MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rickvidallon | 2025-07-05 13:53:12+00:00
In a brief nutshell, I'm personally not in favor of how AI is taking over the industry (all of industry, that is). First of all, LLMs aren't even really what I would call AI, but that's a digression. I think, mainly, people are using it for the wrong reasons. I've seen graphics designers at work use it to generate images—and I don't just mean Adobe Firefly generative fill, but all-out "create me this logo." That's just lazy, given their job titles, and has started making everything look samey. Worse than how Bootstrap, Tailwind, etc., has the tendency to make everything samey.

For someone like me, who is self-taught on essentially all of his career skills, I have particular concern for a world in which people use AI to "learn things," when that tech doesn't allow them to make mistakes. It just does things for people. For that reason alone, I don't see AI as a viable way to learn at all. If your parents never take their hand from the back of the bicycle seat, do you really know how to ride a bike without falling over? Isn't the scraped knee how we truly mastered that skill?

For SEO in particular, I'd probably defer to someone with more daily experience, like you. That said, I think I can extrapolate from what I've seen elsewhere that the sameyness may likely start to affect content itself (in fact, it already has, for so many formerly good news outlets). Google search kinda blows in recent years. The AI Overview feature means so many people aren't visiting the source website anyway.

To me, none of this looks appetizing. It looks like a snake eating its own tail.

I don't mean to sound so bummer about the topic, but I've begun to worry about my own place in this ecosystem for the next 15, 20 years until I retire. Most of the joy in development has been sucked out of the art. Today, it seems mostly about getting wrapped around the axle of countless frameworks (without even really understanding them) and manhandling those chocolates on Lucy's and Ethel's conveyor belt. It's a comedy of errors. I'll yell "Get off my lawn" with the best of them. Add the same issues to SEO, and I don't really know where we'll end up, but it doesn't look creative, to me. It looks like a sad cliché, like the rows upon rows of sad souvenir shops that all kind of sell the same thing—the tourist trap that travelers (at least, travelers like me) actually loathe and try to avoid.
by amichail | 2025-07-05 13:53:17+00:00
Check it out: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1072858930

DropZap World is a falling block game with lasers, mirrors, splitters, color matching, and 120 levels.

Gameplay

* When a circle lands, it fires lasers of its color in eight directions.

* These lasers damage or destroy objects of the same color.

* You pass a level when you destroy all the squares.

Of course, there’s more to it than that — as you’ll see when you play.
by lherron | 2025-07-05 13:53:57+00:00
Honestly this article sounds like someone is unhappy that AI isn’t being deployed/developed “the way I feel it should be done”.

Talent changing companies is bad. Companies making money to pay for the next training run is bad. Consumers getting products they want is bad.

In the author’s view, AI should be advanced in a research lab by altruistic researchers and given directly to other altruistic researchers to advance humanity. It definitely shouldn’t be used by us common folk for fun and personal productivity.
by Groxx | 2025-07-05 13:54:39+00:00
No, it's long, long gone.

When I did it, the script was a bit of a mess of trigger setup, and then a backfill that only monitored replica lag, as if the status of the much less heavily used failover instance was somehow the most important part of a database. Hopefully that's no longer true, and none of this is necessary any more.

So I essentially split it in half, so I could keep only the trigger setup, and carefully read the queries the backfill would perform so I could duplicate it. And then wrote a very simple loop of "select N records, copy to new table, check how long that took. scale up by min(5%, 100), scale down by 30%, if outside target bounds".

Intentionally very polite to the main DB, because once the triggers are in place it really doesn't matter how long it takes. It dropped down to single digits at peak load on some days, so I think that was the correct choice.
by asadm | 2025-07-05 13:55:09+00:00
why has nobody solved the code editing in a robust way yet. I think all the implementations so far have been hacky. I also had to write my own basic one a few times[1].

I guess diffusion-based models can prove good for this usecase?

1. https://github.com/asadm/vibemode/blob/main/source/editor.js
by NKosmatos | 2025-07-05 13:56:09+00:00
I had a very similar idea but never materialized it, a big bravo to you for actually building something and not staying at the idea level.

I assume you want to make some money out of it? Like the guy that made 1mil for selling pixels. Hope it works for you ;-)

A few questions that might help you… Are you going to be moderating/censoring text and images? What about companies using your chat to advertise? What do you mean by a permanent time capsule? How many years are the messages going to be preserved? Do you have a character limit on the message? Could see a hard limit.
by strogonoff | 2025-07-05 13:56:29+00:00
Let’s continue this discussion when you show me a successful economy with a deflationary currency.

The only reason you can provide examples of failed states with inflationary currencies is because all currencies are inflationary. This is not a coincidence, perhaps because deflation does not correlate with things going well. For some famous examples of deflations, read on The Great Depression in US and Lost Decades in Japan.
by gwern | 2025-07-05 13:57:14+00:00
https://xkcd.com/1425/

One of the frustrating things about web dev, I find, is the staggering gulf between apparently nearly identical tasks and unpredictability of it. So often I will find myself on gwernnet asking Said Achmiz, 'this letter is a little too far left in Safari, can we fix that?' and the answer is 'yes but fixing that would require shipping our own browser in a virtual machine.' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stranger Meet – Talk to Real People Worldwide, Anonymously and Instantly
by Your_Stranger | 2025-07-05 13:59:14+00:00
Hi HN,

We just launched Stranger Meet – a real-time platform where you can instantly connect and chat with strangers from anywhere in the world. No accounts, no downloads, just pure human conversation.

Why we built it: Most social platforms are built around content, not connection. Stranger Meet brings back the thrill of real, random conversations — like the early days of Omegle, but faster, safer, and more modern.

What makes it different:

Built using Node.js, Express, React, and Vite for speed and simplicity

Supports text, voice, and media chat in a clean interface

NSFW filters and AI-powered moderation to keep things safe

Anonymous, but you can set location preferences

Fast matching and instant connection

We launched just over a week ago and have already had users from multiple countries. It’s early, but the feedback so far has been promising.

I’d love your thoughts:

What would make you want to stay longer in a conversation?

How can we make chats feel more meaningful and safe?

Check it out: https://stranger-meet.com

Thanks for your time.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-07-05 14:00:15+00:00
I quite enjoy giving people karma.

I don't particularly care about my aggregate karma points. But I do spend significant time putting my truths down here, and it is rewarding to see some acknowledgement that someone found the effort interesting or worthy.

It feels silly but I wish there was some more visible broader advocacy for social network liking. There's plenty of big scary pathologies, ways to let oneself get trapped in obsessions over the number & watching or trying to make it go up. But just having some friends thumbs up a Facebook post or a HN comment is a small kindness, is a small act that breathes a little kindness into the network. Up voting is great, do it broadly is my recommendation.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-07-05 14:00:16+00:00
How many humans achieve that level of success? Even with QA processes that quintuple development cost, is it even 100%? The software I regularly use is not even 95% defect free.

I am pleasantly amused to see it’s the cutting edge tech bros shaking their fist at the young LLMs on their lawn. We got free intern-quality work. Take the win.
by exDM69 | 2025-07-05 14:00:17+00:00
> if you don't describe your code and dataflow in a way that caters to the shape of the SIMD

But when I do describe code, dataflow and memory layout in a SIMD friendly way it's pretty much the same for x86_64 and ARM.

Then I can just use `a + b` and `f32x4` (or its C equivalent) instead of `_mm_add_ps` and `_mm128` (x86_64) or `vaddq_f32` and `float32x4_t` (ARM).

Portable SIMD means I don't need to write this code twice and memorize arcane runes for basic arithmetic operations.

For more specialized stuff you have intrinsics.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-05 14:00:41+00:00
What is the(ir) reputation? Do they delay payments? Do they try to find reasons not to pay?

I will oversimplify this (and I work like this when I have to pick a service (anything from SaaS to hiring one of them Big4+2 for a project): I want jeans. I look around. I buy jeans. I am willing to pay full price for jeans. I give proper project reqs/scope of work up front. If they fuck up, I fuck them usiny with the SLA/OLA. I also shit on them to anyone who ever brings them back (with real and damning info). If they do a good/great/their job, I "marry" them until the end of time.

If these guys "appreciate" you what you are, go for it. If they make you jump through 100 hoops then a) tht already picked option Z and they want the rest of you to voluntarily drop out of the race either through pricing (keep adding reqs and keeping the price fixed), or through features (keep adding reqs that they KNOW/sense you cannot deliver e.g. 'oh your app doesn't do liquids? too bad we wanted espresso to go with it).

Either way.. (and judging by the numbers you provided): - from scratch 60k - enhance 13k-38k

Even at the lower end (13k) it is still (almost) 25% of the whole thing..

Doesn't look like a good deal for you.
by tobias3 | 2025-07-05 14:03:36+00:00
The btrfs devs are mainly employed by Meta and SuSE and they only support single devices (I haven't looked up recently if SuSE supports multiple device fs). Meta probably uses zoned storage devices, so that is why they are focusing on that.

Unfortunately I don't think Patreon can fund the kind of talent you need to sustainably develop a file system.

That btrfs contains broken features is IMO 50/50 the fault of up-stream and the distributions. Distributions should patch out features that are broken (like btrfs multi-device support, direct IO) or clearly put it behind experimental flags. Up-stream is unfortunately incentivised to not do this, to get testers.
by dagaci | 2025-07-05 14:03:41+00:00
Jenson has managed to kneel into every market boom in a reasonable amount of time with his GPUs and tech (hardware and software). No doubt he will be there when the next boom kicks off too.

Microsoft fails consistently ... even when offered a lead on the plate... it fails, but these failures are eventually corrected for by the momentum of its massive business units.

Apple is just very very late... but this failure can be eventually corrected for by its unbeatable astroturfing units.

Perhaps AMD are too small keep up everywhere it should. But compared to the rest, AMD is a fast follower. Why Intel is where it is is a mystery to me but i'm quite happy about its demise and failures :D

Being angry about NVIDIA is not giving enough credit to NVIDIA for being on-time and even leading the charge in the first place.

Everyone should remember that NVIDIA also leads into the markets that it dominates.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-05 14:05:37+00:00
"the causes are natural and we can’t do much about it"

This statement ignores hundreds of thousands of years of verifiable trend data, that showed C02 levels steadily declining until people began burning fossil fuels (mined coal) early in the industrial age. Global energy retention through greenhouse effects is only a slight change, and we are not going to see Venus like conditions.

Additionally, the radioactive isotopes of carbon are verifiable anywhere. The fossil fuel industry is provably the father of the CO2 issue. Notably, there is a theoretical oil burn-rate limit the planet could handle sustainably, but greed and desperation drives people to consume around 3 to 12 planets worth of resources. The key rate of burn was important at one time, and some policies did include reduced oil consumption as part of draft policy.

You may also find recent tree core CO2 data too, that provides a living history of the man-made changes in our atmosphere. That also matches the other data sources within the margin of error.

"The politicians are trying to defend against 1 or 2 Celsius degrees of change"

That is actually not much a of a safety margin, as at around >3.4'C we should begin to see cascade environmental collapse. Where it gets so much worse than algal blooms, storms, and floods/fires.

"The Earth naturally experiences warmer and colder times."

Except the perturbations in 11 year solar cycles and ten thousand year ice ages don't really change the trend data very much over long time scales. Only WWII caused a brief dip in CO2 concentration uptick with oil use.

Oil is important for countless reasons (medicine/plastics/chemistry), but it is irresponsible and wasteful to burn it in excess. It is foolish to manufacture imaginary controversy, as zero credible scientists have ever looked at the data and concluded it was nonsense.

Please don't cite YT as a data source, as it is for entertainment purposes only.

Have a glorious day =3

"Michael Shermer: Baloney Detection Kit":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNSHZG9blQQ
by bahrtw | 2025-07-05 14:05:44+00:00
Thanks for your reply! Haha, it was on my mind for weeks so I thought SHIP it. It's part social experiment, part digital art, and part time capsule.

The idea is to capture raw, unfiltered thoughts frozen in time. Messages are meant to be permanent. like a snapshot of now...so they'll stay up as long as the project exists. Ideally, that’s decades?

People can include links or images. I don’t plan to moderate content unless it’s illegal or clearly harmful.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-05 14:05:47+00:00
I genuinely needed this piece today, specifically. Thanks for sharing it.

I've been trying to live more authentically in general these past few years, making tiny little inroads one step at a time towards being someone I've consciously chosen, rather than merely exist in a safe form that doesn't risk alienating others (or rather, in a form I don't perceive to alienate others - obviously I am not a mindreader). Think classic tech neutral outfits (jeans and neutral shirts, neutral shoes, neutral socks, the sole piece of color being the Pride band of my Apple Watch). OCD hurts the process of trying to live authentically, because it's doing its damndest to ensure I never encounter harm.

So last night, after coming down from some flower and watching the evening roll in, I decided to put on an outfit I'd put together. All sorts of bright colors: neon green and black sneakers, bright pink shirt, sapphire blue denim jean shorts, bleached white socks - and went for a walk. OCD was INCREDIBLY self-conscious that I would stand out (duh), court the wrong sort of attention, or somehow find myself in trouble...for wearing things I see everyone else wear without any issue whatsoever.

The moat is real, and the mind wants to build barriers to minimize perceived harms; for neurodivergent folks, it can be downright crippling. Wallflowering at parties, never gambling on colors or bold styles, never taking on new challenges for risk of failure. It results in a life so boring, sterile, and uninteresting - to yourself, and to others.

So...yeah. I got nothing to add other than my personal nuggets of experience. Really glad this piece came past on HN today, I think a lot of folks are going to enjoy its message.
by HenryBemis | 2025-07-05 14:05:50+00:00
I fear that when the CFO and CEO will walk in holding a hammer and a saw, the CTO will start blaming the Directors for not "maximizing value" by "misusing" AI.. because why blame the tech when you can fire 20 more devs/engineers and hire 20 more eager and cheaper ones...?

As for the long term consequences.. I suggest "in front of your nose" by Orwell.
by ls-a | 2025-07-05 14:05:51+00:00
I know someone who's been doing this for 10+ years. Everytime he joined a startup he thought it'd be long term, then it all ends. He told me if he knew his life would be volatile like this he would've saved his money instead of splurge it all. I hope you find a more stable remote startup job, but don't be surprised if this unpredictability continues for years. Save your money.
by skydhash | 2025-07-05 14:06:07+00:00
Not GP, but I agree with him and I will expand.

The fact isn't that we don't know how to use AI. We've done so and the result can be very good sometimes (mostly because we know what's good and not). What's pushing us away from it is its unreliability. Our job is to automate some workflow (the business's and some of our owns') so that people can focus on the important matters and have the relevant information to make decisions.

The defect of LLM is that you have to monitor its whole output. It's like driving a car where the steering wheel loosely connected to the front wheels and the position for straight ahead varies all the time. Or in the case of agents, it's like sleeping in a plane and finding yourself in Russia instead of Chile. If you care about quality, the cognitive load is a lot. If you only care about moving forward (even if the path made is a circle or the direction is wrong), then I guess it's OK.

So we go for standard solutions where fixed problems stays fixed and the amount of issues is a downward slope (in a well managed codebase), not an oscillating wave that is centered around some positive value.
by zaneyard | 2025-07-05 14:06:20+00:00
If you don't care about competitive balance or the "identity" of magic it probably didn't.

Long answer: the introduction of non-magic sets like SpongeBob SquarePants, Deadpool, or Assassin's Creed are seen as tasteless money grabs that dilute the quality and theme of magic even further, but fans of those things will scoop them up.

The competitive scene has been pretty rough, but I haven't played constructed formats in a while so I'm not as keyed into this. I just know that there have been lots of cards released recently that have had to be banned for how powerful they were.

Personally, I love the game, but I hate the business model. It's ripe for abuse and people treat cards like stocks to invest in.
by upghost | 2025-07-05 14:06:48+00:00
If you want to speed run things and you have a little money to spend, I'd check out Dave Beazley's workshops, particularly his Advanced Python Mastery course[1].

One advantage you have over senior developers is that senior developers need to be generalists, you have the opportunity to go deep. It is entirely conceivable you could learn Postgres, JavaScript, or Python better than someone who has been programming in those languages daily for over a decade simply because they have a lot of other things to worry about. They can't read the manual cover to cover, no time. You can. Being a deep specialist in a technology has a lot of value.

If you find a programming community you love, start going to conferences as soon as possible. There are often financial opportunities available for new developers.

This is not going to happen overnight. In most cases to get proficient you can expect that working 3 hours a day, 3 days per week, it will take you about 3 years to reach a point where you might be employable -- although you will probably find you need to put in more time than that. But you can reach a point where it is enjoyable before then.

Good luck.

[1]: https://dabeaz.com/advprog.html
by MegaDeKay | 2025-07-05 14:08:51+00:00
I use the amdgpu driver and my luck has not been as good as yours. Can't sleep my PC without having it wake up to fill my logs with spam [0] and eventually crash.

Then there is the (in)famous AMD reset bug that makes AMD a real headache to use with GPU passthrough. The card can't be properly reset when the VM shuts down so you have to reboot the PC to start the VM a second time. There are workarounds but they only work on some cards & scenarios [1] [2]. This problem goes back to around the 390 series cards so they've had forever to properly implement reset according to the pci spec but haven't. nvidia handles this flawlessly

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/3911

[1] https://github.com/gnif/vendor-reset

[2] https://github.com/inga-lovinde/RadeonResetBugFix
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-05 14:09:23+00:00
Just to make explicit how transparent this was, since apparently some HN'ers were taken in by the plainest con ever.

20 years of vague left-alignment just happened to be reversed within hours of being notified of an article about sexual misconduct. Remarkable coincidence!

From 2002 until 2022: Elon Musk is largely apolitical, vaguely left-aligned, having donated to Hillary's campaign and claiming to have voted for her, but donated to Tesla/SpaceX/tech-friendly politicians across the spectrum

May 18 2022 @ 9am ET: Elon Musk is contacted by Business Insider to comment about their story on sexual harassment + coverup allegations against him at SpaceX [0]

May 18 2022 @ 12:22pm ET: Elon Musk tweets "Political attacks on me will escalate dramatically in coming months" [1]

May 18 2022 @ 2:44pm ET: Elon Musk tweets "But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold." [2]

May 19 2022 @ 6:17pm ET: Business Insider "A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence." [3]

[0]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/elon-musk-spacex-1.6460477

[1]: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1526961470562508802

[2]: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658

[3]: https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flig...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-05 14:10:23+00:00
AMD GPU's are fine, but nvidia's marketing (overt and covert / word-of-mouth) is better. "RTX On" is a meme where people get convinced the graphics are over 9000x "better"; it's a meaningless marketing expression but a naive generation of fairly new PC gamers are eating it up.

And... they don't need to. Most of the most played video games on PC are all years old [0]. They're online multiplayer games that are optimized for average spec computers (and mobile) to capture as big a chunk of the potential market as possible.

It's flexing for clout, nothing else to it. And yet, I can't say it's anything new, people have been bragging, boasting and comparing their graphics cards for decades.

[0] https://activeplayer.io/top-15-most-popular-pc-games-of-2022...