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by benchmarkapp | 2025-06-07 11:51:35+00:00
Great question — you're right, Google deprecated the link: operator years ago because it was unreliable and incomplete even back then.

Tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, and Majestic don’t rely on Google’s data. Instead, they run their own crawlers (similar to how Google crawls the web). Ahrefs, for example, claims to crawl over 8 billion pages a day, building an independent backlink index.

That’s why different tools sometimes show different backlink counts — it depends on their crawl depth, speed, and how well they handle redirects, canonicals, etc.

So while it’s not Google’s view of your backlinks, it’s the best proxy we’ve got publicly. And in practice, it’s good enough for most strategy decisions.

You can use the free version of Ahrefs to monitor your own site's backlinks
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-07 11:53:30+00:00
>Automotive software engineers aren't working for poverty wages.

How does that help when nobody is hiring right now and you're competing with thousand of laid off engineers?

>so brush up on details before you're interviewed

How do you get interviewed in the first place if they're screening your resume out due to not having the experience with the programming languages they're looking for?

Like I said, having niche languages sends your resume in the bin.

>if they asked what you used C/C++ just say you're not at liberty to speak about it

Unless you worked for government intelligence, this type of response gets you rejected immediately here in Europe/Germany, since they have 100 other candidates who can speak about what they did. Why would they bother with you when you're already making their life hard from the interview stage?

I feel like your US centered viewpoint is way off from the reality of where I live.
by bawolff | 2025-06-07 11:53:56+00:00
> AGI by Turing’s definition is here

Is it? AI is impressive and all, but i don't think any of them have pased the Turing test, as defined by Turing (pop culture conceptions of the Turing test are usually much weaker than what the paper actually proposes), although i'd be happy to be proven wrong.
by throwaway71271 | 2025-06-07 11:54:03+00:00
> And, even the dumber LLMs would slot in naturally into such a process

That is what I am struggling with, it is really easy at the moment to slot LLM and make everything worse. Mainly because its output is coming from torch.multinomial with all kinds of speculative decoding and quantizations and etc.

But I am convinced it is possible, just not the way I am doing it right now, thats why I am spending most of my time studying.
by alzhi7 | 2025-06-07 11:56:44+00:00
kubectl-apidocs is a lightweight Kubernetes CLI plugin that helps you explore Kubernetes API resources interactively in your terminal.

It provides a tree-based browser of all API groups, versions, resource kinds, and fields — a fast way to navigate both built-in and custom resources (CRDs).

Highlights in v1.0.14: improved search experience, keybindings for interactive usage.

Project page: https://github.com/hashmap-kz/kubectl-apidocs Issues, feedback, PRs welcome!
by calderwoodra | 2025-06-07 11:57:20+00:00
I'm not an accountant, but as I understand it, you don't pay taxes on profits, but on revenue.

So previously, some 20% of all revenue would be owned as corporate income tax, and startups would deduct it all as they're spending much more on R&D than they owe in corporate income tax. But with this tax change, the deduction would be much lower (80% lower IIUC).
by nextaccountic | 2025-06-07 11:57:29+00:00
> After you finish apologizing to all your users for the recent breakages, you decide to make some performance improvements. Everyone loves faster code, right? This is a safe thing to do and surely nothing could go wrong.

> The new app now calculates the yearly tax summary almost instantaneously. It’s a huge improvement over the previous version, which used to take several seconds. You ship it.

> …and oops, one of your biggest partners has called you to complain. You’ve broken their website, which embeds your app as part of their business management suite. It turns out their code expected your calculation to take at least 5 seconds. Now that it’s faster, users encounter lots of errors and results that don’t make any sense.

> In frustration, you quit your job and return to the construction industry. At least here, no one expects a house upgrade without disruption.

Huge https://xkcd.com/1172/ vibes
by npteljes | 2025-06-07 11:58:48+00:00
Yes to all points, and the subscription still makes sense. Why not make your life easier and less cognitively burdened for a few meager dollars per month? And then re-think the plan when you are uncomfortable with it in the future.

I understand the yearn for stability, but it's futile. With services, there is no permanence, and so it's unreasonable to expect such. Even the very legal and social structure that underpins it all is constantly shifting. I suggest a hybrid solution: really take part in systems that you find worthwhile, like YouTube. Pay for it so that you can feel you did your part. And take care of yourself with a plan B, in case plan A betrays you. For example, keep a public playlist with the videos you really don't want to lose, and sync them to your hard drive from time to time with yt-dlp.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-07 11:59:12+00:00
Quadratically doesn't have the same punch because it is actually exponentially less than exponentially. So doing it for extra punch (as opposed to not knowing the correct word) in a technical context would just be lying. It'd be like a paper saying they had a result with p less than one in a trillion for "extra punch" when they actually had p=0.1.
by junon | 2025-06-07 11:59:34+00:00
The Ocean Cleanup is probably the most impressive and inspiring humanitarian / climate endeavor around right now. Been following them for a long time, their PR is really good. Actually showing the places before and after, showing the trash they take out, explaining how the tech works, being transparent about the struggles and whatnot. Really, really well orchestrated, I always feel a spark of hope after I see something from them.
by pollinations | 2025-06-07 11:59:59+00:00
I'd say commit a comprehensive testing system with the prompts.

Prompts are in a sense what higher level programming languages were to assembly. Sure there is a crucial difference which is reproducibility. I could try and write down my thoughts why I think in the long run it won't be so problematic. I could be wrong of course.

I run https://pollinations.ai which servers over 4 million monthly active users quite reliably. It is mostly coded with AI. Since about a year there was no significant human commit. You can check the codebase. It's messy but not more messy than my codebases were pre-LLMs.

I think prompts + tests in code will be the medium-term solution. Humans will be spending more time testing different architecture ideas and be involved in reviewing and larger changes that involve significant changes to the tests.
by lern_too_spel | 2025-06-07 12:01:38+00:00
There are multiple historical inaccuracies in your post.

> expanded warrantless NSA surveillance

This is exactly the opposite of what he did. According to Snowden's leaks, he had shut down email metadata collection soon after he took office. After Snowden's leaks, he limited and then shut down mass phone metadata collection.

> routinely interfered with other countries

You'll have to be specific. Did you disagree with him getting Osama bin Laden from under Pakistan's protection? He put an end to America's pasttime of installing and propping up dictators in Latin America and even criticized America's past actions in that regard, resulting in the "apology tour" attacks in conservative media.

The more typical criticism is that he was too light a touch, that he didn't help Libya set up a stable government after the 2011 NATO intervention in its civil war, that he didn't sufficiently sanction Russia for its actions in Georgia and Ukraine, and that he allowed Iran to assert dominance over Iraq.

> He shut down Occupy Wall Street hard,

Obama didn't control local police. That's Bloomberg's jurisdiction.

> bailed out the banks at our expense

Putting aside that EESA was passed by GWB instead of Obama, that's like complaining that somebody educated the kids at our expense. What would have happened otherwise? Obama passed Dodd-Frank banking regulation to try to prevent this from happening again.

> wasted the biggest wave of progressive energy on a Republican's healthcare plan

The public option couldn't go through because people like you were fooled into not voting in the midterms. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/11/4852289...

> successfully pushing for Hillary Clinton to run

Clinton decided to run herself. She ran against Obama in 2008 and only barely lost, so it was no surprise that she ran in 2016. Obama famously stayed out of the 2016 primary until Clinton was the presumptive nominee in June.
by ednite | 2025-06-07 12:01:44+00:00
Yeah, I totally agree, we’re still at the beginning, and that’s what makes it a little scary

My dotcom comparison wasn’t really about the tech, more about the noise and hype. Feels like that same kind of frenzy, but now the tech’s actually capable of doing something big. The financial viability is still a big question though. Thanks for the comment.
by npteljes | 2025-06-07 12:02:26+00:00
Nice lists!

But the outrage here is not about these, but about how "Stuff is pretty unwatchable now without them.", them being ad blockers.

One can decide that "okay, if you're not nice to me, I won't be nice to you as well". And that's fair. But then, the complaints of one party giving more hurt to the other doesn't make sense - they were in a fight to begin with. Then it's the name of the game. Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game in the first place, so if it looks like that the cat upgrades, so should the mouse.

Or, make all of this headache go away with YT Premium.
by bawolff | 2025-06-07 12:03:38+00:00
> “ASI” will probably have to solve all of the world’s problems and bring us all to the promised land before it will merit that moniker lol.

People base their notions of AI on science fiction, and it usually goes one of two ways in fiction.

Either a) skynet awakens and kills us all or

B) the singularity happens, AI get so far ahead they become deities, and maybe the chosen elect transhumanists get swept up into some simulation that is basically a heavenly realm or something.

So yeah, bringing us to the promised land is an expectation of super AI that does seem to come out of certain types of science fiction.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-07 12:04:46+00:00
C++ says (until the future C++ 26 is published) all loops, but as you noted C itself does not do this, only those "whose controlling expression is not a constant expression".

Thus in C the trivial infinite loop for (;;); is supposed to actually compile to an infinite loop, as it should with Rust's less opaque loop {} -- however LLVM is built by people who don't always remember they're not writing a C++ compiler, so Rust ran into places where they're like "infinite loop please" and LLVM says "Aha, C++ says those never happen, optimising accordingly" but er... that's the wrong language.
by muzani | 2025-06-07 12:05:53+00:00
Fixing inequality. Properly, not the current form which overcompensates and just flips the inequality. It is a hard problem because people are unequal and shouldn't not be forced to be equal, but you want this to be controlled and not a runaway loop.

The ideal IMO is single breadwinner households with a two story house and one car and decent public transportation. Single breadwinner is particularly important - many families grow up with both parents absent for much of their lives. They don't learn what love is and this leads to broken families and crime as their children don't have a good framework.

Inequality also causes a lot of political distortion. When the rich get richer, they try to hold power. They spend more, debt goes out of control. The poor are treated like they deserve to be poor. Bad work ethic becomes the norm for this society. Increased debt and spending hits a point where the ROI is negative. The poor become increasingly desperate and murderous. Wars trigger. The empire overextends. The inability to pay debts result in bank runs. And this pattern repeats itself again and again in nearly every fallen empire.

No amount of technological advances or wealth helps if there's runaway inequality.
by alkonaut | 2025-06-07 12:06:20+00:00
For the sake of argument, the only interesting discussion about telemetry is about whether it’s ok when done right.

I don’t think anyone thinks it’s ok when it’s not done right (not anonymous, dark patterns for opt in/out, etc).

So it’s not a very interesting discussion to have since there is no one arguing for it.

Instead my argument is: when done right, anonymous telemetry isn’t “evil”. To be fair I don’t know if many argue it is either. There are a few absolutists that think not even opt-in telemetry is acceptable and that developers should do more expensive studies to find how their software is used. It’s really only those I disagree with.
by K0balt | 2025-06-07 12:06:24+00:00
Yet another example of failing to grasp the computer vs program paradigm.

For contemporary AI the “statistical engine” for next token generation is the VM. The vast n-dimensional vector matrix of weights is the software.

The software is -not- a token prediction algorithm. It is a machine interpretable compilation of human culture.

The prediction algorithm is analogous to the CPU. The weights are analogous to the software. A cpu does not exhibit the capabilities of software, it enables software to exhibit its capabilities.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-07 12:06:28+00:00
In 2015 the tech industry was just as exploitive as it is now. The DE&I and ally ship was always performative. You have finally just woken up.

I was at Amazon when they added the leadership principle about being the “world’s best employee”. Yes Amazon the worst employer of the BigTech crowd.

At the end of the day, it’s a transaction. I give them labor and they give me money. I use that money to support my addiction to food and shelter. I started working in 1996 and now I am on my 10th job. It’s always been transactional for me.

Which tech company was trying to make the world a better place even a decade ago?
by ednite | 2025-06-07 12:08:22+00:00
It is insane. You should see my inbox, daily links to AI articles, sales execs panicking about falling behind. Honestly, it’s understandable with all the noise, but it’s also hard to keep up.

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve had to explain, again and again “No, AI can’t do that… and no, it’s definitely not drawing up your architectural building plans.” Well, not yet, anyway.
by throw0101c | 2025-06-07 12:12:37+00:00
> (1) it's cleartext and therefore very good as a measure against vendor lock-in and (2) it has, to some extent, dampened the rampant "not-invented-here"-esqe tendency to use proprietary formats.

Also covered by AsciiDoc.

"Compare AsciiDoc and Markdown": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27744509
by Cloudef | 2025-06-07 12:13:06+00:00
> I do not understand your criticism of [N]. This gives compiler more information and catches errors. This is a good thing!

It only does sane thing in GCC, in other compilers it does nothing and since it's very underspec'd it's rarely used in any C projects. It's shame Dennis's fat pointers / slices proposal was not accepted.

> warrant the additional complexity IMHO

In zig case the comptime reduces complexity, because it is simply zig. It's used to implement generics, you can call zig code compile time, create and return types.

This old talk from andrew really hammers in how zig is evolution of C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g
by 7bit | 2025-06-07 12:13:08+00:00
Criticizing harmful practices doesn’t require building a replacement from scratch. Saying “just build your own SaaS company” is a deflection, not a real argument. We don’t demand people create alternative governments to criticize corruption or build new roads to complain about traffic systems. Some practices — like vendor lock-in or exploitative data handling — are worth rejecting simply because they’re harmful.

Also, markets often do come up with better, more ethical alternatives — but only after society pushes back against the harmful defaults. Ecologically, people used to say there was no alternative to burning oil or dumping waste into rivers. That didn’t make those practices okay — and change only came because they were first criticized, regulated, and in some cases outright banned. Progress doesn’t start with “there’s already a perfect alternative”; it starts with “this is no longer acceptable.”
by ojosilva | 2025-06-07 12:13:11+00:00
Not really - at least at current goals, population size, etc -, even with the very high energy expenditure of, say, LOTS of AI hardware to run the "Skynet" we're driving ourselves into, we're talking the order of magnitude of 30TWh (human generation today per Wikipedia).

Imagining a future: with a ~3% growth, so let's say fusion is deployed and everything is electric in the next few years (not happening that fast though), with AI data-centers everywhere so individual-level AI runs (say "Her"'s movie personal OS-level stuff) per human and we reach the out-of-my-buttocks figure of 500 TWh/year in 10 years time, which is crazy shit ... well, that would not "boil the world"!

The Sun delivers ~170,000 TWh per year. So 500 TWh still would not be that significant, and within the Sun's yearly delivery fluctuations.

The problem with energy generation today is that it's releasing gases, and these gases are disrupting the planet’s energy balance - especially how Earth gets rid of the massive energy it receives from the Sun. We do need to restore the balance between what comes in and what goes back out - fusion can help tackle that problem specifically, so it's beneficial overall even if it eventually adds a fractional percentage to the overall planetary energy bill.

I picture that fusion would be a complementary source, not the only one, and, once/if deployed, would help close some of key the loopholes that prevent solar (and other renewables) from being deployed 100%.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-07 12:13:37+00:00
The United States is generally considered a low-tax country compared to other high-income developed nations. In 2021, total taxes at all government levels in the US represented about 27% of GDP, which is significantly lower than the OECD average of around 34% and well below the 40% or more seen in several European countries like Denmark. The US ranks near the bottom among OECD countries in tax-to-GDP ratio, around 31st or 32nd out of 38 countries.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-the-us-a-low-taxing-coun...

The problem is what "tax" means to US citizens as opposed to what taxes actually are. It's a communication / understanding issue.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-07 12:13:54+00:00
I tire of “Employees from Y company leave to start their own” and even “Ex-Y employees launch new W”.

How many times do we have to see these stories play out to realize it doesn’t matter where they came from. These big companies employee a lot of people of varying skill, having it on your resume means almost nothing IMHO.

Just look at the Humane pin full of “ex-Apple employees”, how’d that work out? And that’s only one small example.

I hope IO (OpenAi/Jony Ive) fails so spectacularly so that we have an even better example to point to and we can dispel the idea that if you did something impressive early in your career or worked for an impressive company, it doesn’t mean you will continue to do so.
by throwaway290 | 2025-06-07 12:14:26+00:00
I try to avoid meds usually but sometimes gotta wonder if people who flag+kill comments about GLP or steroids are just thin and buff people who lucked out on genetic lottery and secretly want to maintain their superiority.

Like why, gene editing a baby is okay but if your gene expression sucks and your parents couldn't afford crispr you now are to suffer the entire life from body dysphoria and bringing up an easy way out is to be silenced or stigmatized?

What are downsides exactly? The rich do these things all the time right?
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-07 12:14:34+00:00
> figuring out the actual complexity is neither relevant nor an economic use of time

The fix was replacing a nested loop with a map. Figuring out that this goes from O(n^2) to O(n) (modulo details like bucket count) is immediate if you know what the words mean and understand enough to identify the problem and make the fix in the first place.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-07 12:16:47+00:00
> I feel like using a compiler is in a sense a code generator where you don't commit the actual output

Compilers are deterministic. Given the same input you always get the same output so there's no reason to store the output. If you don't get the same output we call it a compiler bug!

LLMs do not work this way.

(Aside: Am I the only one who feels that the entire AI industry is predicated on replacing only development positions? we're looking at, what, 100bn invested, with almost no reduce in customer's operating costs other than if the customer has developers).
by hliyan | 2025-06-07 12:17:22+00:00
To me, procrastination is the brain overestimating (or perhaps just estimating) the unpleasantness of a task in the future. The unpleasantness could come from general lack of pleasure in performing the task, anticipation of frustration or irritation due to a gap in the skills or resources required, anxiety about not being able to successfully complete the task, or the output of the task not meeting one's personal expectations.

One example for me is getting out of the house: I loathe the idea of getting dressed, getting into the car and driving, whenever I contemplate it, but once I'm behind the wheel, the thought always is "this isn't so bad". If I think about the getting dressed bit, that too, thought of in isolation, isn't so bad. It seems it is the anticipation of a seemingly complex sequence of tasks that tend to put the brain off.
by jodrellblank | 2025-06-07 12:17:51+00:00
> TBH the "let's avoid smoke" aspect sounds like a retcon

Yes, that’s what the article says:

“ When you look at all the pictures of the factories in the 19th century, those stacks weren’t there to improve air quality, if you can believe it. The increased airflow generated by a stack just created more efficient combustion for the boilers and furnaces. Any benefits to air quality in the cities were secondary. With the advent of diesel and electric motors, we could use forced drafts, reducing the need for a tall stack to increase airflow. That was kind of the decline of the forests of industrial chimneys that marked the landscape in the 19th century. But they’re obviously not all gone, because that secondary benefit of air quality turned into the primary benefit as environmental rules about air pollution became stricter.”
by 7bit | 2025-06-07 12:18:23+00:00
The market does. So competitors and demand.

The problem is that you have really only little competitors on the market.

Eg. Microsoft 365 namely being the one that has outgrown any competitors that can seriously threaten them. They can dictate the prices and they do it willy-nilly and there is no-one that forces them to be cheaper.