvqs | 2026-01-29 10:34:56+00:00
> So if I hear what you're saying, the stock will be up another 50% this year!

Which is a clear indication that the original comment is wrong, and driven by a hate bubble instead of reality and facts.

Tesla is leading and succeeding. People have faith in Musk as a leader. Nobody trusts CCP EVs, just like nobody trusts Huawei or Xiaomi phones.
by Fokamul | 2026-01-29 10:35:07+00:00
What kind of users are these? Power-users or normal users (Android etc.) or dum..Apple users?

Because in my circle, power-users and beyond. Everybody is angry with apps needed for everything, you want buy bread in store, "do you have our app?" It's a meme here.
And in our local subreddit, 600k users. Sentiment is the same.

We also tried to bypass stores apps with generating new accounts and distributing QR/cards for free to everyone.
It was kinda popular.

And problems are more real with each day, eg.: scammers have their work way easier, since dumb users can take a huge loan directly from banking app in their phone.

Also small EU country, btw.
by pinnochio | 2026-01-29 10:35:11+00:00
> Going from zero to billionaire in two generations actually says something remarkable about our system.

It does? I mean, sure, it's better than having only the already rich stay rich, but let's not kid ourselves that this is a life outcome that everybody, or even 10% or 1% of the US can shoot for. The vast majority of people stay closer to zero. Who gives a shit that a few people get to win the right-time-right-place lottery?
by jalapenos | 2026-01-29 10:35:18+00:00
It's very simple: if you're not spending your own money, so what?

All other discussion is just noise.

If you accept the idea that it's OK for the state to spend 50% of the economy, on things for you or your various self-congratulatory moral-high-horse programs, this is actually where the money will get pissed away to.

It's all carefully avoiding noticing that socialism is theft because maybe you might get a sniff of the loot.
by willtemperley | 2026-01-29 10:35:27+00:00
Microsoft don't really have an equivalent to iOS so let's compare oranges to oranges: macOS vs Windows.

On macOS, Apple don't take a 30% cut on Steam purchases. Steam take 30% however.

There's a big difference - when you develop an app for iOS or macOS, using Apple's APIs, platform and app store tech, it's reasonable to pay Apple something and they legally can charge.

I don't actually have an opinion on whether 30% or 15% is too much or not. It's factually wrong or illogical arguments that bother me: how can we fight anything when the arguments are just nonsensical.

Apple make plenty of user-hostile decisions, but people need to criticise them reasonably, otherwise they will be ignored by those that might have the influence to change things for the better.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-29 10:36:22+00:00
I really just wanted to know if this was something recent as to why someone posted it or something recent happened or osomethng.

really makes me question my writing style so thanks for giving me doubt, but I don't know, its how I write, I usually just type whatever I am thinking & I don't wish to change just because people comment it reads like AI slop.

Quite frankly, before accusing someone, read their previous comments if you are so worried.

But like, I hate this when people say some comments sound like AI slop because man I wish to be part of this community but such comments like yours just hurt the spirit at this point I don't even know like what you want me to do??
by radarsat1 | 2026-01-29 10:36:55+00:00
> Experts can be swapped in and out of VRAM for each token.

I've often wondered how much it happens in practice. What does the per-token distribution of expert selection actually look like during inference? For example does it act like uniform random variable, or does it stick with the same 2 or 3 experts for 10 tokens in a row? I haven't been able to find much info on this.

Obviously it depends on what model you are talking about, so some kind of survey would be interesting. I'm sure this must but something that the big inference labs are knowledgeable about.

Although, I guess if you are batching things, then even if a subset of experts is selected for a single query, maybe over the batch it appears completely random, that would destroy any efficiency gains. Perhaps it's possible to intelligently batch queries that are "similar" somehow? It's quite an interesting research problem when you think about it.

Come to think of it, how does it work then for the "prompt ingestion" stage, where it likely runs all experts in parallel to generate the KV cache? I guess that would destroy any efficiency gains due to MoE too, so the prompt ingestion and AR generation stages will have quite different execution profiles.
by jbstack | 2026-01-29 10:37:18+00:00
What you mean is that you don't find ASCII diagrams useful. Other people do (see other comments). I find them useful for Org Mode where I prefer to work with just text instead of having to keep separate image files together with my .org files. They're also easier to work with if you need to check them into a Git repo and you don't want to be bothered with something like Git LFS or git-annex. The fact that there are people who want them is enough to explain "why there's a push toward" them (assuming there is actually such a push).
by nabla9 | 2026-01-29 10:38:12+00:00
The operating cost is the maximum Apple can come up with when their accountants attribute everything they possibly can to digital sales for the sake of legal argument. R&D shouldn't really be included, and Apple uses those same tools and APIs themselves. I think the actual profit margin is closer to 90%, and Apple could maintain a 20% margin with just a 3–4% fee.
by prohobo | 2026-01-29 10:38:27+00:00
I'll take a swing.

Dario's essay carefully avoids its own conclusion. He argues that AI will democratize mass casualty weapons (biology especially), that human coordination at civilizational scale is impossible, and that human-run surveillance states inevitably corrupt. But he stops short of the obvious synthesis: the only survivable path is an AI-administered panopticon.

That sounds dystopian until you think it through:

- The panopticon is coming regardless. The question is who runs it.

- Human-run = corruption, abuse, "rules for thee but not for me."

- AI-run = potentially incorruptible, no ego, no blackmail, no bullshit.

- An AI doesn't need to watch you in any meaningful sense. It processes, flags genuine threats, and ignores everything else. No human ever sees your data.

- Crucially: it watches the powerful too. Politicians, corporations, billionaires finally become actually accountable.

This is the Helios ending from Deus Ex, and it's the Culture series' premise. Benevolent AI sovereignty isn't necessarily dystopia, and it might be the only path to something like Star Trek.

The reason we can't talk about this is that it's unspeakable from inside the system. Dario can't say it (he's an AI company CEO.) Politicians can't say it because it sounds insanely radical. So the discourse stays stuck on half-measures that everyone knows won't work.

I honestly believe this might be the future to work toward, because the alternatives are basically hell.
by testaccount28 | 2026-01-29 10:38:46+00:00
dude, what?

A: i'm really interested in things that are red. here's one: firetrucks.
B: here's a neat thing which is green: unripe tomatoes.
A: um, that's not red.
C (you): wow why would you possibly think that the thing was red? they explicitly stated it was green. not sure what comment you read.

do you understand how out of place B's comment was to begin with?
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-29 10:39:35+00:00
I wouldn't describe that as "overturned" but rather "clarified a detail or two". They still aren't allowed to set arbitrary fees but if they can show receipts then they can demand reimbursement.

The idea seems to be that the injunction shouldn't be able to force Apple to operate a given account at an overall loss. They can bill you for resources of theirs that you actually use.
by philipallstar | 2026-01-29 10:41:01+00:00
> The first electric car predates the 20th century. That seems pretty obvious.

If you count remote control cars as well then you have an even weightier point.

But if you're serious about adapting technologies, countries and drivers to electric cars then you'll know that an electric car being made in the 19th century is totally irrelevent. Toyota even bet big on hydrogen rather than electric for a long time; that's how non-obvious it was.
by amarcheschi | 2026-01-29 10:41:07+00:00
They still are, the Danish statistics report ~45% of tesla having issues compared to ~7% of the whole plethora of electric vehicles, that's a lot

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/nearly-half-of-tesla-mo...

"Most of the issues involve critical components like brakes, lights, and suspension. Many cars fail because of play in the steering or faulty axles. These are problems rarely seen at the same level in competitors like Volkswagen or Hyundai."
by pdpi | 2026-01-29 10:41:21+00:00
Some bits about the service can be pretty astounding.

I used to live near the Central line. The station near home was open air and the exit was at the very end of the platform, so I always wanted to make sure I entered the train from the correct end. Service on the Central line is frequent enough (24 trains per hour off-peak), that, if I hopped off the train from the wrong end, the time it took me to walk the length of the platform was long enough for the next train to arrive.
by torginus | 2026-01-29 10:42:31+00:00
I have an opinion on EVs that basically the only models that make sense are the ones shaped like the 3 and Y.

I feel like EVs are a checkbox product - you either make things 'good enough' for the customer - range, driving dynamics, power, charge speed, smart features, autonomous stuff or don't.

To get range right you need a big battery and low drag and efficiency - the only way you can make the first 2 things in the same vehicle is to create an aerodynamic shape.

This is a packaging problem, you need to make the car low, and long - so you stretch it out, so the battery can be thinner and no longer pushes up the rest of the vehicle. You also have a lot of place in the front for crash structures, and aero shaping. Finally since your car is big (D segment), you can charge more money as per conventions of the market.

If you make a C or B segment car, you either reduce the battery size to save money, which makes it impractical for general use or pack in all that stuff into a smaller volume, and you get a car thats more expensive to make than a Model 3, while having worse drag and range, while the market expects you to charge less for it.

These small cars only make sense with a small battery, but you wouldn't want one for yourself as a second car - hence the robotaxi.

So no, your hypothetical Model 2 would not be cheaper if you didn't compromise it in some major way, which they dont wanna do.

Upwards differentiation is also hard for Tesla - base models are already powerful enough, have all the smart features, they wont compromise on autonomous stuff etc.

This is not only my opinion but the market's - S and X sold like 2 orders of magnitude less cars than the 3 and Y.
by pjc50 | 2026-01-29 10:42:32+00:00
Yes. HDLs are way behind structured programming in not having "wire-orientation", which would be the equivalent of structured programming's "object orientation". Users should be able to define primitive bidirectional interfaces like "AXI bus" and wire up components accordingly. Bonus is that's where the vitally important constraints get defined anyway.

As you say, the communication interface is far more important than the gates. A true HDL can synthesize the gates for you, and indeed in an FPGA the gates don't really exist (LUTs instead). Optimization tools will further swirl the gates around once you start dealing with place and route - it may be more optimal to factor out common subexpressions, or "push bubbles" (invert OR/AND, De Morgan), or it may not.

The state of the art in Python HDLs is Chisel, btw.

OP says "understanding: what digital systems actually look like when abstractions are removed", which is a reasonable teaching step, and they themselves are probably learning a lot in the process. But it's not all that useful for getting stuff done. It's like learning assembly language, useful for unlocking understanding in your head, useful to read occasionally, but tiring to actually write anything substantial.
by Traster | 2026-01-29 10:42:37+00:00
I think you're totally wrong on this. Tesla didn't waste the first mover advantage. They benefitted from it whilst it existed, but Electric vehicles turned into a commodity, which was entirely expected and there's no moat.

You've explained yourself why it would be untenable for Musk to pursue becoming the biggest car manufacturer in the world - if he succeeded in that goal... he would have succeded in shrinking the value of the company significantly.

It's pure logic that Tesla has to pursue bets that would justify billion dollar valuations and being a car company isn't that.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-01-29 10:42:40+00:00
Possibly related, the other day I removed a few dozen iOS simulators, but each one triggered a confirmation popup (they stacked, lol). But I noticed that with this version of MacOS, each one animates away, and the animation has to be finished before the next one disappears. Disabling animations / reducing motion makes these dialog appear / disappear animations go away and the interactions a lot snappier.

I wanted to reduce the animation time of switching screens / workspaces as well but reducing motion just changes it from a swipe to a fade animation, which wasn't any better for me.
by 15155 | 2026-01-29 10:43:00+00:00
If you are a citizen child and your parents are arrested and subsequently incarcerated for breaking the law, you will be placed in foster care absent a suitable alternative guardian.

In this case, the children are being kept with their families. Who else should take them? Foster care?

Parents don't just magically get a free pass to break the law because they birthed a child.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-29 10:43:01+00:00
Ok, if this is the best Franco could do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhPAZOwEY0I , his oestrous game was weak. (was "la la la" what was left after the censors got to the lyrics? I can't believe I listened to an entire spanish song and didn't hear "corazon" once.)

Tollywood >> Madrid

lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-n7YfRKqc
by graemep | 2026-01-29 10:43:06+00:00
In multiple UK regions, but the most expensive ones and London the most.

Its coming down but from a very high level in London.

I do not know about other countries, but movements do tend to be wide spread (at least across similar economies). We are seeing higher interest rates in a lot of countries and they are the main determinant of the multiple of income properties sell at.
by TurboSkyline | 2026-01-29 10:43:06+00:00
> The thread goes up when something new happens.

But that's what sorted by date means, right? When you get a new mail, it goes at the top of the mailbox, and after new ones arrive, it goes down.

My mailbox sorted by date is a total mess. Having everything grouped by sender email would automatically make it tidy.

That works for single-sender mails, but most of my work mails have almost a different sent of contacts per topic. Grouping mails by subject (topic) makes this more manageable.

In all mail clients I've used, you're 1 or 2 clicks away from seeing your unread messages only, which greatly helps with filtering what's important to read soon.