MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eth0up | 2025-08-16 14:08:34+00:00
Note that in the US, there is one company that produces and sources its creatine from the US. This company is CON-CRĒT. The rest is almost exclusively sourced from and produced in China.

One exception, though they'll not reveal their source company, is VitaminShoppe, which has one single version sourced from US. That is Kre-Alkalyn.

NOW, LifeExtension, etc, all of them, along with the majority of their other products are sourced from China, with NOW, in my opinion, the only one conducting rigorous testing to ensure product integrity. The supplement industry in general has become a product of China.

This is up to the individual to glean meaning from, but it remains reality.

For those interested, my inquiries with Life Extension were met with flagrant hostility. Those with NOW resulted in a long, amiable conversion with someone in direct, frequent contact with research scientists. Hostility is more common than friendliness with the dozens of inquiries I've made, but mostly when pressed past the initial superficial aloofness of the template reply.

Edit: with our corporatism paradigm, product origins are increasingly difficult to determine, with many companies now excluding origins from product labels, but most using weasel words, eg "Proudly packed in the US from globally sourced ingredients", which has one meaning which has nothing to do with the US. As one of myriad examples, go into a Treacherous Joe's and try to find origins for their teas. Pay attention and you'll see this behavior is expanding into many products, and actual food products.
by Cyykratahk | 2025-08-16 14:08:44+00:00
I'd always assumed the opposite, seeing as a browser's primary function is to parse HTML text into DOM nodes as efficiently as possible.

But on the other hand, since document.write (rightfully) gets such little usage - and has a multitude of footguns - I wouldn't be surprised if browsers used a different, slower code path when executing it; if only to prevent it from borking the parser.
by mrob | 2025-08-16 14:08:45+00:00
IMO, software should look unpolished, to match the quality of the code and set realistic expectations. Almost all code for general purpose use is broken in some way. Writing non-trivial correct code without formal verification is a hopeless task. Consider that even SQLite, which goes to extraordinary lengths to test for correctness [0], is still often found to be incorrect [1]. Correct code is rare and generally doesn't have a GUI.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/src/rptview/1

EDIT: Consider the Horizon IT scandal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

This kind of thing would be less likely to happen if designers didn't (probably inadvertently) mislead people into thinking software is usually correct.
by shit_game | 2025-08-16 14:09:05+00:00
Blue collar jobs are only going to be the go-to for as long as the labor supply is lower than the commercial demand, which I doubt will be long (if this is even the case now). It takes a non-neglible amount of time to train (or certify) for these jobs in much of the western world, which means that any bump in demand is met with a significant lag in supply. Once that supply catches up, the momentum of people saying "bro just go to trade school instead of college, plumbers/electricians/welders/dirt farmers make $100k" is going to dump thousands and thousands of juniors into a market that will very quickly oversaturate. We are witnessing this at an accelerated rate with software development and other tech jobs, largely due to extreme external factors (high interest rates limiting VC cash flow, Trump's hostile domestic economic policies[0], demonstrable downward pressure on employment mobility and wage suppression from big tech[1]).

The american "middle class" is still shrinking, but now it's shrinking faster than ever before, largely because the capital class wants more money, and there is one more stone to bleed. Creating a market of blue collar professionals who will be blackballed from white collar markets due to their educational and work histories (in tandem with the desired outcome of using AI workloads for these jobs in lieu of people) will raise the commercial value of these white collar services, while gatekeeping their entry and stagnating/lowering their compensation. The ladder is being set on fire.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 1. https://equitablegrowth.org/aftermath-wage-collusion-silicon...
by spenrose | 2025-08-16 14:09:17+00:00
Look at your examples. Translation is a closed domain; the LLM is loaded with all the data and can traverse it. Book and music album covers _don't matter_ and have always been arbitrary reworkings of previous ideas. (Not sure what “ebook reading” means in this context.) Math, where LLMs also excel, is a domain full of internal mappings.

I found your post “Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)” very insightful. LLMs are memory extensions and cognitive aides which provide several valuable primitives: finding connections adjacent to your understanding, filling in boilerplate, and offloading your mental mapping needs. But there remains a chasm between those abilities and much work.
by mft_ | 2025-08-16 14:09:25+00:00
Thanks :)

I guess what I'm wishing for is better awareness of areas of strength and weakness when making such decisions.

I can think of people who should never have been promoted to, say, a strategic role or a team management role, but would have been excellent to be promoted to an expert individual contributor (i.e. 'fellow', or 'expert scientist') role.
by gethly | 2025-08-16 14:09:30+00:00
ES is at the core of the system where it is being used, so there really is no in-between option here. I've built two production ES systems and I was toying with few ideas to make it more DX friendly by using json as core of any entity/object and using json patch for events but in the end it made no sense because ES must be absolutely strict on schema, which evolves over time, and data types. You must be able to process events that might be a decade old and for objects that no longer exist. There is no wiggle room. Hence the aforementioned overhead. I do not know MartenDb but in essence every db today uses ES as that is how transactions work, except the event log is discarded after the commit. But either way, ES on db level is meaningless, except maybe being able to use it as actual log for auditing purposes but you won't be able to process it by any means as schema changes over time and db schema has little to do with the application itself anyway.
by paul7986 | 2025-08-16 14:09:32+00:00
I am UX Researcher, Designer and UI Developer. Up until a week ago (company gave permission to use GPT) per some tests I did (personally) with GPT i thought indeed it can do my job yet as of today and using GPT 5...

Logo & Graphic Creation....

- Does this the best so far, but asking it to edit a graphic it created / you liked it doesn't always do what you asked. So, playing with GPT to get it right vs. taking what it initially gave you (same as going to a stock photo site and finding graphics to manipulate) and opening Photoshop is still same amount of time. So here GPT is just another stock photo site like resource yet can take TIME to generate. Is it pulling from a stock site anyway?

- Web Design

On your first attempt to ask it to create a solid web design it works good yet asking it to make edits to it forget lol. It will go and create totally new design and at times on the first attempt it chooses to create a design with a width of 800px (cutting off the left and right sides of the full design).

Front-End Coding...

It does not host images and or provide an entire zip of a website it coded. My Front-End skills are still needed until it provides a zip and handles images properly!

UX Research...

These skills I feel are safest from AI as it requires interfacing with users!
by intended | 2025-08-16 14:09:45+00:00
Blanket characterization of regulation, as malicious barriers to AI adoption, creates the perfect smoke screen to deflect discussion of the actual problems we are seeing.

The law you linked to prohibits firms from using AI to provide therapy, this doesn’t stop people from doing it anyway. It’s a far cry from saying that knowledge workers are rushing to erect legal barriers to AI adoption.

A large number of knowledge workers are busy trying to increase adoption of AI, a behavior at odds with your claim.

That this argument is made, in a forum populated by knowledge workers, is ironic.
by mk89 | 2025-08-16 14:10:07+00:00
It is unfortunately true and pretty much everyone does it. You should look it up [0] or talk to car mechanics.

Ps: Just to be clear, it's not 1 engine type installed in all the cars from the same brand. It's more of a family type, to reduce costs.

[0]: a 2016 (!!) article https://www.automotive-iq.com/powertrain/articles/engine-dow...
by caztanj | 2025-08-16 14:10:25+00:00
The title is misleading. It should be "Microsoft keeps adding crap into Windows that no one would ever want."

If Microsoft wanted to fix Windows it would be an easy task. Step 1: Delete everything added since Windows 7. Step 2: Delete all dotnet crap. Step 3: Make the APIs good by deleting almost everything and making new plain C89 APIs. Step 4: Realize we need a new operating system and delete all of Windows and start over.
by SubmarineClub | 2025-08-16 14:10:44+00:00
And yet...

The people I know with radiant, flawless skin all use Asian-style skincare with a meticulous nightly regime of like 10 syrups, oils, and unguents.

Everyone I've ever met who says that people shouldn't use shampoo/lotion/face wash because it makes the body stop producing oils has been NOT as attractive - putting it kindly.
by coldtea | 2025-08-16 14:11:12+00:00
>Mortgages and car loans can be seen as advances on future income

I'm against those as well. Buy stuff after you can afford it.

>Insurance is a way to split a risk from a property. For example, if I own a house there’s a risk it burns down. With fire insurance, you keep the house, but the insurer takes on the risk, in exchange for a fee.

I'm against insurance companies too. Have a public insurance fund instead.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-16 14:11:33+00:00
There is absolutely nothing in my checked bag that would be any more than a minor annoyance if it were lost.

My wife and I literally had everything we owned in 4 suitcases for a year and carryon back packs for our electronics.

We got rid of everything we owned that wouldn’t fit in four suitcases in 2022 and hopped around different cities for a year on planes. Even then, if one of our suitcases had been lost, we would have used the airline reimbursement and just gone shopping.
by dweekly | 2025-08-16 14:12:40+00:00
Mentioned in the article text, but not the title, is the fact that blue collar work typically does not require a college degree. You can start getting paid immediately after high school. Contrasted with a possible alternate path of four to five years of undergrad at a third tier college paying $80k/yr and financed at an 11% APR...

The real secular arc here predating the GenAI rush has been the decreasing ROI of a generic college degree.
by foldr | 2025-08-16 14:13:11+00:00
Again, this refers to the domains, not the full URL. As a factual point, ISPs do not retain full browser history, and the IPA does not require them to do so for all customers all the time. It's true that we do not know how much data ISPs are in fact recording. I agree that this is concerning. I am opposed to the IPA. However, I also think that we should take the time to get the facts exactly right when criticizing it. This is understandably an emotive issue for a lot of folks on HN, and there is a tendency to let factual inaccuracies slide if they are part of an argument against internet surveillance. In my opinion the IPA is bad enough as is, and it is not necessary to exaggerate its effects in order to make a strong case against it.
by mk89 | 2025-08-16 14:13:29+00:00
From a manufacturer perspective it costs less to produce and test 1 engine type than 5.

So it's questionable to me that you believe you're paying more.

You're just getting better hardware, but it doesn't mean it would be cheaper it it was specifically crafted for your needs. (= I buy 100HP and my engine supports only 100HPs).
by sivm | 2025-08-16 14:13:37+00:00
K4 changes it’s methodology DRASTICALLY and you must use clues like a riddle from previous solutions. The Morse code is the program to run. Make a mask from the unneeded E’s but don’t discard them, they clarify. Ignore the flicker see the edg-e. The grid becomes a compass with some work and be sure to normalize the directions. Caesar might help dispel the mist. Decoys abound in partial/incomplete solutions. One wrong turn and work disappears. My 386 was an abomination to the old man and he set traps- paper and pencil ruled his world.

NORTHWEST, EAST, NORTHEAST. BERLIN CLOCK TICKS EAST. READ EDGE TO EDGE; SEE TIME, USE THE NORTHEAST SHADOW. THE HIDDEN PLACE IS REVEALED.

Sorry for the bother
by panarchy | 2025-08-16 14:13:37+00:00
When I see stories like this all I can think of is that rich people must really hate paying their blue collar workers market value and want to flood the market to lower their wages and bargaining ability. Especially when I hear how hard it is to actually get a proper blue collar job (that isn't just a manual labor with a bit of carpentry job paying below a living wage) and be apprenticed in it from my blue collar friends.
by franga2000 | 2025-08-16 14:13:56+00:00
Libadawaita apps look good as graphic design, but at the cost of usability. KDE apps (real Qt, not Kirigami) always have some standout icons, mismatched margins or strange styling decisions, but all the features are more or less where you'd expect them to be and, more importantly, they actually have all those features because they weren't cut for the sake of design.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-08-16 14:14:14+00:00
Thanks for this insightful rebuttal. I've briefly fact-checked what you wrote (don't take this personally; it's just something I do), and your timeline is overall correct.

I've noticed that alephnerd's comments are often tinted with pro-U.S. propaganda. Note that I'm not accusing him of being disingenuous or malicious. I think he shares his thoughts and viewpoints in good faith. But his bias is very obvious when he writes about topics I'm familiar with, which makes me a bit skeptical when he writes about topics I'm not familiar with.
by daneel_w | 2025-08-16 14:15:01+00:00
> In some defense of the parent post, a new kernel is relinked at every boot. This load is noticeable.

I can't say I agree with your implication that the load is significant. My anno 2020 low-power mobile Ryzen relinks the kernel in exactly 9 seconds. Shrug.

It's entirely possible to disable at-boot kernel relinking if one prefers to, and settle for having the kernel relinked each time there's a patch for it.
by rayiner | 2025-08-16 14:15:02+00:00
Society has multiple classes with distinct interests. It’s not just “owners versus workers.” In the U.S., the top 0.1% own about 14% of the wealth, but most of the rest is owned by the top 25% outside the top 0.1%. Within this class there is a spectrum of “ownership.” Tim Cook is technically a worker, but he has “owner” wealth. But he came into that wealth by being a worker—he never risked his own capital to start a business, nor did he inherit assets. This is especially true for knowledge work, where putative workers typically are non-fungible in ways that give them a great deal of leverage with owners.
by solatic | 2025-08-16 14:15:12+00:00
There is a qualitative difference to the argument: lectures (from before millennia), books (in the last few hundred years), and movies (in the last few decades), were all non-interactive. A student would sit and consume passively. There is a limit to how well you can learn with passive instruction alone. The promise of AI is to bring the Oxford model - 1:1 studying with a tutor, with whom the student engages and to whom the tutor gives their full attention - down to a price point at which it would become feasible to educate the masses with it.

Are LLMs actually capable of re-producing a good-enough simulation of the Oxford model? Will this simulation of the Oxford model produce better educational outcomes at scale - something that has been theorized but was of course far too expensive to prove - when deployed to the masses through public education? Maybe? Who knows? Time will tell.

For what it's worth - I don't think books will become obsolete, either in schools or anywhere else. Paper books might become obsolete, but there is no option on the table that proposes to completely replace the art of science of having life experience and committing it to longform. As long as copyright protects its commercialibility, it will continue.
by safety1st | 2025-08-16 14:15:22+00:00
Another interesting thing in the article, that also isn't in the headline, is a link to Goldman Sachs' assessment of how much AI is actually threatening office work:

"Despite concerns about widespread job losses, AI adoption is expected to have only a modest and relatively temporary impact on employment levels. Goldman Sachs Research estimates that unemployment will increase by half a percentage point during the AI transition period as displaced workers seek new positions."
by gh02t | 2025-08-16 14:15:23+00:00
Lots of rural places with zero cell coverage. Where I live cell coverage goes to zero as soon as you leave a city. I've long wanted this for a low data rate base station for a mobile Meshtastic network out hiking and camping. Remains to be seen if this new plan would work for that, but I am interested for that and a remote sensing project in my professional life.

One could imagine similar, more serious uses for remote sensors, agriculture etc. Local mesh network to a base station, satellite uplink to the data consumer. Even in places with cellular coverage, it could be useful as an emergency fallback connection.
by amluto | 2025-08-16 14:16:21+00:00
> Suppose that you've got a pipe to the deep sea and a filtration system at the bottom, then a pump on the surface, so that the pipe is mostly filled with air.

That buys you nothing: you would expend exactly the same amount of energy to remove a given volume of permeate from the pipe this way (to keep the pipe from filling with permeate and to get the water to the surface) as you would to pump that volume of permeate through a normal water-filled pipe. In fact, it would be the same pump at the same speed. The only difference would be the pipe arrangement and the pumping system.
Show HN: Co-Op Tetris
by admtal | 2025-08-16 14:16:28+00:00
I added Co-op online to Lazy Blocks.

Using PeerJS & WebRTC, so no server.

Hope you enjoy, let me know if you have and feedback, etc.

Thank you, Adam

-- EDIT

Oh! -- Click the "Globe" icon to start online play

-- Edit 2

Oh! -- I should mention - the board is infinite, you can scroll and pan and zoom in all directions -- and you can always find the other player with one click
by gcanyon | 2025-08-16 14:16:34+00:00
Microsoft adds stuff "we" don't need to everything. Think about the ribbons of tools available in Office -- Excel and Word in particular have features for pretty much anything you can think of. I'm not arguing it's not a valid choice -- I'm sure someone needs all those features. But for me, personally, I prefer products that do a smaller set of things simply and perfectly, as opposed to products that do All The Things somewhat well. Even if it does everything very well, having all those extra features in the way makes it harder to get the few things I want to do harder.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-16 14:16:39+00:00
Most professional services already have a moat around them in that you need to be licensed in order to practice the profession; AI can’t disrupt these industries because A) after three years, the hallucination issue has not improved and B) the AI itself can’t legally perform most of the services a licensed professional is permitted to provide.

It’s easy to write off this sort of regulation as economic protectionism if you’re a true believer in the technology, but from personal experience, the LLMs I have used are only really good for solving well-understood programming problems and doing what Google used to do 10 years ago. You can maybe use them to power some blackhat marketing efforts but most of what I’ve seen there are just run-of-the-mill spam operations that have discovered Reddit.
by mark-r | 2025-08-16 14:16:41+00:00
I have a Windows 7 PC that I decided to upgrade when the motherboard was about 10 years old. Expected it to just boot right up, motherboards haven't changed all that much. It would get to the part of the boot sequence where the window was coalescing on screen, and crash. A message flew by too quickly to see much less read, then totally black and unresponsive.

At that point I had a choice. I could buy a new version of Windows 11 for $200 which is much worse than the Windows 7 I gave up. Or I could switch to Linux. Hello Linux! There's one application I miss dearly that was Windows-only, but overall I'm a happy camper now.
by gmokki | 2025-08-16 14:16:47+00:00
I've been thinking of using git filter to split the huge asset files (that are just internally a collection of assets bundler to 200M-1GB files) into smaller ones. That way when artist modifies one sub-asset in a huge file only the small change is recorded in history. There is an example filter for doing this with zip files.

The above should work. But does git support multiple filters for a file? For example first the above asset split filter and then store the files in LFS which is another filter.
by sho_hn | 2025-08-16 14:16:59+00:00
It looks like most of the margin differences you complain about are due to icons not filling out their square canvas/bounding box depending on the depicted object. This is generally how icons work, unless you go Android and slap a circle/squircle background on all of them.

Which isn't to say things shouldn't be better, of course.

There's currently a big multi-year community effort underway to overhaul how KDE's visuals are made, including adopting a modularized design system, Figma/PenPot and a new theming engine (Union) designed explicitly to serve the designer's needs. Along with the KDE Linux distro these are our two main next-gen efforts where we want a capability step change in our practice and product.
by Uehreka | 2025-08-16 14:17:00+00:00
> The trades are a decent living, and lots of people could do worse.

I sure hope this remains true after the number of people trying to become electricians quintuples in size.

I feel like in a lot of these discussions, people think about themselves first and go “I’ll just become an electrician if my white collar job goes away, how bad could it be?” But then you need to realize that many many people are going to have this problem, and the phrasing “Well, we’ll all just become electricians if our white collar jobs go away.” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

It’s not enough for there to EXIST non-automatable jobs. The demand for those jobs must be so massive that a gigantic number of currently well-paid people can take jobs in the sector without massively depressing wages.
by hackyhacky | 2025-08-16 14:17:06+00:00
> adding text to storage and searching over it is not memory. “knowing” those things about you is not learning.

Why not? If humans store data in their brains, isn't that learning? Of course data can include skills and connections, for both humans and AIs.

> and guess what, context still fills up.

Human memory also has limits.

Sorry, but I really don't see how the distinctions you're trying to make even exist, much less qualify as markers of intelligence.