MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dmoy | 2025-08-06 00:03:50+00:00
> How many other projects on Google Code became part of a news cycle because people misinterpreted them as being written or endorsed by Google? Was that part of why Google Code was shut down?

I don't remember the exact details, and I was way in the backend (Kythe), not the frontend part of it. But my extremely hazy recollection is it probably had more to do with the gwt deprecation than anything else. There was headcount for awhile put on making an angular (?) replacement for the old gwt frontend, and I guess that didn't extend to also making a replacement for Google code.

Again, super fuzzy recollection here, from someone 2 teams away.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-06 00:04:29+00:00
I didn’t go to an elite high school or college (my wife did though) my high school was awful. My parents got divorced my junior year and we were on food stamps after that. I went to a state school. And not even a flagship state school.

I dropped out the first time—2 years into a history degree—because I was working full time.

Eventually I moved home, and started over with CS. Despite CS being a lot harder, I had plenty of free time to work on a startup, build side projects, and play video games.

The reason was because a few years of experience made me much better at time management and prioritization.

I’m not saying you or anyone else was bad at time management as an insult. It’s just that college the time in your adult life when you have the absolute least experience at time management, so most people are very bad at it.

But also when you average it over the whole semester, none of my friends, even the ones who were bad at their classes spent 3 hours per credit hour outside of class. The ones who were bad at it tended to just skate by with Cs.

> As a summer intern I always had deliverables.

No one cares about those deliverables though. They aren’t trusting summer interns to do anything that really needs to get done.
by Larrikin | 2025-08-06 00:05:02+00:00
After watching a few videos trying to understand how people were using LLMs and getting useful results I found that even making a simpler version of the fancy planning mode in the LLM IDEs via the instructions.md produced hugely better productivity gains.

I started adding an instruction file along the lines of "Always tell me your plan to solve the issue first with short example code, never edit files without explicit confirmation of your plan" at the start and it is like a day and night difference in how useful it becomes. It also starts to feel like programming again where you can read through various files and instead of thinking in your head, you write out your thoughts. You end up getting confirmation or push back on errors that you can clean up.

Reading through a sort of wrong sort of right implementation spread across various files after every prompt just really sucked.

I'm not one shotting massive amounts of files, but I am enjoying the lack of grunt work.
by soneca | 2025-08-06 00:05:19+00:00
The (1928) is part of the title of the article, not the usual HN practice of dating an article. The article itself seems to be very recent.

Another note is that the word “canibal” also exists in Portuguese and they conscientiously chose the (maybe neologism) “antropófago”. Which kind of means the same thing, but using Greek radicals. My translation to English would be ” Anthropophagy”, not cannibalism. The intention was to make clear the allegorical use of the term.
by babel16 | 2025-08-06 00:05:49+00:00
Hi, this is OP! Thank you to everyone for pointing this out, you are not crazy-- these puzzles were impossible after I removed some invalid words from the dictionary. I had previously replaced the puzzles, but my branch state seems to have gotten out of sync. Please restart Aug 1 and 4 if you'd like, there should be new puzzles to try now!
by xrmagnum | 2025-08-06 00:05:52+00:00
It's striking how much of the AI conversation focuses on new use cases, while overlooking one of the most serious non-financial costs: privacy.

I try to be mindful of what I share with ChatGPT, but even then, asking it to describe my family produced a response that was unsettling in its accuracy and depth.

Worse, after attempting to delete all chats and disable memory, I noticed that some information still seemed to persist. That left me deeply concerned—not just about this moment, but about where things are headed.

The real question isn't just "what can AI do?"—it's "who is keeping the record of what it does?" And just as importantly: "who watches the watcher?" If the answer is "no one," then maybe we shouldn't have a watcher at all.
by fzeroracer | 2025-08-06 00:06:10+00:00
Yes, and this thread is very specifically about what the HHS is doing and what RFK Jr is saying. Where he is again, specifically, winding down mRNA vaccine development, redirecting funding and cancelling grants even if they contain a whiff of the word 'mRNA'. The 'messenger' in this case holds a loaded gun and has no qualms about using it to kill science he doesn't like.
by tjader | 2025-08-06 00:07:19+00:00
> Because I assume that you agree that eating 100 calories of Pop-Tarts per hour for 18 hours for 30 days, would give you a different result than eating 3 days worth of Pop-Tarts in a few hours once every 3 days for a month.

I agree that you would feel very differently in those situations and it's likely you wouldn't spend the same amount of energy unless you really make an effort to do it.

I don't agree that if you do make an effort to spend the same amount of energy you would have different results with regards to weight loss.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-08-06 00:07:39+00:00
Yeah, it goes way back, but it has definitely flared up recently.

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" - Asimov, 1980
by kristjansson | 2025-08-06 00:08:04+00:00
I'm the first to admit I'm not a heavy C++ user, so I'm not a great judge of the quality looking at the code itself ... but ggml-org has 400 contributors on ggml, 1200 on llama.cpp and has kept pace with ~all major innovations in transformers over the last year and change. Clearly some people can and do make meaningful contributions.
by coderatlarge | 2025-08-06 00:08:10+00:00
fwiw, i agree with most of the points in @Fomite’s response below. the people i’ve known fall into a perverse version of his “ego” point.

they felt that when they got tenure they “won” and their “ego” was strong enough to allow them to ignore the disapproval of their peers for not doing the conventionally expected things. they felt that they knew better in their hearts what the discipline truly needed and that the rat-race of establishment approval wasn’t it. so they turned inward. which is not necessarily the healthiest path imo.
by estearum | 2025-08-06 00:09:17+00:00
He's talking about the Antichrist dude... he's a devout Christian... they believe in things like the Antichrist.

People really do be bending over backwards not to hear the words spoken to them if they seem too wacky to be palatable. Dark secret though: billions of people believe truly wacky shit. Some of those people are unbelievably wealthy.

Anyone can go read the transcript. It's quite clear he's saying he believes Greta might very well be the Antichrist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antic...
by tamimio | 2025-08-06 00:09:36+00:00
Thank you! No matter how I explain this simple idea that standups are nothing but micromanagement, it never rings a bell. They might work in very limited situations and scopes, but they are never a generic framework to follow, and I blame Silicon Valley for normalizing it. What is worse is some companies try to force it in engineering work, and not just the software part of engineering, where you could spend a whole two weeks researching some topic. I remember in a previous job a novice manager (who only managed few coops before) tried to force it in a company that built robotics, and later I explained to him that they don't add any value let alone increase productivity. He took it personally and it was the crack that eventually was the reason why I left the company, despite me loving the technical work part.
by alisonatwork | 2025-08-06 00:10:05+00:00
My mother worked in academia on the teaching and administrative side and said it was pretty much the same there too. In her experience even at public universities, it was all about the money. In order for the department or faculty to justify itself, it needs to bring in revenue, and the number one way to do that (along with those research grants) is international students. But the most reliable source of international students who can afford the fees are not necessarily the world's best and brightest, they're the kids of wealthy elites who see education as a business transaction - we pay, you pass our kids. So the syllabus is adjusted to suit, and the teaching methods are adjusted to suit, and in the end everybody suffers because the system becomes structured around keeping the money train coming in. The education still happens, just like the research still happens, but it's happening in a suboptimal fashion, or as a side-effect rather than as the primary focus.

Sometimes I think about tapping out of private industry and getting into academia because in my imagination at least the work would be more pure, but then I think back to the stories my mother told me and realize most likely it isn't.

I agree that the only answer seems to be serious change at the highest levels of government, i.e. revolution. Aside from advocating for that, it seems the best we can do is try exist within these systems and find niches where we can create value for society without feeling too much like our morals are being compromised in the process. It's not easy.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-06 00:10:50+00:00
Ever since covid, I playfully ask people if they can guess why a lot of COVID non believers stocked up on toilet paper and food at the beginning of the lockdown.

Of course many say "they somehow thought it wouldn't be available later stupidly!" But I look past that one, and ask for possibly other reasons.

I have asked probably 100 people at this point.

Not a SINGLE person has said "in case they were wrong about the virus, and it was actually dangerous, they wouldn't want to leave their house to go get stuff"

That was the reason my family bought. And some of my anti COVID friends. And no one has guessed that. And they almost can't believe it or understand it.

And this is coming from people who took the virus seriously, but apparently didn't think ahead to not have to leave their house for basic dry goods?
by pamelafox | 2025-08-06 00:12:05+00:00
I think it'd be amazing if I had the energy to make up improv bedtime stories every night. (We have a "King Dragon" improv series happening lately, which involves a lot of farts)

BUT, I don't always have that energy, and I already spend hours a day reading stories to my kids, so I am okay with them spending some fraction of time hearing stories from robots/screens/etc. (Lately, it's "Hey Google, tell a story" if mommy is too busy to read)

I hope we never stop paying amazing children's book illustrators though! I have so many books where I marvel at each page and the ingenuity of the illustrative style.
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-06 00:12:07+00:00
- have most wanted product and fab pipeline of the century

- be bullied by little Orange

- ???

- no profit

The US administration heavily underestimates how much every nation on the planet wants TSMC. This deal is so bad, just from a comparison point of view.

It's not like the EU, India, and other nations don't want chips. That's what the egocentric US administration doesn't seem to understand.

You can't bully nations into submission, at some point the winds will change.

Guess what, that already happened. The media in the EU is making a joke out of US politics on a daily basis since the start of this term.
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by roywiggins | 2025-08-06 00:14:01+00:00
I think things will look a lot more like Vinge's Rainbows End than everyone burrowing into their own personal algoentertainment. I can't speak for GenZ but when D&D can sell out Madison Square Garden, there doesn't seem to be any softening in people's interest in fandom.

Virtual influencers might be a big thing, Hatsune Miku has lots of fans. But it's still a shared fandom.
by nextos | 2025-08-06 00:14:27+00:00
> Problem 1 is morally worst and much more common than one would hope. Outright fabricated data in a Nature or NEJM publication (as has happened) is a disaster.

In my experience, fabricated data is rare. But cherry-picking data and misuse of statistics to prove the desired hypotheses is extremely common in top journals from e.g. the Nature Portfolio journal family. I'd say at least 1/5 of the articles in biology and medicine have serious methodological errors.

IMHO, the main reason are perverse incentives and power imbalance. If you are a student or a postdoc and you get pressure from your supervisor to obtain certain result and you refuse to engage in academic misconduct, you will get pushed out of most projects and this might be the end of your academic career.

In contrast, there are few, if any, consequences for the senior scientists and principal investigators who perpetuate this culture. There's no oversight, no integrity checks, nothing. Universities tend to ignore even clear cases of data fabrication and fraud, where e.g. images derived from experiments are fake. Ultimately, this creates selective pressure for misconduct, as those willing to bend the rules are rewarded.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 00:14:42+00:00
> and there are people who don't get fat no matter what they eat.

This is a myth.

When you actually track what these people eat, their daily caloric intake averages out to numbers you'd expect. At best, the difference between "fast metabolism" and "slow metabolism" people in studies comes out to a couple hundred calories per day.

You may witness someone consume 2 pizzas and a soda in one sitting without getting fat, but that person is consuming fewer calories for the rest of the day or the week to offset it.
by pstuart | 2025-08-06 00:16:10+00:00
The weasel wording around "belief" doesn't help.

The two use cases of the words are not the same:

1. belief: a world view that exists without needing external validation (i.e., "faith") 2. belief: an understanding of some kind, based on some collection of evidence

Some of that confusion is just ignorance and lack of critical reasoning skills, but it's also done in bad faith to muddy the waters to discredit the other side.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-06 00:16:45+00:00
One thing about human nature that I rarely see mentioned is people tend to behave as you expect them to.

If you expect them to be honest, they'll be honest.

If you expect them to be thieves, they'll be thieves.

If you expect them to be on time, they'll be on time.

And so on.

(Of course there are exceptions.)
by Jensson | 2025-08-06 00:16:48+00:00
> East Germany comes to mind as well as the rest of the Cold War countries behind the Iron Curtain

Psychology around ads and how to manipulate peoples thoughts were not nearly as well understood at the time. Large scale studies based on data collected of peoples behavior on computers has lead to dramatically better ability to manipulate and nudge people to do what you want.

The information environment was more oppressive there, but it was easier for people to have their own thoughts since the marketing was forced and blatant but way less manipulative and devious.
by CompoundEyes | 2025-08-06 00:17:10+00:00
This music sounds like the visual equivalent of one of those motion settings on a tv that cause the "Soap Opera Effect".

I'm wondering if the LLM is failing to emulate the odd and even harmonics of real recordings and that's why it seems so unnatural. It makes me feel sick. It's different than the sterile straight to digital recordings of the late 80s early 90s too.

Do any of these let people download the individual track stems? I'd be curious if taking all the stems and running them through analog hardware would remedy it. The LLM needs a producer.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-06 00:17:16+00:00
> It's not confirmation bias when it's more then 1 in every 3 people

If you construct your argument to exclude the 2 out of 3 people who are not overweight and then point out that the remaining 1/3 is overweight, that's the definition of confirmation bias.

It's also a disingenuous argument because not all of those 40% are actively trying and failing to modulate their weight in any way. Most people just don't care.
by washadjeffmad | 2025-08-06 00:17:46+00:00
Apple!, person (restroom style), basketball (as described to someone who has never seen one), trash (drag down to open?).

The perspective of the new icons matches the non-euclidean plane of existence Apple's current designers famously occupy, but they're a little uncomfortable to try to make sense of to a regular Earth-dweller like me.
by metalman | 2025-08-06 00:18:40+00:00
this idea has been floated for a long time now, and the missing piece is that native indiginous peoples used fire as a controlled landscape tool, to create nitches for certain species they wanted, and to have fire breaks in case of extream dry weather occuring, also there were many more beavers and the flood zones they created acting as beariers, plus there was at most 10% of todays human population, no power lines or other such ignition sources, and if true, a lot less lightning, and it was cooler and wetter.....so definitly more factors than just an increased amount of brush and other tinder due to fire supression.
by m-s-y | 2025-08-06 00:18:51+00:00
No, they are idiots. Not at media consumption, but idiots at life.

There are certain life skills that can be considered “smart” like revisiting your established opinions when presented with new information, or knowing that encountering a new piece of information from a single source doesn’t carry the weight of encountering it in dozens of places, or that making a mistake doesn’t guarantee that your existence is doomed but been presented with a learning experience.

The “stupid” folks refuse to take the simplest steps to better themselves. They refuse to self-evaluate honestly. That’s the root cause. This stupidness results in them being duped and misinformed.

Therefore, when one encounters an uninformed and duped person, it’s not out of line to consider that person “stupid”.

So when people like OP say that people are stupid, it’s not a dig via victim blaming. It’s a judgement that they’re clearly being stupid, that their poor life skills need work because they ended up misinformed.
by TheDong | 2025-08-06 00:19:06+00:00
> iMessage search works quite well if you can find it buried in the interface

And as long as you only want to search all messages, not a single conversation.

Let me give an example: I know a person sent me an image in imessage about one year ago. How do I search "from:user has:attachment date:2024-07-*"?

In gmail that's easy, in discord, that's easy. Does imessage search have literally any of those filters?

Searching within one chat seems especially like it's table-stakes for any chat app's search
by simonw | 2025-08-06 00:19:10+00:00
"Until you dive deeper and discover that most of what the AI agents provided you was completely wrong..."

Oddly enough, I don't think that actually matters too much to the dedicated autodidact.

Learning well is about consulting multiple sources and using them to build up your own robust mental model of the truth of how something works.

If you can really find the single perfect source of 100% correct information then great, I guess... but that's never been my experience. Every source of information has its flaws. You need to build your own mental model with a skeptical eye from as many sources as possible.

As such, even if AI makes mistakes it can still accelerate your learning, provided you know how to learn and know how to use tips from AI as part of your overall process.

Having an unreliable teacher in the mix may even be beneficial, because it enforces the need for applying critical thinking to what you are learning.
by mc32 | 2025-08-06 00:19:30+00:00
Crack was affordable --mostly preppies used coke. Your everyday Joe bought crack. It was bad. I saw what it did to people. But from what I hear about Meth it's just so much worse. People on crack would steal money and they were very flakey but they could still show up to work. Meth addicts just can't function. Alcoholics can function. Now with regard to alcohol, it's such a historically baked-in party of society -we've had it with us for myriads there is no prying it away from folks despite the devastation it brings to its addicts --but that said, it's far from being as bad as Meth.
by pxc | 2025-08-06 00:19:44+00:00
> I am actually able to use ChatGPT 4.5 as not just an employee, not even just as a coworker, but at times as a mentor or senior advisor: I can tell it what I am trying to do, and it helps me by applying advanced mathematical insights or suggesting things I could use.

You can still do that sort of thing, but just have it perform searches whenever it has to deal with a matter of fact. Just because it's trained for tool use and equipped with search tools doesn't mean you have to change the kinds of things you ask it.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-06 00:19:52+00:00
How is it not a different point of view to think that healthcare should be tied to one's employment as opposed to all people should have access to affordable healthcare? We can discuss if Obamacare achieved what it wanted to do as I believe it was not very successful, but it at its core is a different view point. Yes, people believing other countries pay the tariffs are clearly not understanding of how tariffs work. But then you went made some clearly erroneous comment that ruined everything else just to get back to stupidity. Which by your standards means you must be stupid too for continuing to put forth a clearly wrong point.
by pstuart | 2025-08-06 00:20:37+00:00
These tariffs are presented as trying to bolster domestic industry but that's a smokescreen. The primary goal is to use this to replace income taxes so the rich are freed from their onerous (/s) taxation.

The bonus is that it's a tool for punishing perceived enemies and inciting interested parties to purchase favor from the regime to try and ease them back.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/business/taxes-trump-tariffs
by simonw | 2025-08-06 00:20:44+00:00
> So many people are using the "slightly better chatbots" every single day.

To back that up, here's a rare update on stats from OpenAI: https://x.com/nickaturley/status/1952385556664520875

> This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year.