skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m excited to share a small project I’ve been working on: VideoScape, a minimalist macOS app that sets any video file as your desktop wallpaper. I’ve always loved dynamic wallpapers, but I couldn’t find a simple tool that let me freely pick my own videos.

So I built VideoScape to do just one thing well:

Pick any video—travel footage, animated loops, personal recordings, etc.
Set it as wallpaper with a click.

Why might this be useful? For me, it’s all about customizing my workspace. I like having a rotating set of visuals (sometimes relaxing timelapses, other times short animated art clips).

VideoScape is not a giant ecosystem or a subscription product. It’s just a small utility I’m selling on Gumroad. If you like the idea of personalizing your Mac with your own clips, check it out and let me know what you think. Feedback is definitely welcome!

Link: https://0ktawa.gumroad.com/l/VideoScape
This is also available via VASAviation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiUC8h4pkcs
I keep on trying them, but if they are useful they are useful for only a small fraction of engineers at the moment. I'm not sure if this is due to the nature of the work, or the nature of the user.

I have heard "top" engineers at various places say it makes them 2x faster, or whatever, but I would like to see this assessed by timed testing, as is sometimes done for evaluating software engineering.

Copilot may let me type less, but I have not seen the wall clock effects, which is a very hard thing to measure (time perception is very unreliable).
It's our loss that you weren't around to set everyone straight, I'm sure.
This is a question for x, not the submitter. Twitter & X links still list twitter as the canonical URL (which HN uses)
I'm so glad I brought my washer and dryer with me through two moves. Modern ones have logic boards in them that eventually malfunction. These machines are 20 years old, simple to repair, and reliable.
In all honesty, these optimizations are quite basic. We already used MariaDB instead of MySQL itself. Other things listed in the post are something that we have standard across all our databases, well, except for deleting the data to speed up the database.
I have a very dark sense of humor sometimes.

But yes, it's sad.
I disagree; it's not absurd at all. Perhaps you don't care the clothes-destroyer the previous tenant left makes holes in your wife's silk pajamas. Washers and dryers are very personal items (some prefer top vs front loaders) and are exclusively freestanding, temporary appliances.

Dishwashers OTOH are often plumbed in, sometimes hardwired, and fastened to the counter.

Not to mention most people don't know how to properly care for them (when was the last time you cleaned the filter?). If I moved into a new place I'd probably replace the dishwasher straight away.
Grok 3 at the top of Chatboat Arena with 1400, and the model will continue to improve as it trains more.
But Apple already knows if an app is charging money or not, they don't need any extra information for that
I swear no matter how many times people say it people will still conflate all ML with LLMs. No, chatGPT is not driving advances in self-driving or weather prediction
At least you got the job done before you had to start a second project to install a stopgap measure, which is now late too.
Just go outside, there is lots of IR out there. If it feels good then get whatever gadget you want to emulate it inside.
It’s on all the news sites in Canada.
Yeah I’m not sure how this action would be beneficial to Musk.
No, a conspiracy has a very specific definition that has gotten lost in all the noise:

noun (plural conspiracies)

a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful: she served five years in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to sell stolen art works.

The key is that it's a secret plan. People have to have gotten together to meet, in secret, and agree on a plan. This is why true grand conspiracies are so rare: it's hard to get a lot of people together in one room, get them all to agree on a plan, and get them all to keep it a secret. The more people involved, the more likely there will be a leaker.

Criminal conspiracies are quite common though. Of course, those can involve as few as 2 people making a plan to commit a crime together.
Why is the gambler's fallacy a fallacy?
> Because he didn't.

Really not sure why you say that with such authority.

https://youtu.be/EqizJTbxAEM?t=3891
He hasn't said anything about when the bubble will burst. Just says that it is a bubble and it will inevitably burst.
Honestyl. It has its drawbacks but I am usually at 50x with few different agents running side by side. What we need is better GPU competition with tons of ram.
New "faux bus" API merged for Linux 6.14, including both Rust and C bindings
We had huge servers, with the database and the application itself running on separate instances. IIRC, we had a 32 core, 64GB instance just for the DB itself which we doubled when we started adding more sites to our configuration and it still wasn’t enough. As for the numbers, our site(s) get heavy traffic everyday, in millions daily, since we are a stock broker.

You’re right about MySQL performing alright for 10-20m rows, but from our perspective those numbers are not that big for a company this size.
Worse than an intern and 1000x faster?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43071381

You can see this example where I timed myself to deployment using AI tools to rewrite a show HN project in half an hour. The code is open source.

My comment was posted 2 hours after show HN when I saw it on front page so you know I didn’t lose track of time I spent.
> How would transitive dependencies be handled?

Have a SBOM format whose license requires truthful reporting (or the license is null and defaults to open source), then trust only those SBOM formats with this property.

Taleb's minority law will do the rest. Pretty soom, most SBOM formats will adopt this rule.
> This is missing the most interesting changes in generative AI space over the last 18 months

I agree, though personally I'm liking the "big thing" as well. R1 is able to one-shot a lot of work for me, churning away in the background while I do other things.

> Multi-modal

IMO this is still early days and less reliable. What are some of your daily use cases?

> Context lengths

This is the biggest thing IMO (Models remaining coherent at > 32k contexts)

And whatever improvements have caused models like Qwen2.5 to be able to write valid code reliably vs the GPT-4 and earlier days.

There are a whole lot of useful smaller niche projects HF like extracting vocals/drums/piano from music, etc
41 here, working in healthtech… and Devin has committed more code and closed more tickets on my behalf in the past week at my behest than I’ve done on my own in a month.

It’s basically functioning as a team of entry-level junior engineers at this point.

Previously I was having to spend a fair amount of time writing tickets and providing context, but lately I’ve fed all my meeting transcripts and such into an LLM and it interactively creates Jira tickets for me. Each one takes me maybe 30s to read before I confirm them and the assistant creates the actual tickets.
I love the look! If I have the time I'll probably add a CSS theme using this to some of my apps.
`svc 0x80` is the command to execute any syscall, which syscall exactly is executed is based on the register x16, presumably the app make a very large amount of unrelated syscalls, so it wouldn't be useful to break on that, that's what he said in the video at least.
> the hope that technological progress will lead to a good future is the third-most popular ideology in the US

Hope is not an ideology, but I would be interested to see what kind of source you have on that.
> I am so very bored of having this conversation, so I am now going to write out some counterpoints so that I don't have to say them again.

It is not clear to me why the author feels the need to have the conversation.

Human consciousness gives us the ability imagine future states in the universe and make them come true.

The results will speak for itself.
Team from Elon Musk's SpaceX to review air traffic control system
Are these fixes, or workarounds?
Apparently the API will only be available in a few weeks, so I can't run my independent benchmarks yet.
Fear of what?
And yet, they’re better than what they replaced.

Horses weren’t cheap when they were a primary mode of transportation. Lots of people have died riding, driving, and breaking horses. They definitely smell bad, and their “particulate matter” was so bad that houses had to be set back and elevated from the street.

Cities designed around cars are far superior to cities designed around horses.
> I don't know of a way to prove equipotence except by creating a 1-1 relationship between the sets in question.

The usual definition of two sets having the same size (cardinality) is that they are in bijection. So ultimately, any proof that |A| = |B| will reduce to a "creating a 1-1 relationship between the sets in question", or at least showing that one exists.
Mostly saline with a bit of donor albumin.
"I'll say I agree with the Deep Research criticisms. These products are very underwhelming."

I haven't shelled out the $200/month for OpenAI's Deep Research offering, but similar products from Google and Perplexity are extremely useful (at least for my use case). I would never present the results unchecked / unedited, but the Deep Research products will dig much deeper for information than Perplexity could be persuaded to previously. The results can then be fed into another part of the process.
> I get home to use the hole saw, and find out that my consumer grade drill can't even fit the hole saw in the chuck - it's too big.

Somebody hasn't read In the Beginning Was the Command Line, else they'd know you need a Hole Hawg for a job like that.
How about Fortran 77"
This reads like a straightforward rant to me, not something informative.

Which then invites the question: why is this person's opinion on the subject relevant? Do they have some credentials that make it more valuable than a random comment with a similar rant (of which there are plenty) on Reddit or HN?
Current F1 cars (until 2026 rules change) use a unit called MGU-H to do something similar in spirit.
We're not ALL in a cult, nor are we vegan, transgender, or math geniuses. (That last one is a pity, since I was a math major.)
Ongoing discussion (39 points, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085957
I am by no means a kernel pro, but my gut tells me this is either not possible or not feasible.

How it works currently is entirely based on the /proc FS, and even though processes launched by say user1 have /proc/123 and /proc/123/mem both owned by user1, and /proc/123/mem has rw permissions for owner, it returns a permission error when attempting to open the file. And rightfully so, wouldn't want any random program being able to spy and modify other programs' memory on the same permission level.

What you mention sounds like executing the code of the target program inside the same address space of the tool, which to me sounds like a nightmare (if it is even possible). I've had trouble with my own code (in other projects) getting OpenGL to work well between QtWebengine and GLFW, never managed to solve it, mixing contexts of different libraries in the same address space is already complex when you are writing the code yourself, let alone when you're mixing with arbitrary binaries made by others.

The only thing I could see working is the debugger approach, which I have no experience with (in implementation terms) and would start being out of scope of this project I think. I haven't looked at it much, but PINCE might be more akin to what you mentioned. https://github.com/korcankaraokcu/PINCE
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Don't know how it is in the US, but it's similar for cars, highways don't cross small routes either there's typically a (small) bridge involve (no need for viaduct).
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Being vulnerable is not the same thing as not having boundaries.
Your desired hourly rate * how many hours you have spent.

In the future discuss the pay before you start coding.
Multi-modal audio is great. I talk to ChatGPT when I'm cooking or walking the dog.

For images I use it for things like helping draft initial alt text for images, extracting tables from screenshots, translating photos of signs in languages I don't speak - and then really fun stuff like "invent a recipe to recreate this plate of food" or "my CSS renders like this, what should I change?" or "How do you think I turn on this oven?" (in an Airbnb).

I've recently started using the share-screen feature provided for Gemini by https://aistudio.google.com/live when I'm reading academic papers and I want help understanding the math. I can say "What does this symbol with the squiggle above it?" out loud and Gemini will explain it for me - works really well.
Then deciding not to take down a “random opinion of a guess” and instead opt to be fired is an extremely odd decision and/or hill to die on.
She went before Congress for to testify for 11 hours under oath, as a point of fact. I feel like that would be a reasonable next step.

The FBI investigation https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-dir... is at odds with your description. It appears nothing was as anywhere as severe as the recent intelligence breach of when DOGE posted NOFORN material publicly (https://abcnews.go.com/US/agency-data-shared-doge-online-spa...)
They might try to have a senator block it or make it a crime to use it…wait Elon is the president. I guess they cannot.
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Technology is largely a function of human imagination, tempered by constraints imposed by time on the one hand and amplified by new discoveries unfolding on the other. Imagination being a fuel, what does the imagination project is possible in 100 years?
Phoronix seems to be some Linux benchmarking software that also has a "Linux content" website? I didn't know it had a (in?)famous comment section nor recurring personalities and feuds from it.

The Internet today really is bubbles inside bubbles inside bubbles.
The National Archives and Records Administration doesn't currently have an Archivist. Trump fired the previous head a week and a half ago. The deputy head then retired over the weekend. It is currently sort of headed by Marco Rubio. He put Jim Byron, the President & CEO of the Richard Nixon Foundation in charge of it part time.

Trump seems to have it out for NARA since they originally reported the missing classified documents that Trump refused to return. I would not expect records to be kept in the manner they have been in previous administrations.
You might want to look into BPC-157
They have 55,000 newsletter subscribers. https://www.wheresyoured.at/about/
If what they say is true, then you have to give them credit for catching up incredibly fast. And slightly pulling ahead. Not only with the models, but also products.
Show HN: New Java Reverse Engineering Tool (Injected DLL, Runtime Analysis)
If you've ever delved into Java reverse engineering, you'd know there are a lot of static analysis tools such as Recaf and JD-GUI that allow you to decompile & disassemble bytecode statically and go from there.

However, I noticed that there isn't much material for dynamic analysis, and static tools fall short when you deal with more sophisticated malware and protection.
Just as tools such as JD-GUI & Recaf can be compared to IDA and Ghidra in assembly, my end goal is for this tool to fill in the gaps of tools such as x64dbg.

I'd like to introduce JDBG, a runtime Java reverse engineering tool I've been working on for quite some time. It leverages an injected DLL along with the JNI and JVMTI interfaces to analyse Java programs at runtime.

Some of the cool features it includes:
- Analyse bytecode & decompiled code at runtime, useful for when programs attempt to hide and dynamically load classes.
- Set breakpoints at runtime and analyse values of stack locals and the stack trace.
- Pick a class and analyse all instances of the class, including field values.
- Analyse a heap graph that details the relationships between objects. For example, you could filter Strings by value and quickly determine the relationships for that String, such as its originating field, and other information such as if it was in an Arraylist, etc.

More information in the Github! I'd be willing to answer any questions you may have.
The real breakthrough with Dedekind cuts (as far as I can see) is not that you can define irrational numbers this way, it’s that when you do, calculus works. In other words, they obey all the axioms you would want and in particular they have the Archimedean property and possess a least upper bound.

You could always say that Dedekind was “just” restating real numbers in modern analytic language, but the fact is that no-one had managed to do that up till then, and it wasn’t obvious how it could be done. This is what sparked the crisis in analysis with some people saying that calculus was more like a religion that you just had to believe in rather than being able to prove.
Does this mean I shouldn’t wear the protective glasses when doing red light therapy?
There is dashcam of this available, so disturbing, even more so when you find out it was completely avoidable
> So what do we do about it when we don’t even know what questions to ask before setting out on any software project, especially one that ostensibly seems routine?

Well, taking the story as metaphor a bit further… there were several opportunities to learn more about which questions to ask, without so many trips to the hardware store. I’m surprised not to see any mention of that in this section about lessons learned.

Coming back to the topic of software, I’m not opposed to exploratory work as a requirements-gathering exercise. But at a certain point it bears a lot more fruit to stop doing and start finding out what you don’t know as a dedicated effort. When you can take one figurative trip to the hardware store with a big shopping list and set of open questions, you’re bound to spend more of your labor in an effective and relatively straightforward way.
of course washing machine installation takes too long... I see you don't do scrum. We are a rapid growing agile consultancy firm... we'd love....
Fear of being fired by unfavorably reviewing political allies of the current administration. A basic form of political corruption.
Train hoppers ride the rails across America – and you can tag along
I'm sure they do have video of the crash, but there's really no upside for them to release it. Eventually it'll come out, at the very least once the NTSB report is published.
Just to be clear, the argument for this has nothing to do with how the code looks and has everything to do with how you can swallow a pill, once, and in exchange you get clean rebases forever. You can hide the commit from blame consideration.
> I would strongly argue that coding assistants are AI’s first killer app. Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf etc.

These IMO are relatively useful things. But probably (in their current state) will not justify the valuation of the companies involved and the massive investment occurring right now.

I don't know how the future will unfold. I do think it is reasonable to be somewhat bearish on what has been promised vs. what has been released.
We can't even keep Earth alive
>no sympathy, get a job types.

This was a valid perspective in the 1960s - jobs grew on trees, most people who didn't have a job just didn't want a job. Some people built that perspective in the 1960s, and then never updated it despite jobs no longer growing on trees.
You should watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C27PlV_zijk
Will he do what he promised and open source Grok 2 now?
Spotting bubbles and predicting they will burst at some point is not a particularly useful skill. Housing in Amsterdam was in a bubble for 37 years in the 1700s; identifying the bubble early on would have been completely pointless.
First it’ll be animation upscaling. Using the current season of The Simpson, South Park, Toy Story 4 along with the first season or movie as a controlnet. Then will come applying an aesthetic like Star Wars or Mad Max to an extinct movie.
Hong Kong: 96,000 ETAXI data exposed in unsecured Google storage
> They are difficult to operate—people die every day. They do smell bad, and the particulate matter they emit is extremely bad for you. And they are slow

Sarcastically, one might say that horses are even harder to operate (they have minds of their own), they smell worse that automobiles (esp EVs), and the particulate matter they excrete would be unhealthy to consume. They are also very slow.

More seriously, the trajectory that our imagination pushes towards seems to be “overcoming” biological limitations. Perhaps a symbiosis of machine and biology and consciousness will take us to the next level by opening up vast new universe state.
I wanted to take my notes from different resources I’ve set up/deployed (such as AWS CDK, configurations, and caveats of these resources). I’d also like to have annotated code in there too. The goal is to ultimately be able to search the graph or augment an LLM with it.
America's gold reserves could add $750B to the U.S. Treasury
git blame is the best teacher of humility.
Availability Heuristic
https://archive.ph/X1LHE
I've never had an issue with wake/sleep on any of my M1/2/4 devices. The only issue I can ever recall with sleep was the 2019 16" Intel (which had a host of issues).
Many years ago I worked through The Elements of Computing Systems. It was the single most impactful experience in my computer learning journey. The book and exercises are a rare piece of pedagogical genius I am grateful to have encountered.

You too can build a(n emulated) computer from scratch, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I have encountered this running Ubuntu with an nvidia gpu. Have you tried adding button.lid_init_state=open as a kernel boot parameter? That is what solved it for me.
Can you run custom kexts on a jailbroken iPhone? The cooler way to bypass it is just to modify the kernel itself.
As more local cinemas close, residents are forming nonprofits to buy them
Could you link to your i3wm/regolith window setup code? I'd like to set up something similar!
They’ve already been fired…
What if you want to add a reference field to a struct? That's the point where I usually get pretty upset with how Rust works.
> However, I think in general, the probability is decent that they did, as they are highly incentivized to do so. Because a failure to do so could mean the end of their business.

Yes, their business will end because they'll fail an inspection. As it turns out, these incentives are provided by regulation, not by the free market.

There's abundant history of market forces totally failing to end food businesses that didn't follow food safety practices. The Jungle was published in 1906 documenting meatpacking's horrors and not a single change was made until the Pure Food lobby pushed through regulation, and that was at a time when meatpacking wasn't a concentrated industry. In Upton Sinclair's time, there were at least 9 companies operating in the Union Stockyards where he researched meat packing (it's unclear to me how many there were total).

Look around at food safety inspection reports for your town and you'll very quickly find restaurants that were doing great financially until regulators stepped in and cited them for dangerous practices. Restaurants are, again, a highly competitive industry.

It seems like you're starting with your favored economic ideology and pretending it tells you anything about reality, instead of just looking at reality and seeing what's there.