skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- When you press the refresh button, it loads data from huggingface.co/api, doing the same request seemingly 122 times within one second or so

- When I select "no dedicated GPU" because mine isn't listed, it'll just answer the same "you need more (V)RAM" for everything I click. It might as well color those models red in the list already, or at minimum show the result without having to click "Check" after selecting everything. The UX flow isn't great

- I have 24GB RAM (8GB fixed soldered, extended with 1x16GB SO-DIMM), but that's not an option to select. Instead of using a dropdown for a number, maybe make it a numeric input field, optionally with a slider like <input type=range min=1 max=128 step=2>, or mention whether to round up or down when one has an in-between value (I presume down? I'm not into this yet, that's why I'm here / why this site sounded useful)

- I'm wondering if this website can just be a table with like three columns (model name, minimum RAM, minimum VRAM). To answer my own question, I tried checking the source code but it's obfuscated with no source map available, so not sure if this suggestion would work

- Edit2: while the tab is open, one CPU core is at 100%. That's impressive, browsers are supposed to not let a page fire code more than once per second when the tab is not in the foreground, and if it were an infinite loop then the page would hang. WTF is this doing? When I break the debugger at a random moment, it's in scheduler.production.min.js according to the comment above the place where it drops me </edit2>.

Edit: thinking about this again...

what if you flip the whole concept?

1. Put in your specs

2. It shows a list of models you can run

The list could be sorted descending by size (presuming that loosely corresponds to best quality, per my lay person understanding). At the bottom, it could show a list of models that the website is aware of but that your hardware can't run
thanks for the feedback I need to refresh the list or load dynamically.
Easier to port to
Standard time in the summer would mean sunrise at about 4AM here in the Seattle area. That'd be fairly disturbing to sleep.
Same! Excluding members of my family, over the years I've only met a few people online who share it.
Setting the desired temp is 'auto mode'
What were the problems you had when using it as a persistent data store if you don't mind me asking? Also, what kind of workloads did you have?
That's been my pastime away from the digital screens of my day job. But I didn't go full modular, instead getting 3 analog monosynths. I need some structure while learning music at the same time and can't venture into the wild world of modular. My gear has lots of CV/Gate ins/outs for that later step though.
I have Mac going upto 512 GB of memory since the latest mac studio lauched last week has support for 512 GB of unified memory.
I am the exact opposite. I used to hear about people going to coffee shops and doing work and I would go there and I’d just be completely distracted by everything around me. I was forced to work in an open office for a while and I would have to leave early and risk getting in trouble so that I could get work done at home.
I remember the day we got 56K from our ISP. Our modem was 56K (no idea what model, some internal WinModem), but the ISP was limited to 33.6K. Then one day, the connection screech sounded different, and I excitedly pointed this out. Several seconds later, it connected, and lo and behold, we had 66% faster downloads.

The fact that all of this worked continues to amaze me, but then, so do mobile phones. I understand at a high level how CDMA works, but it’s just so insane…
Laser precise insight. It just so happens that being able to "audibly convey information on the screen as it would be interpreted by a sighted person" is technologically nontrivial, even now in the age of advanced multimodal LLMs. All the while screen readers have existed for decades.

So until that happens, another option is for people to just... not engage in Unicode abuse like this. Or at least be mindful of the fact that if they do, screen readers will take a massive shit, so if that's not their goal, they should reconsider. Which is what the post is all about (as well a general plea to folks to at least mull it over twice if it is their goal).
Don't work on Kagi, but WebKit on iOS doesn't support it.
thanks for the feedback
thats a good idea
> Yes, but unlike C's terribly confusing "declaration follows usage" style, which no tells you about btw

I happen to be reading the K&R C book right now and they do in fact tell you this.
This is a very cool idea, I think this could potentially be more powerful by (at least initially) limiting it to small sections of the UI (Like you've done in your example)

You could take it a step further and, instead of adding/removing buttons, simply updating the copy of (a) button(s) based on the question, which I imagine you could manage with a very small model.
> ... 498 posts (50.7%) encouraged viewers to take action and get the test, and 668 account holders (68.0%) had financial interests.

> ... an urgent need for effective regulation to protect the public.

Unlikely to happen.

It's now open season for fraud against Americans. Many of the regulatory organizations in the US Government have been downsized or eliminated, and the Department of Justice is cutting back on enforcing laws against white collar crime.

It's a great time to be a scammer. Any scam that can be made to look even vaguely legitimate is low-risk.
agree, the model assumes a multitasking setup where you need some leftover ram for other tasks. You can squeeze in much larger models when running dedicated
I have been a happy user of Kagi search for a couple years, but I really hope they don't start going everywhere.

They have Kagi translate, they also mentioned building an email service. I like Kagi search because it works well. I actively avoid their other products because I want to encourage them to stay focused and make a good product.
Would love to understand the downvotes on this. I just laid out my problems with these laptops. If you have a solution, I am all ears.
The main benefit of having US monopolies is the spying capabilities that it enables. No other country ever had such a global surveillance network.

For the average American, both the efficient parts of monopolies (reduced redundancy which means fewer well-paying jobs) as well as the inefficient parts (reduced competition, higher prices, reduced standards of living) are net negatives. The political influence inherent to monopolies are also a negative effect on democracy, whereas foreign monopolies tend to have a harder time maintaining political influence.
Good to know. I've heard bad things about public restrooms (from travelers I know) about both China and India, though this information may be outdated.

I was worried about Vietnam, but this is encouraging. I always wanted to visit.

(Don't worry, I understand what "on average" means, and I also understand it varies from location to location).
thanks for the feedback, will check and update if there are any bugs causing multiple calls
>You never need to touch the AC controls when driving thanks to auto mode.

Does it also do seat heating/cooling automatically?

>In the worst case you can use voice control, which you can again trigger from a physical control.

Does it understand my accent or do I need to learn to talk like an American?
'The cone people have gone too far': Chaos is brewing on SF's Billionaires' Row
He was a known harasser at cons.
This! I love the UX in my Mazda 6.
Another option you could consider is a tool I have been building for deploying webapps across a team. https://github.com/claceio/clace has the usual deployment related functionality like gitops, TLS certs.

It has some unique features like supporting OAuth authentication for the apps, staging env for each app (code and config changes are staged before deployment), supporting declarative update, supporting hypermedia based apps natively etc.
I appreciate the non-Amazon links, thank you!
Granted, Pi hole is a great project, and this new version does seem like a big improvement. It just irks me how people will stay with a hostile browser instead of spending the literal five minutes it takes to switch to another one.
This doesn't mention quantisations. Also, it says I can run R1 with 128GB of ram, but even the 1.58 bit quantisation takes 160GB.
Here's something I don't understand.

If you want to switch your search engine for Safari on iOS, you open Settings, tap Safari, tap Search Engine, and tap your preferred search engine. Not many users do this, and the conclusion is that the default has an unfair advantage.

If you want to make Chrome your desktop browser, you open the default browser, search for Chrome, click the correct result, download the installer, run the installer, open Chrome, and set it as the default browser. So many users do this that people conclude Chrome has an unfair advantage.
The postal service is a complete failure. As bad as some 3rd world countries. I get the wrong mail all the time and other people get my mail. Not just at home, but at my po box as well. I've complained several times and nothing has changed for more than a month. Neighbors have the same problem. They're so stupid that they give my building the mail for the building next door.

Lets also factor in that they're spending more, but delivering way less mail. Its a joke.

We don't need it to be privatized, we just need all the management to be replaced and same with MOST the employees which are actually not fit to work at any real job and that's why the government hires them.
Maybe, but would another large incumbent necessarily be better?
Why GameStop though?

Also, I find it slightly distasteful to refer to works of literature I like with the fad term du jour.

I can't say I liked this article overall.
Can we get it to fact check politicians and Facebook now?
It's more of a legal term of art than a slang term at this point. It's written into the statutes in some states, e.g. in Florida: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
The library functions are there... Some browsers in the app store support it via native library functions (e.g. Webble browser).
Hudson's Bay, Canada's Oldest Retail Chain, Nears Bankruptcy
https://archive.ph/01rPF
You just wrote a lot of text just to say that you don't accept the simulation as “real”.

That's just semantics. I'm not here to argue what the word “real” means. Of course you can define it in such a way that the simulated aircraft isn't “really” flying over an ocean, and it would be just as valid as any other definition, but it doesn't say anything meaningful or insightful about the simulation.

Nobody contests your point that the simulated aircraft isn't going over a real ocean and isn't generating work for real-life air traffic controllers. But conversely you don't seem to contest the claim that oceans and air traffic controllers could be simulated, too. Therefore, consciousness can be simulated as well, and it would be a simulated consciousness that just doesn't fall into your definition of “real”.
Its founder is from Yugoslavia, so it is European in a sense. https://vladimir.prelovac.com/
I cannot say it is battle tested since I use it for personal use only. libvirt with serial console for VMs and netboot for Linux installation (I am not fully netbooting, since I am use netboot.xyz ISO since it is faster than provisioning proper DHCP+TFTP server or setting up a netboot in VM's UEFI). It makes everything much much faster and more comfortable, almost every Linux distro installer works properly over serial (except RH, CentOS and Fedora which say that few options are unavailable in TUI mode). The only think that is needed to be done to make it works is just to provide a kernel option for serial output (console=ttyS0,115200n81).

When I was using RPi more intensively I was using serial (UART) connection as well. No need to switch keyboard, mouse and monitor in case of failed boot or broken network connection. I was just opening serial console on my desktop and possibility of having terminal with Linux on RPi and web browser on one screen, as well as possibility of copying text between two windows was making Linux boot debugging more comfortable.
This is a great suggestion!

Another couple of ways to get started with analog signal processing:

- Build an AM radio from transistors. There are lots of tutorials out there.

- Simulate circuits with Falstad's circuit.js. There are some interesting analog circuits already in the set of examples, like https://tinyurl.com/24gccg7p.

- Build an Atari Punk.

You can get very, very good op-amps very cheaply these days. Some of them even still come in through-hole packages. This makes it possible to build interesting audio synthesizer circuits for pennies that would have required significant money outlay in the 70s.
I absolutely hate this Draconian practice.
This headline is a lie. A backdoor in a Bluetooth chip would be something which enabled a wireless attacker to gain code execution on the chip. This article reports on something which allows the device drivers of the attached device to gain code execution on the chip, which does not violate a security boundary.

(In a well-functioning journalism ecosystem, this would require a retraction and would significantly harm the reputation of the outlet that wrote it. Sadly this will not happen.)
It says something about how universally despised Google and other tech giants are that two presidential administrations who are so acrimonious and diametrically opposed that they have spent much of their time destroying everything the previous one did agree on it.

I genuinely can't think of anyone, of any political stripe, outside of Google and its employees and investors, who thinks Google should have the power it has now. Honestly, the degree of pushback this is getting on HN is shocking to me. Google is massively anti-competitive and spends a ton of energy hurting startups to its own benefit.

I hope the DOJ gets its way on this, and I hope they aggressively pursue anti-trust actions against other organizations in similar positions - Oracle, Epic Systems, and Meta all come to mind.
I don't really get how MCP is materially different from a standardized API interface. It will be interesting to see if the other big model providers decide to standardize on MCP or push their own competing standards.
I really don't know how you came to any conclusions about "my position", given I did not actually state a position on this.
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FreshTomato also has a adblock function that can go off the usual web lists. DD-WRT I recall does as well. Just goes to show the open source firmwares in general are superior and it should be a feature people look for when buying routers.
My understanding is that romance/porn is mostly written by LLMs at this point. Its all just churned out crap to make a quick buck on Amazon. My elderly mother reads this genre endlessly and frequently wonders if there are editors at all!
Would you say that the team as a whole is less or more productive?
What a horrifying concept.
Dynamic 3D displays: Rare-earth glasses offer vivid, tunable colors
honest question, since i really like the idea but don't understand the implementation:

what use is a text-based desktop environment, if it requires a graphical interface and cannot run in a tty?
I know guys who have taken testosterone enanthate to get bigger, and the side effects have been CRAZY! To be fair, the increase in strength, stamina and restitution equally so..

I know it’s very dose dependent, but typical steroid doses are 10-100x what your body produces naturally(!).

I don’t know how it compares to “clinical doses”, but think twice man…
In case it's relevant, I'm using Firefox
A similar issue arises with health insurance. Using AI to evaluate claims is a huge efficiency play and you don’t have much ability to fight it if something goes wrong. And even if you can these decisions can be life or death in the short term and human intervention usually takes time.
Because it's not on the browser to fix it, unless it provides screen reading capabilities of its own, which e.g. Google Chrome doesn't. Instead, Google Chrome specifically will make a so-called accessibility tree available through whatever APIs for external code to parse and evaluate.

The relevant parties involved are the websites hosting the content, the people producing the content, and the developers developing the screen readers (and potentially the admins who control the screen reader application that is deployed). None of these are the browser.
That's the exact reason it's open source, so it would still be possible to access your data in such an event.

We clearly see things differently but I think using computers to make our lives easier is worthwhile and storing/managing our secrets securely, effectively and conveniently is better managed by software than some ad-hoc setup.

Nitpick, passkeys are not text, they are binary blobs.
New study reveals an enigmatic pre-Columbian burial in Ecuador
A Mac smart quote curiosity
Probably a nitpick but

Didn't read, got bored at having pointers explained, even if actively trying to skip it.

I get a mix of:
1- you don't know your audience or are trying to cater to too wide of an audience

2- if someone doesn't know how pointers work, is there any merit in knowing syntax of a novel programming language?

So if you want the veterans to read this, you are going to have to make it less accessible.

Edit: it seems like the whole article is OP discovering pointers but zig is like his first language. Lol.
> Companies ultimately participate in the economy with their products and services

This is the important point. A SaaS company with a competitive offering isn't participating in the economy. Participation requires distribution. Distribution consists of on the ground sales, channel partners, post sales support, marketing, education, a developer ecosystem, trust, security and compliance buy in, workforce training, and a host of other components that a new company doesn't have. The vast majority of startups with great products perish because they don't have this and there's few shortcuts.

Monopolistic practices are really neither here nor there. You can see distribution win over product quality in every industry. Out of product, brand, and distribution, product contributes the least to market cap.
What’s the AI equivalent to point a gun, pull the trigger, and it kills the target? Something, something, and it’s smart, what are the somethings?
2025 RootedCon: Attacking Bluetooth the easy way
Ask HN: How do you get the most out of Deep Research?
I'm looking for good guides on how to structure deep research prompts to get the best results.

Does seeding the prompt with example results generally help the output or overly constrain things?
I have found the stoplight chart on https://www.canirunthisllm.net/ to be the most useful one of these types of calculators.
Indeed, I've given up trying to analyze the market, especially because I'm late-career and at a "staff plus" level. I think to some extent, programmers have a certain exclusivity because only a certain fraction of people can learn to program -- for reasons we don't understand -- and they have a high degree of mobility. This allows programming to function in a fashion akin to a guild, with collective awareness and action about wages and working conditions. Also, I think that open-source tooling plays a role. Ironically, "the workers own the means of production."
This is like the simplest task you can give a software developer, as it is nigh-unto merely a document "translation" task, without much real thought required. If an LLM is failing to do this task, why do we hope whatever chain of reasoning it is about to embark on would work?
This just isn’t right. It says I can run a 400+ parameter model on my M4 128gb. This is false, even at high quantization.
Thank you for your feedback. Please do not avoid our other products :) It makes the Kagi eco-system stronger. We do not want to be a one product company, at mercy of big tech and other platforms. We are genuinly trying to create a user-friendly, user-centric alternative for consuming the web. It has always been the plan. And all that while keeping the search product changelog the most active of any search engine in the world https://kagi.com/changelog
The mere existence of a competitor is not the spirit of antitrust.

Look at what Google does with Chrome and how it harms the internet, they literally just disabled an ad blocker and then offered a new tier of ad free Youtube for $8 a month.

Then think about the power it gives them for tracking, remember they tried to replace tracking cookies with their own standard?
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25554812-2025-rooted...
New word for me: vibe coding

> coined the term in February 2025

> Vibe coding is a new coding style [...] A programmer can describe a program in words and get an AI tool to generate working code, without requiring an understanding of the code. [...] [The programmer] surrenders to the "vibes" of the AI [without reading the resulting code.] When errors arise, he simply copies them into the system without further explanation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
Is it?

When learning piano you first learn how to play rudiments and then you move up to more complex scores.

Otherwise you end up writing an article about how Ravel' Scarbo is amazing because it involves playing with two hands at the same time.

https://youtu.be/2BT7_owW2sU?si=VNpy3K6UXSkAsn7u
The easiest solution would be to not port at all. Curious under what considerations it was deemed worthwhile for them to commit to this.
As a new comer to JS frameworks Svelte 5 convinced me to use Vue instead.

I think Svelte has a nicer template syntax and the reactivity is cleaner is some cases, but it feels like there's no "best practice" or "recommended" patterns in a lot of common cases and I don't have the confidence to make something that won't suck later.

Vue has been more stable for longer so it's easier to find dozens of examples of the thing you're trying to do with less argument over how to do it, and LLMs seem to produce much better Vue code.
I walked through their Toronto store at Queen, yesterday and it was a 'dead man walking'. No people shopping, a vista of high end inventory - all untouched.
Not sure how active they are online.
Sad.
They were an old time mail order operation, sold via catalogs and some news paper ads. Essentially a US style mail order in Canada - depended on the border/customs barrier to capture a Canadian client base.
I'm not saying that this is objectively wrong, but it's not always so clear-cut. E.g. supposing you're at Google, but you're working on the Go compiler or libraries. Does it mean that you are "involved in ad tech"? Kinda sorta, since what you do makes other Google employees more productive at writing ad tech. But there are millions of Go users outside the company using it for all kinds of things, so one can reasonably conclude that whatever benefit Google itself derives from their contribution to Go, it's dwarfed by the public benefit from the same.
its pretty sick
I think the presumption is that Musk and the new guard are frugal and careful with money as seen by his passion for DOGE.
I'm surprised at the number of errors he made, it seems hastily bashed out. He seems to be referring to a Microsoft product called photos for some reason. This seems to be pre-Zune.

This is another email from earlier in the year, April 2003: https://x.com/TechEmails/status/1413534752699830275
Looks cool, but the bottom lines flicker badly on Firefox, Windows 11.
This is the same commentary we had around the time of the ATT break up, and it all worked out fine.
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We know what outcomes the DOJ is proposing and might proopose, so we can make pretty good guesses.