MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-15 00:38:20+00:00
Of course, and it works well too. When I moved houses from solar wind to solar + mains I switched my e450 off, this is only 4 years ago; it works fine. I love that machine ; it looks the part and it's indestructible. My company in the early 2000s was running on sparcstation 5s, a lot of them (they were giving them away by that time); I have them all in my garage and they all work still.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-15 00:38:20+00:00
You are worried about the “what if” fallout over the multiple world leaders actually engaging in it. Their followers enact violence on their behalf while the leader maintains plausible deniability/enough perceived distance from the act they can never be explicitly blamed.

You can be worried about more than one thing but clearly one is a bigger issue than the other right now.
by culi | 2026-02-15 00:38:33+00:00
The ACLU released a report on these camps in August of 2024 called "Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention".

Here's some of the issues it highlighted:

- forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way you're gonna get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE doesn't have to give an excuse to send you into solitary confinement. CoreCivic sells this labor to companies

- extensive use of solitary confinement often for "minor disciplinary infractions or as a form of retaliation for participating in hunger strikes or for submitting complaints"

- dozens of documented deaths from forced labor and medical neglect

No doubt these issues have only gotten worse since the publication of this report.

https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati...
by davidguetta | 2026-02-15 00:38:51+00:00
The current go-to is the LeRobot SO 101 + the LeRobot lib from HuggingFace.

Not the best professionnal lib (still young and amateur) but really good to start doing imitation learning / reinforcement learning projects.

If you get more skills on this later and look for a job in a high level AI / RL / Robotics startup in Europe don't hesitate to put up a CV link below my msg and we may contact you.
by tombert | 2026-02-15 00:38:54+00:00
I don't think it's necessarily a dumb question; yes SPARC machines were used all over the web in the 90's and 2000's, but the web has changed a lot in the last twenty years. If nothing else, I could see not being able to find a recent-enough TLS package being an issue.

I realize that reading through the article that they did get OpenBSD working on there and yeah if you can get a modern OS on there it will probably work fine, but I don't think the core question of "Can my SPARC server host a website?" is dumb.
by danielrhodes | 2026-02-15 00:39:16+00:00
Articles like this amount to a straw man.

People seem to think that just because it produces a bunch of code you therefore don’t need to read it or be responsible for the output. Sure you can do that, but then you are also justifying throwing away all the process and thinking that has gone into productive and safe software engineering over the last 50 years.

Have tests, do code reviews, get better at spec’ing so the agent doesn’t wing it, verify the output, actively curate your guardrails. Do this and your leverage will multiply.
by mgraczyk | 2026-02-15 00:39:24+00:00
Right, the problem in your model is that the doctors do! I am pointing out that this is a problem with the doctors, not the scan.

Scans are a tool, doctors are not allowed to use them rationally because it would be too expensive, so they don't use them. With an ideal doctor, patient outcomes would be better with a scan than without one, but my claim is that doctors are not ideal.

No doctor would order a full body MRI just to throw out the result in 99% of cases, because *it's too costly*
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-15 00:40:20+00:00
It often also means it was written more correctly. There is a bit of an art to designing a header only library and it can strike a different balance between code size and runtime speed optimization.

In strict terms when you place implementation in a .c file you probably want that code to be shared when different things call it, and the compiler will "link" to that same implementation.

When you have a header only library the compiler is free to optimize in more ways specific to your actual use case.
by crote | 2026-02-15 00:40:27+00:00
Sure, it looks neat, but why would you ever want this? What happened to closing PRs like thise with a short and simple "This is unreadable. Split it into smaller self-contained commits, and write proper commit messages explaining what they do and why" comment?

Massive walls of code have always been rejected simply for being unreviewable. Why would you suddenly allow this for AI PRs - where you should be even more strict with your reviews?
by Slow_Hand | 2026-02-15 00:41:01+00:00
I would advise against systems that apply complex EQ curves on the outputs to compensate for distortions caused by the room. These systems can only optimize for a single listening position in the room (the sweet spot).

The problems are multiple;

1. When you move out of the sweet spot to listen anywhere else in the room, the music becomes distorted because you can are now hearing an EQ curve that is compensating for the sweet spot, but has nothing to do with the frequency response in the other listening positions.

2. These automatic systems tend to apply dozens of small EQ bands to the output, which smears the phase relationships of the record and dulls transient response. The feeling is of the record being mushy and dull.

3. These systems cannot account for time-domain ringing issues in the listening room. So a corrective EQ boost to compensate for a dip in the sweet spot will become a loud ringing at that frequency elsewhere in the room.

4. Corrective EQ cannot compensate for the deepest frequency nulls, no matter how much of a compensatory boost you make. A heavy handed boost to compensate this way will cause massive ringing elsewhere in the room.

I could go on.

These automatic room correction devices cause far more problems than they solve. There are ways to apply some EQ correction, but you will get 10x larger returns on performance by addressing acoustic issues introduced by the room, rather than trying to compensate on the speaker outputs.

Source: I design and build high-end recording studios for working audio professionals and tune speaker rigs for Grammy-winning artists.
by sejje | 2026-02-15 00:41:39+00:00
What I'm talking about is that the news tries to tell you what to think. You can read headlines on Google News about the same story, and see the bias of the publication in the headline pretty often.

Instead of reporting just the facts, they include opinions, inflammatory language, etc.

Reuters writes in a relatively neutral tone, as an example. Fox News doesn't, and CNN doesn't, as examples of the opposite.

If you don't notice, I doubt you're reading the news. It's part of the offering. Fox does it on purpose, not accidentally.
by switz | 2026-02-15 00:42:02+00:00
I agree with you that we should care more about resource usage, but it's a false comparison. Backend devs control where their code runs, frontend devs don't.

You can make more precise decisions when you have complete control over the environment. When you don't, you have to make trade-offs. In this case, universality (electron and javascript) for higher RAM usage. It doesn't seem to have slowed Discord's adoption rate.

Even if they built their desktops apps in native code and UI, they'd have to build a JS website in parallel.
by vladdoster | 2026-02-15 00:42:07+00:00
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by culi | 2026-02-15 00:42:51+00:00
Link to the actual platform: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026

2025 seems to have finished off with all browsers reaching 99% support and 97% parity overall (in experimental releases) but it seems they kinda gave up on the investigations? Especially privacy testing which they reached 0% on https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-privacy
by psychothroaway5 | 2026-02-15 00:42:57+00:00
Oh god so much ignorance in this comment. I wish I could downvote it. Saying they children "aren't sexual" is blatantly wrong. Children are not sexually mature, but they are indeed sexual. By the age of 7 most children are at least naturally interested/curious about sex. And this is natural, so stop idealizing children and projecting on them your moral ideals. Being innocent and being asexual are two different things.

Of course exploiting a children is wrong. In general the exploitation of innocent people is considered ethically questionable, but there are different moral standards applied to minors.

Being a paedophile is (or better, SHOLD be) NOT a crime, nor it is a perversion: it is a sexual tendency that is innate in some individuals. Abusing children IS a crime and should be prosecuted: not all child abusers are paedophiles.

These are diametrically opposite things and we should NOT allow a society to rot under the weight of bigotry and prejudice.

Fantasies are fantasies. Acts are acts. Writing a book, drawing a comic, imagining a situation are NOT violence towards others. They are NOT abuse. There is NO perversion. There should be NO crime. If individuals who think, read or fantasize on unrealistic scenarios cannot control their behavior, they need to be cured, but this does NOT make the fantasy, book or image wrong simply because it does not agree with your moral standards.
by somewhereoutth | 2026-02-15 00:43:02+00:00
No.

When there is low prevalence of a condition, but a non-zero false positive rate of a test, the false positives generated by universal testing can in fact be a net dis-benefit (worry, invasive further procedures, etc) to the patient population as a whole, regardless of cost. This is a well understood statistical phenomenon, and is carefully considered by healthcare systems when advising on testing.
by tremon | 2026-02-15 00:43:02+00:00
And one in a million odds of trouble in itself isn't normally considered wildly irresponsible.

For humans that are roughly capable of perhaps a few dozen significant actions per day, that may be true. But if that same rate of one in a million applies to a bot that can perform 10 millions actions in a day, you're looking at ten injuries per day. So perhaps you should be looking at mean time between failures rather than only the positive/negative outcome ratio?
by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-15 00:43:16+00:00
IMO with the latest generation (gpt codex 5.3 and claude 4.6) most devs could probably be replaced by AI. They can do stuff that I've seen senior devs fail at. When I have a question about a co-workers project, I no longer ask them and instead immediately let copilot have a look at the repo and it will be faster and more accurate at identifying the root cause of issues than humans who actually worked on the project. I've yet to find a scenario where they fail. I'm sure there are still edge cases, but I'm starting to doubt humans will matter in them for long. At this point we really just need better harnesses for these models, but in terms of capabilities they may as well take over now.
by TMWNN | 2026-02-15 00:43:16+00:00
>Also as a sidenote this is even within America a kind of revisionist history, the 20th century had plenty of broadcasting and licensing rules.

The FCC regulates airwaves (and thus broadcast stations/networks), because the broadcast spectrum is a shared resource with bandwidth limits. The FCC similarly regulates cable television systems. The FCC does not regulate cable-only television networks.
by Slow_Hand | 2026-02-15 00:43:43+00:00
Yes. In my experience, hi-fi enthusiasts almost entirely overlook the importance of addressing acoustic issues caused by the room. The ones that do, often do too little and in ways that are ineffectual.

Granted, the space is not easy for people to intuit on their own. It opens the door to a lot of terrible ideas that get propogated by people who don't know any better.

Source: I design and build high-end recording studios for audio professionals.
by p-e-w | 2026-02-15 00:44:19+00:00
I have seen zero evidence that independent archives “keep news media honest”. In fact, I have on several occasions noticed news media directly contradicting their own stance from just a few years prior, with no mention of the previously published account at all. This is true even for highly respected newspapers of record.

I can indeed find clear records of that in the archives. But what do I do with them? How do I use that evidence to hold news media to account? This is meaningless moral posturing.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-15 00:44:43+00:00
Going back 35 years to point out a time when protestors were killed is always a strange thing to me. You can go back just a few weeks until you reach a point where the US killed protestors. Then there's stuff like the Black Lives Matter protests where the US government violently suppressed protests and people died/disappeared.

If 1989 is all a country has as a problem, then that's a sign it's doing great.
by 0xWTF | 2026-02-15 00:44:43+00:00
You're welcome to not read, but as someone who grew up in a certain era, it's pretty cool to see the old things. The webpage he's serving reminds me of all sorts of early internet things, where the knowledge was real and we were just pushing it onto this new thing. The actual site: https://sparc.rup12.net/ has a vibe similar to https://johnlind.tripod.com/, which is incredible. The knowledge is timeless.

> Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher

I feel young again...
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by ashvardanian | 2026-02-15 00:44:55+00:00
8K QPS is probably quite trivial on their setup and a 10M dataset. I rarely use comparably small instances & datasets in my benchmarks, but on 100M-1B datasets on a larger dual-socket server, 100K QPS was easily achievable in 2023: https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2023-11-07-scaling-vector-search... ;)

Typically, the recipe is to keep the hot parts of the data structure in SRAM in CPU caches and a lot of SIMD. At the time of those measurements, USearch used ~100 custom kernels for different data types, similarity metrics, and hardware platforms. The upcoming release of the underlying SimSIMD micro-kernels project will push this number beyond 1000. So we should be able to squeeze a lot more performance later this year.
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-15 00:45:16+00:00
Kind of. At the end of the day the compiler can do almost anything it wants outside of unrefined behavior, which isn't much of a guard rail.

In reality header only libraries allow for deep inlining, the compiler may optimize very specifically to your code and usage.

The situation is a bit more exaggerated with C++ because of templates, but there is some remaining gains to he had in C alone.
by stuartaxelowen | 2026-02-15 00:45:53+00:00
I too am still investigating the space, but what's attractive to me about CPNs is that they can be both the specification and the implementation. How you describe the CPN in code matters, but I'm toying with a rust + SQL-macros version that makes describing invariants etc natural. My understanding is that for TLA+ you'd need to write the spec, and then write an implementation for it. This might be another path for "describe formally verifiable shape then agentic code it", but it smells to me a little like it wouldn't be doing as much work as it could. I think in this there's an opportunity to create a "state store" where the network topology and invariants ensure the consistency of the "marking" (e.g. state of the database here) and that its in a valid state based on the current network definition. You could say "well SQL databases already have check constraints", and we'd probably use those under the hood, but I am betting on the ergonomics of putting the constraints right next to the things/actions relevant to them.
by gottebp | 2026-02-15 00:46:04+00:00
This started as a two-week final project for ECE 291 at UIUC in 2002. A space (or sky) shooter written entirely in x86 assembly. Hand tuned SSE memory ops, Mersenne Twister RNG, toroidal map physics, 10,000 particles at, all software-rendered.

Twenty-three years later I burned a pile of Opus 4.6 tokens to port the assembly to C, then compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten. The first attempt was a direct x86 to WASM transpiler; it passed hundreds of unit tests but kept crashing. The second approach through C worked well.

github: https://github.com/gottebp/alan_parsons_project

story: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-projects-stick-you-longe...
by rgblambda | 2026-02-15 00:46:31+00:00
I can't locate the article unfortunately.

Ad based revenue comes with its own problems. But I doubt there's that many readers who so ferociously disagree with an article that they then refuse to consume any more free content from that outlet any more, which is what happens when someone cancels their subscription. So, to me it makes sense that ad supported news outlets don't suffer as much from having a wider range of views.
by fud101 | 2026-02-15 00:47:25+00:00
I always though the usual 'they only hire seniors now' was a questionable take. If anything, all you need is a semi warm blooded human to hit retry until the agents get something functional. It's more likely tech will transform into an industry of lowly paid juniors imho, if it hasn't already started. Senior level skill is more replacable, not just because it's cheaper to hire juniors augmented with mostly AI but because they are more adaptable to the new dystopia since they never experienced anything else. They are less likely to get hung up on some code not being 'best practice' or 'efficient' or even 'correct'. They will just want to get the app working regardless of what goes in the sausage, etc.
by SilentM68 | 2026-02-15 00:47:42+00:00
That's a toughie, but if it were me and I had the energy, I'd start by looking at the following patents:

- US20030171688A1: Mind controller - Induces alpha/theta brainwaves via audio messages.
- US20070084473A1: Brain wave entrainment in sound - Modulates music for desired brain states.
- US11309858: Inducing brainwaves by sound - Adjusts volume gains for specific frequencies.
- US5036858A: Changing brain wave frequency - Generates binaural beats to alter waves.
- US3951134: Remotely altering brain waves - Monitors and modifies via RF/EM waves.
- US5306228A: Brain wave synchronizer - Uses light/sound for entrainment.
- US6587729: RF hearing effect - Transmits speech via microwaves to brain.
- US6488617: Desired brain state - Electromagnetic pulses for mind states.
- US4858612: Microwave hearing simulation - Induces sounds in auditory cortex.
- US6930235B2: EM to sound waves - Relates waves for brain influence.
- EP0747080A1: Brain wave inducing - Sine waves via speaker for alpha waves.
- US5954629A: Brain wave system - Feedback light stimulation.
- US5954630A: FM theta sound - Superposes low frequencies for theta induction.
- US5159703A: Silent subliminal - Ultrasonic carriers for brain inducement.
- US6017302A: Acoustic manipulation - Subaudio pulses for nervous system control.
by sokoloff | 2026-02-15 00:48:02+00:00
I started mentoring an FRC (high school robotics contest, not battle bots, about 110# mostly custom robots playing a 3v3 game) team 2 years ago and it’s really been enjoyable and rewarding to see the students grow in their capabilities and to have a competitive framework, a timeline, budget and time pressure, and then a break from the insanity when the season is over.

Many, many teams need technical mentors and I really look forward to each season. Not 100% if I’ll continue once my kids graduate, but I wouldn’t rule it out.
by dnautics | 2026-02-15 00:49:16+00:00
It will never be in the main compiler, since it was written by Claude. I think that's ok. The general concept is sound and won't break (modulo names of instructions changing etc). In fact it will get better. With the new io, concurrency checks will be possible

But also, there is no reason why it should have to be in the main compiler. I've architected it as a dlload plugin. It's even crazier! The output is a zig program which you must compile and run to get the final result.
by buildbot | 2026-02-15 00:49:40+00:00
Really the one thing that's guaranteed to be manufactured in N years is _some kind of storage_. I wouldn't buy LTO-1 now, but later gens are going to be around for some time, just like CD-ROMs and other optical media, in some form. And readers will always exist barring an asteroid impact or whatever.

>Therefore I already know the answer on whether I could possibly buy newly manufactured LTO drives and media in 10,20 years, and it starts with a NO. Even today I would be forced to buy second-hand drives. Why would I even entertain LTO as an option, then?

You can still buy brand new LTO-1 media from 2000 - 26 years old. You shouldn't, but you can.
https://www.malelo.com/Maxell_LTO_1_Ultrium_Tape_100_200GB_1...
Then here's a cheap drive
https://www.ebay.com/itm/355784908408

So if you needed to restore a backup from 26 years ago, it would not cost you very much.