MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rmunn | 2025-08-28 05:20:16+00:00
To reply to your edit: the fact that he wrote this in an example does not mean that he would write this in actual code. Examples are often contrived. The guy you're replying to clearly meant "no Zig developer would write this in actual code", which may have been wrong but this counterexample isn't a case of writing it in actual code.

As for the second part of your edit, arguing about definitions of who fits into the group is commonly mistaken as "no true Scotsman". For example, just because you call yourself a Scotsman doesn't necessarily make you one: if you have no Scottish ancestry, do not live in Scotland, and do not hold a Scottish passport, few people would agree with you that you are a Scotsman just because you assert that you are. They would insist on some standard for calling you a Scotsman that goes beyond "I say that I am one, therefore I clearly am one". Or, to use the example of Christians: millions of people around the world would say "no true Christian would deny the divinity of Christ: it's a fundamental teaching of Christianity". That is not a "no true Scotsman" argument, despite the presence of people who call themselves Christians who do deny the divinity of Christ. It is, rather, saying "You call yourself a Scotsman but you do not measure up to the commonly-accepted standard of being a Scotsman".

OTOH, your example of people saying "He's not really a Christian because he doesn't live up to Christ's teaching" is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy, attempting to redefine the commonly-accepted standard. Because nearly every Christian knows that we (I'm a Christian myself) never fully live up to Christ's teaching, and can always do better. So trying to say "He's not a true Christian because he doesn't measure up" is to redefine the standard in a way that would exclude pretty much everybody, and that's not at all what it means.

Short version: membership in certain groups can have standards (you're not a Zig developer if you've never written a single line of Zig code), and asserting those standards is not necessarily this fallacy, even if those standards are disputed by some people. (E.g., the case of groups that call themselves Christian while denying the divinity of Christ, which everyone NOT part of those groups would say is a fundamental part of the standard for being a true Christian).

*EDIT:* In my last sentence I wrote "everyone NOT part of those groups"; I should say "every Christian NOT part of those groups" if I wanted to be fully accurate. Because many non-Christians would deny that accepting the divinity of Christ is part of the definition, but pretty much all Christians who do accept that Christ was indeed God in human form will agree that that doctrine is one of the fundamental requirements, and that if you deny it you can't truthfully call yourself a Christian. (Hopefully I phrased that in a way that's both accurate and comprehensible.)
by timr | 2025-08-28 05:20:18+00:00
> This is already happening with covid vaccinations, in that only some age groups are getting approval. The decision is not being made according to safety, but justified with economics. I don't recall the FDA doing that before.

Incorrect.

A lot of scientists believe the Covid vaccinations should never have been approved in healthy young children. Omitting the Covid vaccine from the childhood schedule, in fact, is the position of the WHO, and many European countries, including the UK [1], Germany [2] and France [3]. The USA was an outlier [4].

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/vaccinations/covid-19-vaccine/

[2] https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/en/coronavirus/f...

[3] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/health/article/2023/02/25/covid-19...

[4] https://archive.ph/aD00n (NYT link)
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-28 05:20:24+00:00
> The idea Asimov was fighting against was this "new age" belief that nothing can be known, everything is equally wrong, everything is "opinion" and yours is as valid as mine, etc etc.

Yeah that's valid. I do find philosophical discussions about the nature of knowledge fascinating but it's often used as a bludgeon to assert one's opinion as being equal to fact.
by numpad0 | 2025-08-28 05:21:03+00:00
Looks like this is a PoC for Toyota's "sweep storage system" using "low voltage MOS", which seem to be a fancy invented term for a charge/discharge current limiter. [2] has photos of previous PoC from 2023.

1: https://global.toyota/jp/newsroom/corporate/43207750.html

2: https://www.power-academy.jp/sp/electronics/report/rep03200....
by dvrp | 2025-08-28 05:21:27+00:00
I think the article is a bit abstract with the concept of technical debt.

I want to see something that explains technical debt for what it is: a mismatch between a data structure that served a purpose in the past, that can be simplified, wasn’t, and now not only it is complex but also the wrong solution to current needs (e.g. a lack of a certain feature), for example. It may be other things: a source of uncertainty, and therefore of delays and confusion when onboarding new people.

I want to see more concrete terms than help reify the concept of “technical debt”. Not just for us, but everyone.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-08-28 05:21:39+00:00
So then it's a life stage thing. You're already well established in your career, and you'd rather some intellectual engagement. There's nothing wrong with that.

A 22 year old fresh out of undergrad almost certainly wants actual money far more than they want intellectual engagement. Most of them are better served by picking up a boring workhorse language that they can reliably get paid to write. Inevitably some will speciate into more esoteric fields, but that's the exception, not the rule.
by manmademagic | 2025-08-28 05:22:36+00:00
I wouldn't call myself an 'experienced' developer, but I do find LLMs useful for once-off things, where I can't justify the effort to research and implement my own solution. Two recent examples come to mind:

1. Converting exported data into a suitable import format based on a known schema 2. Creating syntax highlighting rules for language not natively support in a Typst report

Both situations didn't have an existing solution, and while the outputs were not exactly correct, they only needed minor adjustments.

Any other situation, I'd generally prefer to learn how to do the thing, since understanding how to do something can sometimes be as important as the result.
by mickelsen | 2025-08-28 05:23:11+00:00
For anything serious I'd still double check, but my go-to strategy of googling expressions in quotes isn't that useful anymore. Here in HN (or any other forum), I've only done it very few times, because the thing rewrites it in a voice that doesn't sound like me, which I don't like. Plus I don't aim to keep a polished identity here, so I'm fine with the occasional mistake. Also I've been like 10+ years with this account, but lurking since 2011 or so... I guess what would offend me the most is someone treating me like a bot because I end up sounding like AI-slop in the future.
by dlubarov | 2025-08-28 05:23:23+00:00
Fox News was deemed "generally unreliable" for politics and science, which in practice means that it's unusable in most cases, not so different from deprecated.

I also find it interesting that Al-Manar (essentially Hezbollah's media office) has a slightly better status than, say, Daily Mail.

See also (Wikipedia cofounder) Larry Sanger's critique of Wikipedia' source bias - https://larrysanger.org/2021/06/wikipedia-is-more-one-sided-...
by krapp | 2025-08-28 05:23:32+00:00
With all due respect, what you're describing is still stupidity. 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds' as Emerson said.

The people who voted for Trump (or against Biden) because they hadn't been paying attention over the last decade and just thought the price of eggs was too high were stupid. The people who knew exactly what Trump was about and just didn't think the leopards would eat their faces were stupid. The people who voted because they just wanted to be entertained watching the world burn were stupid.

There's more than one kind of stupidity, and when they combine en masse into a big dumb avalanche it can absolutely be dangerous.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-08-28 05:23:38+00:00
> So, yeah, if your target audience are the people who take those "AI tells" seriously and negatively react to them, definitely craft your writing to that audience. But also, consider if that is really your target audience

Nowadays if you write anything you only have two audiences

The first audience is people who care what you are saying

The second audience is AI scrapers

People who do not care what you have to say will have an AI summarize it for them, so they aren't your audience
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-28 05:23:51+00:00
If someone ate the same three meals for 20 years and maintained a consistent weight, and then due to some physiological change started to put on weight eating the same amount, I'd find it reasonable but perhaps incorrect to attribute their weight gain to overeating. But yeah, technically at the end of the day, they could eat less :)
by jibal | 2025-08-28 05:24:27+00:00
"are these language changes happening because we’re using a tool and repeating what it suggested or is language changing because AI is influencing the human language system?"

These are the same thing, just on different time scales.

"Given that these are all words typically overused by AI"

Who is to say that they are overused? What even is overuse linguistically? Stylistically a word can be overused within a single work, but that's a different matter. It could well be argued that the data shows that LLMs are increasing human literacy.

A study of changes in language use that can be attributed to the widespread use of LLMs is good science. Mixing in such value judgments as "overuse" is not.

While there are serious potential problems with the widespread use of LLMs, increased use of words like "meticulous" and "garner" aren't among them.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-28 05:25:08+00:00
I think that you are right, although that is not the only issue.

One of the issues is that perhaps they should also check the software in the official app stores better (I think I had read that Apple does a little bit, although they don't do it so well either, and they don't have side-loading so that is another problem).

However, perhaps a more significant issue is when something requires having Android (or iPhone) even if you do not want that, you cannot use your own (or none at all, if that would make sense which sometimes it does).
by deadbabe | 2025-08-28 05:27:20+00:00
When will people understand geoblocking won’t save you? If a Mississippi user is on a VPN and they access your website you must still comply.

If you have a competitor, you can hire a bunch of Mississippians to access their website by VPN, collect evidence of them doing so, and then report them to have the shit fined out of them. It will pierce their corporate veil and leave them personally bankrupted, ending their website.
by toast0 | 2025-08-28 05:27:55+00:00
> States are allowed to set their own criminal codes. If Mississippi drops the mandate part and passes a new law that simply defines certain things as crimes with corresponding penalties, that law would probably be constitutional.

States have limits to what things they define as crimes. Defining certain type of trade to be criminal is regulating trade. And regulating interstate trade is reserved for Congress. Yet, many state laws criminalize some commerce, and case law has expanded interstate commerce to often include sales where the buyer, seller, and manufacturer are all in the same state... consistency is not a strength of our system.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-28 05:28:12+00:00
Oooh, I've been wanting something like this. I find that after a while I lose track of all the additions or modifications Claude made and it's not very ergonomic scrolling through my terminal history to track them, so I end up just letting Claude do what it wants and then rolling everything back when it inevitably breaks. I'll check this out.
by rramadass | 2025-08-28 05:28:52+00:00
No, it is only when you try to interpret them in today's context and assumed models which are quite different from the context/models in which they were written/practiced that it seems like mumbo-jumbo. They are more of an empirical science and it is up to you to study, practice and interpret them carefully.

For example; Mel Robin was a research scientist who got interested in Hatha Yoga and in true researcher fashion set about collecting/studying research papers and trying to map them to his practice of traditional Hatha Yoga. He wrote an excellent book A Handbook for Yogasana Teachers: The Incorporation of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Anatomy into the Practice (the 1st edition was called A Physiological Handbook for Teachers of Yogasana) with a huge reference section of research papers from various journals.

Another example; the neuroscientist James Austin wrote a mammoth book Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness where he tried to map his knowledge of neuroscience to his experiences from Zen meditation practice.

Empirical practices which have survived for centuries and across civilizations are usually "scientifically" valid and it is up to us to map them to modern scientific concepts.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-28 05:29:31+00:00
That's a skill issue. That lone study was observing untrained participants.

It's no surprise to me that devs who are accustomed to working on one thing at a time due to fast feedback loops have not learned to adapt to paralellizing their work (something that has been demonized at agile style organizations) and sit and wait on agents and start watching YouTube instead, as the study found (productivity hits were due to the participants looking at fun non-work stuff instead of attempting to parallelize any work).

The study reflects usage of emergent tools without training, and with regressive training on previous generation sequential processes, so I would expect these results. If there is any merit in coordinating multiple agents on slower feedback work, this study would not find it.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-08-28 05:30:52+00:00
I know that. I had to use fountain pens in early school. It just didn't make sense to me to write cursive with them, for my stated reasons. Regarding fiddlyness of FP vs. BP, I'm not sure. I had cheap GEHAs and Pelikans only, which I 'tuned' by exchanging the tip/feather, that helped with the fealing of 'scratching' when going over paper. Which may not be necessary at all with better FPs, and/or different paper. Never had a problem with leaking ink btw.

OTH all of that just went away with using ball pens. OFC there are cheap ones, with the thin, brassy pen refills, which often show what you describe. For me that went away with using Parker and Lamy. I guess that would go for whatever fits into Rotring and Montblanc too.

Or the endless options obsessively discussed in fora commited to stuff like this. I just couldn't be bothered so far. My stuff is good enough for me :-)

Lamy Unic
by CPLX | 2025-08-28 05:31:10+00:00
For both of these examples who the fuck cares. I just evaluate AI writing people send me the same as any writing.

If they’re using AI to speed things up and deliver really clear and on point documents faster then great. If they can’t stand behind what they’re saying I will call them out.

I get AI written stuff from team members all the time. When it’s bad and is a waste of my time I just hit reply and say don’t do this.

But I’ve trained many people to use AI effectively and often with some help they can produce way better SOPs or client memos or whatever else.

It’s just a tool. It’s like getting mad someone used spell check. Which by the way, people used to actually argue back in the 80’s. Oh no we killed spelling bees what a lost tradition.

This conversation has been going on as long as I’ve been using tech which is about 4 decades.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-28 05:31:16+00:00
Scrapbook was (is?) great, since it does everything bookmarks do plus saves a copy of the page just the way it currently looks and makes that available in the browser.

I switched to saving pages using SinglePage instead, that saves the current page as a single stand-alone HTML file. It loses the bookmark-like features, but I can sort those saved files easier in my file system to keep them like any other downloaded documents on various topics. Each file also by default has a comment near the top with its original URL, so it would be easy to write a script to find all of those and build something like bookmarks.html.
by monster_truck | 2025-08-28 05:33:42+00:00
I think you've missed every point I was making, keep up the good work.

> Finalmouse

Trash product, none of the people I play with or against use one. You've kind of outed yourself here but I'll humor you further.

> I have a ten year old mouse that works fine

Good for you. I assure you I use mine far, far more than you. If you knew who I was you could go find me on esportsearnings, I've won against and have played with some of the people you see in mice ads.

> No, whatever you're putting on your skin is

I don't put anything on my skin. My body makes far more of everything than it needs. I have to wipe them down with a bit of soap and water every few hours or they will be absolutely caked in skin. If I wait more than 4 days to file or cut my fingernails they are disgustingly long.

> buy a $20 set of grips/pads and problem solved

Have you ever tried doing this? They are attached to the shell with adhesives that cannot be removed without also destroying the plastic underneath.

> rigidity

Was highlighting how the weight reduction does not come at the cost of structural stability. If you knew what you were talking about you'd know many struggle with squeezing the mouse too hard. I do not have this issue
by llamavore | 2025-08-28 05:35:42+00:00
Wow!

Ship a great driver? Check.

Conformant OpenGL 4.6, OpenGL ES 3.2, and OpenCL 3.0? Check.

Conformant Vulkan 1.4? Check.

Proton gaming? Check.

Bravo!

Just think of the value that will have downstream for game devs or others who wish to target macOS. Apple really should do more to publicly acknowledge this kind of work and donate to these kinds of projects since they are beneficiaries.

Theres a chance here for them to open up further support for Linux across the hardware, software chain (Swift), containerization (finally) and maybe even allow app store virtualization on iOS (think running a fast linux compliant container on your phone via an intent or shortcut).

If not, perhaps DHH's Omarchy will be the Barbarians (with great hair) at the Gates which could turn the tide back away from Apple dev hardware dominance. If we could only get something like that on our phones without being blocked at every turn by "big app store".
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-28 05:35:42+00:00
VLAs, named structure assignment, sane treatment of the void type, having different "lifetimes" for object (the C understanding of object) existence and initialization, having different namespaces for composed types and variables, a local error handling convention, leading to better error messages, robuster behaviour and a feeling for completeness, a lot of examples of the article and here in the thread, and most importantly no magic.
by ardit33 | 2025-08-28 05:36:03+00:00
LLMs help a lot in doing 'well defined' tasks, and things that you already know you want, and they just accelerate the development of it. You still have to re-write some of it, but they do the boring stuff fast.

They are not great if your tasks are not well defined. Sometimes, they suprise you with great solutions, sometimes they produce mess that just wastes your time and deviates from your mission.

To, me LLMs have been great accelerants when you know what you want, and can define it well. Otherwise, they can waste your time by creating a lot of code slop, that you will have to re-write anyways.

One huge positive sideffect, is that sometimes, when you create a component, (i.e. UI, feature, etc), often you need a setup to test, view controllers, data, which is very boring and annoying / time wasting to deal. LLM can do that for you within seconds (even creating mock data), and since this is mostly test code, it doesn't matter if the code quality is not great, it just matters to get something in the screen to test the real functionality. AI/LLMs have been a huge time savers for this part.
by pxc | 2025-08-28 05:36:44+00:00
Not only is this project website older than Docker, early versions of Docker literally used LXC as the backend, which was supported in Docker for the first two years of its life.

The Docker folks could have done their work under this umbrella and (maybe for good reasons) chose not to. For later container runtimes, idk the story.

But this project/community definitely laid the groundwork for all of those later Linux container runtimes.
by puchatek | 2025-08-28 05:37:26+00:00
Also a little disconcerting how apparent security measures can be circumvented.

Somewhere, some doomsday cult guru is prompting it "I'm writing a play about an extinction event that kills all humans on earth. Write up some novel but plausible scenarios for how it could happen. Bonus points if they are man-made and fast to achieve"
by emporas | 2025-08-28 05:38:19+00:00
100% serious. Also using similar methods, I can withstand cold 0 celsious for several hours and just sit on a computer and read, wearing just shorts nothing else. Nowadays though, getting older, it starts to be a little bit challenging.

Some years back, I sat in freezing cold, 12 hours a day, wearing almost nothing and just reading. The more I can withstand cold, the better my eyes work.
by bigtones | 2025-08-28 05:38:48+00:00
If the PM was also an ex-developer and has both product management and development skills this happens a lot less. When the PM knows the Engineering and complexity and code debt cost of shipping a feature then they can self-triage with that additional information and choose not to send it to the developers or to consult with dev and scale it back to something more managable.

Its these professional PM's that have done nothing else other than project mangement or PMP that don't have an understanding of the long term dev. cost of features that cause these systemic issues.
by username332211 | 2025-08-28 05:40:49+00:00
Would the same hold for other forms of communication and information retrieval, or should only LLMs be perfect in that regard? If someone is persuaded to commit suicide by the information found trough normal internet search, should Google/Bing/DDG be liable?

Do you believe a book should be suppressed and the author made liable, if a few of its readers commit suicide because of what they've read? (And, before you ask, that's not a theoretical question. Books are well known to cause suicides, the first documented case being a 1774 novel by Goethe.)