MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notahacker | 2025-08-11 18:55:12+00:00
Other relevant context: sections of UK canals being unintentional drained isn't particularly unusual, although the culprit is usually a paddle left open on a lock gate or a leaky culvert rather than a plug being pulled. Whether that inconveniences anyone for any length of time depends mostly on how full the reservoirs at the top end of the canal are...

Wouldn't have been that unusual in 1972 when nearly all the canals including that one had ceased commercial operations and many of them had been intentionally drained either. I suspect the transition from the canal being infrastructure maintained by locally-stationed full time professionals to a pleasure cruiseway which the new waterways board was willing to devote a bit of time to maintaining only after the previous one had spent several years trying to get it shut down probably had as much impact as the Blitz on the work crew having no idea about plugholes...
by ch4s3 | 2025-08-11 18:55:13+00:00
The mid-century Baby Boom came after WWII, and probably had very little to do with technology. The upswing started some time in late 1944 to mid 1945 as combat was winding down in Europe and a lot of young men were returning home. Otherwise fertility has been declining steadily since 1800 in western countries.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-11 18:55:24+00:00
Ironic as it may sound, coming from a childfree millennial, I'm kind of puzzled how the system will survive. Both my grandparents died in their 90s, and spent over 30 years are retirees - mainly living off their state pension.

As people become older, they'll either have to work longer, or the system will come crashing down. Especially with lower fertility rates. My generation should be birthing kids as the previous ones, but I think almost half of my peers are childfree, too. And we're in the age that we have maybe - if lucky - 6,7 more years to reproduce.

I can't imagine a population where 1/3 will be retired people. It is also a huge drain on the healthcare system.
by jimbob45 | 2025-08-11 18:55:56+00:00
Wikipedia has been introduced as the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Anyone can publish problematic material or false information.

But the top articles are always perma-locked and under curation. Considering how much traffic those articles receive relative to the more esoteric articles, the surface area of vandalizable articles that a user is exposed to is relatively low. Also to that end, vandalism has a low effort-to-impact ratio.
by user3939382 | 2025-08-11 18:56:05+00:00
My inbox is my todo list. If I want to go nuts I can add a “waiting for them” label. Archive means done. Unread means unprocessed. I can send myself an email or if the task originates from someone else their email thread is the task. For voicemail, call, SMS heavy workflows of the past I routed my sms and voicemail through my inbox as well. This tooling is very personal but the above I’ve found to standup to very large workloads.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-11 18:56:47+00:00
I thought it would be an article on how cloudflare used to be a CDN, how it became a PaaS provider, which kept the CDN service.

- workers (a sort of lambda on edge) - page (a sort of fastifly) - R2 (S3 compliant storage) - kv (a database) - load balancing (an elastic LB) - an entire set of cybersecurity services
by biophysboy | 2025-08-11 18:56:59+00:00
I guess I'm confused why its an existential threat to have Chatgpt/Anthropic/etc branding on an Apple device. Alphabet/Meta products both appear on iPhones and use their own branding. I guess it would be unprecedented for Apple to allow an external partner that deep into their walled garden and replace Siri, but I don't see total vertical integration as a plausible outcome for Apple. I think they would waste a bunch of money and then lose!
by sillysaurusx | 2025-08-11 18:57:03+00:00
Just wanted to say, thanks for the very interesting comment. I consulted at Thompson Reuters, and while they aren’t a bank, your story brought up all kinds of memories. The passionless part really resonated with me, since it was all too obvious whenever the one good developer (who I was thankfully paired with) and I had meetings with the rest of them. There was one guy in charge of the database, which in practice meant any time you wanted to interface with the database you had to ask this guy to do it instead of write any code yourself that even interacts with the database in any way, including just getting data. It meant hours of delays, routinely. During most meetings it would devolve into random tangents about cars. (The good dev was also a car enthusiast, so everyone came to him with all their car issues, much to his annoyance.) And yes, to be fair, it was a little fun and I enjoyed working with most of them. Very low ego, as you say.
by notpushkin | 2025-08-11 18:57:13+00:00
> Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run.

I’m seeing that playing out with a Russian Wikipedia (forked as Ruwiki and heavily edited to be in line with Kremlin propaganda), and I don’t like it one bit. There’s not much you can do as it’s free/open content, but it still sucks.
by danielbln | 2025-08-11 18:57:23+00:00
An over eager helm update lead to some "uh oh, I hope the volume is still there" and it was. Otherwise no, haven't had anything bad happen. Of course, it's just a matter of time, and with the most recent version it's easy to toggle permissions back on without having to restart Claude Code, so for spicy tasks I tend to disable YOLO mode.
by omoikane | 2025-08-11 18:57:51+00:00
> pretty sure it he could have gotten more tax free on the black market.

Not necessarily. On slide 72 of this presentation, it says sandbox escape or bypass for Chrome is worth up to $200000:

https://nocomplexity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/bluehat2...

(I originally found this presentation on github[1], but github seems down right now[2].)

[1] https://github.com/mdowd79/presentations/blob/main/bluehat20...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1mnlgc5/is_github_d...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-11 18:58:18+00:00
There is no guarantee your children will take care of you. Walk through any nursing or care home and speak with residents, ask the last time a child saw them.

One quarter of adult children estranged from a parent - https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4104138-one-qua... - July 19th, 2023
by mattmanser | 2025-08-11 18:58:29+00:00
Because he's getting crap output. Open source locally on something that under-powered is vastly worse than paid LLMs.

I'm no shill, I'm fairly skeptical about AI, but been doing a lot of research and playing to see what I'm missing.

I haven't bothered running anything locally as the overwhelming consensus is that it's just not good enough yet. And that from posts and videos in the last two weeks.

I've not seen something so positive about local LLMs anywhere else.

It's simply just not there yet, and definitely aren't for a 4090.
by proteal | 2025-08-11 18:58:31+00:00
The black hole has two conceptual parts - the event horizon and the singularity. The event horizon is a one-way imaginary shell where once you pass it, you will end up at the singularity which is a point at the center of the event horizon. It’s the hole in black hole. Because the radius of the spherical horizon grows linearly with mass, but the size of the hole is fixed at effectively 0, it allows for a bit of sightseeing on your way to impending doom if the mass of the hole is large enough.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-08-11 18:58:44+00:00
Featuring, and promoting, are different things. There's a big difference between Lolita and CSAM, or between Damals war es Friedrich and Mein Kampf.

But, I care about reality, not moral outrage about taboo violations*, so I'd only advocate "do something about [2]" if I believed [2] actually did contribute to a real problem. Combatting ineffective promotion is not on my priorities list. As far as I can tell, [2] is a real problem: though I'm always open to new evidence. (And when people like me take over the world, and it turns out our interventions don't make the problem go away, I like to think I'd have the integrity to reconsider my views in light of that evidence.)

*: That's not to say I don't feel outrage about taboo violations. Some taboos exist for a reason, even if that reason is not immediately obvious. (Of course, some need discarding with prejudice, but Chesterton's Fence applies.)
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-11 18:58:50+00:00
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to package programs directly into flatpaks or docker images (with appropriate WINE and whatever other dependencies baked in). Obviously in some cases there are licensing restrictions on redistribution, but even then it seems easier to have a per-app flatpak/container that either takes a binary you supply or downloads it for you as is appropriate.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-08-11 18:59:10+00:00
Sucks they trained on our data and hard work when all we wanted was a place to put our code and have others look at it.

Microsoft ruins everything they touch. They will find a way to ruin Github shortly.

Anyone posting a step-by-step to do a full migration from Github to another provider would get a lot of traffic to their blog in short time.
by Twirrim | 2025-08-11 18:59:20+00:00
> Together with a few other optimizations, these tweaks yielded over 1,000mi in increased range—enough that we could now afford a remarkable passenger cabin without sacrificing fuel efficiency or range.

Honestly, the way the narrative reads, they're still sacrificing 1,000mi of range in the interests of an improved cabin experience. They've just found an optimisation that enables them to reach a net neutral state.

Given we're effectively talking about fuel efficiency here, it's hard to imagine airlines wanting an improved cabin vs less fuel consumption. All the incentives are on them already to meet a "barest minimum" cabin experience that they can get away with, because every bit of luxury costs them in numbers of passengers, and fuel costs.
by asgraham | 2025-08-11 18:59:39+00:00
I don’t know about your first point: at some point the three-year difference may not be worth the premium, as local models reach “good enough.”

But the second point seems even less likely to be true: why will Claude code and Gemini cli always be superior? Other than advantageous token prices (which the people willing to pay the aforementioned premium shouldn’t even care about), what do they inherently have over third-party tooling?
by runako | 2025-08-11 18:59:41+00:00
> couldn't even write a basic sql query

Not the point at all, but I have found it quite common among younger professional engineers to not know SQL at all. A combination of specialization (e.g. only work on microservices that do not directly touch a database) and NoSQL has made the skill of SQL more obscure than I would have thought possible as recently as 5 years ago.
by jmuguy | 2025-08-11 18:59:51+00:00
I have this theory that one easy way to curry favor with Trump is tell him about some previously esoteric/unused power the executive has. So much of what he does seems to just be because he can do it, and not because it actually has a real goal or purpose. Like a kid playing with toys. I realize he says that tariffs are meant to bring in revenue or increase domestic manufacturing or [pick random reason]. Or that he's doing this due to DC apparently turning into Fallujah but looking back over his first term and now this one, its the same pattern.
by giardini | 2025-08-11 19:00:13+00:00
I want to have good American-made tools that don't break under normal use and can be easily maintained. To do that we apparently need a robust manufacturing economy.

Cars are great: we need good cars, but more than that, we need good tools to fix the cars.

Taiwan make/have some of the best tools in the world. There's no reason the USA can't do the same. We once did.
by fbartos | 2025-08-11 19:00:33+00:00
Paper showing that "Fair Coins Tend to Land on the Same Side They Started: Evidence from 350,757 Flips" circulating here a couple of years back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181345) is now published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

The main difference from the original version is that we now document a decrease in the same-side bias over time. Meaning the more people flip, the less biased they are. We guess that it's a practice effect -- they might be getting better at coin flipping over time.

(I'm the main author of the paper)
by nialse | 2025-08-11 19:00:50+00:00
Time will tell, time will tell.

Yes, Apple is using another model right now, but, they desperately need an AI win. Thus, they likely want a “latest and greatest model” and they have the leverage to influence what goes into the model. Due to Apple’s previous AI hiccups, performance, safety and guardrails are prioritized, thus a Siri flavored GPT-5.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-11 19:00:55+00:00
If we're specifying the size of a buffer we obviously work in bytes as opposed to some arbitrary larger unit.

Agreed that passing between otherwise incompatible ABIs is likely what drove the adoption of null termination. The only other option that comes to mind is a bigint implementation, but that would be at odds with the rest of the language in most cases.
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-11 19:00:56+00:00
As I understood it, the AI company is trying to prevent itself and its customers from engaging in (probably unintentional, but any) criminal activity.

When the AI company is "policing" your agent by requiring a "human in the loop", it's just CYA (cover your ass) for the AI company.

If your agent goes off and does something illegal, the AI company would be liable unless they have some legal deniability. By requiring you the human account owner to sign-off on what your agent is doing, you become liable for any crimes your agent commits on your behalf. I haven't read their TOS but I can guarantee there is some clause like this in there.

You are still completely free to commit crimes with your agent and suffer whatever legal consequences follow!! You just have to be clear that you intentionally wanted those actions to occur which resulted in the crime. If you repeatedly allow your agents to take actions that could potentially be criminal without any human-in-the-loop, they're going to ban you because it exposes themselves to potential criminal charges.
by catigula | 2025-08-11 19:01:03+00:00
It's also amazing that they convinced developers that running a non-standard CPU instruction set through a laundered Rosetta layer was somehow battery or compute friendly lb for lb when an AMD processor (or even Intel) is plenty efficient and cool.

Are any applications on your Mac touching Rosetta right now? You'd better hope not because those single percentage gains from ARM evaporate fast.
by Qem | 2025-08-11 19:01:08+00:00
> For the poor, it will have no real impact.

It will likely bring back the problem of old age destitution as rule, not exception. It's a previously common scourge that never went completely away[1][2], but went into the sidelines by early-mid XX century, and is set to coming back with a vengeance, by the time current people in their 20s-30s reach old age. It hits the poor hard.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/successful-educated-but-no...

[2] https://citizenmatters.in/mumbai-abandoned-destitute-elderly...
by Pingk | 2025-08-11 19:01:16+00:00
This is often made worse as a result of hiring outside consultants. Firstly they don't have the institutional knowledge you have when starting a project, but they also aren't incentivised to properly document and hand over their knowledge at the end since that means less future work.

This is why a lot of government projects take so long, they don't see the value in keeping an in-house team of trained experts (see the difference in train line contruction costs in the UK compared to Spain), until you realised how good they were but you can't hire them back.
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by wongarsu | 2025-08-11 19:01:47+00:00
Exactly. There is no shortage of providers hosting open source models with per-token pricing, with a variety of speeds and context sizes at different price points. Competition is strong and barriers of entry low, ensuring that margins stay low and prices fair.

If you want complete control over your data and don't trust anyone's assurances that they keep it private (and why should you) then you have to self-host. But if all you care about is a good price then the free market already provides that for open models
by jjmarr | 2025-08-11 19:01:55+00:00
You're assuming it's a binary between coding with or without AI.

In my experience, a 10x developer that can code without AI becomes a 100x developer because the menial tasks they'd delegate to less-skilled employees while setting technical direction can now be delegated to an AI instead.

If your only skill is writing boilerplate in a framework, you won't be employed to do that with AI. You will not have a job at all and the 100xer will take your salary.
by Arainach | 2025-08-11 19:02:31+00:00
The pie has nothing to do with it.

The tide is rising and most ships are sinking. Productivity in the last 40 years has skyrocketed. The gains have overwhelmingly gone to a tiny minority while everyone else has seen rent, food, education, and more go up dramatically faster than wages. This has accelerated in the last 15 years and has destroyed any faith in the social contract.
by pfcd | 2025-08-11 19:02:35+00:00
It already was blocked, in a way.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/internetarchive/comments/1gpn54q/is...

> They are not specifically targeting Wayback Machine. Anything other than residential IP's are blocked, to my information. Such as IP's of cloud services like Hetzner, GCP, AWS... The list goes on. (from my comment there)
by nicce | 2025-08-11 19:03:03+00:00
I think it depends on how you view it. With 20x productivity you can start to minimize your supply chain and reduce costs in the long term. No more cloud usage in foreign countries, since you might be able to make the necessary software by yourself. You can start dropping expensive SaaS and you make enough for your own internal needs. Heck, I would just increase the demand because there is so much potential. Consultants and third-party software houses will likely decrease. unless they are even more efficient.

LLMs act as interfaces to applications which you are capable to build yourself and run your own hardware, since you are much more capable.
by lynx97 | 2025-08-11 19:03:04+00:00
Late child birth is not about fertility but about risks for the child. The only woman I know (yeah, anecdotes) who attempted to delay getting a child until after her 40th birthday got a baby with down syndrome. I know what living with a disability in our world means, from personal experience. And given that experience, I have a hard time giving these women some slack. I think they are risking the well being of their children just for their own selfish reasons. We are humans, and there are limits to what we can do. We need to accept them, or we will make other people suffer.
by rimunroe | 2025-08-11 19:03:10+00:00
> I don't trust computer makers

Nor should you!

> There are people who still use cars made in the 1960s as their daily driver (probably only a handful in the US).

I do like resisting the disposable economy, though I hope keeping ICE cars that old wouldn't be normal enough to be a factor in designing a product if for no other reason than emissions and safety features.

> (metal lathes are rare but not unheard of in a home shop).

Indeed. I grew up with a >1 ton metal lathe in ours, as well as a milling machine. My siblings and I would use the lathe as a climbing gym.
by JohnBooty | 2025-08-11 19:03:26+00:00
I found that simply asking questions to learn about them ( as well as the person I'm speaking to) is enough.

This is such a great insight and skill.

This is something that 99% of "nerds" don't understand about sports. You don't have to fake your way through "knowing about sports" to have a conversation around it.

Suppose you're in Buffalo, NY and you don't know a thing about sports. However, unless visiting with your eyes and ears closed, it would be difficult not to see that the city is really into its football team.

If you are "stuck" in a conversation with a Bills fan and don't know a thing about football, you could just ask - are the Bills good this year? what's it like being a Bills fan? are Bills fans as crazy as they say? how did you come to be a Bills fan - were your parents Bills fans?

There's like 100 possible conversation angles there that don't require any knowledge of sports
by vouwfietsman | 2025-08-11 19:03:27+00:00
I 100% agree with this sentiment, though its not clear to me at all how close we are.

In general though, advanced automation like AI will disrupt jobs, and unlike previous times, you cannot educate yourself out of a superior intelligence taking your job.

This is not about moving your manual work to another segment where different manual work is not viable to automate economically: its about your mental abilities being insufficient to produce value in the economy, full stop.

If that doesn't scare you, I'm not sure what will. However, its not clear to me yet if all this coding LLM hype will end up destroying coding jobs, or creating debugging jobs.
by reactordev | 2025-08-11 19:04:52+00:00
Exactly, this study was on antisemitism but you can imagine other countries doing this for other content.

By overloading the Meta ML loop, they’re guaranteeing that the censorship is from meta and not them.

Antisemitism, political posts, rallies, anti-government sentiment, it’s an assault on free speech. Add the fact that news organizations have basically bent the knee to this US Administration and it’s pretty much game over for free thinking journalism w/ access. (Good journalism doesn’t necessarily require red tape access)
by mzajc | 2025-08-11 19:05:14+00:00
intel.com's <title> says "Simplify Your AI Journey - Intel". Their description meta tag says "Deliver AI at scale across cloud, data center, edge, and client with comprehensive hardware and software solutions." Their frontpage mentions "AI" 9 times, but has only 3 mentions of "processor" and zero of "CPU".

I know they make processors, but they sure don't make it seem that way.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-11 19:05:17+00:00
This still puts the company too much in the driver's seat. An actual "contract" or "agreement" is supposed to be a meeting of the minds between two parties. It's not simply one-sided terms dictated by one party without opportunity for the other party to negotiate. And each party should have negotiating power and choice beyond "take it or leave it".

And, before you dismiss this idea with "Ha ha imagine if every cell phone provider had a custom, bespoke, negotiated contract with each customer! It can't be done!"

If providing real negotiating power and choice to your customer is too much of an overhead burden, then maybe the company should not be allowed to make the "agreement" a condition for buying/using the product.