MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BloodyIron | 2026-01-04 01:38:02+00:00
At a price tag of $5/ea the cost of just advertising and distribution exceeds the cost of the product itself. There is zero room for profit. The business model is installing back doors to the "clients" and stealing money, information, and anything else from them. Consider that even the cost of the included remote is a huge part of the actual hardware cost, and nobody is going to buy something like this without a remote.
by joe_the_user | 2026-01-04 01:38:51+00:00
I don't think "good moderation or not" really touches what was happening with SO.

I joined SO early and it had a "gamified" interface that I actually found fun. Putting in effort and such I able to slowly gain karma.

The problem was as the site scaled, the competition to answer a given question became more and more intense and that made it miserable. I left at that point but I think a lot people stayed with dynamic that was extremely unhealthy. (and the quality of accepted questions declined also).

With all this, the moderation criteria didn't have to directly change, it just had to fail to deal with the effects that were happening.
by throw4847285 | 2026-01-04 01:39:39+00:00
It's not scientism. He was a bad scholar. Like all hacks, he created an elaborate system that he claimed could classify everything. He was like a one man TvTropes, but instead of pro-wrestling, fan fiction, and anime he had his own personal biases which colored the whole project. He was a brilliant writer, though, so he sold the crap out of his bad ideas.

No scholar of folklore, anthropology, or any related field working today takes anything he wrote seriously.

Fun read though.
by walterbell | 2026-01-04 01:40:23+00:00
That depends on whether your investor (China) also sells integrated products whose sales would increase if RAM were cheaper, e.g. smartphones or mini PCs with bundled LPDDR5, https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/your-laptop-is-abou...

Research and development in conventional computing are already suffering. Investment in efficient CPUs, affordable networking equipment, edge computing, and quantum-adjacent technologies has slowed as capital and talent are pulled into AI accelerators. This is precisely backward. Narrow AI — focused on real-world tasks like logistics, agriculture, port management, and manufacturing — is where genuine productivity gains lie. China understands this and is investing accordingly.
by teleforce | 2026-01-04 01:40:47+00:00
>Those have failed by being impossible to program.

I think you spoke too soon about their failure, sooner they will be much easier to program [1].

Interestingly, Nvidia GPU now is also moving to tile-based GPU programming model that targets portability for NVIDIA Tensor Cores [2]. Recently there're discussions on the topic at HN [3].

[1] Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine [pdf]:

https://uni.tlaan.nl/thesis/msc_thesis_tristan_laan_aieblas....

[2] NVIDIA CUDA Tile:

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/tile

[3]CUDA Tile Open Sourced (103 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330732
by BloodyIron | 2026-01-04 01:41:13+00:00
> and help the Democrat Party keep the presidencty

You're writing your own narrative there bud. I'm not even a USA citizen, I have literally zero ability to influence the USA electorate to any degree. So cut the rhetoric, it's tiring and frankly destructive to real discussion.

I'm neither gullible nor a zealot. Trump has a long standing history of ripping people off for many millions of dollars, regardless of the currency. There's an endless supply of receipts, give me a break.

And that's long before we even consider that he's literally operating illegal wars (not approved by congress), which _is_ breaking USA law.
by dmitrygr | 2026-01-04 01:42:04+00:00
I spend a lot of time on power opt for small systems. The promises w.r.t. power numbers when taken in conjunction with promised features/brightnesses are 100% a lie given current SoC/battery/cooling tech.

"absolutely no latency" -> only apple manages anything close to this, and that -- with custom silicon that can feed data from the camera to screen while it is still being read out from the camera. A no-name startup doing this ain't happening.
by garciasn | 2026-01-04 01:42:32+00:00
I am not going to argue about the design looking “good” or not, but it’s irrelevant if the device doesn’t do what it says it does.

The reason AR glasses are chonky and not sexy is because they have a bunch of hardware and batteries and whatnot that require them to be that shape and size.

Assuming they’re fraudulent, they can make it look like anything they want because it doesn’t do what it purports. I’m sure that RayBan and Meta want them to look better but it’s simply not possible with the technology they have.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-01-04 01:43:00+00:00
Another straw man fallacy is silly. And "all software is terrible, but some of it is useful."

NVIDIA abandoning legacy drivers had to happen eventually, but it isn't an excuse for Linux bricking the hardware. The vestigial deprecated areas of the kernel is covered in foundation courses to help explain what mess to avoid, as the rule to never break user space hid a lot of the uglier bodges. In terms of code volume, linux source has been mostly driver code for quite a few years.

Trying to mix commercial blob binaries in a FOSS project is rarely stable over the long term (hence why recent RTX and AMD open drivers is very important.) Yet how many android devices are in garbage or recycling heaps? Answer, _all_ of them eventually, and usually in less than 3 years on average.

Linux will also soon no longer include 32bit x86 support if upstream planning goes as planned. It also had to happen eventually.

It should be noted the CUDA enabled drivers on windows is quite a bit more complex than the windows kernel itself. Yes it is still an awful adware OS, but it will still let you run 10 year old titles mostly without an issue. YMMV =3
by apparent | 2026-01-04 01:43:23+00:00
> Try to do better

Pretty sure this line never convinced anyone of anything. We all want to do "better" but have different definitions of what that constitutes.

> If you don’t think your kids are going to have sex when they’re older, or think you can control it, you are lying to yourself.

I don't think anyone thinks this. Some people do hope and expect their children not to have sex outside of a monogamous marriage. If you give your kid a vaccine that is primarily meant for people who do not do this, you are letting your kid know that you don't really have faith in them.

That sends a strong message that some people do not want to send. As GP said, you're free to raise your kids different, and if you don't place value on reserving sex for marriage, it would make sense that you would do differently.
by dworks | 2026-01-04 01:43:23+00:00
Why would I buy CXMT if it's virtually the same price as Hynix?

Edit: I see you made an edit without noting that you did so.

Only this sentence was in the pre-edit comment: "Or maybe CXMT is not dumb? If the worldwide price of some commodity is $100 and you can produce an item that is nearly as good as everyone else’s, would you sell it for $98 or for $50?"

For your added comments: There is no supply issue, there are hundreds of sellers of Hynix, Crucial, Samsung ddr5 on Taobao. For your second comment about them driving down prices later on by increasing supply, well, I first of all noted that perhaps capacity is not great in my comment, and you are also contradicting your first point where you said CXMT would be stupid to compete on price.

In reality, the history of every Chinese market entrant, even those leading technologically, shows that they always cut margins to compete by driving down costs. I have a decade worth of experience related to this.

I believe CXMT simply has not gotten to the stage where they really try to win market share and crank up supply - perhaps due to lack of capital, or as I said, due to capacity limitations (which may be a result of capital).
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-01-04 01:44:01+00:00
I think IDE preference leans further towards subjective than many believe.

I find that IntelliJ IDEs are fine, but not nearly as amazing as they're often hyped up to be, and similarly while Xcode has problems it's not nearly as bad as is often claimed.

My experience is somewhat colored by Android Studio and JVM ecosystem stuff like gradle and proguard though, which have been more cumulative pain for me than anything Apple-side in a long time (Cocoapods was pretty gnarly but SwiftPM has fixed that).
by tim-tday | 2026-01-04 01:44:53+00:00
Doesn’t polarization imply a roughly even split? I only see Ukraine supporting the move.

On the one hand it’s a disturbing precedent, on the other hand it’s better than an all-out war. Maybe this will usher in a new era of leaders taking direct personal shots at each-other. Better than armies of innocent young men killing each other when leaders disagree.
by junto | 2026-01-04 01:45:37+00:00
I joined Stackoverflow early on since it had a prevalence towards .NET and I’ve been working with Microsoft web technologies since the mid 90’s.

My SO account is coming up to 17 years old and I have nearly 15,000 points, 15 gold badges, including 11 famous questions and similar famous answer badges, also 100 silver and 150 bronze. I spent far much time on that site in the early days, but through it, I also thoroughly enjoyed helping others. I also started to publish articles on CodeProject and it kicked off my long tech blogging “career”, and I still enjoy writing and sharing knowledge with others.

I have visited the site maybe once a year since 2017. It got to the point that trying to post questions was intolerable, since they always got closed. At this point I have given up on it as a resource, even though it helped me tremendously to both learn (to answer questions) and solve challenging problems, and get help for edge cases, especially on niche topics. For me it is a part of my legacy as a developer for over 30 years.

I find it deeply saddening to see what it has become. However I think Joel and his team can be proud of what they built and what they gave to the developer community for so many years.

As a side note it used to state that was in the top 2% of users on SO, but this metric seems to have been removed. Maybe it’s just because I’m on mobile that I can’t see it any more.

LLM’s can easily solve those easy problems that have high commonality across many codebases, but I am dubious that they will be able to solve the niche challenging problems that have not been solved before nor written about. I do wonder how those problems get solved in the future.
by lerno | 2026-01-04 01:45:52+00:00
Of course you can explicitly shorten paths. I was talking about C3's path shortening which is doing this for you. This means you do not need to alias imports, which is otherwise how languages do it.

I don't want to get too far into details, but it's understandable that people misunderstand it if they haven't used it, as it's a novel approach not used by any other language.
by svat | 2026-01-04 01:46:54+00:00
It appears that the “111 lines” is a reference to the version as of 2014-02-11: https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/e2b7fc29ce2a112be... (386 lines), about which the author says (https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1xmj1a/comment...):

> I got 111 by deleting the tables in the top, and the UI code in the bottom, and then running 'cloc' on the result. That gave 20 blanks, 56 comments and 111 lines of code. ;-)
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-04 01:47:07+00:00
Well, hope and faith are not effective strategies. Good luck to those who operate from this perspective, they will face disappointment, which is theirs to own. Monogamous marriage is a shrinking minority of potential outcomes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5], and ~40% of first marriages end in divorce [6] (rates are higher for second and third marriages).

The kids of these people get a chance to do better when they become adults, and that's all we can hope for: that they make better choices than their parents. Better luck next generation I suppose.

[1] How has marriage in the US changed over time? - https://usafacts.org/articles/state-relationships-marriages-... - February 11th, 2025 ("In 2024, US adults were less likely to be married than at almost any point since the Census Bureau began tracking marital status in 1940. The percentage of households with a married couple peaked 75 years ago: in 1949, it was 78.8%. That percentage has been below 50.0% since 2010, when the rate was 49.7%. In other words, less than half of American households have included a married couple for over a decade.")

[2] Charted: How American Households Have Changed Over Time (1960-2023) - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-american-households-hav... - November 6th, 2024

[3] Morgan Stanley: Rise of the SHEconomy - https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/womens-impact-on-the-eco... - September 23rd, 2019 ("Based on Census Bureau historical data and Morgan Stanley forecasts, 45% of prime working age women (ages 25-44) will be single by 2030—the largest share in history—up from 41% in 2018.")

[4] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/16/8-facts-a...

[5] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/08/share-of-...

[6] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/28/a-record-...
by throw4847285 | 2026-01-04 01:49:12+00:00
I was also really into Jung and Campbell in college, until I realized that the whole enterprise they promoted is not as interesting as I thought. Freud also revered dreams but he saw the psychoanalytic process as one of meaning-making between analyst and analysand. Sure, he rarely embodied that lofty goal, and usually imposed his own meaning on his patients. I believe dreams have no grand universal meaning, and there is no collective unconscious. Dreams only mean as much as we imbue them with meaning.

It's also just total BS, I'm sorry. Most writers do not lie down and dream, and then wake up and write what they experienced (though that is a practice for some people). The art of storytelling is a conscious act of artistic creation. This is true of every written version we have of every myth. We are never getting some kind of direct access to some universal dream world. We're getting as much of the Beowulf Poet or "Homer" or J, E, P, and D as anything else.
by braincat31415 | 2026-01-04 01:49:44+00:00
On the contrary, this is not a display of anything.
Air defences were disabled by the power of US Treasury.
Maduro was captured without a single shot from his security.
Not a single MANPAD was fired (they have over 5,000 of Igla systems).
I am quite sure all the senior army commanders were bought, and the army was told to stand down.
by josephg | 2026-01-04 01:49:51+00:00
> The fundamental value proposition of SO is getting an answer to a question

I read an interview once with one of the founders of SO. They said the main value stackoverflow provided wasn't to the person who asked the question. It was for the person who googled it later and found the answer. This is why all the moderation pushes toward deleting duplicates of questions, and having a single accepted answer. They were primarily trying to make google searches more effective for the broader internet. Not provide a service for the question-asker or answerer.

Sad now though, since LLMs have eaten this pie.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-04 01:50:05+00:00
My novel is about the sweet, misunderstood Jira who is actually a kind soul, but everywhere she goes she can’t help but open the door for her evil brother Confluence. His evil knows no bounds. He hoards and hides information. The knowledge black hole. If knowledge and reason are the lights of civilization he is the darkness, the anti science, the place where knowledge goes to die.
Nobody could see it but Cassandra and everyone knows how that story… leader election failure, segfault
by thundergolfer | 2026-01-04 01:50:18+00:00
> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out—because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to flock to, even if the overall quantity of options is much larger.

It's easier than ever to be a p99.999% oil painter, but compared with p99.999% film directors basically no one cares at all. Because painting is not in high demand, and film still is, for now.

If the demand for your certain kind of writing vastly diminishes, it is your detriment. AI's supply effect is changing the demand.

George Eliot already wrote a p99.99999% novel, Middlemarch. It is only thanks to massive population growth that the number of readers of her novel has increased or remained steady. As a proportion of the population, Middlemarch has no readership, and is a side show of a side show. It has almost completely lost its once hallowed place in society and culture.
by mochidusk | 2026-01-04 01:51:08+00:00
Thanks for bringing to my attention. I haven't tried but I can spot some differences in philosophy:

- Musel Cloud doesn't embed Google Docs or Sheets, it has its own text engine; the word processor is built-in. There's no reliance on Google for docx, xlsx editing. Musel's built-in, natively on canvas. File formats such as docx, xlsx are compatible with any other software.

- Musel renders everything using a canvas (and WebGL), it doesn't use HTML at all. It is truly a whiteboard through and through. Everybody else has to rely on HTML for their rich text layout. Musel Cloud doesn't rely on third-party apps or popup a separate modal. Because everything is entirely natively rendered using the canvas, layers work really well, zooming works really fast, and performance is great. Items on Musel are more like Photoshop objects; they're all raster.

- has a built-in drive that syncs (but only supports Windows right now). No reliance on Google Drive or Dropbox.

Musel delivers on the promise of seamlessness. Works on files you already have on your devices.
by mullingitover | 2026-01-04 01:51:19+00:00
> war justifications only serve as discussion fodder for domestic audiences and have very little to do with the actual war.

Two things intersect here:

"War is the continuation of politics by other means" - Carl von Clausewitz

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex" - Frank Zappa

There's a third quote that kinda sums it all up neatly: "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it." — George Orwell

The media in the US, being a wholesale production of the oligarchy now, has been brazenly honest about the fact that this is purely a large-scale looting of Venezuela.
by bihla | 2026-01-04 01:53:53+00:00
I think this depends on what you consider to be the fundamental trait of double-entry accounting: the error-checking or the explanatory power.

It is true that by enforcing that value movement have both a source and a target, we make it possible to add a useful checksum to the system. But I believe this is a side benefit to the more fundamental trait of requiring all value flow to record both sides, in order to capture the cause for each effect.

I agree with your general perspective though: technology has afforded us new and different tools, and thus we should be open to new data models for accounting. I don't agree with other commenters that we should tread lightly in trying to decipher another field, nor do I agree with the view that the field of Accounting would have found a better way by now if there were one. Accountants are rarely, if ever, experts in CS or software engineering; likewise software developers rarely have depth in accounting.

Source: just my opinions. I've been running an accounting software startup for 5 years.
by ehnto | 2026-01-04 01:54:58+00:00
SO was somewhere people put their hard won experience into words, that an LLM could train on.

That won't be happening anymore, neither on SO or elsewhere. So all this hard won experience, from actually doing real work, will be inaccessible to the LLMs. For modern technologies and problems I suspect it will be a notably worse experience when using an LLM than working with older technologies.

It's already true for example, when using the Godot game engine instead of Unity. LLMs constantly confuse what you're trying to do with Unity problems, offer Unity based code solutions etc.
by MrVandemar | 2026-01-04 01:55:28+00:00
If you have a population that want rising material living standards, that's easy too. Any increase in living standards should be balanced against a concomitant decrease in population. Resource usage (meaning pollution, waste, energy production) stays steady or even goes down.

Apparently population control is anathema to most people though, so the unrelenting environmental rape continues unabated.
by Veserv | 2026-01-04 01:55:56+00:00
What exactly is that benchmark testing? Seems like a lot of cores to handle just 800 Gb/s; that is only ~12.5 Gb/s per core. Even with their ~19% headroom that is still only ~15 Gb/s per core. You can terminate encrypted transport multiple times faster than that and unencrypted transport 10x faster than that comfortably in software on regular cores.
by cornel_io | 2026-01-04 01:56:12+00:00
Asking questions on SO was an exercise in frustration, not "interacting with peers". I've never once had a productive interaction there, everything I've ever asked was either closed for dumb reasons or not answered at all. The library of past answers was more useful, but fell off hard for more recent tech, I assume because people all were having the same frustrations as I was and just stopped going there to ask anything.

I have plenty of real peers I interact with, I do not need that noise when I just need a quick answer to a technical question. LLMs are fantastic for this use case.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-01-04 01:57:39+00:00
"Manufactured consent" was a term Chomsky introduced for the way in which US mass media operates, so it shouldn't be terribly surprising to find that the pattern matches. (One thing I'd encourage people to think about: would it be better to have a media that avoids manufacturing consent by never challenging the general public's biases and preconceptions?)
by regenschutz | 2026-01-04 01:59:10+00:00
My uncle was for the longest of time a gambling addict, and would buy lottery tickets. It was disheartening seeing him ruin his life over this "hope".

I certainly don't doubt that my uncle also felt a strong sense of "hope" when he bought his lottery tickets, but for what differed a lot. My uncle would buy lottery tickets in the hope of regaining the amount of money that he had lost to gambling, while you probably buy them in the hope of having a significantly higher quality of life if you win. One is financially a very bad decision, the other is not (as bad).

Personally, I would never buy lottery tickets. Not because the chance of you winning is small, but because you're supporting a predatory system that attacks those that are the most vulnerable to gambling: those who've already lost large amounts of money. I hate the gambling industry and the damage it causes to regular people.

Luckily my uncle has stopped gambling, but the effects of when he was a gambler are still, sadly, visible.
by llm_nerd | 2026-01-04 02:00:32+00:00
I read your comment. This doesn't expand on how dated your claim is whatsoever. Acting pissy and mysterious about your claim doesn't help either.

You literally claimed these are exclusive to Windows if not a Mac. Not only do very close to zero Mac users do this on their Mac -- do you understand we can copy and share photos and files right on the iPhone? -- on Windows the dominate way people do this is a web browser. You know, exactly the same web browser that works on basically any computer.

As a longtime iPhone user with Macs and Windows, I was legitimately confused by your weird claim of a dependency on Windows. The more comments you've made, the more certain I am that you actually have no idea what you're talking about.