MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-14 16:30:02+00:00
Conservatively though, another answer could be when not considering subset registers as distinct:

16 GP

2 state (flags + IP)

6 seg

4 TRs

11 control

32 ZMM0-31 (repurposes 8 FPU GP regs)

1 MXCSR

6 FPU state

28 important MSRs

7 bounds

6 debug

8 masks

8 CET

10 FRED

=========

145 total

And don't forget another 10-20 for the local APIC.

"The answer" depends upon the purpose and a specific set of optional extensions. Function call, task switching between processes in an OS, and emulation virtual machine process state have different requirements and expectations. YMMV.

Here's a good list for reference: https://sandpile.org/x86/initial.htm
by rozim | 2026-02-14 16:30:09+00:00
If I go incognito and tick 5(!) boxes about cookies then it renders:

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Google is offering voluntary exit packages to certain employees within its business division, according to a new report by Business Insider. The move affects select teams in the company’s Global Business Organization (GBO) in the United States.

In an internal email sent on Tuesday, Google’s Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler informed staff that some roles would be eligible for a voluntary exit program, also known as a buyout. The memo, viewed by Business Insider, said the company is starting the year “in a strong position” thanks to employees’ work in 2025. However, Schindler also noted that the environment remains fast-paced and highly competitive.

“The game is dynamic, the pace is electric, and the stakes are high,” he wrote in the message.

Schindler emphasized that everyone in the GBO needs to be fully committed to the company’s mission, especially as Google continues to focus heavily on artificial intelligence. He said employees must be “all in” and ready to embrace AI to create even greater impact.

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by noelwelsh | 2026-02-14 16:30:24+00:00
This is how many registers the ISA exposes, but not the number of registers actually in the CPU. Typical CPUs have hundreds of registers. For example, Zen 4 's integer register file has 224 registers, and the FP/vector register file has 192 registers (per Wikipedia). This is useful to know because it can effect behavior. E.g. I've seen results where doing a register allocation pass with a large number of registers, followed by a pass with the number of registers exposed in the ISA, leads to better performance.
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-14 16:30:41+00:00
If I may speculate within reason:

1. The people will be added permanently to watchlists, potentially even to domestic terrorist lists.

2. They will be checked to ensure they're US citizens. If they're US residents but not US citizens, they could be in serious trouble.

3. They will be monitored extra closely whenever they fly into the country. It is very likely that they will be given a special search treatment, both digitally and physically.

4. Some of these people will be detained to make a point, based entirely on bogus charges. In the process of being detained, physically injury is very possible. Note that detention can mean death if one's medical requirements are not met, and they generally aren't. Also, the food they serve to detained persons has mold and worms.

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So what's the proper solution? A platform with better cryptography! It can technically allow posts and comments to belong to a user, but not be traceable back to the user! When asked by the government who made a particular post or comment, it should not be possible for the platform to readily identify who made it. Of course the IP address should not be tracked either, certainly not beyond 24h. The logged in user would still be able to view and manage all of their posts and comments because they would have the cryptography key to do so. So what about spam and guardrail control -- one solution is to let AI classify it. More can be possible with cleverer uses of cryptography.
by ozgrakkurt | 2026-02-14 16:30:50+00:00
To add another point to this. W/e people write online isn’t correct all the time. I was thinking zig compiles super fast but found that c with a good build system and well split header/implementation files is basically instant to compile. You can use thin-lto with cache to have instant recompilation for release builds.

Real example: I had to wait some seconds to compile and run benchmarks for a library and it re-compiles instantly (<100ms) with c.

Zig does have a single compilation unit and that might have some advantages but in practice it is a hard disadvantage. And I didn’t ever see someone pointing this out online.

I would really recommend trying to learn c with modernC book and try to do it with c for people like me building something from scratch
by Arun2009 | 2026-02-14 16:30:57+00:00
"Metaproject" doesn't capture the idea that I think the author is trying to convey.

An example: suppose you want to improve your French and also build your knowledge of Physics. So in order to target both projects, you attend Physics lectures in French, and also read French Physics books. Thus you progress in both your projects simultaneously.

I would call this kind of thing, "Poly-projects" or maybe "Project complexes". "Meta" would imply one extra level of indirection away from actually doing the project. E.g., thinking about what kind of projects you want to do would be a metaproject.
by kashnote | 2026-02-14 16:31:05+00:00
I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0].

No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.

0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
by sireat | 2026-02-14 16:31:12+00:00
This is very cool and having stalemate is nice, however how much space would it take to implement the full ruleset?

As you write: not implemented: castling, en passant, promotion, repetition, 50-move rule - those are all required to call the game being played modern chess.

I could see an argument for skipping repetition and 50-move rule for tiny engines, but you do need castling, en pessant and promotion for pretty much any serious play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Chess fit in 4k and supported fuller ruleset in 1980 did it not?

So I would ask what is the smallest fully UCI (https://www.chessprogramming.org/UCI) compliant engine available currently?

This would be a fun goal to beat - make something tiny that supports full ruleset.

PS my first chess computer in early 1980s was this: https://www.ismenio.com/chess_fidelity_cc3.html - it also supported castling, en pessant, not sure about 50 move rule.
by krapp | 2026-02-14 16:31:56+00:00
>In other words, the first two Star Trek shows (i.e., the shows that Roddenberry exerted direct control over) seemed to have been extremely good at attracting people to the technophilic ideology.

That's fair. Tons of scientists and engineers got into their fields because they were inspired by Star Trek.

>TNG is also a potent advertisement for communist ideology: Roddenberry was at the time interested in communism and insisted that money was absent (or rare and unimportant) inside the Federation and that crime and strife between people had mostly been eliminated.

Yes. It isn't that potent, though, because it depends on a post-scarcity economy of free energy, FTL and magic boxes that make anything out of nothing. It also assumes humans will just "evolve beyond" their basic nature, bigotry, vice and desire for hierarchies of power.

But for communism (or weakly, socialism) to work in the real world it has to deal with scarcity and human desire.
by acdha | 2026-02-14 16:32:11+00:00
Philosophically I want to agree with you more but Meta is the informational equivalent of RJ Reynolds. They’ve facilitated crime waves (remember all of the hand-wringing about shoplifting which died down when the government went after Facebook marketplace and Amazon?), supported genocide, and elevated some of the worst voices in the world. Giving them more money and social control is a risk which should be discussed.
by NotMichaelBay | 2026-02-14 16:32:23+00:00
> A typical debugging session illustrates the pattern: I describe the bug by voice (Wispr Flow), Claude searches memory (claude-mem) for prior context on that area of the code, creates a task in Beads, and spawns a debug team (Agent Teams) with competing hypotheses. [...]

So at the end of this process, you've spent anywhere from $1 to $5 to fix a bug, and you don't have any of the knowledge you would have gained from being directly involved in the fix. It seems like this approach would keep a developer easily replaceable over time, regardless of how long they've been working with a codebase, because they build very little internal knowledge on it.
by mxkopy | 2026-02-14 16:33:17+00:00
I’d like a source for that. College graduates are no longer at an employment advantage compared to their uneducated peers. The average age of a new hire increased by 2 years over the past 4 years.

Young people in the west have definitely seen declining salaries, if only by virtue of the fact that they’re not being offered at all.

https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...

https://www.reveliolabs.com/news/social/65-and-still-clockin...
by cvoss | 2026-02-14 16:33:36+00:00
With an increase in available registers, every value that a compiler might newly choose to keep in a register was a value that would previously have lived in the local stack frame anyway.

It's up to the compiler to decide how many registers it needs to preserve at a call. It's also up to the compiler to decide which registers shall be the call-clobbered ones. "None" is a valid choice here, if you wish.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-14 16:33:50+00:00
"Taken over" incorrectly suggests that they weren't already among us. HN has had a significant population for many years now who were unashamed to say they only became software developers for the high pay, had no interest in playing around with computers, coding, or hacking beyond the minimum needed for their career, and never valued or used their CS education. Now these never-wanted-to-be-coders have AI tools that lets them not code and they celebrate AI successes as vindication of their preference for not-coding.
by watwut | 2026-02-14 16:33:52+00:00
Oh please, the actual files have these people not just vaguely knowing Epstein, but asking him for help with dating, using him as advisor in dealing with sexual harassment issues in their schools (!), actually helping him to get further connections, connecting him to girls, praising him for intelligence in public and so on and so forth.

Epstein credit with them went up after he was convicted, not down. They were perfectly fine with who Epstein was and what he was doing.

Epstein thing did not went far enough at all. Instead, the actors are being protected, circling the wagons against each other.
by collingreen | 2026-02-14 16:33:57+00:00
> Constantly condemning people they don't know and have never met and don't understand.

> therefore everyone and everything is oriented around tribal group think

You can be more convincing if you don't group everyone into one bucket and throw insults at it.

A reader can pull your claims out - meta bad, thiel bad, ccp bad, sheeple bad - but there isn't anything substantive there (WHY are these bad; it's all ad hominem so far) and we have to sift through a bunch of insults in order to do it ( 1. Tribal group thinkers. 2. Can't recognize fascism. 3. Looking like religious zealots blindly condemning people we don't know. 4. Going to downvote without thinking or participating.)

Your comment looks a LOT like insult #3 up there, with some whining thrown in on top.

If you want a substantive conversation or debate about the different facets of data privacy then lay the groundwork with some good faith place to start. If you instead just post mini screeds pre-insulting everyone then lamenting that nobody engages then nothing is going to change for you.
by Quothling | 2026-02-14 16:35:16+00:00
Bridgefy, Firechat, Bitchat and other bluetooth/wifi peer-to-peer SoMe's are great as long as you're enough people around. As long as you don't rely on one of the big tech app stores (or use an iPhone), it's not hard to get them even when the government is being tyrannical. It would be interesting to build something that would work over the various IoT networks which basically span all of Europe, but I guess that would be hard in countries where there are large areas of "nothing". It also depends on farmers choosing open source technology for their tech since you'd need a lot of farming IoT equipment to connect cross rural areas.
by logicprog | 2026-02-14 16:35:22+00:00
I'm definitely not on the side that AI models can outright replace humans for a large variety of economic tasks. However, one issue I have with the approach of this study is that instead of using agents integrated with various tools, they just used direct computer use agents, where all the agent gets is some file manipulation tools and then the ability to use the mouse and keyboard, and take screenshots of the screen. As a result, they're not really testing agents in the kind of harnesses they would actually be deployed in to perform these jobs, nor in, like, the harnesses they're really mostly RL'd to be most effective in. So it feels more like they're just testing the competence of computer use RL, not the competence in various economic sectors of the models themselves.

For instance, I'm not at all surprised that models would struggle to use just the mouse, the keyboard, and taking screenshots to produce a viable 3D model. But then, on the other hand, we have stuff like this: https://www.trylad.com/
by l674 | 2026-02-14 16:36:53+00:00
If anyone is curious, the most common tool I've seen for ELO estimation among engine developers is cutechess [1], which uses SPRT [2]. Or ordo [3], haven't used this myself though

[1] https://cutechess.com/

[2] https://www.chessprogramming.org/Sequential_Probability_Rati...

[3] https://github.com/michiguel/Ordo
by ragall | 2026-02-14 16:37:01+00:00
My main point is that modern European houses, if well built, don't need maintenance at all. The expectation if you buy a new house or renovate one, is that you won't have to do any maintenance beyond cleaning the roof gutters, for your lifetime (50 years). No siding to repaint or repair, no roof repairs, no sump pump, if there's a basement (likely not) it's fully built in cement on the sides as well.
by Herring | 2026-02-14 16:37:11+00:00
You won't get anywhere if your solution to climate change is widespread poverty and insecurity. In fact from what I can tell the more secure societies are more likely to push green policies (comparing Europe vs US/China). Intuitively I have more capacity to entertain vegetarianism if I'm not working 80hrs per week. Anyway the rich are emitting way more carbon than everyone else so taxing them should be a first priority, not austerity.
by helloplanets | 2026-02-14 16:37:19+00:00
Okay, talking about the original idea of AI being able to take over and manipulate our view of the world altogether: The first thing to verify then would be, whether the information came from AI or a human being.

I trust that there would be enough people who would just give up on the general internet if that became impossible altogether, so we wouldn't undergo a complete Sybil takeover. But I totally understand if another person would think that there actually isn't enough people who would be on board.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-14 16:38:23+00:00
> It would be interesting to build something that would work over the various IoT networks which basically span all of Europe, but I guess that would be hard in countries where there are large areas of "nothing".

A portable device that could effortless hook up to the existing decentralized wireless networks would be even better, Freifunk covers large part of Germany, Guifi covers large parts of Spain, probably there are more somewhere else too, but AFAIK there is no portable device that lets you easily just connect and chat, still requires a bit of setup to participate.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-14 16:38:55+00:00
I'm still running ~40 WUH721414ALE6L4 purchased ~2020 for $110 ea. They're $320 ea now, used.

I never thought I would own commodity hardware that would increase in value over time. When this AI bubble pops like dotcom 1.0, the definancialization is going to be painful.
by aftbit | 2026-02-14 16:39:22+00:00
More interesting to me is the "derivative work" concept. If a human sits down with a novel, reads it cover to cover, then writes their own novel which broadly has the same characters following the same plot in the same setting, but with slight differences in names and word choice, is that new work a derivative of the first for copyright purposes? What if they do the same thing for code? What if an AI does either or both of those?

IP courts will have some truly novel questions before them this century.
by mystraline | 2026-02-14 16:39:30+00:00
So your plan is to let the blackhats in the know attack user devices, rather than send out a large warning to "Quit using immediately"?

If we applied this similar analogy to a e.coli infection of foods, your recommendation amounts to "If we say the company name, the company would be shamed and lose money and people might abuse the food".

People need to know this device is NOT SAFE on your network, paired to your phone, or anything. And that requires direct and public notification.
by poly2it | 2026-02-14 16:39:33+00:00
Do you truly believe Switzerland is at risk of an Islamic invasion? How do people on a platform such as HN fall for such obviously falsifiable statements? The initiative is obviously part of the global right-wing populist trend. Countries in the EU are dependent on immigration for maintaining their economies and public infrastructure as the population ages. I'm not Swiss, but the current government in Sweden has been going through with similar anti-criminal/anti-bad-immigrant (racist) politics and rethoric for four years now. As a result, there are now elderly care centers in parts of the country where 25% of all personnel have been expelled, children and even babies are taken back to their "home countries" without their parents and major domestic industry organisations are turning on the politicians they have fostered as the detrimental economic policies are killing low-wage industries in Sweden.
by bmitc | 2026-02-14 16:39:39+00:00
I'm fairly convinced that the U.S. has chosen the worst models possible to innovate.

Giant corporations control everything, even government laws, regulations, and policies. They will buy up any competition, patent themselves toward a moat, squash competition they don't want to buy, etc.

Venture captialism doesn't care about true value or some actual addition to society. It's a giant grift just to make more money from money. They chase every trend and hype train ad nauseum. It was self-driving cars, then cryptocurrencies/blockchain, and now gen AI. The vast majority of these companies have no value to society or long-term innovation.

The government invests in areas, but a huge amount of it goes to the black hole of defense contractors. And academic institutions in the U.S. are incredibly wasteful with money and spend all their time trying to fundraise money at the same time.

Just the entire system is inefficient and effectively broken.

For example, YC announced calls for climate tech a few years ago: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/rfs-climatetech. Where did that go? I looked up YC companies in the climate space (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Summer%202026&ba...), and there's only 22 companies out of the several thousand YC companies. So where's the value? Most of the companies aren't hiring and just seem like vaporware. And if you look at the leadership, almost all of them are serial VC/startup people and not actual innovators, experts, or professionals.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2026-02-14 16:40:29+00:00
Replace "douchebag" with what you should have written, namely "convicted child sex trafficker, rapist, drug and weapons dealer, torturer and sexual predator", and nothing what you said is anywhere near acceptable.

Besides, the article does not insinuate that "the world is full of douchebags"; it claims that a surprising proportion of people in a very specific, small subset of all people—male authors of a certain age connected to the Edge Institute—apparently had no qualms associating themselves with a person of the aforementioned description. You make it sound trifling when you call it "bad behavior".
by intellirim | 2026-02-14 16:41:01+00:00
The gap between "easy to build" and "pleasant to use" is still massive for TUIs. The tooling has gotten great but most
TUI apps still feel like they're fighting the terminal rather than embracing it. What's the best TUI app you've used
that actually felt like it was designed for the medium, not just ported from a GUI?
by unsungNovelty | 2026-02-14 16:41:06+00:00
I am pretty happy with https://marginalia-search.com/. It's kind of my secondary search engine at this point.
I can always search for anything and find indie websites writing about the topic.

It also helps with the dread of not having to add my personal site to yet another blog curation site which I don't know will:

1. Be maintained in the longer term.

2. Would be willing to add my site to the curation site.
by nalinraut | 2026-02-14 16:41:13+00:00
MARS - Multi Asset Reconstruction for Simulation
Transform 2D images into physics-ready 3D scene assets for robotics training.

Overview

MARS (Multi Asset Reconstruction for Simulation) is a complete pipeline that:

- Detects objects using hybrid vision-language models (Qwen 2.5 VL + GroundingDINO)

- Segments objects from images using SAM (Segment Anything Model)

- Reconstructs full 3D geometry and textures using SAM 3D Objects

- Estimates physics properties (mass, friction, inertia)

- Validates scenes with PyBullet physics simulation

- Exports to multiple formats (USD, MJCF, URDF)

Key Features

- Rich TUI Summary: Pipeline displays a comprehensive summary table at completion showing all detected objects, segmentation results, reconstruction status, physics properties, and validation results

- Prefect Integration: Full workflow orchestration with Prefect, including plain-text logging compatible with Prefect's logging system

- Configurable Models: Support for multiple model variants (Qwen 3B/7B, GroundingDINO tiny/base)

- Intelligent Filtering: NMS-based duplicate removal and configurable area filters with include_background option for large objects
by FireBeyond | 2026-02-14 16:41:20+00:00
Wage theft sucks.

But servers are the only industry where they demand we the consumer take care of the problem because they're unwilling to do so themselves:

"Hard time scraping the money to go to court"? You don't go to court, you go to the DOL with your documentation.

"If you don't tip I have to pay/pay taxes to serve you" - no, you don't. The IRS assumes that you get a certain amount of tips. If you document that you got less, then guess what, they tax you on that.

Know why servers don't like to do that? Because the IRS assumption is that the average tip is 8%. What proportion of a server's customers do we think don't tip versus those who tip more than 8%?

"That's a lot of work" No. IRS Form 4070 (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f4070--2005.pdf) charitably takes less than five minutes a month to fill out.

"I'll get fired". Sure. That's a risk, I admit, and easy for me to say "You need to risk something". Inertia is a powerful thing. How many servers getting fired for fighting wage theft is enough to make a restaurant start to have problems?
by bootlooped | 2026-02-14 16:41:43+00:00
I got very tired of seeing the same video thumbnails over and over.

It seemed like at some point they were pushing into video, of which there were some good ones they put out, but then they stopped. They kept the video links in the articles but since there are only a handful you'll just see the same ones over and over.

I've probably seen the first 3 or 4 seconds of the one with the Dead Space guy about a hundred times now.