MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yndoendo | 2026-02-22 16:27:34+00:00
I actually find 1:1 to be helpful when learning a language.

How debug-able is the internals of the rust lambda version?

I will often write the code so I can simply insert a break point for debugging versus pure anonymous and flow-style functions.

C# example:

#if DEBUG
const string TestPoint = "xxxx";
#endif

var filtered = items.Where(x =>
{
#if DEBUG
if (x.Name == TestPoint)
x.ToString()
#endif
.....
});

vs

var filtered = items.Where(x => ....);
by adrian_b | 2026-02-22 16:27:56+00:00
The Intel CMOS process 18A, which they have launched a few weeks ago, is the first after almost a decade that is somewhat competitive with TSMC and Samsung.

Good for Intel: their new manufacturing process has demonstrated a much better energy efficiency than the TSMC "3 nm" process that was used to make Intel Arrow Lake and Intel Lunar Lake.

Unknown: TSMC now has a "2 nm" process and the first products using variants of this process are being launched. It is unknown how TSMC "2 nm" compares with Intel 18A, but it is almost certain that the TSMC "2 nm" is better.

Bad for Intel: they had difficulties to achieve high clock frequencies in Intel 18A in comparison with TSMC "3 nm", so most Panther Lake models have lower clock frequencies than their Arrow Lake counterparts. Moreover, it is also pretty certain that for now Intel 18A has much lower fabrication yields than even the latest TSMC "2 nm" process.
by DiskoHexyl | 2026-02-22 16:28:14+00:00
And it mostly happens in government funded and/or commercially viable sports, with public schools where kids train for free, scholarships, numerous competitions etc.
To gather those selected elites we take an enormous pool of aspiring athletes and support them from the ground up (usually with our taxes)

Where such support systems don’t exist you have a relatively shallow talent pool, and the best performers are a far cry from what could have been possible otherwise
by vintagedave | 2026-02-22 16:29:36+00:00
> We recently installed Gateway multi-media kits on our PCs, but found the installation less than trivial because of conflicts in our interrupt (IRQ) channels. A simple expert system could have helped to resolve those IRQ conflicts. ... The sample program is set up to allow installation of two different devices, a 'Sound Blaster' and a 'Mitsumi CD- ROM'.

This was a real blast from the past. I wonder why more systems today don't have this kind of logic solving built in. Possibly, too many complex behaviours that are not cleanly quantified.
by Erem | 2026-02-22 16:29:58+00:00
Not quite at the level, but Jan 6 is similar. 174 officers were hospitalized, protesters were coordinating over Telegram, and Russian state owned media employees actively ran influence ops to support maga, though especially after the event (not quite “openly boasted”)

The result: nothing of consequence happened because the faction they supported eventually won and was/is legitimately popular
by cbdevidal | 2026-02-22 16:30:00+00:00
Hmm I’ve always heard that the KJV isn’t perfect but it is closer to the ESV than the NIV. These three charts suggest this[1]. I do know there are places where the KJV isn’t faithful to the sources, such as in the use of the word Easter for Passover in Acts 12:4.

It is a pretty translation, but harder to follow in my experience. I only use the KJV when talking with other denominations because it is more readily accepted than my favorite (NASB85).

[1] https://www.chapter3min.org/bible-translations-comparison-ch...
by Swizec | 2026-02-22 16:30:27+00:00
> you project it to face to face situations it would be really rude behavior. Like in a chat room when you ask someone something with an explicit mention of their handle

The difference is that in person you as the asker are more polite about it also. You don't burst into an unrelated meeting just to ask someone a question. Or elbow your way through a group of friends having a conversation just to ask something unrelated.

But in chat rooms (and emails) you do. Easy for folks to get in a situation where dozens of people every day demand their attention and expect a response.
by darkwater | 2026-02-22 16:30:29+00:00
In a not-too-distant future (5 years?) small LLMs will be good enough to be used as generic models for most tasks. And if you have a dedicated ASIC small enough to fit in an iPhone, you have a truly local AI device with the bonus point that you get something really new to sell in every new generation (i.e. acces to an even more powerful model)
by whizzter | 2026-02-22 16:30:39+00:00
The (install package, press button, it works) is great when you just want a boring OS since the interest is elsewhere rather than an itch on making the machine as perfect extension of onself.

The machine and installation is just fungible.

I think I've had Linux as a primary OS 2 times, FreeBSD once and osX once, what's pulled me back has been software and fiddling.

I'm on the verge of giving Linux or osX another shot though, some friends has claimed that fiddling is virtually gone on Linux these days and Wine also seems more than capable now to handle the software that bought me back.

But also, much of the software is available outside of Windows today.
by dataflow | 2026-02-22 16:30:49+00:00
> all my friends who posted non-stop about supporting Palestine

> I'm saying if you were a very vocal pro-Hamas activist

Palestine ≠ Hamas

Pro-Palestinian ≠ Pro-Hamas

If you genuinely don't believe a significant number of people support the former but not the latter, I... don't even know what to tell you. It certainly says a lot that you can neither distinguish these two nor believe anyone else sees a distinction.

> They don't consistently care about any particular type of human suffering. Just opposing Zionists

People are not numbers for your narrative.

Whether on a population chart or on a death chart.

Again: you're ignoring more than half a century of history and extremely relevant differences regarding how each got into their current situations, whom the involved parties were, what the current situations even are, and what their futures might look like... and more.

Just because the number of deaths appears to have reached a similar order of magnitude that does not mean anyone who fails to display the same reaction to the situations the two groups of people have been in is a hypocrite.
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-22 16:30:52+00:00
When we speak about gullibility, under what conditions would you accept the idea of atrocities committed by a non-Western regime as real?

You seem to have a massive prior for "everything is a Western/Zionist conspiracy full of puppets". Which is its own sort of gullibility, readily exploited by propagandists from the other side.
by jonplackett | 2026-02-22 16:31:18+00:00
The other amazing thing is that all the recordings of him are done with two random people they just dragged in and did on the fly.

They seem so perfectly weighted and with exactly the right increase in difficulty that I assumed they must have been heavily edited / selected.

But basically he kept his methodology secret - literally locked in a safe - because he didn’t trust anyone after his experience in ww2.

It wasn’t until he was really old that someone convinced him to make the recordings. And the tapes are just that.
by pydry | 2026-02-22 16:31:57+00:00
>I'm saying if you were a very vocal pro-Hamas activist

"Pro hamas activist" has become the calling card of deeply committed western and israeli islamophobes.

Much like their close cousins, the holocaust denying anti semite, they almost universally refuse to recognize the UN recognized genocide in gaza.

>That crowd only seems to care if they can actively oppose Israel or the current administration

Im sure if the current administration backed a genocide in another country they would passionately oppose that too. Unlike dedicated islamophobes, anti racists are consistent.
by skeeter2020 | 2026-02-22 16:32:03+00:00
What's up with the trend of articles that seem like they're written by someone after a couple of sessions in a freshmen comp sci class? Is this the result of AI posts and humans trying to compete at the same game? Nothing new here and a discussion of DB transactions without even mentioning ACID compliance and the trade-offs? You're better off picking up a 40 year old textbook than posts like this.
by selridge | 2026-02-22 16:32:25+00:00
What does any of this have to do with choosing an electron app over a native app?

What does any of the malaise about discord have to do with their choice of runtime?

It is an untested hypothesis that if discord had a native app, all the problems that people complain about would disappear. I think people in hacker news like to just assert the hypothesis because sounds better than cross platform. But in this particular case, it is fundamentally untested. We simply don’t know that the app would be better if it were native.
by drakonka | 2026-02-22 16:33:00+00:00
I _loved_ Language Transfer when learning Greek. I haven't used it in many years, but at the time remember that I went from just being able to say "Hi" and "How are you" and "Good" to speaking full sentences with my boyfriend at the time in one day. And when visiting Greece later that year I could get by with strangers in everyday interactions easily. It was a mind-blowing learning experience, as someone who is not highly gifted in languages, and I donated to the LT creator.

Now I am learning Swedish. It has been taking me _way_ too long and unfortunately LT doesn't have a Swedish course. Looking at one of these documentaries about Michel Thomas it does indeed look like exactly that kind of approach! And I see he has a Swedish course. I'm excited to give it a try!
by mindslight | 2026-02-22 16:33:21+00:00
Well said. The outcome with the tariffs should be a clear indicator of the administration's complete incompetence. Unfortunately Trump's one skill is confidence games and his hardcore supporters will end up writing it off as some kind of "deep state" attack or something.

This dynamic being displayed so clearly in June of 2020 was what really changed my opinion of Trump. Up until then I had been both sidesing and figuring that when push came to shove, he'd actually lead (and get a shoe-in second term to boot!). But no, rather than accepting Covid as a national emergency that needed to be addressed, it was just some new backdrop to foment division over.
by retropragma | 2026-02-22 16:33:26+00:00
Someone could make a backup script wrapped in a GUI, but then people would have to see the "need" in order to start using it.

The bigger danger would be AT Protocol losing its biggest contributor. Unless another VC backed team appeared to fill their shoes, the protocol would stagnate and communities would slowly deteriorate. Hope is critical early on in a protocol's rise to prominence.
by kryogen1c | 2026-02-22 16:34:19+00:00
Im certainly sympathetic to #2 being one of the greatest unconstitutional practices of the modern US government, but is its genesis really the civil rights movement? There were many settled cases about interstate commerce before the Civil rights act, like Gibbons v. Ogden.

https://www.britannica.com/money/commerce-clause/Interpretat...
by ac29 | 2026-02-22 16:34:19+00:00
> To run Llama 3.1 8B locally, you would need a GPU with a minimum of 16 GB of VRAM, such as an NVIDIA RTX 3090

In full precision, yes. But this talaas chip uses a heavily quantized version (the article calls it "3/6 bit quant", probably similar to Q4_K_M). You dont even need a GPU to run that with reasonable performance, a CPU is fine.
by p_ing | 2026-02-22 16:34:37+00:00
> the top comments are invariably hilarious,

Sadly that is all that reddit is, now. Have a serious question? Expect multiple top replies to be some sort of [un]funny joke answer.

It's a wasteland and devalues the platform when everyone competes for Internet Points.

/r/aviation is just one example of being full of this crap.

Oddly enough, I don't see it as much in gaming subreddits, even the more generic ones.
by bpavuk | 2026-02-22 16:34:45+00:00
hey, the idea of Krossover is actually dope! my sole question is, why does it exist?

I understand that one might call Rust from Kotlin for performance reasons (I do that often, Mozilla does, some others too), but Kotlin from Rust? where would it be useful?

no snark or subtext here, I'm genuinely curious
by gchamonlive | 2026-02-22 16:34:49+00:00
I have the opposite impression. They thrive where regulation lacks. And I'm not in the very least interested in no regulation because we know precisely what happens. It's another 29, dot-com bubble, housing crash waiting to happen.

Edit: of course regulation isn't a panacea. If the government is already ran by an oligarchy chances are laws will favor them. I'm talking about the kind of laws produced by functional democracies. So we also need to talk about how to make democratic institutions stronger first, then we can rely on regulation.
by whizzter | 2026-02-22 16:34:55+00:00
That's kinda true for older/integrated parts of Windows, lots and lots of functionality that people have come to rely on over the years, but also huge black-boxes that you need to not be intimidated at probing into to solve weird issues (that often becomes understandable if you have enough experience as a developer to interpret what the API surface tells about the possible internal implementation).
by ComCat | 2026-02-22 16:34:56+00:00
Over the past year several major npm supply chain incidents had no CVE. They were intentionally malicious packages, not vulnerable ones, so database driven scanners passed them clean.

That raised a question for me. If zero day supply chain malware is not vulnerable software, what does it actually look like at the code level?

I built a scanner that analyzes published npm tarballs directly and looks for correlated behavioral signals rather than known advisories. Things like secret file access combined with outbound network calls, install hooks invoking shell execution together with obfuscation, or sudden behavior drift between versions.

In testing across 11,356 real packages this approach reached 99.95 percent precision and 99.44 percent recall with four false positives in roughly 3,000 clean packages. The analysis is deterministic static inspection with no LLM involved.

It runs as a CLI or GitHub Action and only triggers when package.json or package-lock.json changes, so it can be used as a dependency intake check rather than gating every merge.

Would appreciate feedback from people running production Node systems, especially around where you would place this in your CI workflow.
by roysting | 2026-02-22 16:35:44+00:00
That’s because Dutch is close to the original old german that it is derived from, just like English and modern German. English or as it is also known as Anglish, the language of the German tribe of the Angles, also known as the Anglo-Saxon group of Germanic people, are essentially Germans just like the indigenous ethnic people of modern Germany, as well as the ethnically German people of the Netherlands, aka the Dutch. That is of course also why the Netherlands is called the Nederlande in “Dutch” which is a reference to the lowland Germans. This becomes far clearer when you understand that the Germans refer to themselves as die Deutsche, which is where the “Dutch” get their English name, i.e., Nederland Deutsch, which means… self-referential… the lowland German people.

The unfortunate history of Europe is that the indigenous people of Central Europe are essentially all German people who have been divided and conquered by a ruling parasitic class that we all know moved around the continent, marrying into each other’s families and becoming the people’s aristocratic slave masters over centuries, which included linguistic divisions in things like naming, and even language “reforms”. Heck the English ruling class itself are Germans and they just changed their names when it was expedient to do so in order to continue filling the English people by not drawing attention to the fact that they were being set to fight their item bothers and sisters in WWI so that the British ruling class could remain their parasitic masters.
by magicmicah85 | 2026-02-22 16:35:49+00:00
GPT is impressive with a consistent 0% false positive rate across models, yet its ability to detect is as high as 18%. Meanwhile Claude Opus 4.6 is able to detect up to 46% of backdoors, but has a 22% false positive rate.

It would be interesting to have an experiment where these models are able to test exploiting but their alignment may not allow that to happen. Perhaps combining models together can lead to that kind of testing. The better models will identify, write up "how to verify" tests and the "misaligned" models will actually carry out the testing and report back to the better models.
by TheDong | 2026-02-22 16:36:03+00:00
> AFAIK, there is no "specification" or "protocol"

The protocol is english. You want your claw to check a hacker news comment and let you know when it gets a reply? You tell it "Check every 5 minutes if this comment has a reply", which then generates an english message to save and send to the agent each time, resulting in a browser tool invocation.

The claws live in a post-API world, where the API is english which turns into bash invocations or browser tool calls or such.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-02-22 16:36:11+00:00
> just because raw SQL queries work great for your toy blog/todo app with 3 tables

In my experience, ORMs work well for toy projects, but become cumbersome to maintain in enterprise ones, especially where performance matters. There is a large overlap between engineers who refuse to learn SQL because it's not "convenient", and those who prefer ORMs because they are "easier", resulting in cohorts that don't know how to use either.

But also, I don't see how ORMs make managing large databases any easier, other than those with embedded migration capabilities, which can be very well extracted to their own tools.
by unstyledcontent | 2026-02-22 16:37:13+00:00
Thanks. There are quite a few cool projects out there. Someone just shared a link to a collection of free weather maps:
https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather

In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps
by srean | 2026-02-22 16:37:27+00:00
Algebraic numbers can be very handy.

I was making myself toy, tapered kaleidoscopes using one piece cardboard plans. One needed to ensure that the dihedral angles between the mirrors be precise.

This is not easy to do with the usual middle-school geometry-box rulers and protractors. Graduations not fine enough, precise enough, extending long straight lines using a small ruler not straight enough ...

However the dimensions being all algebraic numbers one could use entirely straight edge and compass constructions. Had much better luck this way, with a pointy enough pencil.

A proper drafting board and a T-square or a drafter would have made things easier for parallel and perpendicular translations. But one can do those with compass too.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-22 16:38:01+00:00
Those African regimes don't spend billions a year to promote and fund terrorism in other countries. Remember kids, you can kill millions of your own people (Stalin, Mao, etc) and nobody will care. Heck, some will even celebrate you. But don't mess with people in another country, otherwise outsiders will get involved. Iran is the main source of violence and terrorism in the most violent part of the world. Maybe, just maybe your fake moralizing isn't helping.
by ksec | 2026-02-22 16:38:21+00:00
>What's up with the trend of articles that seem like they're written by someone after a couple of sessions in a freshmen comp sci class?

This is funny and cracked me up. Because the author is actually the one who teaches CS in University.

>Nothing new here and a discussion of DB transactions without even mentioning ACID compliance and the trade-offs? You're better off picking up a 40 year old textbook than posts like this.

That would have been a very long blog post. Edit: I just realise Ben has already replied above.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-22 16:38:36+00:00
How is believing that Microsoft is being honest about how they use your private GitHub code and they don’t use it to train Copilot any different than believing Anthropic if you opt out? Every company I listed is training models for their business - I’m not saying they are using your data.

Any company that doesn’t have an enterprise contract with Anthropic and uses Claude Code is an idiot.

But if you really want to have that warm and fuzzy, you can always use Claude Code via an AWS account and Bedrock hosted Anthropic models. I assure you that AWS (former employer) is not using your data when you use Claude with Bedrock/Anthropic to train their models. Amazon may be evil. But they are not stupid.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-22 16:39:01+00:00
> As support for state repression of the movement declines (because repression is not stopping the disruption) and the movement itself proves impossible to extinguish (because repression is recruiting for it), the only viable solution becomes giving the movement its demands.

Public support for the Iranian state has been around zero among the population for years now, the problem is that the Iranian government has probably 2-3 million of armed governmental agents (from police over regular military to IRGC/Basij) [1] and is just about as willing to compromise as the CCP was and is ever since Tiananmen.

In fact, I would say what we've seen from Iran the last weeks (credible sources say around 35k deaths) is even more deaths than in the 1989 China protests which had a death toll of (worst case estimated) 10k.

Against that level of fanatical, money- and religion-driven bloodlust, there is no chance of successful protests, not without serious external aid shifting the power balance. And in the case of Iran, that is the US and Israel wiping the mullahs out of this world, or causing them enough trouble so that the leadership accepts an offer to escape to Moscow alive.

Let me be clear: I despise both Trump and Netanyahu. But this is, IMHO, the one and only chance these two men have to assist a just and rightful cause for once.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46884956
by simianwords | 2026-02-22 16:39:15+00:00
https://chatgpt.com/share/699b2fc4-c6f4-800b-9e28-2fec0a5700...

I asked a question about this thread posing as you.

ChatGPT doesn’t have a good opinion on your communication style.

I would suggest purchasing the subscription and using ChatGPT for help in new discussions.
by jefecoon | 2026-02-22 16:39:44+00:00
Here's my workflow, hopefully concise enough as a reply, in case helpful to those very few who'll actually see it:

Research -> Define 'Domains' -> BDD -> Domain Specs -> Overall Arch Specs / complete/consistent/gap analysis -> Spec Revision -> TDD Dev.

Smaller projects this is overkill.
Larger projects, imho, gain considerable value from BDD and Overall Architecture Spec complete/consistent/gap analysis...

Cheers