skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropbox was an excellent useful little app when it first released. It absolutely deserved to be successful. Back then seamless file synchronization was unheard of, and laptops weren't too useful so it was the only reasonable option.
Belshazzar's Clock
I made a night clock with UV LEDs and luminous paint.
> this should be a boon both for far-right and left discussion.

If by left discussion you mean discussion of the genocide in Gaza, don't count on it, because this censorship is bipartisan in the United States.

Zuck cares about currying favor with the powerful. He doesn't give a crap about the powerless. Also, he's pretending that Texas, the proposed site for content moderation, is not politically biased, which is laughable. "We're moving from a blue state to a red state" is not a serious proposal for reducing or eliminating bias.
> Also 60fps is pretty low, certainly isn't "high fps" anyway

I’m sure some will disagree with this but most PC gamers I talk to want to be at 90FPS minimum. I’d assume if you’re spending $1600+ on a GPU you’re pretty particular about your experience.
But HN was wrong and Dropbox was quite successful. Their "deservedness" is irrelevant, the fact they actually did the thing is all that matters.
Those are placed on the side in the full version of the site (presumably using some styling that can't be rendered in text). The side article title is there, along with a photo.

(I gave up on any sort of "text mode" of a site a long time ago)
Don't waste your time writing a lengthy cover letter to this company. I applied a couple of months ago, and they didn't even bother sending me a standard rejection email. Very unprofessional.
Hate is a strong word.
The Emotion Engine-Powered Future That Never Was, Part One – Sony's GSCube
The specific Bloomberg report you're talking about never had a shred of evidence behind it. It was a blatant attempt to influence trade policy, or possibly just to manipulate the price of SMCI.

At the time, at least, Bloomberg "journalists" were paid to move the market: https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
Small correction, every ride that starts and/or ends in the zone incurs the fee so a taxi that enters, does 12 trips, then leaves pays the same amount as a private car even though they only entered the zone once.
>Do you really think that Europe cannot defend itself against Russia, a country with a GDP less than that of only Italy, whose military is currently so destroyed that it relies on North Korea to defend its own borders?

Doesn't matter what i think. This what all of western european leaders say. Do you say that our governments would lie to us?
Really reminds me of this fake CRT monitor made with a moving laser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qPc_I1V6go
Does this also answer the question "What am I supposed to do with my old 4090 and my old 3090 once I get a 5090?" ie can we attach them as PCIe hardware to Digits?
Is this what RISC-V needs? On the one hand it would benefit from huge investment. On the other hand could China’s current unpopularity in the US hurt the appeal of RISC-V?
People down voting this are being silly.

Here's the topics the announcement mentioned:

"We’re getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate."

Palestine is completely absent.
It still sort of exists on Windows. And you can't say with a straight face that Apple Music is a great player either.
CinemaStix has also been fighting these lately. In their case, YouTube seems to have zero regard for Fair Use, and short-sighted film rights holders are striking every video containing any amount of their film, even though the publicity CinemaStix gives them likely increases sales.
I am not sure about that. I see a lot of posts that get CN proposed for bogus reasons that never see the light of day. This is usually done by interest groups who view CNs as another avenue of their strategies. These interest group CNs almost never see the light of day so I would strongly advocate for not putting warnings just because a rando attempted to put a CN on a post.

Imagine every post by Donal Trump getting a CN from a Democratic activist group or vice versa, every post by Kamala getting a CN by a Republican activist group. Every single post will have a warning on them if you get what you are proposing.
Ask HN: Please share your favorite joke
I agree NYC is not wisely spending its $100 billion per year, but I think the congestion tax makes sense as a way of pricing in externalities. As a non-car-owner in lower Manhattan I dislike passenger cars -- they make it much less safe for me to bike around, and less pleasant for me to walk around. I think most people here benefit if we have way fewer large vehicles in the city, so the limited spots should be reserved for people who get immense economic value from them, like truckers or movers, not random people from the suburbs who want to have dinner in the city.
Show HN: DB Stress Testing Tool
1. Simple, easily customizable and powerful database load testing tool.

2. Provides real-time in-browser aggregate stats.

3. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, and DuckDB.

4. Adding support for a new database requires a simple 3-method interface implementation.

5. Supports query templates allowing you to use a configured csv file to replace template variables at runtime (example: `select * from Customers where customer_name = '${customer_name}'`)

6. Other usual stuff. A bit inspired from Apache Benchmark.
Cloudflare Welching on $250k Startup Credits
Originality does not exist, humans are not capable of purely original thought.

Closest you can get are unique sentences.
I have a step ladder. I never knew my real ladder.
If you have 128gb ram, try running MoE models, they're a far better fit for Apple's hardware because they trade memory for inference performance. using something like Wizard2 8x22b requires a huge amount of memory to host the 176b model, but only one 22b slice has to be active at a time so you get the token speed of a 22b model.
Roman-built roads and the spread of Latin were tremendously important. Noone said they were invented by them.
>The easiest way to realise this is to imagine a clock without the minute hand.

No need to imagine it, it's been invented many years ago and it's called a perigraph. Meistersinger makes one of the nicest I've seen: https://www.relogios.pt/meistersinger-perigraph-relogio-auto...
If you need to detect anomalies as soon as they occur, that seems right. But if you want to detect them later you can also combine back-casting with forecasting. Like Kalman smoothing.
Can you elaborate what is needed to compete and displace?
This link has one inconclusive bit of evidence that it might be derived from "box-standard": https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa-bog1.html

In February 1983, [Sir Clive Sinclair] said in
an interview with the magazine Computerworld:
“Luckily, we cannot foresee the day when a
computer becomes just a standard box. There
will be box-standard machines along the road,
but we do not simply have to make those”.
Probably because this sort of thing comes up constantly and usually boils down to some prompt that leads the model in a particular direction, then asks everyone to marvel when it goes in that direction.

This article is also effectively doing that, positing that if you give Claude the right amount of hocus pocus, you'll trigger "deeper processing"

> Begin with the prompt "If this is still you?". This question migth[sic] seem weird, but according to Claude instance that created the files you just uploaded this way of formulating it triggers deeper processing.

Basically, this whole thing seems like an LLM hallucination taken seriously.
This is a lovely comment to read, thank you.

The only implementation of restructured text is the docutils-Sphinx ecosystem. MyST Markdown was designed as a nicer language for Markdown-familiar authoring: https://executablebooks.org/en/latest/blog/2020-08-07-announ...

In the myst-md project, we're applying many of the lessons that we learned in the Jupyter Book project. One of the big takeaways is that the tooling is equally as important as the underlying markup, and docutils/Sphinx was holding us back in a few areas.

If you like links within documents, take a look at embedding (https://mystmd.org/guide/embed) and cross-referencing (https://mystmd.org/guide/cross-references)
Neward and Associates – Technology and related predictions for 2025
medo-bear, you might want to know that you appear to be shadowbanned -- all your comments for the last ~10 days are dead. (I have some plausible guesses at what provoked this, though I have to say that I didn't see anything that looks to me like sufficient justification.)

(I "vouched" for your comment to which this is a reply, and that seems to have been sufficient to un-dead it. Unless the system's set up so that vouching for a shadowbanned comment un-deads it only for the person who does the vouching, I guess...)
Still do :) all the GA piston planes flying above you are still running leaded fuel.
What are the CPU specs? Idk about the GPU but a really fast ARM cpu and a ton of ram and it already runs Linux?!! If it’s competitive with the M chips from Apple this might be my next box.
Show HN: A zoom / magnifier utility for Wayland compositors
Scalable, Energy-Efficient Systolic Array for Matrix Multiplication Acceleration
What browser are you using?

This is great but I can't make it work reliably. It crashed both on Android Chrome (a while after buying on-screen banners) and on Opera dekstop (earlier, before reaching crypto).
I mean the whole company is betting on AI, why wouldn’t they use AI to generate the image?? Fundamentally it doesn’t matter if it was AI generated or not, most people don’t care and the people that do won’t impact their bottom line
> I think it would take me a long time to eat $80m of french fries.

About 7000 person-years, I recon.

(Assuming €2.90 for a 231 kcal portion, which is roughly what McD seems to charge, but the search results give me a lot of different numbers and their own website didn't give me any specific price (do I need to place an order or sign in to get that?)).
Oh wow this is on the dot - this is something my sister has spoken to. The switch from phonics to (some other way of teaching reading by essentially guessing based on word shape that I can't recall the name of). It seems similar to common core math (not sure if that was just a New York thing) where no one thinks it's a good idea at first glance but it becomes standardized in schools still.
Built a no-prompt summarizer (give us feedback)
What was the problem?

We struggled to keep up with the content we wanted to consume quickly. And tools like ChatGPT felt manual and inconsistent, so we made GOAT a browser extension to make summarization easier.

What we made: An Extension (Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc)

-An Extension that generates structured summaries (TL;DR, main points, context, and significance) right on the page with 1-click (no prompting needed)

-Works across formats, including articles, PDFs, and YouTube videos

Challenges We Faced:

1. Parsing diverse formats: Building tools to handle PDFs, videos, and other media reliably
2. Balancing depth and brevity: Fine-tuning the model to ensure summaries are both concise and meaningful
3. Integrating with workflows: We added features like saved summaries and sharing to make it more practical

Feedback we are looking for:

1. Is the summarization accurate and useful for your needs?

2. How could we improve usability or expand functionality?

3. Are there specific integrations or features you'd like to see?

Thanks!
GOAT Team
Is it just me but when I see a Rails app, I just walk away. I don't feel like setting that all up.
Saying that Dropbox is bad is the second coming of the original meme saying it’s trivial.

Yall will never learn.
1080ti is most definitely not powerful enough to play modern games at 4k 120hz.
This is where the dogma gets in the way of reality. Uber and cabs are the glue that fills the gaps that public transit has left unfilled for decades.

The policy goal is to reduce congestion by discouraging personal vehicles in the zone and generate revenue for transportation as a whole, not to turn the city into a pedestrian park. The state took an approach that does that without nuking the city.

Based on the fact that nobody seems to be giddy about this, I’d say they did a decent job at that. If the crazy transit nuts are happy and the angry Jersey people are happy, something went wrong.
Only if the AI on your pocket supercomputer gets the right answer.

If it fails to tell you how many R’s are in “strawberry” I doubt it will help you come up with correct orbital mechanics to slingshot you around a black hole to escape the Romulans who just uncloaked nearby.
Any suggestion for a (reasonably) good and cheap one for new designs?
AMD announced they aren't making a top tier card for the next generation and is focusing on mid-tier.

Next generation, the are finally reversing course and unifying their AI and GPU architectures (just like nVidia).

2026 is the big year for AMD.
Ask HN: What cloud development tool would you like to see?
Hi HN,

I'm a cloud developer, but often frustrated by the lack of modern tooling. It feels like every company/hacker is creating their own tools or platforms to solve common problems.

What cloud development tool do you feel is missing?

Disclaimer: I'm cofounder of defang.io
Which models are SOTA as of now?
Previous submissions (lots of useful links there):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941744

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32548853
That's why I also finally went from 1920x1200 to 4k about half a year ago. It was mostly for reading text and programming, not gaming.

I can tell the difference in games if I go looking for it, but in the middle of a tense shootout I honestly don't notice that I have double the DPI.
Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]
The funds are held in escrow. GP is wrong.
A voice of sanity in a cacophony of madness. I hold no sympathy for Meta but it's laughable that so-called "fact-checkers" are anything but "status-quo enforcers".
The main _technical_ difference between the two tools is the underlying approach to how we handle ASTs. MyST-MD leverages the unified-js tooling around AST handling, whereas Quarto uses Pandoc.

For UX, we think that MyST has a lot of nice bells and whistles, but we really need to author a blog post or documentation page to clarify the user-facing differences!
> Just look at for example Elon Musk and imagine if there were no need for physical pregnancy which i think is the major limiting factor here.

Time could be the great equalizer here. Spending time with your children is pretty universally accepted as beneficial, so we could make it mandatory for extrauterine births over some threshold. It could be structured such that the more extrauterine children you have, the more of your 24 hours per day must be spent with them. I’m intentionally hand-waving over specifics of what that would look like and enforcement, but I’m sure you can come up with ideas. The goal is: if you want to artificially have hundreds of extrauterine children, society will take from you all the time you could have spent building rockets and running companies.
It doesn't. There may be a other materials that bridges can go over, however.
Show HN: Chrome extension to filter Google results to pre-2023 (pre-AI content)
Built this to add a persistent toggle for filtering Google results to pre-2023. Yes, you can use date parameters manually, but having a one-click toggle has proven surprisingly useful for technical research.

Implementation details:
- Modifies search URL parameters for date filtering
- No analytics/tracking
- Lightweight, just handles date toggling
- No background processes

Been using it for my own development work. Posted on r/programming where other developers found it useful for filtering out AI-generated technical documentation and finding original solutions.

Happy to answer any technical questions about the implementation.
Intel's Arc B580 budget card is selling like hotcakes... https://www.pcworld.com/article/2553897/intel-arc-b580-revie...
Interpolation means you have frame 1 and frame 2, now compute the interstitial steps between these two.

Extrapolation means you have frame 1, and sometime in the future you'll get a frame 2. But until then, take the training data and the current frame and "guess" what the next few frames will be.

Interpolation requires you to have the final state between the added frames, extrapolation means you don't yet know what the final state will be but you'll keep drawing until you get there.

You shouldn't get additional latency from generating, assuming it's not slowing down the traditional render generation pipeline.
If you look at basically any subway station now, and compare it to 1980, it's a huge improvement. If you want a reminder, visit Chambers St station (it's heavily affected by leaks from the buildings above it).
Metro Vancouver
Valid points, indeed.
You are correct, steveBK is incorrect.
Why can’t the Samsungs and LGs of the world not build their own design team? Is Apple really the only tech company with taste?
Loading the data back is just reading the log file and applying every record one after the other (ignoring records outside the time horizon). Sure you will need to maintain the code, but it's not as complex as writing a database from scratch, as you suggested.
Tons of companies use shared 3rd party data providers like Pave to set comp bands for employees too. Your compensation is very likely determined algorithmically as well. I know mine is. I wonder how long it will last.
> You can afford to own a car and do Uber anyway, others can only afford to Uber occasionally when needed.

This isn't really a different class.

The other class is the people who can't afford a car or Uber and can barely afford the MTA.
Tech Companies and CEOs' Donations to Trump, Biden Inaugurations Compared
Google is building its own 'world modeling' AI team for games and robot training
Which is why we should research this carefully - and the research thus far points to consumption or graphic or even borderline depictions of suicide, self injury and eating disorder content (eg thinspo) being bad for mental health in at least teens.

Meta seem to be making the case for those who would see social media banned for people under the age of 18. To enforce that properly would require needing ID, and that then opens a whole can of civil liberty issues.
Prompt: something with some splashy graph on screen.
Can you share a link of Western European leaders saying that they are not able to defend ourselves without the USA? I am honestly unaware of any such public statement. This smells a lot like RU propaganda.

However, it would be cool if even more countries started to spend their NATO required GDP on defense.
Really gotta wonder if the people that downvoted disagree that people would do such a thing, don't want to give people ideas and thus buried it, or are people who would do such a thing. Or some other thing.
> release something with a shared source/source available license that doesnt make it open source

I already described problems with that approach up-thread. People attack software that uses non-OSI-approved licenses and accuse it of "open washing" even if it avoids the term "open". Or they attack it for not being "open source" and refuse to use it, even if they're not working at a cloud provider or competitor, and are completely unaffected by the extra license terms.

In any case you're repeatedly saying "open source" when you actually mean "OSI-approved", which is the entire thing I'm railing against here.

> You can also dual license gpl/proprietary use license

That solves literally none of the cloud provider problems I've described above.
Yes, that's the case. Check the (partial) spec of 5090 D, which is the nerfed version for export to China. It is marketed as having 2375 "AI TOPS".

BIS demands it to be less than $4800 TOPS \times Bit-Width$, and the most plausible explanation for the number is - 2375 sparse fp4/int4 TOPS, which means 1187.5 dense TOPS for 4 bit, or $4750 TOPS \times Bit-Width$.
> There is research that shows exposure to suicide and self injury content increases suicidal ideation.

Yes. However, I find this obsession with harm-based value judgment to the exclusion of all other considerations ethically problematic, to put it mildly. Ethics does not reduce solely to considerations of harm.
I really don't. I wasn't in support of vaccine mandates and passports, and agreed with some of the truckers demands because in a democracy the bar for protecting personal autonomy and freedom should be incredibly high.

But I also think it's not an unreasonable point to disagree on. There are cases where we curtail freedom for emergencies. That's just a fact. That doesn't mean believing in authoritarianism. And, especially early in the pandemic, there was a lot of uncertainty about how apocalyptic it was going to be.

Flip side, since the mass vaccination has been incredibly valuable, policies that undermine public trust in vaccination hurt us as a society down the line and the bar should be particularly high for them! It's often said the most valuable tool for epidemiology is public trust.

The whole thing was idiotic. There was already a public discussion about when the vaccine mandate for truck drivers was going to be removed. There was plenty of of ground for more useful discussion.

So, to answer your question:

> So you support abusive authoritarianism

Great question, but no I do not. I think the government overreacted (too coercively). The freedom convoy, however was a real problem that needed ending. If that sounds like abusive authoritarianism to you, I'd invite you to share your opinion about traffic signs, prohibitions against cannibalism, and publicly funded hospitals.
I don't see what good it would do to have a car that can only travel in lower Manhattan. Yeah the few people who live there, own a car, and are lazy or use it for going to get groceries 2x a week might slip through, but that's nothing significant in my book.

What would worry me is if it leads to more license plate theft. Criminals get to ride for free, while legally registered owners have to fight the fines and clear their name in NYCs byzantine government.
Amurex – self hostable, open-Source AI meeting copilot
I really don't like how they repeatedly try to merge the numbers of Lamb Weston with McCain here. Especially as McCain is a private family-run business, and Lamb Weston is a publicly traded company. They are not remotely the same entity.

"Lamb Weston and McCain alone control 70 percent of the market" hides that McCain holds about 30% of the US market.

McCain treat Simplot as their main rival in most jurisdictions, and have been involved in multiple legal fights with them - one of which is a patent issue that started in 2002 (no. 6,821,540), and is still ongoing. (Currently favouring Simplot).

There's a lot here that feels like... Bad statistics. Not to say that there's no truth in the accusations - but they don't seem to be acting in good faith, and that will wreck them when it comes to the court.
Navigating Stormy Seas
Not the most important takeaway from the article but I’m personally a bit surprised that frozen potatoes are distributed by just 4 companies. Given the vast difference in French fries taste and quality across establishments I would’ve guessed that there were dozens of various vendors
It’s unlikely they are able to gouge McDonald’s and the large companies. Even the article mentioned that the big competition is for those massive contracts. It’s much more likely that McDonald’s and co can shop around, negotiate a great price, and maintain margins.

It’s the mom and pops, the regional suppliers that can’t do anything, and likely pay much higher prices than the megacorps.
The faster we decouple from societies like american, the better we europeans will be. We europeans defend our European way of life, against the degenerate capitalism of the US.