skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Knuth checks amount to a total account balance of 0x$b.40 at his "Bank of San Seriffe" (the equivalent of eleven "errors" and two "suggestions") — mostly accumulated over a short period several years ago.

Previously, I had the impression that Knuth was some magical figure of perfection. What I realized was that the truth was more surprising: he makes the same kinds and the same frequency of errors as anyone else (in fact likely more, because every page is packed with a lot of detail); what sets him apart is that he cares so deeply about getting everything right — he has basically invited a DDoS on his time and attention, where every person in the world is strongly encouraged to write to him with errors on every page that he has ever written over several decades — and he does go back and look at all of them carefully (example: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/18117/whi...); and despite all this he somehow continues to function, producing new pages at a nonzero rate. After some experience with his responses (handwritten with pencil on a printout of the emails sent to him), I came away even more impressed.
Nope! NextDNS blocked 913,294 of 10,287,370 queries over the last 3 months. I'm sure the percentage would rise if I flipped on other options that they provide ("AI-Driven Threat Detection", "Block Newly Registered Domains", etc.), and I should probably revisit those.
did you.. read the article?
I think it's most akin to gambling / "investing" in gold.

Gold barely solves any real problems, but it has a pretty active market. People readily buy it. The price fluctuates quite a bit (nothing compared to crypto though).

The utility of gold vs BTC is kinda moot--they're both good at a few things. They're a lot like gambling for the way most people get involved.

Some shitcoins seem like scams, but it's not inherent in the tech, and I don't feel like BTC is a scam for any reason. Sure, it's not a tangible asset, but you know that going in.
I started using Youtube as a frequent content source in the past year. I've been aggressively curating my recommendations by clicking "Not interested" on anything I don't want to see a lot of. If I'm curious I'll watch the one video but in Incognito. If a channel gets repeatedly re-recommended I don't hesitate to use "Don't recommend channel". I also +like everything I've watched and subscribe to channels I'll more likely watch than not watch new content. Getting recommendations pruned feels like getting to a zero email Inbox.
My new home page. Love it!
This reminds me of https://www.focusmate.com/
Great, but it should have image and video models too.
machine is big enough, i'm getting syntax errors in tile.hpp
I also prefer the time change system we have. I recognize there are obvious draw backs, but echoing a sibling comment about London. I’m confident if we stopped changing clocks annually, we’d resume the practice in a few years. It is just better to have more afternoon sun in the summer it makes being active with friends and family much easier. If we didn’t change to standard time in the winter, kids would be going to school in pitch black night in most of the country.
It’s not that it will prevent you from learning the sounds themselves, it’s that it will take you longer to learn to read Arabic text that you’ve never encountered before. Part of what makes language learning difficult is the perceived lack of progress. The only way to overcome this is to ensure that your learning is as efficient as possible. That means using as few “intermediate representations” as possible — they take time to learn and, even worse, they take time to unlearn.
I can understand their position. USA appears to be leaving NATO and promoting Russia's interests (through both pulling back from treaties and allies, and embracing Russian style diplomacy and oligarchical government), it's pretty easy to see why Europeans would get squirmy about American companies.
Biggest category of libraries that need inline assembly with compiler portability are compression/decompression codecs (like the linked article) -- think of images (PNG, JPEG), audio (MP3, Opus, FLAC), video (MPEG4, H.264, AV1).

Also important is cryptography, where inline assembly provides more deterministic performance than compiler-generated instructions.

Compiler intrinsics can get you pretty far, but sometimes dropping down to assembly is the only solution. In those times, inline assembly can be more ergonomic than separate .s source files.
Bingo, time and time again people miss this.

It's already bad enough they are removing ad block functionality and then a day later rolling out new ad-free plans for YouTube, what a cawinky dink
Nope. Not me.
> 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.

Most of that advantage comes from an unfair practice, of Google making consumers think that their choice of browser was in someway inferior (which could be true) and thus they should prefer Chrome (which is not true). If Chrome won market dominance using this method, then it becomes an unfair practice. Same thing with Microsoft Edge, Apple's App Store, etc. You can't use your market power in one market to influence another.
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Can Windows 95 Browse the Modern Internet in 2025? [video]
You will know because any text editor or IDE worth the name will light up that ".await" in such a way you will immediately know it's not a method call or a struct field. The entire construct, including the dot, is a postfix keyword.
There is but nobody speaks it.
Building an open-source Wi-Fi Mac layer for the ESP32
cron jobs are great

tmux + vim > ide (for me)

ssh > rdp

git

terminal

This stuff is so old now, and largely does one thing and does it well. I prefer composing unix tools to writing my own scripts, when it's possible. When I do write my own scripts, often they need to be run from a cron job, soooooo...

<3 old tech
I'd agree that testing for low (or "low") testosterone seems like the most potentially harmful of these tests. It's directed towards a specific diagnosis and treatment. Moreover, that treatment is likely to be offered by the same clinic that performed the test, so there's potentially a lack of oversight.

By contrast, broad-spectrum tests like full-body MRI or MCED seem less prone to abuse. They may be unnecessary, but they don't have as much of an incentive to find a diagnosis, and anything they pick up will probably get reviewed (and treated, if appropriate) by someone outside the clinic.
1)It must be able to provide answers to Zen Koans as a test of its synthetic intuition.
2) Must solve P vs NP problem or it's equivalent.
3) Must be able to provide emotional support to a person who recently lost a loved one.
I don’t disagree, but I’ll add that people learning MSA should learn a dialect along with it if they want to speak to real people.
For men who are truly deficient (not the podcaster/TRT clinic definition where everyone is deficient) going on a true replacement dose of TRT is a good life improvement.

Even those patients are often disappointed when the TRT doesn’t solve their problems.

The high doses used by TRT clinics shoot past that threshold and go for levels that were previously only used by people using testosterone for performance enhancement.

The really hard thing about this topic is that a lot of the negative effects don’t show up right away. It’s sometimes months or years later before people realize their testes are so shut down that they’re dependent on TRT for life, for example. People also go into loops of trying to manage high estrogen (a side effect of high TRT doses) where they crash their estrogen, going into deep depression, or get it wrong and end up growing excessive breast tissue that needs to be physically removed.

High testosterone levels (beyond normal physiological range) are also associated with lower cognition. It makes people feel more confident, though, so this also isn’t noticed. Anxiety disorders are also a common side effect of excessive dosing.

The list goes on and on. Unfortunately mainstream podcasts on this topic are woefully bad at covering it because they know listeners only want to hear about the positives. Even the supposedly good podcasts like Huberman Lab are a joke on this topic. The TRT forum people love picking apart how bad Huberman’s TRT takes are, even though he positions himself as being moderate on the subject.
> Can I Run DeepSeek R1

> Yes, you can run this model! Your system has sufficient resources (16GB RAM, 12GB VRAM) to run the smaller distilled version (likely 7B parameters or less) of this model.

Last I checked DeepSeek R1 was a 671B model, not a 7B model. Was this site made with AI?
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I'd upgrade immediately to a 17" MacBook Pro with a full-sized keyboard...
It would be a lot nicer if it would not just give a binary flag "can/can't run" but what to expect.

Ideal scenario (YMMV): add more hardware parameters (like chipset, CPU, actual RAM type/timings - with presets for most common setups) and extra model settings (quantization and context size come to mind) then answer like this: "you have sufficient RAM to load the model, and you should expect performance around 10 tok/sec with 3s to the first token". Or maybe rather list all models you know about and provide performance for each. Inverse search ("what rig do I need to run this model with at least this performance") would be also very cool. May be nice have an ability to parse input of common system information tools (like Windows wmic/Get-ComputerInfo, macOS system_profiler or GNU/Linux dmidecode - not sure if all info is there, but just as an rough idea: give some commands to run, parse their output in search of specs)

Of course, this would be very non-trivial to implement and you'll probably have to dig a lot for anecdotal data on how various hardware performs (hmm... maybe a good task for agentic LLM?) but that would actually make this a serious tool that people can use and link to, rather than a toy.
Any other CEO in Silicon Valley with similar circumstances (25 years experience in tech leadership, increasing revenue dramatically despite shrinking market share, negotiating successfully with their biggest competitor, etc.) would be making $5M-$20M depending on stock compensation, which Mozilla does not offer. How does paying less than market rates for a CEO help improve Mozilla's lot?

Or are you suggesting that none of these CEOs should be compensated at current rates? If so, hate the game and not the player my friend.
Never got into these but loved AHMM for a while.
The counterpoint would be anyone can fork Chrome and put an adblocker back in (ie Brave).

I worry as part of Google, chrome is just an open source project with profit as a secondary motive, while as it’s own company they’ll probably try to make it more profitable and it’ll become worse and closed down.
They are a US based company, whether they say they log your data or not, they can be compelled to log your requests and not tell you about it.

Regardless they look like good alternative for users who are unable to setup or are prevented from using a pihole.
On Android Chrome is preinstalled and cannot be uninstalled
Any other CEO with a similarly sized company, revenue stream, and user base in Silicon Valley would be making 2-3X what Mozilla's CEO makes when you consider total compensation.
> in a way that the human brain thinks makes sense.

Side note: Let us avoid pseudoscientific and pseudophilosophical language like this bit. It is suggestive of the homunculus fallacy, it misconstrues the nature of perception, and ignores the role of habit and cultural influences. It's also artificial, stylistically stodgy, and comes off as pretentious in a gauche, pop sci kind of way.
Pretty much all state boundaries are historical artifacts at this point. We could ask the same question about Texas, or even NY for that matter.

But when it comes to changing the boundaries, you need the state legislature and Congress acting in agreement. And state boundaries are inherently a partisan political matter at this point because every new state is going to be either "red" or "blue", and this then means the corresponding adjustments to Senate representation (and House too, actually, it's just less pronounced) as well as EC. If, say, Republicans drafted a bill to split red rural areas off CA into its own state, as often proposed, what sane Democrat would ever support it knowing that it means +2 Republican senators in Congress? For the same reason, we aren't going to see statehood for Puerto Rico or DC anytime soon. The only way it could possibly work out is if states are carved out in pairs - e.g. separate deep red areas from CA, but at the same time also do the same for deep blue areas of Texas. But deep blue areas also tend to be the ones that bring in the most taxes, so Texas Republicans might balk at that on economic grounds...

Truth is, our system is too broken to recover. Too many deadlocks. It was possible in the past, when fewer issues were quite so partisan, but of course back then the need for it was also much less obvious. But now, I think it's just going to deteriorate until the dysfunction on federal level gets so bad that the country literally cannot proceed without a major constitutional reform. At which point it'll likely break apart because we won't be able to agree on the new constitution.
Me too. For example, if there was someone nearby I wouldn't be on here typing these words.
> If you want to switch your search engine for Safari on iOS...

I can set Kagi as the default search engine on iOS?

Because last I checked, Apple hardcoded their list of options.
it is not written in the constitution, the bible, or the laws of physics that people have to wake at the time called 6am and have to leave work at a time called 5pm. people can choose to do activites at the time and level of daylight they choose. societies and groups can decide to change their schedules as the seasons change, as they see fit, without the government mandating that our clocks change, which is confusing as hell
> > smaller distilled version

Not technically the full R1 model, it’s talking about the distillations where Deepseek trained Qwen and Llama models based on R1 output
Also. Is this tool for sale so I can hide only my scams in it?
> Honey and similar extensions are just monitoring every activity in the browser.

Is this actually true or just your personal speculation?
You're so close to getting it. Indeed, the problem with monopolies is they make it difficult to create effective competitors. And that's precisely why they're not allowed to do those things and why Google is in the position it's in for doing those kinds of things.
>is one of the few that turns mushy and unpleasant when it does.

Unpleasant for eating as a banana but quite pleasant for baking. I always buy more banana's than I can possibly eat before they get overripe, eat them raw until they get mushy then make banana bread with the remainder.
Might not be HN-worthy conversation, but I often reflect on how funny this piece of satire is: https://clickhole.com/i-know-this-sounds-like-spam-but-i-rea...
Stuffed crust pizza is a heck of a drug.
fyi, it’s a myth that you must use the screen to control things.
I simply don't care. If private property was a natural right we wouldn't need it artificially supported by governments.
Anyone who has stuffed a banana into a pack or bag knows that bananas also speed up banana ripening. If you're going on an all-day hike, take the almost-ripe banana.
Not only that, but the whole section on "Consider these scenarios" simply described the same thing as an API each time, but added words like "smoothly" and "richer" to make it sound different.

I honestly think most of the article was written by an LLM.
Or to a slave in a Republic (whether that's the Confederacy, Rome or Athens).
If it's so unprofitable why have they spent, what, nearly a year now in court trying desperately to keep it? Have you genuinely never heard of a loss-leader?

Across their entire buffet of products, many of which are free at point of use like Chrome is, they advertise Chrome. That the internet is better with Chrome. That their products are better with Chrome. Do you really believe this is genuinely just because they also make Chrome, and are jazzed about that fact?

The fact that they're working so hard to keep it tells me it's an even better idea to make them sell it.
Dale!
It says “smaller distilled model” in your own quote which, generously, also implies quantized.

Here[0] are some 1.5B and 8B distilled+quantized derivatives of DeepSeek. However, I don’t find a 7B model, that seems totally made-up from whole cloth. Also, I personally wouldn’t call this 8B model “DeepSeek”.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1iskrsp/quantiz...
You’re right, but there is a Safari extension to set Kagi as default search.
That's a very good point. Mobile OS vendors should allow for user-defined search engines the way that desktop browsers do.
This is my experience as well. There are a couple things I love using AI for, like learning new programming languages or technologies (I consider myself an expert in Java and NodeJS, and proficient in Python, but I recently took a job where I had to program in an unfamiliar language), and it's been great for programming up short little "apps" for me for things I want - I've built a slew of browser apps for myself that just save stuff to local storage so that I can easily put it up on GitHub pages (and then I create import and export functions if I switch browsers - export just opens a mailto link where the body just contains a link with the state as a param, so then I just save that email, open it up on a different device and click on the link).

But I've found that there are a lot of places where it kind of falls over. I recently had Cursor do a large "refactoring" for me, and I was impressed with the process it went through, but at the end of the day I still had to review it all, it missed a couple places, and worse, it undid a bug fix that I put in (the bug was previously created when I had AI write a short function for me).

The other thing the makes me really worried is that AI makes it easy to be lazy and add tons of boilerplate code, where in the old world if I had to do it all manually I would definitely have DRY-ed stuff up. So it makes my life immediately easier, but the next guy now is going to have a shit ton more code to look at when they try to understand the project in the first place. AI definitely can help with that understanding/summarization, but a lot of times I feel like code maintenance is a lot of finding that "needle in a haystack", and AI makes it easy to add a shit ton of hay without a second thought.
Sun paid an absolutely fortune for Cobalt if I remember right!
That's just simple advertising though. Nearly every company is selling their product as being superior to some set of competing products, at whatever their price point is.
> “The cone people have gone too far”

Let there be a day that I can use this gem in a real conversation.
> One of the most frequent questions one faces while running LLMs locally is: I have xx RAM and yy GPU, Can I run zz LLM model ?

In my experience, LM Studio does a pretty great job of making this a non-issue. Also, whatever heuristics this site is based on are incorrect — I'm running models on a 64GB Mac Studio M1 Max that it claims I can't.
Interesting. I have to admit that I generally consider fractional bitmap scaling to be deficient as well when I see it. But I do have a 15" M3 Air, and it never even occurred to me that it might be fractionally scaled (i.e. it's not readily perceivable for me).

[EDIT] I looked up at settings. Mystery partially resolved: I manually changed the default setting one notch down to get perfect integer scaling, i.e. my Air is running at virtual 1440x932 resolution, which is exactly 1/2 of its native 2880x1864 matrix. The default setting, though, is 1710x1107, which is 19/32. That said, if I set it back to the default, I find that text is too small - probably why I changed it in the first place - but things still look pretty crisp otherwise.
Discussion at the time (20 points, 2 months ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42748172
Then how about DeepSeek R1 GGUF:

> Yes, you can run this model! Your system has sufficient resources (16GB RAM, 12GB VRAM) to run this model.

No mention of distillations. This was definitely either made by AI, or someone picking numbers for the models totally at random.
You can have all the idealism you want in a place where farmers aren't bankrupted by not supplying what the market demands.

The market demands bananas that are not brown when they are ripe.
By all means send me the regulations for rebate and some concrete information, I'm open to being convinced otherwise by facts.
I used to always remove affiliate codes from links, but after hearing about just how much revenue creators make from Amazon affiliate, I started clicking them if it’s a creator that I support (especially smaller creators).

With Amazon, apparently the creator gets a percentage commission on your entire cart. Without the affiliate link, the price to me is exactly the same - Amazon just keeps the money. I assume AmazonSmile was basically using the charity you selected as the “affiliate”, but they shut that program down.

So yeah, it hurts my individual privacy stance, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to all the data Amazon has about me already. Commission affiliate links at least redirect some of the revenue to the creator themselves.
`We don’t all have the freedom, interest or willpower to delete social media from our lives entirely.`

i am really against this notion. why do we have to surrender ourselves to this forced reality. i really don't find any other beneficial use of social media except of advertise and making profit. (personally i see it immoral to feed this evil machine and run away).
so the only real solution is to delete social media altogether or don't tap on user's backs and guide them to more moderate use because it doesn't makes a difference.
I am building an app to fight propaganda online. Need your help
So long story short I was recently bombarded with an insane amounts of right-wing propaganda online and Russian bots so I decided I can somehow simplify the validation of the facts that are posted by people online.

I have made a research of tools that are currently available for that and I've found that ChatGpt is quite biased with some topics and it lacks data about latest issues even when search mode is enabled. At least it takes some time for it to update it's memory or something

Then I've checked a Google Fact Check tools which were even worse. Bad UI... I had no idea how it validates things because usually proof links that Google provides are quite random.

So I decided to build a tool that simplifies the research.
The idea was simple - you have a claim - you paste it in app and it goes on web collects articles on topic then processes them with ai and makes a decision based on those articles.

The app is running right now. It is completely free and no ads. Also it generates a small article where it tells about how it made a conclusion.

The link to app is: https://truthorfake.com/

Also I need your help - How can I make this app better? Also feel free to test your claims so that I can have more real data to tune this app on.

I believe that this is something that is necessary for all of us especially in those crazy times!

Thanks for reading this!
This feels like a fever dream.
Yes. The article comes across as a response from an LLM chat. I think that it's OK to write blog posts with AI assistance, and I like the logical and simple writing style that these models output.

But with MCP there's not a whole lot of information out there for LLMs to digest and so perhaps for that reason the article is not particularly insightful.

Thank you HN for bringing the insights!