MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VirusNewbie | 2025-07-01 23:04:26+00:00
Good analysis, my counter to it is that OpenAI has one of the leading foundational models, while Meta, despite being a top paying tech company, continued to release sub par models that don't come close to the other big three.

So, what happened? Is there something fundamentally wrong with the culture and/or infra at Meta? If it was just because Zuckerburg bet on the wrong horses to lead their LLM initiatives, what makes us think he got it right this time?
by BatonHire | 2025-07-01 23:04:38+00:00
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by eqvinox | 2025-07-01 23:05:21+00:00
> Search for compose key sequences.

I don't need to do that because I actively use them myself and have a custom ~/.XCompose. Also, please try communicating less condescendingly.

There is no default compose sequence for ₚ that I can find, at least in my Debian installation.

So, again, please point me at the layout that can output these characters.

And even with that: if you don't think Compose sequences, possibly even custom, are covered by "pretty much impossible", I must seriously question your perception & bias of how common (or not) things are.
by fl1pper | 2025-07-01 23:05:44+00:00
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by cjbillington | 2025-07-01 23:05:56+00:00
I don't think there'll be any significant drop on a sub-decade timescale unless there's some kind of financial crisis, but the ideal kind of trend is prices stagnating or growing slower than wages, which is the case right now - and the question is whether it will continue.

I think there is a good chance it will, as long as a change of government doesn't deliberately dismantle the current approach. Yes there's population growth and yet prices have been stagnant or declining the past few years and construction has picked up. That's a good trend!

I'm not familiar with the situation with public housing but am happy to accept if the government has failed there. But this seems like a separate failure rather than an indictment of their approach to increasing supply generally which I think is working.
by MrSkelter | 2025-07-01 23:07:38+00:00
The lack of journalism in this conflict is a direct result of Israel forbidding press access and their targeting of Palestinian and other journalists. This deliberate effort enables them to then criticize the reporting which is done and cast doubt over sources.

Since October 7th sources from within Palestine have been accurate regarding deaths and actions. Often being attacked first and then quietly acknowledged later.

There is no reason to doubt the reporting of Israel’s paper of record, which though considered left wing writhing Israel, supports Netanyahu’s attacks on Gaza and applies rigorous journalistic standards.
by Swizec | 2025-07-01 23:09:28+00:00
> each independent agent tends to have completely different ideas on absolutely every detail, leading to inconsistent user experience

> The design consistency is not there, not just visually, but architecturally.

Seniors always gonna have to senior. Doesn't matter if the coders are AI or humans. You have to make sure you provide enough structures for the agents to move in roughly the same direction while allowing enough flexibility that you're not better off just writing the code.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-07-01 23:09:46+00:00
There are proven methods for growing plants and trees in arid regions [0], but they have disadvantages which will become more evident as desertification expands with global warming. I agree that forcing non-native trees there is a losing battle in the long run.

If people were really serious about living in deserts in a sustainable way, they can't expect to have decorative greenery or classic architecture. A society as advanced as ours should be able to make compromises that allow modern comforts while adapting so well to their environment that the cities would look almost alien.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_greening
by taeric | 2025-07-01 23:09:54+00:00
I'm struck thinking that this doesn't have to be the case, though? I see things like Mario Maker and struggle to understand why that sort of interface isn't doable in the workflows so many of us force ourselves into.

Even taking it to the abstractions you are using, manipulating a tree structure doesn't have to be slow. Indeed, you can manipulate a graph like structure representing millions of data points in very little time. Why is it that the tree structures we are talking about are so unnecessarily big and flow out their updates out in such a way that it takes so long?
by erex78 | 2025-07-01 23:10:35+00:00
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by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-01 23:11:38+00:00
With Google, at least, it was one division losing the battle with another division. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

Searching some terms from this PDF (not in Google) brings up https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/, which has a clearer narrative.
by Manik_agg | 2025-07-01 23:11:51+00:00
Hi,

There are 3 major differences between Zep and CORE 1. Market: Zep is B2B focused, CORE indvidual users 2. Portablity: Zep is locked to their platform , CORE works across claude, cursor, windsurf 3. Architecture: Zep is Temporal based vs CORE is Reified + Temporal based graph

What this means:

Zep remembers what happened when CORE remembers what happened when + why we should believe it + how facts relate

Example: You say "I love Thai food" → Later: "Actually, I hate Thai food"

Zep: "You hate Thai food" (old preference vanishes) CORE: "You currently hate Thai food. This contradicts your earlier statement from [date/source]. The change came from your correction today."

Bottom line: CORE provides full explainability and audit trails that Zep cannot.
by benglafine | 2025-07-01 23:11:54+00:00
Excellent post, the kind of thing I keep coming back to HN for. Information technology plays such an interesting role in the human ecosystem. It's very easy to get caught up in the tools and forget what part they play in our life and minds. This was a really nuanced perspective on that and as a consequence of looking at LLMs from that point of view provided some great musings on their dangers, opportunities, and optimal use. Much, much more useful than the simple "efficient or not" debates.
by qualeed | 2025-07-01 23:14:53+00:00
It's comments like this that really make participating on this forum not fun.

It's a cute story. Fuck is just a word. They aren't going to grow up to be a bad person because they said it as a kid, and it's wild to say stuff like this to someone when you have literally no other context about their life or upbringing.

Your weird negativity to a stranger and implying they aren't doing a good job parenting based on them sharing a couple sentence long story is, in my opinion, a worse character trait than saying fuck every now and again. You have 0 idea what kind of kid they are raising.

Oh the horror of a "casual swearer"!
by justicz | 2025-07-01 23:15:10+00:00
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by throwitaway1123 | 2025-07-01 23:16:05+00:00
> This is why both SolidJS and Vue Vapor both have helpers for rendering lists and conditional elements

Haven't these tagged template libraries coalesced around the html`<${SomeComponent}><//>` syntax for custom components (including control flow components like Solid's `For` component)? The readme for Ryan Carniato's Lit DOM Expressions library includes this example for instance [1]:

const view = html` <table class="table table-hover table-striped test-data"> <tbody> <${For} each=${() => state.data} >${row => html` <tr> <td class="col-md-1" textContent=${row.id} /> <td class="col-md-4"> <a onClick=${[select, row.id]}>${() => row.label}</a> </td> <td class="col-md-1"> <a onClick=${[remove, row.id]} ><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove" /></a> </td> <td class="col-md-6" /> </tr> `}<// > </tbody> </table> `;

The author of the article mentions this very briefly, where he writes "For JSX-style references you would need to use binding syntax like <${MyComponent}>". The Preact author's htm tagged template library uses this convention as well [2].

[1] https://github.com/ryansolid/dom-expressions/tree/7fd9f86f1b...

[2] https://github.com/developit/htm
by baobun | 2025-07-01 23:16:55+00:00
CVE-2025-32463 looks bad. Systems with sudo versions 1.9.14 to 1.9.17 and support for /etc/nsswitch.conf (that's most modern dists) allow users not even in sudoers to acquire root by sudo --chroot on a chroot they can write into.

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q2/288

The --chroot flag is now deprecated. I guess there must be a few build systems affected by that.

BTW is the CSS on TFA making the text unreadably low contrast for others too?

Readable: https://www.stratascale.com/vulnerability-alert-CVE-2025-324...
by laconicmatt | 2025-07-01 23:17:19+00:00
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by gerdesj | 2025-07-01 23:17:22+00:00
Perhaps the desert will repent its desertness and accept that sand, minimal water and a massive diurnal temperature range will somehow become amical towards good old Plane trees.

OK, let's go full mad world: a vast web of PV for power. Is there a handy massive water resource deep underground? If not then moisture in the air will need redeploying. Tall towers and probably gobs of power are indicated for that.
by marviel | 2025-07-01 23:17:44+00:00
Thanks for the writeup!

I talked about a similar, but slightly simpler workflow in my post on "Vibe Specs".

https://lukebechtel.com/blog/vibe-speccing

I use these rules in all my codebases now. They essentially cause the AI to do two things differently:

(1) ask me questions first (2) Create a `spec.md` doc, before writing any code.

Seems not too dissimilar from yours, but I limit it to a single LLM
by bee_rider | 2025-07-01 23:17:48+00:00
Food is not really that similar to software.

Food going bad is a universal problem of food, we should optimize our handling of food (and write all our laws) under the assumption that it is always in the process of going bad.

Code doesn’t just turn dangerous on its own. Good code is good code, it can be turned bad by conscious effort on the part of somebody, but that’s an active decision that somebody makes and is responsible for.

Also, all food is for eating. Code has different uses. Most is not hardened against security threats, because it is only designed to be run locally by the user, and it is total fine in that use-case. Designing code that is appropriate to be exposed unprotected to the internet is unbelievably difficult, so most code won’t be up to the task. We shouldn’t lose useful code just because it can be used out-of-scope dangerously.

The risks with food are also generally higher, because almost everyone is able to ingest it. And potentially get very sick or die. So, bad food is a big risk. Bad code is not such a big risk because anyone who knows what to do with it has already passed some skill hurdles as far as understanding it goes. And it is rare to get sick or die from code.

Most code should be left up, maybe with a note that says it is unmaintained, if it is unmaintained.
by Manik_agg | 2025-07-01 23:18:18+00:00
Hey plan.md mostly will be a static file that you manually have to maintain. It won't be relational and not be able to form connections between info. You can't recall or query intelligently? (When did my preference change?)

CORE lets you - Automatically extracts and stores facts from conversations - Builds intelligent connections between related information - Answers complex queries ("What did I say about something and when?") - Detects contradictions and explains changes with full context

For simple fact recall, plan.md should work but for complex systems a relational memory should be able to help better.
by klntsky | 2025-07-01 23:18:31+00:00
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by kasey_junk | 2025-07-01 23:20:07+00:00
I don’t really understand this article or the workflow it’s describing as it’s kind of vague.

But I use multiple agents talking to each other, async agents, git work trees etc on complex production systems as my day to day workflow. I wouldn’t say I go so far as to never change the outputs but I certainly view it as signal when I don’t get the outputs I want that I need to work on my workflow.
by rawgabbit | 2025-07-01 23:20:55+00:00
Regarding my work experience. I have worked in the US for many years for large companies and small. I have never worked for a Japanese company.

Some US companies pay lip service to the idea the company is one big family. I was never under illusion that management viewed me and other workers as nothing more than cogs in the machine.

Early in my career I must have had a “kick me” sign strapped to me. I put up with a lot of nonsense. Working nights and weekends. As I worked in tech, I refused to stay late in the office but I was working remotely from home the whole time. I still remember my infant son wanting to sit in my lap while I was troubleshooting a Sev1 outage.

I was also pressured to do unethical if not illegal things. One time I said no and my boss’ boss and his boss literally screamed at me for a week.

Anyways. That is water under the bridge. Today I work from home. My boss also works from home in a different part of the country. We meet in person maybe three times a year. I refuse to manage anyone; being a manager IMO is trying to glue the executives unhinged view to reality. It is impossible.

Today, I created a role for myself where I am like an internal solutions architect. I create working proofs of concepts with sanitized real data. After I show how it is done, I turn it over to the developers to implement and maintain. I still have to deal with politics and unhinged personalities. As I have some credibility, I get to back out of projects when I had my fill of political operatives. They then complain I am no longer on the project.
by jjk166 | 2025-07-01 23:21:43+00:00
Hydrogen is really the only propellant that makes sense for a nuclear thermal rocket. A nuclear reactor can't get substantially hotter or higher pressure than a chemical rocket engine, the reason it offers high specific impulse (basically efficiency) is because since you don't need chemical energy from the propellant to heat the propellant, 100% of your thrust can come from low molecular weight propellants (ie hydrogen). Helium will also give you better performance than chemical rockets, but substantially worse than hydrogen, and it's even more deeply cryogenic. Anything heavier than helium is going to provide little to no advantage over a chemical rocket, certainly nothing to justify the atrocious thrust to weight ratio and the extreme engineering challenges.
by defrost | 2025-07-01 23:21:45+00:00
Related:

Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees (npr.org) 21 days ago | 143 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231151

Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot (nytimes.com) 10 months ago | 1 comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41223831
by xp84 | 2025-07-01 23:22:02+00:00
> The obnoxious cookie banners are not required by "idiotic EU cookie laws".

Of course, the alternative is to not use cookies, to not use any web analytics products, or to resolve to argue the semantics of what is necessary before a judge when sued by one of the many lawyers who now advertise (ironically) all over social media with come-ons like "Did you browse FUZZYSWEATERS .COM? Your data may have been improperly used!"

> 1. This was already implemented

Please let me know what browser does what I describe. Close as I can come is configuring a Chromium based browser to just only keep cookies for certain domains, but it's a pain in the butt so I stopped worrying about it a long time ago.

> Oh, so an "easy" solution isn't easy after all. Who would've thought.

But I went on to detail the much "easier" solution where the EU aims its big swinging...list of mandates... at the 2-3 browser vendors rather than involving 10,000,000 small businesses worldwide in the business of trying to guess if they're "GDPR compliant," or could be in breach because they added some snippet of code from a useful web analytics platform that could be said to "track" users.

Do you really think that it is easier and better to regulate millions of people/companies to make them all do a complex thing in good faith AND do it well, than to make those couple of companies sandbox cookie storage in a way that severely kneecaps cross-site tracking?

> 2. Tracking isn't limited to cookies only

Sure, but also I question to what extent anyone is being harmed by "tracking" in the most broad sense of that word. As far as I can tell, the public believes "tracking is a problem" primarily because they resent retargeting ads. That's all. People see a shirt or a chainsaw or an air fryer "following them around" after they browsed for one, and think "that's weird! THEY know!" Despite the fact that most of those things function very simply, do not give a shit who you are, just some ID that your browser saved and is sending back, and which is tied to a list of SKUs you showed interest in.

The more reasonable concern is more around data brokers and the data about a person being sold and aggregated, which mostly gets concerning when it could be used for stalking, targeting political dissidents, etc. The fact that I spent 34 seconds on A product page, then 32 seconds on B, then added B to my cart and then bounced, that is the nature of all of the data being tracked on 90% of websites, they don't traffic in my location data or even want to collect sensitive information. But every website is affected by the GDPR's vague definitions of "tracking." And ironically, I assume partly because all these in-sandbox "CMPs" barely even work, I haven't even observed a decrease in retargeting ads, the #1 thing that people actually observe and are bothered by.