MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ICBTheory | 2025-06-23 00:20:27+00:00
Very good point.

I in fact had thought of describing the problem from a systems theoretical perspective as this is another way to combine different paths into a common principle

That was a sketch, in case you are into these kind of approaches:

2. Complexity vs. Complication In systems theory, the distinction between 'complex' and 'complicated' is critical. Complicated systems can be decomposed, mapped, and engineered. Complex systems are emergent, self-organizing, and irreducible. Algorithms thrive on complication. But general intelligence—especially artificial general intelligence (AGI)—must operate in complexity. Attempting to match complex environments through increased complication (more layers, more parameters) leads not to adaptation, but to collapse. 3. The Infinite Choice Barrier and Entropy Collapse In high-entropy decision spaces, symbolic systems attempt to compress possibilities into structured outcomes. But there is a threshold—empirically visible around entropy levels of H ≈ 20 (one million outcomes)—beyond which compression fails. Adding more depth does not resolve uncertainty; it amplifies it. This is the entropy collapse point: the algorithm doesn't fail because it cannot compute. It fails because it computes itself into divergence. 4. The Oracle and the Zufallskelerator To escape this paradox, the system would need either an external oracle (non-computable input), or pure chance. But chance is nearly useless in high-dimensional entropy. The probability of a meaningful jump is infinitesimal. The system becomes a closed recursion: it must understand what it cannot represent. This is the existential boundary of algorithmic intelligence: a structural self-block. 5. The Organizational Collapse of Complexity The same pattern is seen in organizations. When faced with increasing complexity, they often respond by becoming more complicated—adding layers, processes, rules. This mirrors the AI problem. At some point, the internal structure collapses under its own weight. Complexity cannot be mirrored. It must either be internalized—by becoming complex—or be resolved through a radically simpler rule, as in fractal systems or chaos theory.

6. Conclusion: You Are an Algorithm An algorithmic system can only understand what it can encode. It can only compress what it can represent. And when faced with complexity that exceeds its representational capacity, it doesn't break. It dissolves. Reasoning regresses to default tokens, heuristics, or stalling. True intelligence—human or otherwise—must either become capable of transforming its own frame (metastructural recursion), or accept the impossibility of generality. You are an algorithm. You compress until you can't. Then you either transform, or collapse
by ryao | 2025-06-23 00:20:28+00:00
The point of the article is to say that this is a bad thing, but to someone who was bullied as a child, the idea of being “sedentary, scrolling and alone” sounds like the ideal childhood. I remember adults saying socialization was a good thing when I was a child, and to me, that effectively claimed that my daily beating from 5 to 6 of my classmates was a good thing. It does not matter how much time passes; nothing will convince me that was a good thing.
by autarch | 2025-06-23 00:21:02+00:00
I do understand the difference, thanks. I think the degree to which it's a scam depends on the employer. Some say they have unlimited vacation and then the work culture discourages using it. Fortunately, that's not the case where I work.

The other benefit of not-unlimited is having it paid out when you leave. But if I had 6 weeks a year PTO, I'd just use it all anyway, so the part where it gets paid out isn't a big deal to me.
by Meekro | 2025-06-23 00:21:08+00:00
That's definitely true, and it's a bad thing, but I don't think it's the core problem. If it was, you'd see massive differences between cities and the research would read like this: "City A is too car-centric, and all the kids are sedentary and obese. City B has great public transportation, lots of parks, and the kids are doing great."

Instead, we see the same problem everywhere, including places in Europe and Japan where the outside is just fine.
by intuitionist | 2025-06-23 00:21:15+00:00
This might prove too much, particularly for the case of literature. There were people writing commercially successful and culturally relevant literary fiction in 1970; back then you already had Austen and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Cervantes, plus Joyce and Woolf and Hemingway and Faulkner. I think there’s books published in the last 50 years that deserves a place on a short list of Best Novels, but I don’t think it has much overlap with the best-selling literary fiction being published at that time.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-06-23 00:21:18+00:00
allocators can be simple but how about memory management kernel subsystems?

One question I have for those who know the topic at a greater depth: Are there simpler memory managers that don't use a fixed page size? Or does that make it a lot more complex? imagine requesting allocation of 1 byte and the kernel allocating a page of 1 byte and immediately you request 20GB and you get a 20GB page. Other than memory-management metadata taking up more memory on its own, what are the downsides of dynamic page sizes?
by RheingoldRiver | 2025-06-23 00:21:23+00:00
I was a math major in undergrad, we care about typesetting so much because you really do not want to be stuck handwriting everything, but it's not easy to be faster typing than you are with handwriting when you're writing out rows and rows of equations. (Actually physics was generally a lot harder for me to keep up with while typing than math was.)

And when your life is revolving around classes or your thesis, the #1 most important thing to you in the world is how easily you can transfer your ideas to paper/digital format. It makes a lot of sense that people care a lot about the quality of their typesetting engine and exchange macro tips with each other (I got a lot of helpful advice from friends, and my default latex header was about 50% my own stuff and 50% copied from friends in my same major)
by mikequinlan | 2025-06-23 00:22:05+00:00
Yes, cured but…

>But patients in the trial had to stay on drugs to prevent the immune system from destroying the new cells. Suppressing the immune system, he said, increases the risk of infections and, over the long term, can increase the risk of cancer.

>“The argument is this immunosuppression is not as dangerous as what we typically use for kidneys, hearts and lungs, but we won’t know that definitely for many years,” Dr. Hirsch said.

>Patients may have to take the immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives, the Vertex spokeswoman said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/health/diabetes-cure-insu...
by gyomu | 2025-06-23 00:22:11+00:00
Yeah maybe. Talk is cheap, show me the code.

> Last week, I did something I’ve put off for 10 years. Built a full production-grade desktop app in 1 week. Fully reviewed. Clean code. Launched builds on Launchpad. UI/UX and performance? Better than most market leaders. ONE. WEEK.

I really wonder why people who write these things never actually show these apps they vibe coded in a week that are “better than most market leaders”.

> We’ve hit the point where asking “Which programming language should I learn?” is almost irrelevant. The real skill now is system design, architecture, DevOps, cloud — the stuff that separated juniors from seniors. That’s what’ll matter.

My UML professor said very similar things 25 years ago. You’d just draw a UML diagram, and boom! All the code would be generated. The only thing I remember from this class is how terrible she was at coding.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-23 00:22:14+00:00
I've seen similar issues in villages in developing countries like India and Vietnam as well. Parenting is hard, and smartphones reduce the amount of effort it takes anyone to get a dopamine rush, disincentivizing creativity.

Smartphones are extremely powerful, but I strongly feel they shouldn't be in the hands of children at least until their adolescence - that way some amount of creativity is forced.

Ironically, Steve Jobs was himself a major proponent of how boredom begets curiosity and creativity.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-23 00:23:42+00:00
One thing to add I find missing in many such articles: the rise of helicopter parenting, correlating with the rise of families that can only afford to have one child.

Basically, up until a few decades ago, it was the norm to have a lot of children - there was a lack of contraceptive options, access to abortions was highly questionable (and deadly on top of it, given the circumstances of back-alley "angel makers"), and most importantly it was the norm that quite a lot of these children would die from some sort of accident, pest or war.

Nowadays, financial and housing insecurity plus the demands of modern capitalism (aka, have a full school education plus an academic degree, so you enter the workforce at 25, not 15, any more) drive people to start later and later with finding partners, much less having children, so the "room for errors" is much less than it used to be.

And on top of that you got the horror stories of "child snatchers", pedophile gangs and knife-wielding immigrants that now make national headlines out of very individual crimes. It's hard to attempt to raise your child in the open when every newspaper shouts at you that THEY are out there to GET YOUR CHILD. The rabid fearmongering has gone completely out of control.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-06-23 00:24:02+00:00
As long as they don't commingle inventory it's relatively easy to avoid (not sure if that's the case or not, but seems like most of the 3rd party sellers do their own shipping)

FWIW my main annoyance with Walmarts website is that it's not clear if you package is coming via shipping service like FedEx, who has access to my apartment complex, or just some dude in his car who needs to call me while I'm at work to be buzzed in
by ipnon | 2025-06-23 00:24:24+00:00
“On the Road” has many vivid depictions of San Francisco circa 1950. Most remarkably they spend almost all their time in the Mission, because this is where all the work is at docks and warehouses, and when they go out at night the jazz clubs and bars are always nearby. And as it is described there are so many of these nightclubs that they can hop to a new one every hour, and do this every night for weeks and never run out of places to go. It’s a city as a party, and seems to contrast with the current reputation as a bit suited up and stale.

What remained the same was the characters all living in precarious situations of housing, usually finding a flop house or sleeping on someone’s couch and so on. The transient nature of the city hasn’t changed much. But Dean Moriarty is able to rent a home for a family of 4 on Pacific Hill for two years while barely holding down odd jobs for more than a few weeks at a time. That’s different!

Kevin Starr’s magisterial history of California really revolves around San Francisco. It’s a beautiful story in five parts. The first is the Spanish Mission, then the Gold Rush boomtown, then wartime depot (this is what “On the Road” describes), then the hippie utopia, and now the tech center (I like to call it the “unicorn stable”). I wonder how we will reminisce about the San Francisco of today in 50 years.
by alephnerd | 2025-06-23 00:24:52+00:00
TikTok/Douyin isn't alone in impacting a mindset (though it does play a role).

I see plenty of parents (even amongst Chinese families) handing a smartphone to their kids to essentially sedate them instead of engaging with them.

Honor of Kings, Arena of Valor, and MLBB have similar dopamine rush cycles.

Heck, even a bland, aggravating, obnoxious, and stick-up-their-butt social media site like HN can induce similar cycles.
by Bjorkbat | 2025-06-23 00:25:05+00:00
Yeah, I was about to say, it sounds a lot like this guy is just riding an intense high from getting Claude to build some side-project he's been putting off, which I feel is like 90% of all cases where someone writes a post like this.

But then I never really hear any update on whether the high is still there or if it's tapered off and now they're hitting reality.
by locopati | 2025-06-23 00:25:14+00:00
That's so strange about C. When I was a hiring manager, resumes told me nothing because they're so generic and samey and often padded with bs. A cover letter was a place for differentiation. Also, I had so many applicants that having a cover letter was my first screen... no letter and I was done.

Oddly, once, I had a series of applications from different people with the exact same cover letter. I had to triple take to realize that I wasn't looking at the same person multiple times.
by denkmoon | 2025-06-23 00:25:20+00:00
That Iran has been "full-tilt" pursuing nuclear weapons for decades doesn't make sense. Building a nuke isn't that hard, and getting the nuclear material is the hardest part. They've got that worked out. They've had the capability to do so for 20 years now. I defer to the intelligence community; they have the capability to build the bomb within about a year if they chose to do so, and are also not actively attempting to do that. (Until a few days ago at least).

If Kim can get nukes, Khomeini can gets nukes.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-23 00:25:21+00:00
> this situation could only have arose in the first place because there is some kind of systemic reason for parents to not really care about the wellbeing of their offspring.

Yeah, guess what, like needing to work 2 full-time 40 hour jobs and having to deal with commute and chores on top of that, not to mention overtime or on-call. Modern capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with raising children, but by the time it crashes down it will be too late.

But hey, the current generation of Boomers enjoys a stonks-go-up portfolio.
by selcuka | 2025-06-23 00:27:00+00:00
> adguard is free [...] open source adblockers like ublock origin lite [...] and some other one

Yet not "every user has switched to these free products". Apparently the consumers don't feel the same way as yourself, or they are not aware of those options (marketing costs, too). Hence (quoting myself):

> A product justifies its price tag as long as people are willing to buy it at that price.

I'm not a 1Blocker user, but 1Blocker definitely doesn't have to price match anyone else if their customers are happy to pay despite there are many free options.
by parpfish | 2025-06-23 00:29:41+00:00
I started trying to vibecode over the last couple weeks, and it sucks at 90% of the stuff I have to do at work. That last 10% is nice, but not worth the cost IMO.

However, because I does show promise on a small segment of my work I could see there being an effect on industry where a certain type of dev work gets wiped out. To the extent that there are companies paying people to “be a webmaster” or maintain a basic crud-app, those teams could drastically downsize. Even if that’s just 5% of the total dev population, that’s still a lot of jobs and an entire type of work that just gets wiped out.
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-23 00:30:40+00:00
I’m reminded of the intentional usage of whisky, rum, and other alcoholic spirits as an intentional policy of genocide against Native Americans. Also interesting is that during this same period of history, payment of taxes in whisky was common in some states in the western US, and these were federal taxes for debts left over from the Revolutionary War. These adjacent topics are reminiscent of modern national cryptocurrency stockpiles and stablecoin interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_Native_Americans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Forty-Three_G...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
by chc4 | 2025-06-23 00:31:13+00:00
See, using AI as the equivalet of super-IDE snippets or to generate things in isolation is probably really good! It's also categorically not the same thing as what all of the AI hypemen (including the OP) are describing, with it replacing wide swathes of software developers. It devolves into a motte and bailey argument where it is actually possible for AI to be a useful tool in a programmer's toolbox, and make people more productive in isolated ways, without also agreeing with frankly anything the OP thread is saying.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-23 00:32:25+00:00
Cursor

It's more or less the same as intellisense most of the time, but occasionally it tries to guess an entire multi-line function and it throws me way off

I don't know if it's a matter of just sticking with it to learn like any new tool, or if it is just really not as useful as people say

One thing I've noticed is that with traditional intellisense it was often fast enough to get ahead of me so I could tab complete

Cursor is slower than me. Often I am typing faster than it can think, which makes it suggest things I'm already past.
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by abilafredkb | 2025-06-23 00:32:44+00:00
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by georgeecollins | 2025-06-23 00:32:47+00:00
I would really like to see the App this person is talking about. I am sure AI coding is very useful, but its so hard for me to judge without seeing the projects people are making with it. I have seen lots of toy examples in my field (not intended to be commercial) but this person claims they are making a commercial thing from scratch with AI. It's so hard to judge without seeing the work product.
by alan-crowe | 2025-06-23 00:33:00+00:00
Nuclear powered ships and submarines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion

The attraction is that high enrichment permits a smaller reactor and less frequent refuelling. US submarines go over 96% enrichment.

Bunker fuel is in the news. Cheap oil for marine diesel engines is both polluting in the traditional sulfur etc sense and in the modern CO2 global warming sense. There are occasional attempts at wind powered sailing ships, or at least sail assisted ships, to reduce the burning of bunker fuel. Nuclear power for shipping is currently out of fashion, but is a legitimate topic for research.
by DanHulton | 2025-06-23 00:33:27+00:00
It really depends on if the 10-year-old code in question was put together by a talented team with high standards, doesn't it?

But regardless, on a large project, you're always going to have some version of this problem. At least when you yourself are getting in there and writing and understand the code, you have a half-decent shot at debugging in a reasonable period of time. When even you are vibe coding your additions to the pile, you're all the way back at square one when shit hits the fan, trying to learn it all from scratch.
by catgary | 2025-06-23 00:33:29+00:00
I’m going to have to disagree with you there. The compile times are long, the error messages are worse than useless, and tikz diagrams are almost always unreadable messes.

Large swathes of mathematics, computer science, and physics involve notations and diagrams that are genuinely hard to typeset, and incredibly repetitive and hard to read if you don’t make heavy use of the macro system. Integrating some actual programming features could be a game changer.
by herewego | 2025-06-23 00:33:38+00:00
Not arguing against your overall point, but Texas is a well-known lesson in failed power grid management, market design, and policy - which in combination is the driving force behind the current economic energy opportunities.

I say this as someone in the energy industry who operates many renewable assets across the U.S., some in Texas, and participates in the markets. Texas is a power nightmare, worst in the country. Everyone in Texas is investing in desperate immediate need and toa lesser degree, future potential, but that potential isn’t here yet and the cost of wholesale power spikes to egregious levels regularly.
by stego-tech | 2025-06-23 00:34:34+00:00
I’m not a developer, just an IT dinosaur, but one comment in the thread stuck with me:

> it has felt like a movement of “code first, think and ask questions later” took over the narrative during the past decade

That, I believe, is the real “hard reset” nobody is really talking about. Because the outcome is the same regardless of how AI goes:

* If AI is real, this progress continues, and magically half of my technical grievances are addressed, then thinking through the actual long-term problems, project planning, and technology architecture skills will explode in value overnight and the next millionaires will be Architects who can orchestrate and integrate complex systems with AI tooling…

OR

* This AI is just a fad, the bubble pops, and suddenly everyone who has “bandwagoned” into tech but not cultivated a growing skill set beyond coding problems will be forced out of a job. Those left behind will be the ones who kept their skills sharp and growing while everyone else drank the Kool-Aid, and no amount of community college programs or ITT Tech schemes will be able to create the amount of talent needed.

Just my two cents, and why I’ve been punching my way into architecture since COVID. I’m no dummy.