MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ogou | 2025-08-03 15:02:15+00:00
After watching so many work chats disintegrate from politics, social commentary, or pedantic arguments I have totally avoided all unstructured channels. Since 2020 I saw two people get fired after discussions got out of hand. There were many more team meetings, code of conduct edicts, and all hands declarations about communication issues. It wasn't until the bans on politics in Slack arrived until things got better. Even now there are people I will screenshot any DMs that have even a hint of conflict. I doubt I will ever participate in any work chats in a social way again.
by sunscream89 | 2025-08-03 15:02:33+00:00
The core idea has merit. “Curation” is the word you are looking for and it is a powerfully successful tool for being in the middle of people’s interests. A valuable proposition.

The trick is to do as little as necessary to provide the most essential end result in isolation.

You have big dreams, scale them back to this one idea, you are curating YouTube (or other stream source) content.

You cannot possibly process all YouTube content. Consider an interface like invidious with an alt button that queues the video, and from that precache clusters of recommendations, and then promote these to the similar interest group.

Whatever you do, curation is always a prosperous middle layer if you get the right niche interests.
by tomhow | 2025-08-03 15:02:40+00:00
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-03 15:02:58+00:00
I’m not anti social by any means. Part of my job has been flying out to talk to customers, the business dinners, helping sells to close deals (I’m more of the post sales architect), etc.

There is a bar downstairs where I live in a tourist area where I’m friends with the bartender. I’ll go down there, maybe get a drink or sip on diet soda and just talk to whoever comes down and with the bartender.

We had a regional in person get together a day before I went on vacation and the get together was supposed to be an overnight trip. I flew in the morning and flew out back home late that night just so I could attend the social events the day before the meeting.

All that and I hate remote “social” events and don’t attend. I loved our team’s quarterly get togethers where we would fly out out to one of our company’s headquarters once a quarter someone in the US. All of us are older (35+) and have lives outside of work. We come to work to make money, not to socialize.
by bogdansolga | 2025-08-03 15:03:12+00:00
Location: Romania (UTC +2), EU citizen

Remote: preferred

Willing to relocate: only to the southern part of Spain

Technologies: AI / Gen AI, Java, TypeScript, Software & Solution Architecture

CV: https://learnmicroservices.com + https://linkedin.com/in/bogdan-solga

Email: bogdan.solga /-\T gmail D()T com

I am working as a Software Development Trainer and Consultant, specialized on the Microservices Architecture and (lately) AI ecosystem. Primarily interested in Solution / Software Architect roles, especially with heavy Gen AI usage
by ej88 | 2025-08-03 15:03:35+00:00
The article just isn't that coherent for me.

> when a new model is released as the SOTA, 99% of the demand immediately shifts over to it

99% is in the wrong ballpark. Lots of users use Sonnet 4 over Opus 4, despite Opus being 'more' SOTA. Lots of users use 4o over o3 or Gemini over Claude. In fact it's never been a closer race on who is the 'best': https://openrouter.ai/rankings

>switch from opus ($75/m tokens) to sonnet ($15/m) when things get heavy. optimize with haiku for reading. like aws autoscaling, but for brains.

they almost certainly built this behavior directly into the model weights

???

Overall the article seems to argue that companies are running into issues with usage-based pricing due to consumers not accepting or being used to usage based pricing and it's difficult to be the first person to crack and switch to usage based.

I don't think it's as big of an issue as the author makes it out to be. We've seen this play out before in cloud hosting.

- Lots of consumers are OK with a flat fee per month and using an inferior model. 4o is objectively inferior to o3 but millions of people use it (or don't know any better). The free ChatGPT is even worse than 4o and the vast majority of chatgpt visitors use it!

- Heavy users or businesses consume via API and usage based pricing (see cloud). This is almost certainly profitable.

- Fundamentally most of these startups are B2B, not B2C
by Eisenstein | 2025-08-03 15:03:36+00:00
Even if were to accept those things as true, stating things which are true is not the only indication of good faith. It is a widely used tactic to use rules only followed by one side against that side. Example (feel free to replace "I" with "my supporters" here): If I believed that anything I did in my interest was acceptable, but you believed that you were bound to work in the interest of the public, then I could claim that you giving your son a government job was corrupt and you would be bound to defend that, whereas if you claimed giving my son-in-law and my daughter government jobs was corrupt I would just ignore you.
by wslh | 2025-08-03 15:04:22+00:00
This is when I switch to a programming language that doesn't block me from compiling and running just because I forgot some intricate detail. Ironically, I often find assembly programming much friendly.

BTW, I continue to maintain some C++ software, and I like cryptopp [1]. I know people now use libsodium.

[1] https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp
by DaveZale | 2025-08-03 15:04:35+00:00
Last night was a rare oddity when I tune into those classic tv shows on Roku, and the best viewing was an original Star Trek in which Captain Kirk gets cloned into an android that is indistinguishable from the original.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Are_Little_Girls_Made_O...

10th item in this playlist: https://archive.org/details/star-trek-tos-original-effects

The theme of AI/androids regarding themselves as superior to their human creators, including exterminating them, seems relevant to today's mad rush of unbridled AI development by characters like Zuckerberg and Altman (maybe they too bear some similarities to misanthropic androids?)
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-03 15:05:04+00:00
What I'm curious about is how a type system can be used to encode business logic in a way that it can tell when something is encoded in a way that doesn't make logical sense? How can a type system detect an error in my business logic if the language I'm encoding it in is the type system itself? Wouldn't I need a higher-higher order language on top of it to validate the higher-order language?
by codelikeawolf | 2025-08-03 15:05:47+00:00
I take at least 6 - 8 flights a year and I have never needed to show up to the airport 2 hours early, but for some reason, I still do. Maybe it's superstition? I almost always end up at my gate within 15 minutes of walking into the airport (thanks TSA PreCheck!) That being said, even if I could confidently start showing up 45 minutes before my plane is about to take off, I'm essentially just sitting around at home, waiting to get a ride to the airport. So I'm either sitting in a chair on my laptop at home or doing the same at the airport. At least the airport has a Starbucks.
by HelloImSteven | 2025-08-03 15:07:05+00:00
Lambda has 1mil free requests per month, so there’s a chance it would be free depending on your usage. But still, it’s not straightforward at all, so I get it.

Perhaps requiring support for bill capping is the right way to go, but honestly I don’t see why providers don’t compete at all here. Customers would flock to any platform with something like “You set a budget and uptime requirements, we’ll figure out what needs to be done”, with some sort of managed auto-adjustment and a guarantee of no overage charges.

Ah well, one can only dream.
by classichasclass | 2025-08-03 15:07:09+00:00
(author) I thought PA-RISC could go a lot further. It had good performance and a fairly sane ISA, and HP put a lot of work into it. Dropping it for Itanic was one of HP's poorest decisions, because compilers just weren't sophisticated enough to make EPIC VLIW efficient, and arguably still aren't. The issue about the "one instruction per cycle" limit got addressed in a different way.
by lossolo | 2025-08-03 15:11:02+00:00
Sorry, but this is yet another out of touch fantasy that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how international politics and state recognition work. Buying an island and building a mega science facility like "CERN 2.0" doesn’t entitle you to nationhood. Even if you poured billions into infrastructure and claimed independence with your own private military, you wouldn’t be recognized as a sovereign state.

Recognition isn't just about capability or money, it's about political legitimacy. No major country would support such a move because it sets a dangerous precedent. If unilateral declarations of independence by billionares were normalized, it would embolden separatist movements globally, from Catalonia to Kashmir to Taiwan and undermine existing international norms. That’s a geopolitical headache no one wants.

Even CERN 3.0 won't get you a seat at the UN.
by adev_ | 2025-08-03 15:11:07+00:00
> And like always, the problem std::meta is purported to solve has been solved for years.

It is rare to read something more moronic than that

The Rust equivalent of std::meta (procedural macros) are heavily used everywhere including in serialization framework, debugging and tracers.

And that's not surprising at all: Compile time introspection is much more powerful and lightweight than codegen for exactly the same usage.
by omoikane | 2025-08-03 15:11:11+00:00
Probably more of a hat tip to this one:

https://www.ioccc.org/2000/natori/index.html

https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2000/natori/...

It's interesting how the same 2551443 bitmask appears in the time calculation for both.
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by helloitsozay | 2025-08-03 15:11:19+00:00
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I was constantly switching between mockups, docs, and tools like Balsamiq, Jira and Notion. It felt disjointed and time-consuming. I wanted a space where the interface itself could be the center of planning.

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by akoboldfrying | 2025-08-03 15:12:06+00:00
I agree with you that there being two complaints rather than one strengthens the accusers' case, and that there's either collusion, or not. (Collusion is something I don't discount as a possibility -- it happens all the time.)

In the no-collusion case, I think how much the accused's behaviour needs to be addressed depends on details that have been left vague in the accusers' posts. I certainly think that continuing to contact someone after they have asked you not to do so is a violation. Regarding what I take as Yifan's main claim:

> There was another time that he insisted on having intercourse regardless of me didn’t want to.

If she expressed her unwillingness, then this is straightforward rape and JP belongs behind bars. Explicit consent is rightly the gold standard, but in practice I think many people, men and women, prefer to proceed on (fallible) intuition. If she did not express consent because she felt she was under duress, the situation is murkier. Immediate physical threat? This would still be rape, but her later actions contradict this. Fearing loss of her future career? I don't buy that JP has that much power over her. Merely fearing loss of the "treats" JP provided her through his high status (Twitter highlighting, introducing her to others in the community, etc.)? I don't know what the law says, but in my opinion, that would be an implicit quid pro quo that she chose to accept, and not rape.

But what makes me suspect that it was none of those things was this:

> During those horrifying days, I felt that he was treating me as an object. For instance, he distanced me at conferences but wanted to be intimate in Airbnb.

Sexual harassment is not conditional on whether the accused smiles at you and and makes you feel valued the next day. I think this excerpt shows that she was likely initially romantically interested in JP, and had sex with him willingly under the belief that they would become an item, but later felt hurt when she realised that he was interested in her only for sex. If so, then JP manipulated her emotions callously, but his crime is ultimately no worse than the crime of a beautiful woman who dangles the possibility of sex before a hopeful male "friend" in order to secure his attention, without any intention of having sex with him. In the latter case, we might feel sympathy for the man, but we do not expect a convention they are both attending, let alone the police, to take seriously his complaint of manipulation.

We might also think that the "friendzoned" man has to some degree brought this suffering on himself, by not being upfront about his intentions -- and that as an adult, he should have known better.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-03 15:13:18+00:00
The Metaverse was more about virtual reality than AR .. a virtual place where remote teams would work and business meetings be held etc, and as such seems to be a complete flop. This is just not how remote teams want to work. Superior VR googles are of course used for gaming too.

AR seems to be mostly a solution, or technology, looking for a problem. It's a bit like envisioning a future full of flying cars, or humanoid robots walking among us, or even wired picture phones (World Fair 1964). Just because you can, doesn't mean you will have "product market fit" and that people will find a use or want to use what you have built.

Maybe AR will find niche professional or entertainment uses (cf Segway) - could imagine using them in a museum or on a guided tourist tour, perhaps.

It's funny that Zuck as creator of FaceBook, seems to misjudge human nature so badly in the case of Metaverse or mass-adoption smart glasses AR. It seems he maybe just got lucky that his college dating app grew into something much larger and more successful, although he does seem quite competent as a CEO, just not as the serial entrepreneur he seems to fancy himself as.
by fma | 2025-08-03 15:13:26+00:00
American airports are inefficient. Unless you're flying from a rural airport, expect long security lines. Even with TSA precheck it can take 30 minutes. I also recently found out it is not always open (only during core hours).

Also we don't have good mass transportation. If you're in EU, Asia you can take a train and be pretty certain you'll get there on time (barring a big event). In the US...a crash on the interstate can wreck your day. A sporting event can cause huge traffic jams on the main arterial road. So I to leave my house early enough for the 2/3 hour "before the flight" to pad for that.

My recent international flights were out of Mexico, London, Hong Kong and security lines are short. I was expecting some kind of secondary check point (Having said that I recall flying out of Toronto and it was like Disney world line)
by kstrauser | 2025-08-03 15:13:39+00:00
I cannot relax before I’ve physically visited the gate, starting from the night before. I sleep poorly before a flight, waking up a hundred times to glance at the clock to make sure I haven’t overslept.

I’ve never overslept. It doesn’t matter.

So, my mental options are 1) give in, get up, take a leisurely trip to the airport without worries of an unplanned traffic slowdown, get through security, stroll to my gate to make sure I know where it is, then find a lounge and chill in relaxation knowing that everything’s fine, or 2) stress out that something might go wrong and make me miss my flight up and wish I’d left earlier.

I know me. I’ve done this plenty of times. This is my choice. So I go with the first every time: get there too early, then chill more than I possibly could if I were anywhere else. Either way I’m going to be up and moving. Why not use that time to radically de-stress my morning?
by motorest | 2025-08-03 15:14:54+00:00
> In fact it's never been a closer race on who is the 'best'

Thank you for pointing out that fact. Sometimes it's very hard to keep perspective.

Sometimes I use Mistral as my main LLM. I know it's not lauded as the top performing LLM but the truth of the matter is that it's results are just as useful as the best models that ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude outputs, and it is way faster.

There is indeed diminished returns on the current blend of commercial LLMs. Deep seek already proved that cost can be a major factor and quality can even improve. I think we're very close to see competition based on price, which might be the reason there is so much talk about mixture of experts approaches and how specialized models can drive down cost while improving targeted output.
by wtallis | 2025-08-03 15:15:25+00:00
The whole reason why 3D NAND happened and higher layer counts enable cheaper, higher density storage is that it doesn't require an etch step per layer to build the memory cells. It's just deposit several dozen layers then etch holes down through all of those layers in one step, followed by filling in those holes with different materials. (Though at 276 layers, it's a stack of more than one deck of layers built as separate batches. The aspect ratio of the holes is the limiting factor.)

But aside from that, the cost of the NAND is the variable portion of the drive's cost, not part of the fixed floor of cost necessary for a drive of any capacity.
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-03 15:16:02+00:00
It depends on the airport and when you show up, but walking straight through security with TSA PreCheck is becoming less and less of a sure thing. At SeaTac, checkpoint #5 is PreCheck only and it can still take 20-40 minutes at busy periods.

It's probably still worth it, but just keep an eye on checkpoint wait times if your airport publishes them and don't just assume PreCheck means you can show up whenever.
by spencerflem | 2025-08-03 15:16:11+00:00
I don’t think that’s true. Most people are willing to extend a good bit of grace, especially if there’s already a relationship worth preserving.

As in, if I just met someone and I know nothing about them other than they don’t like unions then we probably won’t be friends but if that came up later I’m not going to blow up a year of friendship over something like that.

OTOH if a friend started preaching white supremacy that would do it but I’d give a good shot to talking them out of it first.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-03 15:16:14+00:00
Thanks! I see that the people reporting problems with the (DRAMless) SN770 there also report no problems with the SN850X, but that might not be indicative either way—AFAIU the 8TB SN850X has somewhat different internals compared to its lower-capacity brethren. (It does put Framework’s decision to ship SN770—now SN7100—SSDs in their laptops as standard in an unfavourable light.)
by goosedragons | 2025-08-03 15:16:45+00:00
Yeah, I don't have one but it is tempting. I was thinking maybe of using Kmonad or something to turn the ; key into some sort of layer shift if I got one. But I'm already pretty used to using key layers.

I think they did it that way to make a more usable keyboard for touch typing at that size? The smaller devices like the Win Mini seem to have more like thumb keys.
by jsnell | 2025-08-03 15:16:57+00:00
> now look at the actual pricing history of frontier models, the ones that 99% of the demand is for at any given time:

The meaningful frontier isn't scalar on just the capability, it's on capability for a given cost. The highest capability models are not where 99% of the demand is on. Actually the opposite.

To get an idea of what point on the frontier people prefer, have a look at the OpenRouter statistics (https://openrouter.ai/rankings). Claude Opus 4 has about 1% of their total usage, not 99%. Claude Sonnet 4 is the single most popular model at about 18%. The runners up in volume are Gemini Flash 2.0 and 2.5, which are in turn significantly cheaper than Sonnet 4.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-03 15:17:20+00:00
If it works who cares? If vibe coding gets the job done it gets the job done. Part of the point of not wanting tech debt is it makes it harder to make changes, but if the vibe coding software can grok all that who cares? This response seems to be assuming a level of competence from vibe coding that I don’t think is there, but if it gets there (which I think is questionable) “standing by your art” is not what you’re paid to do, go sell your code in a gallery.
by LeftHandPath | 2025-08-03 15:17:31+00:00
Really, really love the interface and the way you have the calendar, FIA docs, etc available too. Shout out for the delay feature -- I was able to sync it perfectly with my TV stream!

The big problem I had was desync. Every 5-10 minutes, random parts of the interface would stop updating. Sometimes the whole page would blank out. I was able to fix it once by loading one of the other panels (like the FIA docs) and then going back to the live data. Eventually it broke and I wasn't able to fix it (around lap 18 or so). Thinking maybe sockets aren't reconnecting when their connection drops from the client side? And it seemed like there was some issue that prevented it from fixing with a simple refresh.
by mattmaroon | 2025-08-03 15:17:47+00:00
If it makes you feel better I’ve flown a bit more than that (not a ton more) for 25ish years and only once have I missed a flight as a result. And it was a Sunday morning leaving Las Vegas during March madness so really, I knew better.

I’ve talked to touring musicians who say they aim for 15 minutes before boarding.
by Voultapher | 2025-08-03 15:17:54+00:00
https://money.stackexchange.com/a/155106 the argument is that it doesn't dilute the stock because the thing they bought makes the company that much more worth. If they trade newly created shares for a metric ton of gold, that logic seems quite plausible, but it get's more sketchy when things like IP or companies are bought. Or as in this case even more sketchy, where I'd argue this one person will not raise the value of Meta by $250M, effectively scamming the investors.