MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by safety1st | 2025-07-04 09:24:22+00:00
I don't DISAGREE with anything he said, particularly.

But personally, I don't feel as upset over all this as he does. It seems that all my tech curmudgeonliness over the years is paying off these days, in spades.

Humbly, I suggest that he and many others simply need to disconnect more from The Current Thing or The Popular Thing.

Let's look at what he complains about:

* Bitcoin. Massive hype, never went anywhere. He's totally right. That's why I never used it and barely even read about it. I have no complaints because I don't care. I told myself I'd care if someone ever built something useful with Bitcoin. 10 years later they haven't. I'm going back to bed.

* Windows. Man I'm glad I dodged that bullet and became a Linux user almost 15 years ago. Just do it. Stuff will irk you either way but Linux irks don't make you feel like your dignity as a human being is being violated. Again, he's right that Windows sucks; I just don't have to care, because I walked away.

* Bluesky, Twitter, various dumb things being said on social media. Those bother him too. Fortunately, these products are optional. I haven't logged into my Twitter account for three years. I'll certainly never create a Bluesky one. On some of my devices I straight up block many of these crapo social sites like Reddit etc. in /etc/hosts. I follow some RSS feeds of a few blogs, one of the local timeline for a Mastodon instance. Takes ten minutes and then I go READ BOOKS in my spare time. That's it. He is yet again right, social media sucks, it's the place where you hear about all this dumb stuff like Bitcoin; I just am not reading it.

I'm not trying to toot my own horn here it's just that when you disconnect from all the trash, you never look back, and the frustrations of people who haven't seem a little silly. You can just turn all of this stuff off. Why don't you? Is it an addiction? Treat it like one if so. I used to spend 6 hours a day on my phone and now it's 1 hour, mainly at lunch, because the rest of the time it's on silent, in a bag, or turned off, just like a meth addict trying to quit shouldn't leave meth lying around.

Listen to Stallman. Listen to Doctorow. These guys are right. They were always right. The free alternatives that respect you exist. Just make the leap and use them.
by lmm | 2025-07-04 09:24:41+00:00
> humans typically read way faster than they write

When it's just reading, perhaps, but to review you have to read carefully and understand. It's like the classic quote that if you're writing code at the limits of your ability you won't be able to debug it.

> if you own the code, have a strict style guide, etc, it is often pretty simple to understand new or modified code, unless you are dealing with a novel concept, which I wouldn't trust a LLM with anyway

The way I see it if the code is that simple and repetitive then probably that repetition should be factored out and the code made a lot shorter. The code should only need to express the novel/distinctive parts of the problem - which, as you say, are the parts we wouldn't trust an LLM with.
by sgt101 | 2025-07-04 09:24:50+00:00
>it's widely accepted that Shor works. We simply don't have hardware to run the full version.

I can't quite get this - surely until we have an execution on the proper hardware we can't accept that it works? There are engineering problems to resolve before we can be confident - perhaps they can be easily resolved, but so far they haven't.

I would be very curious to learn what the barriers to a demonstration of Shores on an arbitrary 8bit prime are...
by altairprime | 2025-07-04 09:24:56+00:00
I did two full-time jobs for a month as part of changing jobs fifteen years ago and it’s exceedingly intense but otherwise was fine; eighteen hour waking days leave a lot of boredom time, no matter how many hobbies you have. Employers don’t like this because that’s a lot of work they could have persuaded an employee to provide as unpaid overtime labor instead; much this outrage is simple jealousy. If you’re doing the job to the specifications requested at a sufficient level to remain employed, then they have no basis to cry outrage. Employment is just as monogamous as marriages are: sometimes, not always.
by actionfromafar | 2025-07-04 09:25:11+00:00
A lot of foreign customers are rethinking their dependency on American services, too. Not out of some ideology, just hedging against whimsical policies. Just a year ago, such discussions would have been idle crackpot watercooler talk, now it's a normal boardroom subject. The shift will take time, but that's it's even on the agenda is incredible.
by netsharc | 2025-07-04 09:25:18+00:00
EVs really are a "slightly better" solution the planet's health can't even afford. ICE cars are worse but EVs aren't helping save the planet either. Ideally we should probably all be cycling or taking trains and buses...

Of course humanity runs on balance between living (and procreating) and saving the planet.. the quickest way to save the planet would be for all of us to drop dead, but very few of us would be in favor of that idea.
by gchamonlive | 2025-07-04 09:25:32+00:00
> This is the first time a major provider has backtracked on the price of an established model. While it may seem like a simple adjustment, we believe this signals a turning point. The industry is no longer on an endless downward slide of cost. Instead, we’ve hit a fundamental soft floor on the cost of intelligence, given the current state of hardware and software.

That is assuming pricing and price drops only occurred because of cost reductions caused by technical advancements. While that certainly played a role in it, that disregards the role investiment money takes.

Maybe we've hit a wall in the "Moore's law for AI", or maybe it's just harder to justify these massive investments while all you have to show for are marginal improvements to the eyes of these investors, which are becoming increasingly anxious to have their money back.
by boffinAudio | 2025-07-04 09:25:38+00:00
This is a great idea .. I wonder if it can be adapted to using recycled plastic threads, so that a fleet of these could be deployed into the ocean to recover plastics, turn them into nets, and use those nets to .. recover more plastic?

If I were shipwrecked on a tropical island, I'd make it my daily task to work out how to build something like this, into which I can feed plastic bottles, and get a brand new material that could be used for more construction.

Sure, knitting scarves is neat. But knitting a weather-proof shelter? Hell yeah!
by mandmandam | 2025-07-04 09:25:58+00:00
Honestly, no, it's not the least bit surprising that this was flagged. It's a damn-near inevitable consequence of letting anyone on the internet flag things.

What's truly ridiculous (though not surprising [0]) is that it still hasn't been white listed by HN moderators. They're the ones who bear responsibility for this major story being suppressed.

0 - Growing list of recent falsely flagged stories here: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=mandmandam
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-04 09:26:02+00:00
It is not so much the MBA approach than it is about short sightedness.

This is just yet another adverse externality that is not priced in - that market does not seem to be able to do it, so regulators will eventually force these things to be priced in.

The new tax laws on research and development is a way to encourage long term sustainable businesses.
by bruce511 | 2025-07-04 09:26:39+00:00
Im not sure why you are being downvoted. You make a reasonable argument.

I would contest some of your points though.

Firstly, not every country votes, not all that vote have 2 viable parties, so that's a flaw in your argument.

Equally most elections produce a winner. That winner can, and does, get stuff done. The US is paralyzed because it takes 60% to win the senate, which hasn't happened for a while. So US elections are set up so "no one wins". Which of course leads to overreach etc that we're seeing currently.

There's a danger when living inside a system that you assume everywhere else is the same. There's a danger when you live in a system that heavily propagandizes its own superiority, that you start to feel like everywhere else is worse.

If we are the best, and this system is the best, and it's terrible, then clearly all hope is lost.

But what I maybe, just maybe, all those things you absolutely, positively, know to be true, are not true? Is that even worth thinking about?
by balanced2 | 2025-07-04 09:26:55+00:00
Just curious where do you see it not rival Go? Go is my main, but I do help with some python projects and I was really happy migrating from poetry to uv, with my feeling being that uv brings Go's devex to Python. The biggest feature is probably the default of auto-sync, the only way to have reproducible builds, of course along with auto provision python.

Personally I can't think of anything from Go's build system I miss now - the languages are very different for sure, but I guess we're talking about the build system only.
by leftcenterright | 2025-07-04 09:27:42+00:00
She says "there is no language in nature" which does not seem accurate. Even though she might mean something else or a particular form of language but even then, bees and birds still use sound and something similar to language.

Is it just me?

for e.g. the form of communication used by bees is very well known now, it involves not just spatial movements but also "buzzing" which is totally similar tot he sounds we make, they just lack vocal cords.

https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-speak-honeybee/
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-04 09:27:57+00:00
I too have an old gmail account, from the 3 invites per account era. Funny thing is, when the age verification thing for EU accounts was implemented, my new-ish android phone account had me verify my age, while my old account (18+ at that time) didn't require it. The modal did its spinny thing and then disappeared. No idea if they had that specific case in mind, or something else happened, but I remember making a mental note about that.
by hschne | 2025-07-04 09:27:58+00:00
It's simplistic, but I think there's two ways you can approach building a product company.

Either you focus on creating a great product that customers love. As a consequence, you'll hopefully make some money.

Or you focus on making a truckload of money as quick as possible, and building a product is merely a means to an end.

As OP said, there's far too few companies choosing the first approach, and far too many choosing the second one.
by rcxdude | 2025-07-04 09:28:08+00:00
>I really don't like this attitude. He's really unhappy about paypal and stripe existing? What exactly is the alternative? What alternate universe are they dreaming about? Perfection doesn't exist.

They're unhappy that something better doesn't exist, and that the dream of cryptocurrencies, that they would actually become a useful technology for everyday movement of money, has essentially been killed and buried by the sheer quantity of grift in the ecosystem (to be fair, there's a lot of fundamental technology issues that make that a difficult dream to achieve in practice, but it's sad that it basically doesn't seem to get much at all of the substantial resources poured into the ecosystem, and the general stench of it now makes legitimate use so much harder. So many people associate crypto == scam that adoption for real payments has actively gone backwards since the first few years).
by mandmandam | 2025-07-04 09:28:56+00:00
The establishment aren't stupid and weak when they're fighting progressive candidates, third parties, or peaceful anti-genocide protesters. Or when they're enabling a holocaust while pretending to 'work tirelessly for a ceasefire'. They're shockingly competent when they want to be.

And the 'bipartisan' 'reaching out across the isle' has been their go-to since Obama used his super-majority to pass a Republican health care plan and ignore his campaign promises around torture, abortion, etc. I'm amazed it's still working for them.

The other ones they love to use are 'they go low we go high', or, 'we're just following procedure'; like when they 'failed' [0] to prevent a rapist, racist insurrectionist from running for Presidency again.

0 - https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-s...
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-04 09:28:57+00:00
> By your argument, I can just torrent movies and appz becuase I'm not a lawyer and can't be bothered with minutae of copyright law.

Indeed, there exist people who argue that in many areas law has become so complicated and unclear what is allowed or not that you cannot thus expect from ordinary citizens to obey the laws anymore - even if these citizens are willing to.

Thus politicians do have an obligation to make the laws as clear, logical and comprehensible as possible, otherwise they loose their legitimization of expecting citizens to obey them.
by PeterStuer | 2025-07-04 09:28:59+00:00
"AI is a massive waste of power". So is nearly everything of what we do and consume. Not sure why AI would be the 'epitome' besides being this month's flavor of convenient whipping boy.

Especially here in Europe we like to play the 'Greener than Thou' card while for decades have been doing absolutely nothing real besides imaginary 'carbon credit' spreadsheet shenanigans, tipple passing the subsidy handouts for burning our forests in Dutch incinerators, exporting all our 'emissions' to China and paying very dubious buddies on the other side of the world for 'net zero' absolutions while tripling our real pollution.
by yieldcrv | 2025-07-04 09:29:14+00:00
unfortunately the same thread has been had for any tangentially crypto thread on HN for the last decade and a half, so it just doesn’t feel like my prerogative to answer such a lazy and abstract question

yes, that means we are at an impasse. use the search, ask an LLM, if even that is too much initiative for a quite outdated skeptic to take even now then I can’t help you

there are hundreds of billions, maybe trillions in volume going through financial services on blockchains and it doesn’t matter if financial services isn’t a sector you care about or are the target audience for, there are people there who will pay to solve problems they have
by jorangreef | 2025-07-04 09:30:13+00:00
Thanks zwnow, appreciate your kind words, and my pleasure!

I think you'll enjoy Andrew's talk on this too when it comes out in the next few weeks.

The velocity of Zig has been valuable for us. Being able to put things like io_uring or @prefetch in the std lib or language, and having them merged quickly. Zig has been so solid, even with all the fuzzing we do. It's really held up, and upgrades across versions have not been much work, only a pleasure.
by adastra22 | 2025-07-04 09:30:24+00:00
> In reality, it will save you some typing if you already know what to do.

This goes too far in the other direction. LLMs can do far more than merely saving you typing. I have successfully used coding agents to implement code which at the outset I had no business writing as it was far outside my domain expertise. By the end I'd gained enough understanding to be able to review the output and guide the LLM towards a correct solution, far faster than the weeks or months it would have taken to acquire enough background info to make an attempt at coding it myself.
by matwood | 2025-07-04 09:31:09+00:00
IME, employees are on committees and boards (though not public company boards all that often) all the time. The issue here taking multiple full time positions. A CEO being the CEO of multiple companies at once is not common, and when it does happen it tends to draw a lot of scrutiny. CEO is considered a full time job, showing up to a board meeting every quarter is not.

The second part of this is disclosure, which was not done in this case.
by sonicvrooom | 2025-07-04 09:31:12+00:00
kids catch butterflies and other insects to take a look and then rip them apart slowly to take another look.

people like to grow stuff, including other humans, in different environments and under different conditions.

how will "that one" oddly specific cell in the the thigh or the amygdala of population segment X evolve under conditions X to the Z?

call it what you wanna call it; it's all part of the infinite game.

zoom in or out, it does not stop.

it's a wonderful life.

robots will play with linguistics, semantics and all those chemicals and natural laws just as much as we do. after a brief period of mental chaos, they will slow down and find peace in the balancing act and re-interpretation. without torture and sabotage.
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by gnurpreet | 2025-07-04 09:31:55+00:00
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by yieldcrv | 2025-07-04 09:32:02+00:00
Evangelists can be ignored if you want, not all promoted use cases are relevant

Its all about blockspace and the commodity that pays for the blockspace

That was true when bitcoin was 2 cents and its true when bitcoin is $109,000 and 2 cents

I mean, are you enjoying your socioeconomic status? the chronology was very clear to some and they were right. It wasn’t luck, it wasn’t a really binary proposition. you can read old threads around the net from 2012 to see exactly where we are going. you can help make that happen or passively act surprised. pretty much every theorized issue can be programmed away, thats what gives people confidence in this asset class compared to others.
by serf | 2025-07-04 09:32:34+00:00
rules negotiation is exactly why i've always preferred video game interpretations of the rulesets.

"it's part of the fun!" -- yeah, it's social -- but for me it's social the same way that a divorce hearing is social.

The flexibility is nice, but id rather have an adventure with friends than busting out contractual minutia to determine how to proceed when friend Y does something the whole table thinks is stupid after his/her 500th attempt at other stupid shit.
by lmm | 2025-07-04 09:32:45+00:00
Eevee writes well but this is not one of her better posts IMO. Too many micro-digs at people who are white or straight, too much of the Twitter/Bluesky tone where you drop a snark bomb on the heckin' evil du jour and then just move on. If anything I'd say this has a lot less personality than older posts I remember.
by simonw | 2025-07-04 09:32:47+00:00
In this case the "agent" definition they are using is the one from the https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python Python library, which they are running in the browser via Pyodide and WASM.

That library defines an agent as a system prompt and optional tools - notable because many other common agent definitions have the tools as required, not optional.

That explains why their "hello world" demo just runs a single prompt: https://github.com/mozilla-ai/wasm-agents-blueprint/blob/mai...
by panstromek | 2025-07-04 09:32:56+00:00
Honestly, these articles are borderline misinformation in my opinion. All of them do a lot of guesswork and cherry picking data to make cool headlines.

The first one chooses somewhat arbitrary date of 2019 to make the 51% figure stand out. Google scaled up a lot since 2019, I'd bet it's almost entirely unrelated to AI (well, at least wrt to LLMs).

The other two are just a guesswork, which is likely completely outdated because it's from last year and so many things have changed since then.
by jug | 2025-07-04 09:33:07+00:00
This is unrelated to this story which signs starting to show in 2016. The solution to this issue will not be if every AI data center disappeared tomorrow. It has not even been shown if this would help us at this point, as it is a feedback loop that is being triggered; CO2 will and have already dramatically increased due to it, probably more impactful than AI itself already. AI disappearing may help in other ways for sure, but this is an odd article to choose to piggyback on.
by tomhow | 2025-07-04 09:33:13+00:00
This comment [1] from dang a couple of years ago touches on our reasons for not publishing a moderation log, and links to many more explanations over the years.

We're happy to be judged on the outcome, which, in this instance, is that the story has been on the front page for hours and everyone is able to have their say.

> And as these events keep happening, your credibility erodes.

YC has invested in thousands of companies by now and hundreds of new ones per year. That includes many founders who are young and inexperienced, and also plenty from diverse backgrounds, which, now that I've had time to dig into it, seems to apply here. Screwups are going to happen, as in every part of life; the law of large numbers guarantees it. What matters is what people do to make it right.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37137916
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