skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fascinating, and there seem to be so many sources to confirm this, I wonder if there are any areas in the world where a system like this would be viable.
The Voodoo was a 3D-only accelerator. It didn’t have a traditional 2D graphics core at all, so you needed another basic video card which plugged into the Voodoo using VGA passthrough. When an accelerated game was launched, the Voodoo took over and replaced the 2D card’s output completely.

That’s probably why you remember it being a post-processor. It didn’t apply effects to the 2D signal, but it needed it for all non-accelerated programs.

3dfx also supported more blending modes than most competing cards at the time. That could be why the snow effect didn’t work on your card.
I dunno about lying; it used to be true in the Intel age so it might simply be a matter of their information being out of date.
This is what I learnt to develop on. Yes I could have done with some more screen real estate but this thing never skipped a beat. I wasn't exactly running LLMs with it but multiple local servers, lots of files open at once, lots of chrome tabs, it handled it all silently. Eventually I got my first job as a dev and got too used to a 15'' screen with 2 desk monitors and struggled to go back to it.
MMX wasn’t actually that useful. The vectors were only 64 bits wide, you had no float support and the supported operations were kind of uneven... SSE and especially SSE2 were a much bigger leap.
The ad campaign from which the quote "So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous" came:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWUqIhB04I
Replaying Heretic 2 back in 1998 with my first Voodoo (banshee) was a borderline otherwordly experience, compared to my first playthrough of the game using software rendering. Nothing has blown my mind the same way since.
the performance boost also made a significant difference in how well the game played: i remembered when the voodoo 1 came out i had a 100mhz pentium and running quake (in low resolution) was "fine" but ran at like 20-25fps. With a voodoo that game ran at a smooth 60fps which made it so much more fun for such a fast-paced game (while also running at a higher resolution with smooth textures and improved lighting effects). It made a huge difference on multiple axes.
I tried LLMs for my postgraduate "programming" tasks to create lower level data structures and algorithms that are possible to write a detailed requirements for - they failed miserably. When I pushed in certain directions, I've got student level replies like "collision probability is so low we can just ignore it", while same LLM accurately estimated that in my dataset there will be collisions.

And I don't believe until I see LLMs can use real debugger to figure out a root cause for a sophisticated, cascading bug.
Bundling MCP Servers in Every OpenAPI –> TypeScript SDK
Why zero could unlock how the brain perceives absence
Power Network Tycoon: An Electricity Grid Simulation Game for Engineers
I've been developing Power Network Tycoon, a simulation game that models the complexities of electricity grid management. Unlike many simulation games that abstract away technical details, this one takes technical to a new level with engineering challenges in power distribution and I think in an accessible way for non-engineers too.

The simulation models:

-Power flow physics with line losses and capacity constraints
-Real-time supply/demand balancing
-Grid stability and cascading failures
-Grounding systems
-Natural disaster challenges
-Community satisfaction challenges

As a solo developer with an engineering background, I built this to scratch my own itch for technically accurate simulations. I thought the HN community might appreciate a game that doesn't shy away from this underlying level of complexity.

If you're interested in systems design, power infrastructure or just enjoy technically-minded simulation games, I'd love your feedback. It's available on Steam and Itch.io in Early Access now (and may be on sale soon...).
Pull requests are a UI over branches, and the act of merging two branches. You don't need to use them at all.
Starlink is only 5 years old. How did Ukraine survive before that?
what gave the pentium mmx the big speed boost (I also remember it being quite significant) was probably the bigger 16kb cache (pentium classic had only 8kb) rather than mmx itself.
It does not matter, because I as a human do not matter to those people. Harm to me is benefit for them. I am tired to being insulted and being told things I am 100% sure are lies.

Can we please stop pretending that some kind of nice rational discussion can be a solution to anything here? I cant convince them, because Rogan, Trump, Musk, Vance, Bannon and the whole apparatus of republican party wins by lying and creating false outrages.
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Both C# and Rust at least have the "unsafe" keyword that let you use raw pointers and such within a defined region. This approach allows you to easily minimize identify the areas of a program that need more scrutiny and prevents some random helper function written carelessly from tromping over some unrelated area. I don't know how C++ as a language can ever get some kind of similar protection (article mentions TrapC, FilC, Mini-C, and Safe C++, need to check them out...) but if it can it's hard to beat the expressiveness of C++ for any possible thing you might want to do.
> - Content recency. The data sizes can get quite huge, and certain pages require updates more often than others

I have always imagined that having an open crawl corpus aligns closely with the goals of the Internet Archive, where one could already strictly speaking submit updates to with second-level precision based on their URL slugs. The bad news is that with any such common corpus it would actually worsen their bandwidth bill since I would highly suspect that a corpus would be read from much more than it would ingest (e.g. snap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43318384 once but then every downstream corpus consumer would read from IA n times)

While typing this out, I actually wonder if the big search players don't maintain "page diffs" in their index such that loading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311573 an hour ago and then loading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43311573 now stores only the new content

> so who gets to decide (one user of the index may be interested in a different set of pages vs another)

Surely that's a solved problem in that a common corpus would ingest updates to all frontier pages that it knows about, and exponentially back-off as it finds less and less updates. I don't think the CommonCrawl.org cited by the sibling comment is selective about updates, and unquestionably IA does not: they accept snapshot requests from anyone for what I presume is any URL
And in which case did the party leader stand up and incite the mob before they went on their war path?

If we’re going to compare January 6 to the George Floyd riots, one was explicitly political, and the other one was fed up populace.

One started with a rally intended to gas the mob up in hopes of securing the capital for their fuhrer. The other was started as the result of the outright murder of an individual by a state actor.

One was essentially organized by the Republican Party leader, and the other was an impromptu display of discontent.
The problem isn't the laws and the prices and the monopolies and all that stuff.

The problem is that people don't see anything wrong or shameful about being the person who was bitching about the noises roosters make in 2017 and then also being the person bitching about inflexible supply chains and egg prices in 2025.

If it wasn't eggs it'd be some other thing.
vim tbh, grep, awk, bash
Yeah, the earliest models are literally 3D only as discussed in the article, they have separate pass through cable for your existing 2D graphics because even just making a flat 2D window isn't viable directly, Glide really wants to render only textured triangles which is fine for Quake but no good for Windows.
Unless I'm mistaken, those cards were all produced by 3dfx after their acquisition of STB. Regardless, that box art blew my 14 year old mind back in the day.
They’re probably talking about this for quantum navigation

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/15/lond...
What the Dot-Com Bust Can Tell Us About Today's AI Boom
Whose keys are these keys? ;)
Phoenix – a suite of configurations / advanced modifications for Mozilla Firefox
I was an infoseek.com man myself, but we probably still could have been friends.
There's a new third-party F to Z adapter that does have the screw drive:
https://nikonrumors.com/2025/02/28/monsteradapter-la-fz1-off...
That's not unlike IR35 rules in the UK, where the government got sick of contractors acting as employees behind a limited company veil, paying a lot less tax overall. Companies wishing to hire contractors must absolutely not treat them like employees, those that are must be employed by an umbrella company and pay regular payroll taxes.

HMRC, who pushed for the law, is however exempt and hires contractors the old way, outrageously enough.
Those who don't like their jobs. Hence why Trump's "We'll bring back the jobs you like doing" messaging was so appealing to a lot of people, even if a lie.
My memory is that during late 90s, whenever a game supports glide, 3dfx card will always render smoother and with noticeably better texture than NVIDIA and ATI cards, even benchmark will give you similar numbers. So we constantly envy the roommates with a voodoo card.
This is entirely wrong. OFDM is necessary for WiFi etc. in order to maximize spectral efficiency (i.e., bps per Hz for a given unit of radio spectrum) and mitigate multipath.

The main purpose of the GPS spreading codes is to prevent self-interference from the other satellites and to increase the effective bandwidth for the cross ambiguity function (i.e., to get a nice, sharp cross-correlation peak in the time-domain). The pre-spreading data signal is only ~50 bits per second, so spectral efficiency is not a primary concern.
I had NO idea about this feature... thanks!
Chesterton’s fence. Ask the developer.
Impressive it may have been, but he is still firmly in pos camp. Hitler (if I really have to go full Godwin) was a decent painter, loyal friend to those few close to him and a dog lover. Amon Goeth may have been a great manager too, at least from certain perspective. Who cares?

Having or applying flexible morality is a very slippery slope to no morality. I mean we're not discussing some academical theory but real situation and real person. People are shocked in recent weeks, I am not just mildly disappointed. The signs were there.

Just to be clear - with such brutal logic many sport folks become undefendable. Or generally famous people. For good reasons. I am fine with that, no need to desperately put people on pedestals which are temporary at best, the whole idea of desperately looking upon somebody is fine in childhood but adults should know better.
I think it’s not just the camera LED, but the indicators that appear on screen, like the amber, green, or blue dots that appear in the menu bar when the microphone, camera, or screen recording are accessed by apps.
There are two components to any case - what is the law, and what are the facts. Lots of people were questioning whether this is legal.
I feel like if all the things people believe and espouse about hallucinogens were true and not just the effect of permanently damaging your mind, with the illusion of wisdom, we’d be able to point at all the revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and discoveries made under the influence of hallucinogenic substances.

However, everyone I’ve met who admits to having taken hallucinogens seems reduced in some way, rather than enhanced. Like the lights are on but someone else is home.
>GPT-5 will be even less of an improvement on GPT-4.5 than GPT-4.5 was on GPT-4. The pattern will continue for GPT-5.5 and GPT-6, the ~1000x and 10000x models they may train by 2029 (if they still have the money by then). Subtle quality-of-life improvements and meaningless benchmark jumps, but nothing paradigm-shifting.

It's easy to spot people who secretly hate LLMs and feel threatened by them these days. GPT-5 will be a unified model, very different from 4o or 4.5. Throwing around numbers related to scaling laws shows a lack of proper research. Look at what DeepSeek accomplished with far fewer resources; their paper is impressive.

I agree that we need more breakthroughs to achieve AGI. However, these models increase productivity, allowing people to focus more on research. The number of highly intelligent people currently working on AI is astounding, considering the number of papers and new developments. In conclusion, we will reach AGI. It's a race with high stakes, and history shows that these types of races don't stop until there is a winner.
I'm not dismissing them at all, but I have become much more cynical about the outcomes of starry eyed promises like this. Again, I have no doubts about their intentions, I have doubts about those intentions staying the same over time. I have doubts about intentions staying just as pure when VC money enters the game.

Let's take a step back here: do you seriously believe that the law applies equally to everyone? That it's unbending and a bullet proof backstop?

My views are definitely more cynical than when I was younger, but this was shaped by decades of witnessing the erosion in the rule of law. It's obvious that there's two kinds of law: one for those with wealth and power and one for those without. And the law is very malleable for the former group - in fact it is usually shaped to benefit them. They only have to straddle the line to avoid making it too obvious. You don't have to go far either: wasn't it in Germany where they weaponized the police and the justice system to harass journalists who exposed the Wirecard scheme?

So no, I'm not going to put much faith in statements like "oh we are legally not allowed to do X", because that just means "we are not likely to do it under the current circumstances". You have to be exceptionally naive to believe that a sufficiently motivated investor would be unable to find a convenient loophole if required.

I guess this is also a cultural difference. In Germany, there are obviously still people who believe that the law is some sort of serious warranty for people to keep their promise. I'm afraid this is again only applicable to those without money and power. I'm sure the German legal system will bear down with it's full might on any small time company or enterprise that breaks the law. I have very serious doubts about them doing this for the big boys. Again, we just need to look at Wirecard...

To reiterate, this is not a judgement on this effort or their motives. It is simply a statement about the current world, where all over the globe we see case after case of unbridled greed and everything eventually being beholden to more money.
Yup it was really a huge difference. FPS really needs 60 FPS and up. Anything less feels clunky.
Myanmar, alias Burma. They're having a hot civil war since 2021. (They've had tensions and insurgencies for as long as they've been an independent state.)
When my Audi is serviced, I actually get a video from the dealer made by the tech working on the car who walks around it and actually shows the issue, and talks about what they are doing for it.
Ecosia themselves does not really plant trees. Instead they pay out money to different projects all around the world.

They are very transparent about it. They list the amounts paid, the partners, the tree species, etc.

They are also fairly efficient from what you can tell by their reports.
I wonder how long it will take for Trump to realize the full impact of his anti-Ukrainian policy. Europe arms itself at a record pace, but the USA is no longer the preferred supplier.
> Leonardo could be anyone for all I know

If the topic is sketching and someone refers to Leonardo, you should know who it is.

It's like referring to "Michael" when talking about basketball.
This is one attribute of Platform IO tooling that was always insanely lacking... any real form of on-platform integration testing. Even emulation.
Lenses can be setup with bang notation. So a research lens could use !r your-query-here
Hilarious seeing this. About five minutes ago I ran

:q!

echo “” > file.txt

vi file.txt

I have a ways to go:)
The purpose of the laws should be to ensure fairness. Fairness is not defined by the law. Unless you consider it was fair for women not to be able to vote, when that was the law.

There have been many attempts to fix districting laws, but of course those changes have to be approved by representatives elected under the previous laws.

It has been difficult to challenge these in court because it’s hard to argue whether a districting is “fair”. There has been a little progress on challenging some districting based on a statistical argument that shows the one-party advantage resulting from the particular districting is extremely unlikely to be the result of chance.
I don't think so. I'll probably write some MacOS system software, like probing their battery APIs and such, but they are going to be small.

I'm not exactly sure how I'd proceed to learn the MacOS/iOS internals, I'll have to look into it, but I don't think I need to run a VM, unless I hack the XNU kernel? QEMU does run on MacOS so I guess that's additional 4GB - 6GB of memory for the kernel?
QwQ-32B on 3*1080ti does work with a 4096 window @ ~14 eval tokens/s

But the lower bounds on intermediate tokens on CoT to get close to PTIME expressability + QwQ-32B's verbosity/repeating on those tokens does eat up that pretty quickly.

In theory the DAG walking QwQ-32B appears to be doing should require O(|E| log|V|) scratch space. IMHO they need to train to target that more.

It seems fairly trivial to extend the context loss problem to the public UI, The Ω(n) scratch space may be hard to hit in reality but they seem almost exponential in scratch space right now, even on tasks that a traditional LLM could answer with just approximate retrieval.

I may just be suffering confirmation bias, but the problem with memory in this case seems to be related to making the intermediate tokens palatable to users IMHO.
You'd find yourself in company with many religious organizations. The Mormon Church has a couple of records vault carved into the granite outside SLC, while the church of Scientology has 3 geographically separated primary vaults dug into the mountains (Petrolia and Creston CA, and a place in the desert outside Albuquerque).
If people start being pedantic, I feel responding in kind is entirely fair.

TBH I'm still not quite understanding why people feel it is so important to clarify that Britain is only in Europe geographically; but I wonder, does it make a difference that Hermann Hauser is actually Austrian? ;)
All my nikon cameras focus with a semi transparent mirror on a specialized autofocus sensor. I even have an nikon film camera that has that cicuitry. You can't autofocus like mirrorless cameras with PDAF pixels in the main sensor with a mirror in the way.
I've wondering for a long time why we must have manned ships. I do not know anything about ships.

I guess the problem is not with navigation: we could have remote piloting when needed, from a central place. Redundant communication and all.

I believe that the other is that you need to maintain a ship when on sea? Make some small fixes awaiting to be in a harbor?

That one does require people for now.
I'm a software engineer at a company that does all macbooks. I hate my M1 macbook because it's way less reliable then my desktop, both software and hardware. I have to hold the power button to force it off roughly twice a month, it absolutely refuses to play nice with my KVM (that my desktop has no issues with), and the "keyboard secure input" feature regularly goes on the fritz and breaks anything that taps into the keyboard, including stuff that I've specifically installed.
Now go one step further and discuss what both sides were protesting.
Myanmar, which is currently a conflict zone.
Myanmar. Unstable autocracy, recent coup, ongoing uprising. A huge mess, and exactly where you'd expect the ruling party to be trying to eliminate navigation aids.
>For GNSS on the other hand, don't care about the bandwidth because it's for location service not streaming video, but the limitations of being pseudo-orthogonal eventually got to them in the form of spoofing vulnerability.

Please check my original comments as above.

Granted, it's still perhaps feasible to spoof OFDM system but it'll be much harder to pull off compared to the pseudo-orthogonal spread spectrum system [1],[2].

[1] Secure OFDM System Design and Capacity Analysis under Disguised Jamming (2019):

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07826

[2] OFDM-based JCAS under Attack: The Dual Threat of Spoofing and Jamming in WLAN Sensing (2025):

https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06798v1
ASML will open Beijing facility despite US sanctions on China
This shouldn't be factored in unless you never debug your own code. At any rate, I don't know about OP but usually when I get an LLM to write out some code, I also have it write out the tests for it as well.
> just gating of either the digital I/O or the power to the camera, and a pulse-stretcher so the LED goes on for at least a few seconds each time to prevent an attack by rapidly flicking the camera logic on and off.

They'd be unable to roll out the feature to older iPhones if they did this.

I guess for newer iPhones this is not as big of a deal since they have a big-ass notch anyway, however Apple also has a large customer base that only buys their older products (like me), and saying that their older products have worse security than their newer ones is probably not the kind of message they want to send, even if it might potentially get them some new sales.
Sadly this blame-shifting isn't even new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
> EPYCs seem to have more like 250GB/s max

Your link goes to info on the 2022 EPYC CPUs, the current generation can do 576GB/s: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-turin-5th-gen-epyc-launche...

Intel's current 12ch Xeons should be even faster with MRDIMMs, though I couldnt find a memory specific benchmark.
> It’s genuinely sad to see the world splintering into waves of nationalistic protectionism.

And baffling that the country leading the charge on the splintering is the one with most to gain/lose.

Feels like selfharm on scale of brexit
Moore's law is exponential
> In conclusion, we will reach AGI

I'm a little confused by this confidence? Is there more evidence aside from the number of smart people working on it? We have a lot of smart people working on a lot of big problems, that doesn't guarantee a solution nor a timeline.
I'm firmly in the "you only need Postgres" camp, so I went into your story thinking it was going to end with you saying that you used PostGIS

Err, now that I think more about that, IIRC Uber is a monster mysql shop so it may cause them to break out in hives if someone installed Postrges there
I have to admit I am troubled by reading all this including that it has a half-life.. I did have the assumption that water soluble meant that excess was eliminated out the same day as is the case with some things. I had literally never heard of this toxicity issue till last night. One problem in general is that supplements don't really come in a "smaller size" unless I guess, you get powder form instead of capsules. I will have to review the genetic data I have again.

Genetic data is useful to know really, especially for people with MTHFR mutations as many pathways get affected.