MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bamboozled | 2025-08-14 07:31:56+00:00
I've done a lot of wood work and there is almost zero doubt in my mind it's a router.It's flexible, brilliant, time saving, repeatable (with templates) and you can do a lot of damage with it in a very short amount of time. I'd never call it a Hammer.

With regards to the models I use. I'm pretty much using Claude Sonnet 4 with Claude Code and Gemini 2.5. In my opinion Sonnet 4 is the most superior model I've used yet, although I've not used GPT-5. Where some of my attitude comes from is even in the way you get used to using differnt models, like you really kind of get a grasp for how to prompt them and kind of know what to expect. That's where I don't see them so much as an intelligence, but an approximation engine. I feel that what many "coders" fail to realize is how extremely common the patterns they're employing to solve a problem are. The approximation engine can see that as numbers, match it and give you a similar eyt slightly modified (to your context) version of what you want.

These models have been trained on probably hundreds of millions or billions of lines of code after all, yet there probably isn't all that much variation in what most code looks like. What you'll notice is that it's horrible at coding in anything it's not trained on. Recently I tried to use it with FastHTML, and it knows almost nothing about it, and the author of that project will even provide you with a context file you can give your "AI" to use so it can "understand" how to code with it.

We also follow like common architectural patterns to get them most out of "AI". We've found that to be very helpful to reduce the amount of random and unhelpful code we get out of them.
by hnarn | 2025-08-14 07:33:57+00:00
> Are there any good Linux distros left with 32-bit x86 support?

I would rather be surprised if there isn't. I think antiX is one option,[1] PuppyLinux and probably Alpine Linux.

[1]: https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/will-antix-24-suppor...
by qcnguy | 2025-08-14 07:34:54+00:00
Sounds like you're Old Left? The left's positions have changed since 1900 you know.

Labour is fully committed to mass immigration and "diversity", refuses to reduce welfare by even a penny despite imminent financial crisis, has implemented big tax rises, has soaked the rich so much they're all leaving, and this article is about it enforcing heavy handed regulation of information distribution. All that sounds very left wing to me, judged by the modern goals the left have.
by benrutter | 2025-08-14 07:36:53+00:00
I'm not assuming anything, this is from a ticket for fdroid on google:

> Our machines run older server grade CPUs, that indeed do not support the newer SSE4_1 and SSSE3.[0]

I.e. the problem is because fdroid have older CPUs, newer ones would be able to build. I only mentioned it in terms of what the plans to fix might be. I have zero idea if upgrading servers is the best way to go.

[0] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/438515318?pli=1
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-14 07:36:58+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

> Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment in court for any monetary debt.

A country may separately require businesses to accept legal tender, if they feel like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender#Status_by_country would appear to indicate this distinction is very common in the developed world.
by d_k_f | 2025-08-14 07:38:33+00:00
I was talking about the definition of theft and whether what you did in your example constituted it.

If I did your taxes (as in: did all the calculations) and you took a picture of my results, copied the values, etc. no theft happened. If I filled out your tax return and you took that without paying then obviously theft happened, but I assumed you didn't mean that since then your example would have no connection to TFA.

What did happen, though, is exactly what you described: you asked someone to do work for you ("contracting"/"work for hire") and they did just that. Then you decided not to pay them, which is a simple civil law case of contract fulfillment.

EDIT: depending on the "creativity" of my tax calculations, copying them might be considered IP theft and I could come after you using the DMCA, but I guess creative accounting only goes so far ;)
by littlecranky67 | 2025-08-14 07:38:57+00:00
Mostly because it is still innovated upon. Async payments (offline receival) and trampoline payments are in the pipeline, allowing true self-custodial wallets on the smartphone.

That aside, I only use lightning with my Bitcoin-friends to settle stuff for fun. I live in a city of 300k people, and there are 3 restaurants that accept Lightning payments. Right now it is in its infancy, but I see Lightning as the only solution to actually enable web micro-payments (which failed as a standard because no credit card can provide .10 to .20 cent payments due to high fees)
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-08-14 07:39:17+00:00
This is such a weird take to me. We know exactly how LLMs and neural networks in general work.

They're just highly scaled up versions of their smaller curve fitting cousins. For those we can even make pretty visualizations that show exactly what is happening as the network "learns".

I don't mean "we can see parts of the brain light up", I mean "we can see the cuts and bends each ReLU is doing to the input".

We built these things, we know exactly how they work. There's no surprise beyond just how good prediction accuracy gets with a big enough model.

Deep Neural Networks are also a very different architecture from what is going on in our brains (which work more like Spiking Neural Networks) and our brains don't do backpropagation, so you can't even make direct comparisons.
by pointlessone | 2025-08-14 07:39:20+00:00
Nginx with certbot is annoying to setup. Especially with HTTP challenge. Mostly because of a circular dependency. You need nginx to clear the challenge and once verboten gets a cert you need to reload nginx.

I switched to Lego because it has out of the box support for my domain registrar so I could use DNS instead of HTTP challenge. It’s also a single go binary which is much simpler to install than certbot.
by astrange | 2025-08-14 07:39:26+00:00
The second law of thermodynamics devalues the money you earned. There's no way you can have $10 that always and forever buys the same things $10 currently does.

Central banks keep its value higher than the alternative, as anyone who doesn't have oppositional defiance disorder would notice from the fact that we haven't had a Great Depression lately. Because it really gets devalued if there's an economic collapse and all the businesses you trade with cease to exist.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-14 07:39:36+00:00
I actually think the main problem is that they aren't even willing to admit that there is a problem. It's the classic "our program is great; if users have issues it's because they are using it wrong / didn't read the manual / are stupid".

Go and look up why you can't run scripts with `python3 foo.py` on Windows. It's like a one-line fix and they've come up with all sorts of naysaying reasons rather than just adding python3.exe (which Microsoft did years ago in their Python packages).
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-08-14 07:40:01+00:00
> 80W TDP as a desktop terminal would be an insane waste of energy when that's less capable than some no-name Android table with a 5W ARM SoC which can even paly 1080p Youtube while the Pentium 4 cannot

Insane how far hardware got: the pentium 4 engineers probably felt like the smartest people alive and now a pentium 4 looks almost as ridiculous and outdated to us as vacuum tube computers.
by OutOfHere | 2025-08-14 07:40:24+00:00
It's not about what I want. It's about what Amazon wants, has said they will institute, and what is already legal.

Yes, in a manner of speaking it could be like that, except that stablecoins can be self-custodied, safely be sent to others, and be exchanged for other stablecoins and forms of money, etc. I will not apologize for the cluelessness of other people.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-14 07:40:29+00:00
> fees are for fraud prevention and sanctions compliance

Visa and Mastercard’s pre-tax income margins for the quarter ending on 30 June were 62% and 57% respectively [1][2]. That is $10bn a quarter in absent competition.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/V/financials/ $6.33 on 10.2bn

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MA/financials/ 4.67 on 8.13bn
by omcnoe | 2025-08-14 07:40:46+00:00
I think that functional languages do actually have some advantages when it comes to LLM's, but not due to terseness.

Rather, immutability/purity is a huge advantage because it plays better with the small context window of LLM's. An LLM then doesn't have to worry about side effects or mutable references to data outside the scope currently being considered.
by gylterud | 2025-08-14 07:40:55+00:00
I have found that Haskell has two good things going for it when it comes to LLM code generation. Both have to do with correctness.

The expressive type system catches a lot of mistakes, and the fact that they are compile errors which can be fed right into the LLM again means that incorrect code is caught early.

The second is property based testing. With it I have had the LLM generate amazingly efficient, correct code, by iteratively making it more and more efficient – running quickcheck on each pass. The LLM is not super good at writing the tests, but if you add some yourself, you quickly root out any mistakes in the generated code.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-14 07:41:17+00:00
In particular, that is what happens when costs are imposed industry wide, as with credit card fees.

If the cost is only being paid by one vendor then that vendor can't raise prices or else customers would patronize one that had lower costs and passed on the savings. But if every vendor has to pay 3% then prices are going up 3%, because then the competition has no cost advantage they can pass on and people only stay in business if they're making enough to justify not doing something else. (3% is more than the entire net margin in many industries.)
by spwa4 | 2025-08-14 07:43:10+00:00
It's strange how in every Al Jazeera article you get the impression Israel is attacking ghosts, choosing to randomly kill families rather than just walk in to the welcoming Palestinians. Hamas doesn't exist except as a "partner in talks" as they put it. Hamas attacks or hostages haven't been mentioned in months.

It's so bad that it has long since stopped making sense even if it really was Israel's intention to do that. Why would they keep shooting at the same houses, at the same area? Surely they'd want some more efficiency.

In reality, of course, Israeli forces are constantly being shot at from residential neighborhoods, constantly dealing with hamas-placed mines and IEDs in the middle of residential neighborhoods and houses and it is either return fire or just outright direct hamas fire that kills families ...

How did the Iranians justify it? Oh right: "To protect them from betrayal" (meaning they'd kill entire Iranian families in order to protect them from betraying the Iranian state. Of course, no comment on what evidence Iran had that they were getting betrayed, and especially no comment on why entire families might choose to betray the Iranian state. Makes you wonder if it was just about them making plans to leave)
by thrown-0825 | 2025-08-14 07:43:42+00:00
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257958560_A_Model_f...

It suggests that shared values may predict more positive outcomes, and therapists should develop ethical sensitivity regarding value conflict.

Many patients are encouraged to shop around for therapists and typically wind up with someone they are comfortable with whos value system aligns with theirs.

AKA a private echo chamber financially incentivized to cultivate recurring revenue via emotionally dependent patients.
by Frances-Starken | 2025-08-14 07:44:14+00:00
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by fsflover | 2025-08-14 07:44:22+00:00
Thank you for the interesting insight. This is more or less what I expected.

> suspicions were plausible but incorrect

The suspicions were not about the evil will of the engineers. It's the will of Google itself (or managers, if you want), which plays the main role here. This is exactly what causes the following:

> engineering teams continued to be resource-constrained

It reminds me a bit of Boeing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19914838
by toast0 | 2025-08-14 07:44:52+00:00
> It is very much a chicken and egg problem. Merchants have no reason to adopt it if there aren't very many customers that use it, and customers have no reason to adopt it unless there are a lot of merchants, or at least some important frequently used merchants that use it.

I agree that both parties need a reason to adopt a new payment method... But the reason can't be only that there's a lot of merchants/customers that have it ... If there's benefits for enough participants, reach can drive adoption for those who don't care about the benefits, but you've got to have some material benefits to get people started.

It's got to have a good experience, too.

But from this rant, it seems like they were trying to be a middle man for instant bank payments... I don't see the value of that as a purchaser when I can use a debit card. For the merchant, running a debit card takes a small fee, but anything that needs someone to scan a QR code takes a lot of time.
by danielbln | 2025-08-14 07:46:23+00:00
If it wasn't for all the pitfalls and hallucinations (and even then there is probably something to be had already) LLMs would be perfect for this. Limitless customizable one-on-one tutoring. I would have killed for something like it when I was in school, instead the choices were expensive tutor (not an option) or else good luck, hope you pay attention in the back of the 30 student classroom.
by SlowTao | 2025-08-14 07:46:29+00:00
Absolutely, I do appreciate that the developers are so honest about the performance issues. That it is lslightly faster than half the speed is impressive when you consider the sheer scale difference contributors.

And focusing on the users is a very smart move. It is better to do average expectations somevery well than to do pure ideological design poorly. Haiku is focusing it just right I feel.
by harg | 2025-08-14 07:47:02+00:00
The other replies answer this question, but it’s worth mentioning the public suffix list which contains a list of domain suffixes that have subdomains that are controlled by different people. E.g github.io, wordpress.com

Browser use this list to prevent cookie shared between sites using the suffixes on the list. E.g evil.github.io will not receive cookies from nice.github.io, or any other .github.io origin, regardless of the SameSite attribute
by taneq | 2025-08-14 07:47:11+00:00
I think a good analogy would be a cheap, non-medically-approved (but medical style) ultrasound. Maybe it’s marketed as a “novelty”, maybe you have to sign a waiver saying it won’t be used for diagnostic purposes, whatever.

You know that it’s going to get used as a diagnostic tool, and you know that people are going to die because of this. Under our current medical ethics, you can’t do this. Maybe we should re-evaluate this, but that opens the door to moral hazard around cheap unreliable practices. It’s not straightforward.
by 7bit | 2025-08-14 07:47:39+00:00
The Arch Linux community is one of the most toxic I know. First and foremost, there are members with tens of thousands of posts who become condescending and insulting when other members don’t dance to their tune. The Code of Conduct exists only on paper and is not enforced by the Arch leadership. This results in such behavior not only being tolerated but actively encouraged. Shame on them and shame on Debian for further encouraging this behaviour by inviting them to the DebConf.
by piva00 | 2025-08-14 07:47:40+00:00
I don't have any skin in the game, nor did I say they deserve to be murdered, the only thing I stated is that oppression is always met with resistance.

If ICE agents are acting immorally, violently, and oppressive they will be met by people who are fearful, angry, the results of that are generally violent. They are making their own bed, I don't think anyone deserves to be murdered but realistically people who are oppressing others end up murdered.

Is it your opinion that ICE should be oppressing others? Including US citizens? If so, why?

Edit: for example, in this case[0], is it ok, in your opinion, that ICE is stochastically killing a kid with cancer? Don't you believe the emotional response to these actions can end up in violence? Wouldn't you be violent if it was your kid and you had no other recourse?

Just think a bit harder, I believe you are definitely able to.

[0] https://www.latintimes.com/4-year-old-us-citizen-fighting-st...
by weatherlite | 2025-08-14 07:49:09+00:00
> But I don't think I worry about being replaced, not because I'm irreplaceable, but because if I could be completely replaced I think that might be quite a delightful experience.

Would like a bit more of whatever it is you're taking :) Seriously, you don't need to know you create some value to the world ? If we all stop contributing why the hell would Zuckerberg let us live ? We're ruining his earth in his eyes probably ... I bet his A.I is already telling him it's not great to let 8 billion people consume so much resources...
by koliber | 2025-08-14 07:49:28+00:00
This is surprising as it goes against the what I've heard in the past.

The 10,000 foot summary I had was: Americans are starting to die earlier, but the age expectancy of the wealthiest Americans is longer than of people in most countries.

This article says that even the American top 1% die earlier than people in other countries. However, the lack of numbers makes me question this.

Also, the cited reason is socialized healthcare. In the US, the top 1% has access to healthcare through their employers of being able to pay on their own, so it is surprising that this would be a major factor.

I think this article is lacking the details that would make me take the claims seriously.
by dcow | 2025-08-14 07:49:53+00:00
I am super happy that work is becoming more accepting of, and that you have found success with, family obligations. I, too, have benefitted greatly from generous parental leave policies and pro-family culture and no those things don’t even come close to fully leveling the playing field. Still, I think we often overlook that this generosity must be subsidized by society. And I don’t mean that as a negative… I think that raising the next generation is by and large the most important thing society should be doing. But still, I suspect there will always be rewards for those who dedicate themselves exclusively to their career. And it will always be harder for those that value family to compete.

It makes me wish that we could figure out how to formally subsidize both parents for those first 3-5 years of their children's lives so that everyone could feel empowered to raise their kids in their most formative years without the stress of work and figuring out how to afford childcare. Imagine a society where having children didn't cost anything, where new parents could take on debt that got erased when their kids entered primary school (or some other milestone). At least I’d hope there would be fewer instances of people obsessing over a career because they were told they should “have it all”. I’ve come to understand that my values shift as I move through phases of life and I think socially we could do a better job elevating people who choose to raise families rather than denigrating them for not having a picturesque power career at the same time.

Silicon valley isn’t family-excluding in my experience, it’s just not family oriented either. What makes a disruptive tactical technology squad capable of upsetting incumbents and capturing billions is not usually “a bunch of parents juggling potty training their 2yr old while feeding their newborn”.
by cjfd | 2025-08-14 07:49:59+00:00
I kept my old 32-bit laptop alive for quite a bit using archlinux32 but in the end more and more software started breaking, so that is not really a route I can recommend anymore. I was using the laptop mainly if I was traveling or on holidays, so not so very often so it felt wasteful to to buy a new one. But this year the software breakages really started costing too much time, so I bought a new one. RIP old laptop (2007-2025).
by biorach | 2025-08-14 07:50:08+00:00
> It took decades for the to even consider starting the process of removing the GIL,

This is not true. Discussions about removing the GIL have been ongoing for decades. There were some abortive attempts over the years but it is regarded as quite the technical challenge, and has implications for compatibility with code written in C.

> which is a great example of "it's clearly broken but lets not fix it".

That is not the attitude of the Python community.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-14 07:50:13+00:00
> except that stablecoins can be self-custodied

I will not apologize for the cluelessness of other people, like those who think Amazon is gonna make and promote a stablecoin they don't deeply control.

Even Tether freezes addresses. Amazon absolutely will.

> It's about what Amazon wants, has said they will institute…

That applies to a whole bunch of things they eventually gave up on. (Like https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24190410/amazon-astro-busi...)
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-14 07:50:18+00:00
I've found both to be true at different times in my life. When I was younger and had time to read release notes I found rolling release made my life a lot easier, because my software was always close to the documentation online, always had the latest fixes etc.

But now my schedule only lets me do an update once a month rather than daily, so it feels more likely to introduce breaking changes and I'd rather just leave her all until a specific moment when I have the time to work through it all, and the longer term support distris help with that because those big all-at-once upgrades seem to be better documented.

Different strokes and all that
by tgma | 2025-08-14 07:50:34+00:00
A capitalist institution, in this case Amazon, charges some basic tax for providing basic services, e.g. package delivery, that have overlap with traditionally public infrastructure, but executes at a higher quality.

One could imagine something like RedHat or a quasi-coop Apache Foundation that actually employs high-quality people and pays them to develop code and sells subscription/support.
by vidarh | 2025-08-14 07:51:11+00:00
A rational merchant would know that they are also incurring costs for handling cash, and depending on the size of the business that cost can in fact be higher than the cost of handling cards.

In fact, the low end of cash handling costs for a business will almost always be higher than the card fees alone, but of course there are other costs in managing card payments too, so it's not quite that clear cut.
by fxwin | 2025-08-14 07:52:01+00:00
I'm also not the biggest fan of the white-on-black style, but there is definitely precedent (at least in science-youtube-space) for explainer videos "drawn live" [1-4]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@Aleph0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@MinutePhysics

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@12tone

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@SimplilearnOfficial