MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-13 00:39:13+00:00
> Reddit's advertising dashboard showing suspiciously high engagement metrics. Note the reported 161 clicks and nearly 27,000 impressions for a relatively small spend.

That's hardly suspicious if you've seen Reddit ads. High impressions, low clicks is precisely what I'd expect out of them.

> UserPath's analytics dashboard showing the real picture: only 93 new users total across ALL traffic sources during the same period, with significantly lower engagement metrics.

That's post-click engagement. Impressions are a pre-click (non!)engagement and would never show up in the page's analytics without a subsequent clickthrough.

> Discrepancy in Numbers: Reddit claims 160 clicks, but our first-party analytics only detected 43 unique users. That's a 73% discrepancy!

No, it isn't. Those are two very different metrics.

> Despite Reddit reporting 160 clicks, not a single user who came through the Reddit ads downloaded our application.

Failure to convert isn't necessarily indicative of fraud. Especially with only 160 clicks to analyze. Most of my own Reddit ad clicks are accidental, as they now make them look like posts/comments in your feed that are barely difference in appearance.

> Our analytics runs through our own domain, making it immune to ad blockers and privacy browsers.

The implementation at https://userpath.co/docs/setup-pixel looks entirely blockable. uBlock does a pretty good job of uncloaking these first-party analytics calls.

This appears to just be an ad for UserPath.
by _1tem | 2025-08-13 00:40:12+00:00
Why do calendar apps and todo list apps make millions even though you have Google Calendar and Apple Reminders?

There are plenty of opportunities for building a good product even if the big platform copies you. For example in this case I can think of an easy differentiator: make it work with other agents and IDEs, not just Claude Code. Plenty of other ways to specialize by adding features not included in vanilla big company products.
by sbinnee | 2025-08-13 00:40:34+00:00
Linux is fundamentally appealing to those who want to tinker with OS. Even with this kind of full-featured ricing or package, users will have hard time to figures some features out, if they do not have enough knowledge how to navigate Linux system.

I personally use all three major OS, Mac at work, Windows for gaming, Linux for everything else. For me different OS serves different purposes and gives me task-oriented productivity boost.
by sonofhans | 2025-08-13 00:40:43+00:00
An important side note is that Cooler Master’s “10-year Warranty” is garbage:

> I looked at Cooler Master’s warranty, and for issues within the first two years you have to deal with the retailer. That would be Amazon in my case. So I looked at Amazon’s information on warranty issues. Their policy is that if it’s more than 30 days since purchase, you have to send it off to a third-party repair center and wait for them to diagnose and try to repair it. Here’s the kicker: Usually repairs take up to 20 business days (including delivery time), but could take slightly longer

Everyone knows electronic devices tend to die early or last forever. Cooler Master and Amazon are working a shitty dodge here, and I bet they avoid most DOA warranty claims because of it.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-08-13 00:42:14+00:00
> The "project" is all the files going into a program supplied other than by the implementation.

Most of my most recent comment is addressing the possibility that you meant this.

As I said, there is no such concept to the compiler. It isn't passed any list of files that could be included with #includr, only the .c files actually being compiled, and the directories containing includable files.

The fact that your IDE shows project files is an illusion. Any header files shown there are not treated differently by the compiler/preprocessor to any others. They can't be, because it's not told about them!

It's even possible to add header files to your IDE's project that are not in the include path, and then they wouldn't be picked up by #include. That's how irrelevant project files are to #include.
by leoqa | 2025-08-13 00:42:30+00:00
I quite frankly will just read the code. Go generally discourages abstractions so any code you jump into is fairly straightforward (compared to a hierarchy of abstract classes, dependency injected implementations, nested pattern matching with destructuring etc etc).

Regarding your IDE issues- I’ve found the new wave of copilot/cursor behavior to be the culprit. Sometimes I just disable it and use the agent if I want it to do something. But it’ll completely fail to suggest an auto complete for a method that absolutely exists.
by tomsanbear | 2025-08-13 00:42:41+00:00
I just want a better way to invalidate old context... It's great that I can fit more context, but the main challenge is claude getting sidetracked with 10 invalid grep calls, pytest dumping a 10k token stack trace etc.... And yes the ability to go back in time via esc+esc is great but I want claude to read the error stack learn from it and purge from its context or at least let me lobotomize ot selectively... Learning and discarding the raw output from tool calls feels like the missing piece here still.
by amiga386 | 2025-08-13 00:42:55+00:00
You can expect that any software might do anything, either because of a bug or because it's intentional, and you won't know until you see it happen. It's why the major FOSS licenses say things like THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

You can want software to be well behaved, and in most cases it is. But if you want some level of assurance that the software is behaved as you'd like it, some requirement in law that the software is not allowed to exist unless it meets your requirements, or the platform it runs on is neutered so it literally can't do the thing you don't want it to do -- that's where the tyrant comes in.
by oceanplexian | 2025-08-13 00:43:20+00:00
I’d argue that having the delusion that you understand another person’s point of view while not actually understanding it is far more dangerous than simply admitting that you can’t empathize with them.

For example, I can’t empathize with a homeless drug addict. The privileged folks who claim they can, well, I think they’re being dishonest with themselves, and therefore unable to make difficult but ultimately the most rational decisions.
by raincom | 2025-08-13 00:46:21+00:00
There is another element that is not addressed by politicians and governments. People need jobs in order to make a living (pay rents, insurance, etc). This is a feedback loop: more in wages lead to expensive housing and expensive insurance and labor. Free market is fine when there are no limits to what can be produced. However, land and specialists are not abundant.

Why not make the cost of living cheaper for every one?
by butterisgood | 2025-08-13 00:46:55+00:00
I've worked a fair amount with LLMs from a code generation perspective, and to be honest, I find them often to be better at reading and explaining code to a human than generating good code.

It's an interesting idea to think that LLMs could be used to not only explain the code but test the potentially tricky corner cases.

I'm pretty sure LLMs are here to stay, and we're just going to have to learn the best ways to work with them.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-08-13 00:47:35+00:00
It seems absurd that the US knows what the problem is (i.e., drugs). It knows where it’s coming from. It knows who is dealing it. People are dying in the US either from the drugs or in conflicts between gangs and… the US has done little to stop it.

Sure there’s been the occasional this or that but FFS when there’s out in the open adverts for Naloxone and that’s normalized why has so little been done?
by solardev | 2025-08-13 00:48:41+00:00
FWIW, I didn't mean to make it a moral argument. I'm just not personally interested in hunting and fishing, but I don't have an ethical problem with them if done in moderation. Nature is violent and ruthless... a well-aimed shot is one of the less miserable ways for a wild animal to die. And yes, they're absolutely outdoor activities :)

Like you said, it's at least better than factory farming, and in some cases, hunters are an important part of conservation efforts.

I happen to be vegan, but have also had a few friends who hunt & fish. I don't fault them for it, or hunters in general. It's just not something I would want to discuss with them or join them for. Not out of any ethical quandary, it's just not something I want to spend my time doing or thinking about (heh, they're just far less exciting when you can't eat what you catch).
by brulard | 2025-08-13 00:48:42+00:00
> These issues are inherent to the technology

That's simply false. Even if LLMs don't produce correct and valid code on first shot 100% times of the cases, if you use an agent, it's simply a matter of iterations. I have claude code connected to Playwright, context7 for docs and to Playwright, so it can iterate by itself if there are syntax errors, runtime errors or problems with the data on the backend side. Currently I have near zero cases when it does not produce valid working code. If it is incorrect in some aspect, it is then not that hard to steer it to better solution or to fix yourself.

And even if it failed in implementing most of these stages of the plan, it's not all wasted time. I brainstormed ideas, formed the requirements, specifications to features and have clear documentation and plan of the implementation, unit tests, etc. and I can use it to code it myself. So even in the worst case scenario my development workflow is improved.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-08-13 00:50:13+00:00
I took a few philosophy classes. I found it incredibly valuable in identifying assumptions and testing them.

Being Christian, it helped me understand what I believe and why. It made faith a deliberate, reasoned choice.

And, of course, there are many rational reasons for people to have very different opinions when it comes to religion and deities.

Being bipolar might give me an interesting perspective. Everything I’ve read about rationalists misses the grounding required to isolate emotion as a variable.
by erikanoriega | 2025-08-13 00:51:20+00:00
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by crossroadsguy | 2025-08-13 00:52:07+00:00
The more and I am using Gemini (paid, Pro) and ChatGPT (free) the more I am thinking - my job isn't going anywhere yet. At least not after the CxOs have all gotten their cost-saving-millions-bonuses and work has to be done again.

My goodness, it just hallucinates and hallucinates. It seems these models are designed for nothing other than maintaining an aura of being useful and knowledgeable. Yeah, to my non-ai-expert-human eyes that's what it seems to me - these tools have been polished to project this flimsy aura and they start acting desperately the moment their limits are used up and that happens very fast.

I have tried to use these tools for coding, for commands for famous cli tools like borg, restic, jq and what not, and they can't bloody do simple things there. Within minutes they are hallucinating and then doubling down. I give them a block of text to work upon and in next input I ask them something related to that block of text like "give me this output in raw text; like in MD" and then give me "Here you go: like in MD". It's ghastly.

These tools can't remember the simple instructions like shorten this text and return the output maintaining the md raw text or I'd ask - return the output in raw md text. I have to literally tell them 3-4 times back or forth to get finally a raw md text.

I have absolutely stopped asking them for even small coding tasks. It's just horrible. Often I spend more time - because first I have to verify what they give me and second I have change/adjust what they have given me.

And then the broken tape recorder mode! Oh god!

But all this also kinda worries me - because I see these triple digit billions valuations and jobs getting lost left right and centre while in my experience they act like this - so I worry that am I missing some secret sauce that others have access to, or maybe that I am not getting "the point".
by unmole | 2025-08-13 00:52:39+00:00
> if you and me are living on an uninhabited island and grow/catch all of our food for consumption, our GDP is $0

No. The imputed value of goods produced for self-consumption is included in GDP calculations.

The UN SNA term of art is own final consumption: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/docs/SNA2008.pdf
by piskov | 2025-08-13 00:52:39+00:00
Try komorebic on windows — great tiling.

On the note of all the linux marketing, Jonathan Blow summed it up best:

> The people who would historically be excited about a new operating system can't do that any more, because everyone is too helpless to even conceive of a new OS.

> So they have to get excited about a mildly different arrangement of bloatware from That OS From 35 Years Ago.

> But as long as you give it a Cool Name, everything is good.

> Elon: makes car company (when everyone thinks electric cars will never work), rocket company (the rockets land themselves), Neuromancer brain chip company.

> Computer Nerds: Noooooo I can’t make an OS because drivers and adoption!!!!1

———

And from another thread

> It would be nice to have an OS with a proper job system as a core component. No legacy threads or mutexes at all. Everything is designed to be fine-grained parallel for modern 16+ core CPUs.

> For starters, every API is asynchronous command buffers with an optional slower/easier noob API on top. There are a lot of things that could tremendously simplify userspace as well.
by foxglacier | 2025-08-13 00:53:05+00:00
Just because it's strange and different doesn't mean it's insanity. I likened it to pets because of the grief but there's also religion. People are weird and even true two-way social relationships don't really make a lot of sense practically, other than to feed some primal emotional needs which pets, AI boyfriends, OF and gods all sort of do too. Perhaps some of these things are still helpful, despite being "inasnity" while others might be harmful. Maybe that's the distinction you're seeing, but it's not clear which is which.
by nunez | 2025-08-13 00:53:28+00:00
> LookupMX and Resolver.LookupMX now return DNS names that look like valid IP address, as well as valid domain names. Previously if a name server returned an IP address as a DNS name, LookupMX would discard it, as required by the RFCs. However, name servers in practice do sometimes return IP addresses.

This one is interesting; which servers return an IP address as a record? Why would they want to do this?
by rileymichael | 2025-08-13 00:53:33+00:00
> You can't do anything like Omarchy with macOS

you certainly can. Omarchy doesn't appear to be anything special, just a tiling WM (of which there are plenty of on macOS: aerospace, yabai, amethyst, etc.) with some preinstalled applications + basic dotfiles. people have been running similar setups for years on macOS
by lupusreal | 2025-08-13 00:54:29+00:00
Yup. It's fundamentally irrational for anybody to believe themselves sufficiently rational to pull off the feats of supposed rational deduction that the so called Rationalists regularly perform. Predicting the future of humanity decades or even centuries away is absurd, but the Rationalists irrationally believe they can.

So to the point of the article, rationalist cults are common because Rationalists are irrational people (like all people) who (unlike most people) are blinded to their own irrationality by their overinflated egos. They can "reason" themselves into all manner of convoluted pretzels and lack the humility to admit they went off the deep end.
by doubled112 | 2025-08-13 00:54:45+00:00
I ran into this same setup with a microwave that failed in a few months after purchase and Walmart.

Tried to deal with the manufacturer, but they couldn’t help and sent me to the retailer.

Went to the store, popped it up on the counter, had a short conversation and got the expected “you have to deal with the manufacturer”.

Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Actually yes. Can you throw that out for me?

The confusion on the guy’s face was great.

Spent more than enough time on the $100 microwave. Their problem now.
by lyu07282 | 2025-08-13 00:55:03+00:00
> I haven't seen any comment yet that isn't already addressed in much more colour and nuance in the article itself.

I once called rationalists infantile, impotent liberal escapism, perhaps that's the novel take you are looking for.

Essentially my view is that the fundamental problem with rationalists and the effective altruist movement is that they are talking about profound social and political issues, with any and all politics completely and totally removed from it. It is liberal depoliticisation[1] driven to its ultimate conclusion. That's just why they are ineffective and wrong about everything, but that's also why they are popular among the tech elites that are giving millions to associated groups like MIRI[2]. They aren't going away, they are politically useful and convenient to very powerful people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-politics

[2] https://intelligence.org/transparency/
by labrador | 2025-08-13 00:55:19+00:00
It sounds like you were both right in different ways and don't realize it because you're talking past each other. I think this happens a lot in relationship dynamics. A good couples therapist will help you reconcile this. You might try that approach with your LLM. Have it reconcile your two points of view. Or not, maybe they are irreconcilable as in "irreconcilable differences"
by epolanski | 2025-08-13 00:55:22+00:00
> Since so many claim the opposite

The overwhelming majority of those claiming the opposite are a mixture of:

- users with wrong expectations, such as AI's ability to do the job on its own with minimal effort from the user. They have marketers to blame.

- users that have AI skill issues: they simply don't understand/know how to use the tools appropriately. I could provide countless examples from the importance of quality prompting, good guidelines, context management, and many others. They have only their laziness or lack of interest to blame.

- users that are very defensive about their job/skills. Many feel threatened by AI taking their jobs or diminishing it, so their default stance is negative. They have their ego to blame.
by alberth | 2025-08-13 00:55:23+00:00
> I get about 6 hours of mixed use from my Framework 13, so whenever I suspect that might be a problem, I bring a small 20K mAh Anker battery in the bag, and now I have double the capacity.

That power bank is 1.2lbs, and the laptop is 2.9lbs. Carrying around 4.1lbs ain’t light.

Maybe I’m just getting old but I’ve long since moved past thinking it’s ok to be inconvenienced due to what I’d consider a product deficiency.

Note: I’m not hating on Framework. I’m assuming this is an inconvenience due to running Linux on the desktop.
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by dorcy | 2025-08-13 00:55:23+00:00
My friend just came from working at her sister's restaurant and was telling me how hard of a day it was, and how they are struggling with employee turnover. Then it got me thinking, what if there was an app that corporate workers could use to pick up shifts at other struggling businesses? Would you ever use it?
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by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-13 00:55:34+00:00
Yeah, if it included ex. nvim plugins then it would make more sense to me. It's just this particular combination is for installing tools that I struggle to imagine aren't default-installed everywhere, and version-locking some of the most stable programs I've ever used (though I guess neovim might make breaking changes?). Honestly it strikes me as most useful as a 'hello world 2.0' flake demo.
by kazinator | 2025-08-13 00:56:14+00:00
There is no "compiler", "IDE" or "include path" in the wording of the ISO C standard. A set of files is somehow presented to the implementation in a way that is not specified. Needless to say, a file that is included like "globals.h" but is not the base file of a translation unit will not be indicated to the implementation as the base of a translation unit. Nevertheless it has to be somehow present, if it is required.

It doesn't seem as if you're engaging with the standard-based point I've been making, in spite of detailed elaboration.

> Any header files shown there are not treated differently by the compiler/preprocessor to any others.

This is absolutely false. Headers which are part of the implementation, such as standard-defined headers like <stdlib.h> need not be implemented as files. When the implementation processes #include <stdlib.h>, it just has to flip an internal switch which makes certain identifiers appear in their respective scopes as required.

For that reason, if an implementation provides <winkle.h>, there need not be such a file anywhere in its installation.
by pron | 2025-08-13 00:56:33+00:00
> That statement is problematic. It implies a metaphysical set of laws that make physical stuff relate a certain way.

What I meant was that since physics is the scientific search for the laws of nature, then if there's an infinite number of them, then the pursuit becomes somewhat meaningless, as an infinite number of laws aren't really laws at all.

> They symbols form incomplete models because we can't get to the bottom of why the relationships exist.

Why would a model be incomplete if we don't know why the laws are what they are? A model pretty much is a set of laws; it doesn't require an explanation (we may want such an explanation, but it doesn't improve the model).