MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by k310 | 2025-08-17 20:43:20+00:00
I reading about deskilling these days. I’ll admit that in narrow specialties, with really clean training data, and results-checking by experts, AI can lighten the load on professionals. But here are professionals losing their edge. How and why? Well that’s another study, I suppose.

My main concern is for young people. They are given problem assignments of increasing difficulty in order to learn by thinking things through. They often reply on pushbutton answers. I recall one tough physics course where I read through solutions rather than working “from scratch”. Long story short, I learned methods and steps along the way, instead of copying and pasting a result.

Will young people not even see the approach and steps?

Perhaps courses should emphasize problem-solving over answers, or if AI is everyone’s “wingman”, how to use it reliably and responsibly (if that is possible).

DHH [0] pointed out the futility of CV’s, in that they conceal the important bits, whether a human reads them or AI reads them. I don’t know what to make of this, being one of those people who took things apart to learn how they worked, in the days when you could take things apart, and they weren’t composed of black boxes, or were entirely a black box.

“Look at real work” he says. How?

[0] https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1956770356770873845#m
by pbronez | 2025-08-17 20:43:21+00:00
I would like to have a trustworthy, privacy-respecting digital asset licensing service. Ideally free from profit motives, maybe run my a government, maybe a non profit. Regardless, i want my right to engage with a work separated from the manifestation of that work. Movies Anywhere kinda does this, but I want it to go way, way further.

Buy a book? You now own a the right to read that book from whatever file. Subscribe to Disney+? You have the right to watch all the marvel movies. Even when those movies are chopped and re-edited into a massive full chronology.

If a digital store ceases operations, you retain the rights to the bits. Maybe you have to do some work to get access to them, but you’re perfectly within your rights to torrent those bits.

Heck, maybe you could like the rights management to distribution. Have a right to the bits? Please seed.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-08-17 20:43:21+00:00
>There's only a limited amount of IPs available to cheaters, it won't be long before they burn through all of them.

No ? Even if it takes 5 minutes to get noticed (which only happens on the most absolutely blatant cases of cheating), rotating through a few VPNs can easily get you a few thousand different IPs. That's over three consecutive days of cheating. And that's just for a single server. In addition, IP bans means that you potentially nuke hundreds of people: between CGNAT & people playing on shared phone connections, a single IP can be allocated many times.

In addition: this kind of maintenance wears down server owners and admins. Every times, it's more time spent banning someone. Every time, it's players on the server making reports while you're not there, and hoping you have tools that allow you to verify it. Every time, it's players leaving your community, because there's a cheater.
by kbolino | 2025-08-17 20:44:48+00:00
Well, some of them are smart enough not to immediately log back in and spam "I'm the guy you just banned! Ban me again!" in global chat. And the admins, even paid ones working for big corporations, have finite patience and time.

Detecting cheating is not always trivial. Cheat bans often have to happen in waves rather than immediately in order to frustrate the cheaters and obfuscate how they were detected.

Sure, the cheater will eventually run out of IPs. But you might as well save both yourself and the cheaters some time and hassle and just add 0.0.0.0/0 and [::]/0 to your IP banlist right now. You will effectively end up with the same result if you're willing to chase every cheater across the address spectrum.

Spot IP bans aren't totally worthless but they're probably the least effective of the techniques I mentioned.
by hvb2 | 2025-08-17 20:45:11+00:00
> you pay this a few times after a deployment or when traffic is increasing and not again.

This is now how lambda works. A lambda instance sticks around for 10s of minutes at most. So you'll have cold starts every day no matter how often you deploy.

If you have very little traffic you might actually have cold starts often as the lifetime of a lambda is determined based on its use.

Unfortunately AWS has always been rather unspecific about this behavior but here's a link to a pluralsight blog https://www.pluralsight.com/resources/blog/cloud/how-long-do...
by johnea | 2025-08-17 20:45:11+00:00
To me it seems it happened the other way around: a reduction in the valuation of mastery preceded, and facilitated, the acceptance of LLM output as "good enough".

What was called "move fast and break things", is one example. This development model leaves behind a trail of shit, that is poorly integrated and often, fully understood by no one.

Like vibe coding, this is all great until something doesn't work (not IF something doesn't work, but UNTIL).

This failure to appreciate mastery is illustrated in even earlier "business model" strategies, such as elimination of large corporate R&D laboratories, and the LBO raiders.

It's widely understood that every product and service in the current era is going to shit (certainly for the users, even if not for the ownership). Toasters built in the early '50s still work, toasters built today are designed for the dump. This isn't a problem with toasters, it's a problem with the business model of unrestrained capitalism.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-17 20:45:44+00:00
I wasn't implying any contradiction. I was drawing attention to the fact that framing her as "far right" falsely ascribes her position as coming from some abstract political ideals [1], when it is nothing more than in-group/out-group distinction.

[1] By most measures, Palestine is more "right-wing" than Israel.
by paulcole | 2025-08-17 20:45:52+00:00
> In light of that I'd still love it if HN created an ignore feature

This is why I always think the HN reader apps that people make using the API are some of the stupidest things imaginable. They’re always self-described as “beautifully designed” and “clean” but never have any good features.

I would use one and pay for it if it had an ignore feature and the ability to filter out posts and threads based on specific keywords.

I have 0 interest in building one myself as I find the HN site good enough for me.
by paradox460 | 2025-08-17 20:46:08+00:00
I really wanted to love nim. I wrote a bunch of tools in it, had fun, and then ultimately rewrote them all in rust. The library situation in nim is just unfortunate, and I say that as someone who uses elixir. That, and the cross compiling took far more effort than getting the same code finished on rust, which was little more than "use cross"

I keep hoping nim will get better, because it's a beautiful language that produces absolutely tiny, efficient binaries
by alansammarone | 2025-08-17 20:46:28+00:00
It literally contains as much information as anybody could potentially hope for (public information anyhow - excluding interviews and the like). If they happen not to be able to distinguish between a “page does not exist” (90%~ of cases IME, ie no GH account), or their ego is so inflated that they cant be bothered to spend 2mins asking their CTO (or dont even have one or trust them), thats a different story and its on them. The signal is there.
by keernan | 2025-08-17 20:46:30+00:00
What is the point of giving AI an IQ test? My expectation is for it to be perfect since it possesses every answer.

If the idea is to measure the ability of an LLM to correctly lookup the correct answer in its encyclopedic database, then surely there are better ways to measure that performance than using a test designed for humans without giving humans the answers in advance.
by nutribueno | 2025-08-17 20:46:58+00:00
I'm surprised at the lack of intersectional shitposting when it comes to this subject, something along the lines of "FAANG intern tech bros making $1.5m TC are microdosing on ivermectin for health benefits." Get Wired or some other shit rag (the Altnatic?) to run with it complete with fancy full-viewport animations and gushing narrative intro over how it all started when someone's pitbull decided to take a shit in jeff bezos office.
by sitkack | 2025-08-17 20:47:11+00:00
You can use Claude Code against Kimi K2, DeepSeek, Qwen, etc. The 20$ a month plan gets you access to a token amount of sonnet for coding, but that wouldn't be indicative of how people are using it.

https://gist.github.com/WolframRavenwolf/0ee85a65b10e1a442e4...

We gave Gemini CLI a spin, it is kinda unhinged, I am impressed you were able to get your results. After reading through the Gemini CLI codebase, it appears to be a shallow photocopy knockoff of Claude Code, but it has no built in feedback loops or development guides other than, "you are an excellent senior programmer ..." the built in prompts are embarrassingly naive.

Qwen has it's own agent which I haven't used https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

Another is https://github.com/sst/opencode
by SamInTheShell | 2025-08-17 20:47:26+00:00
This is a hill I'm willing to die on: Failure to do proper server side checking is carelessness in the face of making a quick buck.

I distinctly remember being a kid bypassing this type of software back when it was just Game Guard at the top. There's nothing that's going to stop kids from doing it today.

It's an arms race doomed to failure until these game devs stop being lazy and just put in the sweat required to get their houses in order.

Server side checks. That's it. User input is tainted evil and you can't trust it. Anything less than server side checking is insecure.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-17 20:47:32+00:00
> The way human IQ testing developed is that researchers noticed people who excel in one cognitive task tend to do well in others - the “positive manifold.”

I'm pretty sure that this is not true, and that the tests were developed to measure children's intellectual development, and whether they were behind or ahead for their age. A bunch of people saw them and decided that it was far better than the primitive tests they had devised in an attempt to limit immigration from southern Europe, or to justify legal discrimination against black people, and wished a universal intelligence scalar into existence.

They justify this by saying that the results on this year's test correlate with the results of last years test. They are not laughed at. The thing it most correlates with is the value of your parent's car or cars.
by Spunkie | 2025-08-17 20:47:45+00:00
As someone that was there at the time and also funded and ran many servers myself I can attest that this is and will always be the only real solution to hackers.

But also judging from the other responses you got, the younger gaming community at large have let their brains rot out of their ears and have been thoroughly brainwashed that this can't possibly be a solution.
by wrp | 2025-08-17 20:47:53+00:00
According to the incongruity model, the humor response is triggered by awareness of conflicting interpretations of the narrative. In jokes, this triggering usually hinges on some linguistic ambiguity.

To leverage incongruity, a funny punchline for "Why did the sun climb the tree?" would rely on an unexpected interpretation of the question or a double meaning in the answer.
by obloid | 2025-08-17 20:48:17+00:00
I recently saw a patient with overwhelming MRSA sepsis with multiple foci of infection including epidural abscess (around the spinal cord), and meningitis. This person was taking rapamycin presumably for "life extension" purposes. Almost certainly the immunosuppression from the rapamycin made the infection much worse.

I'd be very wary of taking an immunosuppressive drug as an otherwise healthy person for theoretical life extension properties.
by mfro | 2025-08-17 20:48:58+00:00
While kind of tangential, I’d like to say the Culture novels do, in fact, largely follow stories of humans with complete agency over their destinies, and often human choices almost entirely shape the story. Minds do take a large role, in some novels more than others(Excession of course being almost entirely dependent on the decisions of Minds).

With that said, I don’t think it’s realistic to assume we would ever choose a Federation style society without widespread use of AI. The value proposition of AGI is too high. I don’t know if Roddenberry genuinely didn’t expect AGI to be realistic or if he chose to omit it as a stylistic choice(leaning towards the latter because of Data).
by mattbuilds | 2025-08-17 20:49:08+00:00
I personally don't dismiss or advocate for AI/LLMs, I just take what I actually see happening, which doesn't appear revolutionary to me. I've spent some time trying to integrate it into my workflow and I see some use cases here and there but overall it just hasn't made a huge impact for me personally. Maybe it's a skill issue but I have always been pretty effective as a dev and what it solves has never been the difficult or time consuming part of creating software. Of course I could be wrong and it will change everything, but I want to actually see some evidence of that before declaring this the most impactful technology in the last 100 years. I personally just feel like LLMs make the easy stuff easier, the medium stuff slightly more difficult and the hard stuff impossible. But I personally feel that way about a lot of technology that comes along though, so it could just be I'm missing the mark.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-08-17 20:49:15+00:00
This ignores that most anti cheat like this started on community run servers. Because players don't want to have a second job as moderators, they just want to play the game.

This is true even in current day community servers. Modded GTA V FiveM had additional anti cheat before it was added to the original game. CS2 community servers Face-IT and ESEA have more anti cheat, not less.
by blargey | 2025-08-17 20:49:33+00:00
I really dislike the implication that everyone ought to live in a more limited, scarce, and suffering-prone world/state simply because one prefers stricter rules for the game of their life. (And it's a common thread in many speculative technology discussions, not just AI)

You can leave The Culture, but The Federation assumes there are no GSVs.
by jMyles | 2025-08-17 20:50:47+00:00
> What is the point? For parties? Social validation?

These are often the most public and prominent, but in reality probably not significant drivers, no. And you can't be blamed for thinking so, given the proclivity of TFA to barely - if at all - scratch the surface.

The power dynamics at institutions of higher education are such that authority, money, and political capital are spread across a bunch of different entities, which vary significantly from campus to campus. These include, for example:

* Faculty governance bodies

* Unions

* The "Administration" (whom are typically state employees in the case of public institutions such as the University of Alabama described here)

* The student government (which is often much more powerful than is generally known)

* Athletics

* Residence Life

* Greek Life, the primary topic here

At a campus with extremely powerful Greek Life, the Greek orgs often have connections into the offices of local and area politicians (including the student government), area professional and business groups, landlord and tavern-owner associations, and many other elements of high society.

If you're a sister at a powerful sorority, and you need help with social connections ranging from something very small (eg, finding the right attorney to help you write a letter to your landlord) all the way to something big (connecting you to the right VC to fund your startup idea), you're never doing a web search or making a cold contact again. All of this stuff is likely to be handled through your organization, not only during your college years, but for many years after.

Many pledges are aspiring entrepreneurs, and may want to open shop proximate to their college campus. Doing so with the force of a powerful local Greek is a massive multiplier.

This is a complex topic, and there are darker parts which I haven't covered here. But the short answer is no, it has little to do with parties and social validation; those are just the surface constructs.
by AlexanderYamanu | 2025-08-17 20:51:14+00:00
Apparantly a WD_BLACK SN770 1TB, fw 731100WD, drive is affected by this update. I can confirm that the update to 24H2 was started and that the SSD has gotten a corrupted partition table. Diskpart shows nothing, TestDisk shows double entries and not markers and the log says check_part_gpt failed for partition. With the corresponding line No FAT, NTFS, ext2, JFS, Reiser, cramfs, or XFS marker in the console. I am currently rebuilding the partition table from gpt backup, but I don't know if the 24H2 update has a repartitioning action in it. Also the boot partition is Bitlocker enabled. It is a nice challenge to try and recover it fully.

But, if the update hasn't been completed and the hammering continues, then I think chances are it might happen again.

My guess is that the firmware of the ssd needs to be updated first to account for the HMD bug?

Oh well...
by lbotos | 2025-08-17 20:52:14+00:00
I might half agree with the premise. I've heard some version of the phrase "make it work, then make it right" and sure, if you only vibe code, you will be left with ... vibes.

I find that when I'm reaching for AI it's because I'm actually trying to decide if I want to implement the idea I have, and need a PoC vs. expecting production ready things. For example, I was working on a UI and wanted to be able to "swap" two ul lists in JS. Not too hard of a thing to do, but I didn't remember the syntax, etc, and instead of hand writing, I asked the AI to do it.

It worked. The code was insanely overwrought and iterating over each list item 1 by 1 etc etc etc. But that's fine, I'm still not sure the "swap button" in the UI is the right UX, so I put a todo and am working on the "right problem" instead of banging out a clean list swap function. The mastery I'm seeking is not "most elegant usable list swap function, with maintainable code" but instead "Is this the best UX?" AI slop helped me stay in flow state towards that mastery.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-17 20:52:18+00:00
I thought this was an informative post, but for many of these compounds the simple "life extension" metric is the one that is least interesting to me.

I have no problem dying in my 80s or 90s, but I just want to ensure that as much as possible that I have a solid mind and body right up until I die. For example, my father has been taking metformin for nearly 30 years after surviving a heart attack in his 50s (he has type 2 diabetes). He's now in his mid 80s and has basically no significant cognitive decline, despite that his father and both of his brothers had severe dementia when they died. Obviously this is just one anecdote and I'm not arguing anything about the specifics of metformin, I'm just saying that the fact he is able to enjoy such an active life in his 80s is the biggest gift - if he died tomorrow I think he and all of his family would just be so grateful at the vibrant life he had.

Heck, for me I'd be fine with a drug that slightly reduced my lifespan if it gave me better quality of life up until the end.
by Spunkie | 2025-08-17 20:52:22+00:00
The 60 bucks license doesn't matter. You just hop to another server.

That's the entire point and why community moderation servers work. Why would a hacker keep coming back to a well moderate private server where they only get 5-10 minutes of play time before their account/license get banned when they can instead go to another unmoderated server and not worry about it?
by lordnacho | 2025-08-17 20:52:42+00:00
In recent weeks, I have made huge changes to my main codebase. Pretty sweeping stuff, things that would have taken me months to get right. Both big, architecturally important things, as well as minor housekeeping tasks.

None of it could have been done without AI, yet I am somehow inclined to agree with the sentiment in this article.

Most of what I've done lately is, in some strange sense, just typing quickly. I already knew what changes I wanted, in fact I had it documented in Trello. I already understood what the code did and where I wanted it to go. What was stopping me, then?

Actually, it was the dread loop of "aw gawd, gotta move this to here, change this, import that, see if it builds, goto [aw gawd]". To be fair, it isn't just typing, there ARE actual decisions to be made as well, but all with a certain structure in mind. So the dread loop would take a long long time.

To the extent that I'm able to explain the steps, Claude has been wonderful. I can tell it to do something, it will make a suggestion, and I will correct it. Very little toil, and being able to make changes quickly actually opens up a lot of exploration.

But I wonder if AI had not been invented at this point in my career, where I would be. I wonder what I will teach my teenager about coding.

I've been using a computer to write trading systems for a long time now. I've slogged through some very detailed little things over the years. Everything from how networks function to how c++ compiles things, how various exchanges work on the protocol level, how the strats make money.

I consider it all a very long apprenticeship.

But the timing of AI, for me, is very special. I've worked through a lot of minutiae in order to understand stuff, and just as it's coming together in a greater whole, I get this tool that lets me zip through the tedium.

I wonder, is there a danger to giving the tool to a new apprentice? If I send my kid off to learn coding using the AI, will it be a mess? Or does he get to mastery in half the time of his father? I'm not sure the answer is so obvious.
by koonsolo | 2025-08-17 20:53:45+00:00
That's the whole idea of having 2 or more price points, because you have 2 or more types of customers. If you can only sell at 1 price point, I'm asking which one that is going to be? Or in other words, either as a company you start selling at a loss, or you lose your bottom tier customers.

If you don't understand this, there is no point in discussing this further.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-17 20:53:47+00:00
The only thing SPDK buys you is somewhat lower latency, which isn't that important for most applications because modern high-performance I/O schedulers usually are not that latency sensitive anyway.

The downside of SPDK is that it is unreasonably painful to use in most contexts. When it was introduced there were few options for doing high-performance storage I/O but a lot has changed since then. I know many people that have tested SPDK in storage engines, myself included, but none that decided the juice was worth the squeeze.