MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phil21 | 2025-07-16 00:05:28+00:00
And conversely being a dad sucks. For the same reasons you list.

There is no longer a way to come up with a sane division of labor for the average couple. Both parents are not intended to be working full time. It does not work for either party.

Heck, humans are not designed to operate as two parents even. There should be multiple generations of help at hand for it to truly be a decent experience. Humans need breaks and our hyper scheduled existence is entirely unnatural.

I watch friends who have kids where both have professional careers and to be honest none of it looks like a fun time. I don’t think it’s good for the kids either.

15-20 years of “sucking it up” and dealing with a horribly overbooked and stressful life is not good for any party. Women have it worse on average, but no one appears to be having a good time.
by th0ma5 | 2025-07-16 00:05:49+00:00
You should try to get other people to make your demos is all I'm saying. I don't know why you keep inserting yourself either. Why didn't someone else post the thing you made? Were they waiting for you to do it or do you think people aren't smart enough to do it? I'm just trying to understand why every damned LLM story has to feature you. In what ways could you avoid such a filter of your posts?
by positron26 | 2025-07-16 00:05:53+00:00
Helix is adding a Scheme for programmable configuration.

With programmability, you can have a lot more state and contextual behavior. We get this kind of fine-grained stuff in Emacs with repeat maps, transient maps, heuristic DWIM behavior, state tracking per-buffer etc.

As LLMs lower the cost of having that 8th or 9th language, you can expect programmable tools to float up in the market.
by anactofgod | 2025-07-16 00:05:54+00:00
"People seem to think that having the internet at their finger­tips means they no longer need to know anything themselves. But in order to understand things, you need a lot of knowledge readily available in your head. Only then can the mind make the connections between the different points of data and come to new insights. This cannot happen when that knowledge is external, in a book or on some Wikipedia page that you have to look up first."

Or in an AI model.
by Tsiklon | 2025-07-16 00:05:55+00:00
I feel this isn’t so generous a response. This person is describing their lived in experience, coloured by the time and experiences they’ve had since. They certainly recognise that it would have been a moment that had things transpired differently would have dramatically altered the course of their life.

I read their remarks as a somewhat mournful expression of a desire to follow “the road not travelled”.
by thegrim33 | 2025-07-16 00:06:20+00:00
What was complicated at all about Oppenheimer?

Would a "common denominator" person really watch that movie and afterwards be confused about anything that happened? What aspect would they remotely be confused about? What aspect would be "deep" to them?

From what I saw, it was nothing but the most basic character drama combined with some "suspenseful" races against time thrown in here and there. For the second half it turns into just one of those movies where the political/social message is effectively just beaten into your face, there's no subtlety at all.

They took no risk that the viewer wouldn't get their message, they make it plainly obvious. In my mind it's a perfect example of "the new literalism". It's almost up there with stuff like Don't Look Up, Snowpiercer, The Big Short, Parasite, etc. These movies mostly solely exist as a conduit through which a political/social message can be force fed to you, in the form of a movie, rather than existing as an actual movie.
by maxlin | 2025-07-16 00:06:41+00:00
What a ridiculous assertion for just wanting the law to be followed.

There's no inhumane treatment, especially for people respecting the basics of the laws of a country, and if you're in one illegally, you're the definition of an outlaw.

If hostile invaders suddenly just rushed the border to my home country, people wouldn't even talk of things such as "inhumane treatment". Shoot on sight wouldn't be abnormal.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-16 00:08:36+00:00
Are Mozilla’s donations still roughly equal to their CEO’s compensation [1][2]?

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/a... ”$7.8M in donations from the public, grants from foundations, and government funding” in 2023

[2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-990... $6.9mm in 2022, page 7
by moomoo11 | 2025-07-16 00:09:02+00:00
(Without having any knowledge on this but making assumptions… vibing lol)

I think early humans were probably a mix of both. The goal was survival, and idk what sort of language we had either, so just eat, reproduce, etc. Oo ahh ahh goo goo gah gah -rub armpit- ahhh ooo ahh (wine making instructions after gather berry’s lol)

Once we figured out agriculture and farming we didn’t need to gather and hunt.
by ameliaquining | 2025-07-16 00:09:43+00:00
The problem isn't security per se, it's compatibility. Exposing all the browser internals to extensions means that all the internals are part of the platform's public API and it's almost impossible to change anything. A lot of HN users will be like "that's fine, software should be finished, I don't want any more features", but things like performance and especially security require ongoing maintenance. The particular thing that killed off Firefox's old extension model was that it blocked migration to a multi-process architecture, which was clearly necessary even at the time and became even moreso when Spectre showed up a couple years later. "Warning cones and blood red messages" do not solve this because a vulnerable architecture exposes all users to exploitation, not just those who choose to use sketchy extensions.

(Also we know from long experience that "warning cones and blood red messages" don't in practice suffice to prevent end users from being exploited, but that's a separate issue.)
Show HN: Autopilot for Cursor IDE
by Homo__Ludens | 2025-07-16 00:09:58+00:00
I’ve always been looking for a solution to communicate larger technical systems faster. This includes a lot of known details and a technical de-risking plan. It is clear that LLMs need that structure and are capable of digesting it well.

I’ve built MCP server for guiding the Cursor IDE through the plan that comes from the LLM assisted pipeline: PRD → TRD → Project files tree → Implementation Plan

1. The whole chain comes from one end-to-end solution 2. Codebase produced is easy to navigate by the automatically managed tracebility 3. Specification updates get reflected in tasks, so the flow is designed to support evolution

I use gemini-2.5-pro for requirements capturing and tasks management.

Cloud Code and Gemini CLI support is coming soon.
by ryao | 2025-07-16 00:10:28+00:00
This seems oddly appropriate:

https://xkcd.com/927/

There is one difference, however. As far as I know, they did not make Ultra Ethernet because the existing Infiniband standard did not cover everyone’s use cases. They made Ultra Ethernet because Intel killed QLogic’s Infiniband business in an attempt to replace an open standard (Infiniband) with a proprietary one (Omni-Path) that they made out of QLogic’s infiniband business’ corpse in an attempt to have a monopoly (which failed spectacularly in true Intel fashion), NVIDIA purchased Mellanox becoming the dominant Infiniband vendor, this move turned out to be advantageous for AI training and everyone else wanted an industry association in which NVIDIA would not be the dominant vendor. The main reason people outside of HPC care about Infiniband level performance is AI training and Nvidia’s dominance is not going anywhere. Now that NVIDIA has joined the UEC, it is unclear to me what the point was. NVIDIA will be dominant in Ultra Ethernet as soon as it ships Ultra Ethernet hardware. Are Nvidia’s competitors going to make a third industry association once they realize that Nvidia is effectively in control of the UEC because nobody can sell anything if it is not compatible with Nvidia’s hardware?

Had they just used Infiniband, which they had spent billions of dollars developing just a few decades prior, they would have been further along in developing competing solutions. Reinventing the wheel with Ultra Ethernet was a huge gift to Nvidia. If they somehow succeed in switching people to Ultra Ethernet, what guarantee do we have that they will not repeat this cycle in a few decades after they have left the technology to become a single vendor solution due to myopic decisions and they decide to reinvent the wheel again? We already have been through this with Infiniband and I do not see much reason that anyone should follow them down this road again.
by wl | 2025-07-16 00:12:02+00:00
It's less that hospitals are pushing circumcision and more that there's a discharge checklist everyone is working from and the circumcision question is on it. The repetition is some combination of verifying your answer and/or people not reading the notes other people have written when they document your answer. If your answer were "yes, we want a circumcision," they'd be asking you repeatedly just the same until they actually did it.
by asadotzler | 2025-07-16 00:13:00+00:00
I'll wager most users are happy with primitive over advanced.

For example, I sometimes run with hundreds of tabs and my wife has many thousands, at all times. My needs and hers are very different from typical users who have single digits numbers of tabs open, heavily biased toward the low end.

Of course I would prefer TST or Sideberry, but I'm not like most users. For most users, the Firefox experience is superior to Sideberry for its ease of use and fewer failure modes.
by arp242 | 2025-07-16 00:13:04+00:00
Even a stable population can't mean it can never shrink. A long-term stable population means that sometimes it grows a bit over a period of decades, and sometimes it shrinks a bit over a period of decades. Overall long-term it roughly stays the same, but short-term it doesn't necessarily.

The baby boom caused huge problems down the line: now we have an elderly population with proportionally a relatively small working population, and no one really knows how to deal with that. Keeping the population growing forever is not physically possible.

The real question is whether we want another baby boom. It seems to me it might solve some issues 20 years down the line, but will cause lots of issues 80 years down the line. Before crashing catastrophically at some unknown point in the future.

And lets be real here: the US has a population of about 340 million people today. In 2000 it had about 280 million people. If the system can't handle a relatively small shrink back to 330 million or 320 million over a period of several decades, then the system is bad.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-07-16 00:13:08+00:00
> I see so many people loving Gibson and crediting him for inventing the genre whole cloth, but of course he didn't!

He probably came as close as an author could to inventing the genre whole cloth. No one's claiming that Gibson had zero influence from previous SciFi. But the authors you mention didn't write anything that could be perceived as being cyberpunk without generalizing things to the point where they're meaningless ("Russ wrote about cyborgs, and Gibson did too!" - yes, they were an ongoing staple in SciFi for years).

The vast majority of what people think of when they think of cyberpunk comes from Gibson, as far as I can tell. I've tried in vain to find anything close to it pre-Gibson (again, without generalizing things to the point where we're not really talking about cyberpunk anymore). I'd say he's more responsible for cyberpunk as a genre than Tolkein is for generic fantasy.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-16 00:14:19+00:00
[citation needed]?

A very cursory Google of this nets me a Pew study; the stat we're looking for is:

> fathers’ overall work time (including unpaid work at home) is actually two hours more than that of mothers.

> Women still perform substantially more labor at home than men do across the US population.

This is a different claim. (A household could be equitable — both partners performing roughly the same amount of work —, even if the amount of at home labor is performed more by one person. I.e., the traditional arrangement. The question of whether the traditional arrangement is equitable is fair, and that's why I link the Pew study, seems about as close as I'm going to get.)

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter...
by dragonwriter | 2025-07-16 00:14:25+00:00
The local peak around 1990 was a very small bump from the flat run through the 1980s, and was probably a brief rebound effect of the extreme negative social pressure related to unprotected casual sex stemming from the AIDS crisis fading a bit as that became perceived as less acute of a threat, and there numbers dropped rapidly after that peak, quickly going through the floor they had settled in during the long flat period preceding the brief rise and peak.

So it is not at all inconsistent with a strong social force against teenage births existing and being acted on in the late 1990s, in fact, had that not existed the rise up to the 1990 peak would probably not have been so brief and followed by a rapid drop that went straight through the preceding floor.
by Induane | 2025-07-16 00:14:37+00:00
And called out the second part of Dune as a bad film. It got written off as simply a "sci-fi sequel"; I think for that movie in particular it is more fair to say that doing the book justice couldn't be done in a single film as the source material is extraordinarily dense.

LOTR is a fascinating counter example; each book is quite dense but was able to be made into a single (albeit long) film. Part of that I think is because a lot of the density of those books is exquisite detailing of the animated natural world of the books; a picture is worth a thousand words may be obnoxiously overused but apropos in this case. The movies seemed to understand the animate life force of the visual landscape and so were able to say a lot visually.

I just don't see Dune: Part II as a true sequel in the traditional sense of the term (though perhaps the literal sense of the term, despite literalism being apparently despised by the articles author).
by hanneshdc | 2025-07-16 00:14:38+00:00
> This attack stems from the combination of two design flaws: overprivileged database access (service_role) and blind trust in user-submitted content.

No, there is only one design flaw, the overprivileged database access. An LLM shouldn't be given more access than the user who is interacting with the LLM has.
by gerdesj | 2025-07-16 00:16:39+00:00
Beautiful aircraft there, very shiny.

We didn't have time to polish ours like that what with the enemy shooting at them all the time. Oh and most of them were made of wood and wishes! The Hurricane was a bit of a crossover from WWI to WW2, yet rather a lot of Brits and Poles (int al) flew them against the Luftwaffe, who had rather more modern ME109s etc. It must have been a bit of a pain to see your enemy deploy a cannon when you only have a .303.

There is absolutely no doubt that if the US hadn't rocked up, we would have been ... well I'm not sure what Europe might mean nowadays if things had been different.

Possibly, our most lethal aircraft was the Mosquito. It was made of wood and twin enginned. So it was light and very, very fast and could pack a real punch - a quad cannon or lots of machine guns in the nose and carry bombs too. Parts were made in furniture factories and garden sheds - it was totally mad and rather hard to target manufacturing.

I think that the Nazi regime gave two kills for downing a Mosquito because it was considered a bit of a handful.
by lowsong | 2025-07-16 00:16:59+00:00
This article is a bizarre mix of center-right economic ideas and completely unfounded assumptions about the nature of AI technology, to the point where I'm genuinely not sure if this is intended as parody or not.

> We’re navigating a tightrope as Superintelligence nears.

There is no evidence we're anywhere near "superintelligence" or AGI. There is no evidence any AI tools are intelligent in any sense, yet alone "superintelligence". The only reference for this, given much later, is to https://ai-2027.com/ which is no more than fan fiction. You might as well have cited Terminator or The Matrix as evidence.

The only people actually claiming any advancement towards "superintelligence" or "AGI" directly financially gain from people thinking that it's right around the corner.

> If the West slows down unilaterally, China could dominate the 21st century.

Is this casual sinophobia intended to appeal to a particular audience? I can't see what purpose this statement, and others like it, serves other than to try to frame this as "it's us or them".

> Faster than regulation: major pieces of regulation, created by bureaucrats without technical expertise, move at glacial pace.

This is a very common right-wing viewpoint. That regulation, government oversight, and "red tape" is unacceptable to business. Forgetting that building codes, public safety regulations, and workers rights all stem directly from government regulation. This article goes out of it's way to frame it as obvious, like a simple fact unworthy of introspection.

> Enterprises must adopt AI agents to maintain competitiveness domestically and internationally.

There is no evidence this is the case, and no citation is even attempted.
by popalchemist | 2025-07-16 00:17:20+00:00
I've spent 20 years working in Hollywood. This is definitely not anything new, but we are in an up-cycle. Ambiguity is hard to tolerate, in life, in general. Ambiguity is also where personal meaning can arise. However in hard times (economically, culturally, politically, existentially... we're currently in all 4), market forces drive things away from ambiguity and toward one-pointedness. This is reflected in the world of trailers even more clearly than in the world of films - the trailers often specifically highlight exactly the kinds of moments this writer is critiquing, as if the purpose of film is to trade in such moments; the underlying conceit is something like "populist memes are a commodity."

This is what is currently driving pop culture; the commodification of the meme. Movies aspire to be memes - the dominant means of expression and the atomic unit of culture in the present moment.

They used to aspire to be themselves (movies, for their own sake). IMO that ended around 2008. The Dark Knight was the end and Iron Man was the beginning of a new Hollywood cycle; defined by the movie's ability to trade in this currency - memes - which stand alone, isolated, traded out of context of an entire narrative.

Further reading for whoever is interested: Society of the Spectacle by Debord (re: the degradation of being into having, having into mere appearing, as a universal and ubiquitous byproduct of the core function of capital which is commodification)... and Man and His Symbols (re: the difference between a symbol, which is universal and carries a wealth of meaning, and a sign, which is contextual/temporary and carries a fixed meaning).
by itake | 2025-07-16 00:17:49+00:00
IMHO, many of the traditional unpaid labor tasks go towards maintaining the home (repairs, landscaping, car repairs, etc)z

In 2025, some of that labor is recaptured by the man, as that improves the value of the family home or cars.

Also, if your family chooses to rent (which seems to be a trend now for millennials), the man doesn’t have a lawn to cut or a car to fix.
by postalcoder | 2025-07-16 00:18:50+00:00
I’ve built a site that does the same sort of exclusion filtering, with a lot more bells and whistles. Very much in the spirit of “what if HN stayed HN, but had actual, very useful features.”

Here’s an “anti-ai” timeline filter:

https://hcker.news/?filter=top30&exclude=llm%2C+vibe%2C+open...

I’m not using the Algolia API, I ingest the hn fire hose on my own server so the filtering is very fast.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-16 00:19:17+00:00
> I honestly don’t know how you can say this. When my son was born, we were asked enough times about circumcision that it seemed like a battle to get to “no”. (USA)

Also USA but opposite experience: They asked about circumcision as a checklist item but there was absolutely no pressure at all.

It could have been a location specific culture thing, or you might have mistaken their routine checklist as pressure. Hospital personnel get blamed if parents go home without being offered all of the services, so they’re under pressure to make you aware of it and confirm your no.
by epicureanideal | 2025-07-16 00:21:31+00:00
It’s sometimes difficult to find the links through Google on short notice but I found one random site that discusses this. Of course the site is pro fathers but they do link to primary sources to verify the claims in the article.

There are plenty of other places this is discussed, and I’m not associated with and haven’t ever before read the following website.

It just happened to easily show up in my search.

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-good-life-th...
by pclowes | 2025-07-16 00:21:35+00:00
The flow here for me is if the code is doing the wrong thing I:

- Write a test that demonstrates that it is doing the wrong thing

- Watch it fail

- Change the code to do the right thing

- Ensure the test passes

And in return I get regression prevention and verified documentation (the hopefully well structured and descriptive test class) for almost free.

I don't think any amount of testing absolves the programmer from writing clear, intention-revealing code that is correct. TDD is just a tool that helps ensure the programmers understanding of the code evolves with code. There have been so many times where I write code and expect a test to fail/pass and it doesn't. This detects subtle minute drift in understanding.
by pesfandiar | 2025-07-16 00:21:35+00:00
> There's a chance a highly-automated future could reduce our neccesary working hours to those boomtime levels.

This has been the dream since the dawn of time (agriculture is automating food production to some extent). The gains in increased productivity is rarely if ever distributed back to the workers though. We have concrete data on wage stagnation when productivity has been increasing in the past few decades. What makes you think it's different this time?
by jonator | 2025-07-16 00:22:05+00:00
There's a lot of economic explanations that seem perfectly legitimate.

I'm wondering if a simple contributor is the fact that many people are moving away from their immediate family. Then you feel more on your own when considering having child, which is significantly more daunting. I think a network of friends helps, but is simply not the same as parents/siblings/cousins sharing the load and advice. Let alone the experiences.

Also, it seems there's a negative feedback loop, where each person that chooses to postpone or not have kids influences their network to do the same.
by ivape | 2025-07-16 00:23:18+00:00
Someone else can confirm, but from my understanding, no they did not know sentiment analysis, reasoning, few shot learning, chain of thought, etc would emerge at scale. Sentiment analysis was one of the first things they noticed a scaled up model could generalize. Remember, all they were trying to do was get better at next-token prediction, there was no concrete idea to achieve "instruction following", for example. We can never truly say going up another order of magnitude on the number of params won't achieve something (it could, for reasons unknown, just like before).

It is somewhat parallel to the story of Columbus looking for India but ending up in America.