MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PKop | 2025-08-12 15:08:21+00:00
> it's pretty obvious MS is placing all their chips on WinUI3

Not it isn't, based on the paltry resources and team size they have working on it, the pace of bug fixes (non existent), the fact that in 2024 they stated WPF is on par with WinUI 3 as a recommended GUI framework. I'm not sure what signals to you they are "all in" on it.

Look at the size of this thread [0], and how many people tried to give WinUI 3 a chance but have been burned by lack of support. This is not the sentiment that surrounds a platform that has a lot of chips betting on it.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/9...
by intended | 2025-08-12 15:08:29+00:00
Most people weren’t happy when the 2008 crash happened, and bank bailouts were needed, and a global recession ensued.

Most people here are going to use a coding agent, be happy about it (like you), and go on their merry way.

Most people here are not making near trillion dollar bets on the world changing power of AI.

EVERYONE here will be affected by those bets. It’s one thing if those bets pay off if future subscription growth matches targets. It’s an entirely different thing if those bets require “reasoning” to pan out.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-12 15:08:38+00:00
Definitely wouldn't have written the code that way, but yes, if (and this is a massive "if") the agent has an accurate and meaningful way to determine which way to set the success boolean. The obvious caveat would be if n needed to be large enough to set the costs higher than I am willing to pay for the additional performance or it makes it take longer than I'm willing to wait.

Think of the agent like an employee. If he delivers the code within the expected time and to the expected quality standards, his process of getting there means almost nothing. Do I care if he tried 4 different approaches along the way and threw out the first 3? Not a bit.
by johnklos | 2025-08-12 15:09:21+00:00
That's not really fair to Bulldozer CPUs.

The AMD Bulldozers put a lot of new, untested ideas in to practice. Some of them paid off, while many did not, at least not in the short term. There were, however, many good ideas, and many of those lived on and helped make Ryzen what it is.

Over time, Bulldozer performance has matched and exceeded contemporary Intel performance, both because compiler optimizations have made better use of the CPU and because of the slowdowns from Spectre / Meltdown affecting Intel much more than AMD. I still run an FX-8150 server and have compared it with an Intel 2600K system in many tasks.

Do we think that Intel is going to use their current shitshow to make a golden age of Intel CPUs, like how Bulldozer led to Ryzen? I personally don't think so. They've put all their cheap tricks in to their CPUs, tricks which require huge slowdowns when flaws are found, and unless / until they start caring about actually doing things correctly rather than playing fast and loose with hundreds of watts, they'll keep trying to game the benchmarks, will keep having flaws and problems, and will keep losing market share.
by justin66 | 2025-08-12 15:09:33+00:00
That's not what I wrote. What I wrote:

I've literally never experienced a moment of "wow, I wish I had a shadow copy in place so I could help solve this problem."

I guess my backup solutions are more primitive, but certainly more predictable in terms of their effect on the system. I didn't turn off volume shadow copy for my own amusement, I turned it off because it was freezing some devices' availability for I/O while it did its work.
by rayiner | 2025-08-12 15:09:52+00:00
> Crime in DC is near a 30 year low.

If you look at homicides, which are the most reliable statistics, they are elevated in DC compared to 2010-2012: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/dc-homicide-tra.... Yes there was a drop from the absolute peak in 2023, but the clear pattern is a trend of consistent decrease from the 1990 peak, to a low point around 2010-2012, and then a steady increase since then.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-12 15:09:56+00:00
I mean, among "younger" American HNers (those who went to middle or HS in the mid 2000s to mid 2010s), MacOS X Leopard or Windows 7 was probably a much more foundational desktop OS - most of our school computer labs used one or the other, as did our families.

I could make a similar argument for Win7 and the indie gaming scene.
by moffkalast | 2025-08-12 15:10:47+00:00
Maybe it's the author's style but this whole thing feels almost stereotypically written by an LLM. Bullet point overuse, "The real question" "Here’s the uncomfortable truth" "this isn't just X it's a Y"

On the other hand, top LLMs are better at CSS than just about everyone so it's a top percentile expert opinion at least lmao.
by XorNot | 2025-08-12 15:11:00+00:00
There's something of a difference between the abstract presentation there and the much more tangible brand problem Tesla has. If this was a Ford nobody would believe it. They might argue it broke down. If it was a Toyota nobody would believe that.

But Elon Musk has made himself the face of Tesla, used that power in other contexts to go after critics, and the Cybertruck had a bizarre anti resale clause when released and Tesla have made a habit of features-as-a-service with remote software deactivations when other vehicles are resold.

So in the specific case here, the reaction very much represents a big brand sentiment problem attributable to concrete issues.
by georgehe9 | 2025-08-12 15:11:08+00:00
Hi HN, I’m George — I left Google after 10 years working on infrastructure and am building CocoIndex https://cocoindex.io with my friend Linghua.

CocoIndex is an open source ETL framework that does incremental processing designed for AI workloads. We cut >90% of compute costs by processing only what’s changed — effortless fresh context for AI.

It is easy to build scalable, production-grade pipelines like Lego in hours. Think it as n8n with python blocks but for large scale RAG pipelines.

You can build vector index, knowledge graph and custom logic with any modality in the pipeline with AI. To get started, you can run `pip install -U cocoindex`.

We’ve built 10+ examples to get you started. If you prefer to read blog: https://cocoindex.io/blogs/tags/examples

If you prefer to read code: https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex?tab=readme-ov-file...

We’ve made 75+ releases since our last launch.

Looking forward to learning your thoughts! Best, George
by mlinhares | 2025-08-12 15:11:09+00:00
> One is Black Lotus, a Burning Man camp led by alleged rapist Brent Dill, which developed a metaphysical system based on the tabletop roleplaying game Mage the Ascension.

What the actual f. This is such an insane thing to read and understand what it means that i might need to go and sit in silence for the rest of the day.

How did we get to this place with people going completely nuts like this?
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-12 15:11:30+00:00
I personally use it for a lot of SwiftUI work. I parallelize it across at least 3 projects at once. I use only the largest models on highest thinking modes. I give instruction on implementation and provide reference implementations.

I also use it for adding features/feature polish that address user pain points but that I can't prioritize for my own manual work just yet. There are a variety of user requests which sometimes LLMs are able to get done very suddenly when I give it a shot quickly. For these tasks, it's ok to abandon & defer them if the LLM spins its wheels.
by arolihas | 2025-08-12 15:11:30+00:00
Can you just train one to have a favorite ice cream? You think training on a bunch of words saying I like vanilla ice cream is somehow equivalent to remembering times you ate ice cream and saying my favorite is vanilla? Just because an LLM can do recall when prompted to based on training data doesn’t make it the same as human memory, in the same way a database isn’t memory the way humans do it.
by Barrin92 | 2025-08-12 15:11:55+00:00
>There's a great meme with the classic intelligence bell curve setup

This meme has taken on the character of the "Einstein was bad at math and school" urban legend. Yes, you can overthink it, but you can also under-think it if you picture yourself to be some romantic-era genius sitting in a heap of notes. If you want to go meta you might as well put the usage of that meme on the middle of the curve.

You don't need 15 note taking apps but it does pay off to invest in at least a bit of a system (I'd recommend https://johnnydecimal.com/ because it takes about an hour to set up), because you're not actually the 150 IQ guy and you probably benefit from a bit of structure (as do most very intelligent people in real life)
by lambdas | 2025-08-12 15:12:15+00:00
I don’t think it’s dumb - hasty and premature perhaps. Manufacturers have been shipping boards with flaky RVV support, a years old kernel and undocumented blobs on in house baked OS and calling it a day.

Feels like a step towards strong arming them into shipping products that can be supported easier/not being left to rot in a drawer.
by icy | 2025-08-12 15:12:38+00:00
Yeah, for now orgs/namespaces are their own accounts (even better if you have a dedicated domain for your org). Private repos aren't a thing just yet since we use AT Protocol, and all data on protocol is public -- for now. This will change soon.

Appreciate the feedback! A dedicated docs site is in the works (along side a pages offering!).
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-12 15:12:41+00:00
It’s especially popular in Silicon Valley.

Quite possibly, places like Reddit and Hacker News, are training for the required level of intellectual smugness, and certitude that you can dismiss every annoying argument with a logical fallacy.

That sounds smug of me, but I’m actually serious. One of their defects, is that once you memorize all the fallacies (“Appeal to authority,” “Ad hominem,”) you can easily reach the point where you more easily recognize the fallacies in everyone else’s arguments than your own. You more easily doubt other people’s cited authorities, than your own. You slap “appeal to authority” against a disliked opinion, while citing an authority next week for your own. It’s a fast path from there to perceived intellectual superiority, and an even faster path from there into delusion. Rational delusion.
by acdha | 2025-08-12 15:12:43+00:00
Household ownership doesn't matter if the people who own them aren't likely to be involved in crimes - if a 50 year old farmer has a hunting rifle, their risk profile to society is really different than an angry 19 year old with a handgun.

While crime rates are per 100,000 people, population density makes a big difference because a low density, homogeneous population is going to have fewer interactions which turn negative. That's why people comparing crime stats usually compare cities or regions to avoid falsely reporting a correlation which is nothing more than a function of urban vs. rural density.
by sigmar | 2025-08-12 15:12:57+00:00
>Did Qubic really attack Monero ? No, according to official statements, it was a planned stress test to identify vulnerabilities in the Monero network.

"not really a nefarious attack" is an insane summation of this article. There's zero way for someone outside of qubic to verify that they didn't do something nefarious while controlling the network. Stated another way- anyone could call their 51% attack a "stress test"
by RC_ITR | 2025-08-12 15:13:15+00:00
Meta is also a great example of AI leading to higher user engagement today.

Reels isn't powered by Transformers per se (likely more of a complex mix of ML techniques), but it is powered by honest-to-goodness SOTA AI/ML running on leading-edge Nvidia GPUs.

I think, because they're so impressive, people assume Transformers = AI/ML, when there's plenty of other hyperscale AI/ML products on the market today.
by bobson381 | 2025-08-12 15:13:16+00:00
I keep thinking about the first Avengers movie, when Loki is standing above everyone going "See, is this not your natural state?". There's some perverse security in not getting a choice, and these rationalist frameworks, based in logic, can lead in all kinds of crazy arbitrary directions - powered by nothing more than a refusal to suffer any kind of ambiguity.
by Insanity | 2025-08-12 15:13:57+00:00
The results from a smaller model are still viable if the paradigm is identical. Unless you believe that larger volumes of data leads to more (unexplained) emergent properties of the AI. i.e, if you think that a larger volume of training data somehow means the model develops actual reasoning skills, beyond the normal next-token prediction.

I do think that larger models will perform better, but not because they fundamentally work differently than the smaller models, and thus the idea behind TFA still stands (in my opinion).
by rickdeckard | 2025-08-12 15:14:03+00:00
> Honestly as this always was an obvious issue I usually just used ; and never got a complain.

Thing is, it is not about what you used, you are not able to control this from happening when your CSV should work for people in other countries. Whatever configuration you used which never got a complain, if your recipients also used Excel to work with those documents, they probably have the same regional setting on Windows for list/thousands/decimal separator.

If you use ";" as separator, i.e. Excel in UK, US, Japan, China, Korea will not be able to correctly open your CSV.

But even better: If you created this CSV on a France or Sweden regional setting, the thousands separator will be a whitespace ("1 000" instead "1,000" or "1.000"), so Excel in e.g. Italy will not detect those properly.

> I am surprised this is problem enough (in 2025) that people emotionally discuss it.

It is a (intentional) weakness of MS Office for those who work in an international environment, because Excel links itself to .csv files to hinder the experience, as it is neither able to properly detect them nor guide their users through a process to properly handle them.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-12 15:14:12+00:00
"Copyright violation?" That remains to be seen, doesn't it? Which court do you sit on, and how many trillions of dollars in future value do you feel comfortable tossing away?

The copyright industry has done all it can for us, even in the most charitable interpretation. They literally, by constitutional mandate, can't be allowed to stand in the way of progress. We're not talking Napster 2.0 here.
by OskarS | 2025-08-12 15:14:26+00:00
> For example the reason why 2s complement took so long is because of some machine that ran C that still existed that was 1s complement.

You're misunderstanding me: as of C++20, there is no other representation in C++ for signed integers other than two's complement (no signed ones' complement, no signed magnitude, nothing else), but signed overflow is still UB. It's not because of obscure machines or hardware, such hardware is not relevant for C++20 and later. The reason for it is performance. From the accepted paper [1]:

> The following polls were taken, and corresponding modifications made to the paper. The main change between [P0907r0] and the subsequent revision is to maintain undefined behavior when signed integer overflow occurs, instead of defining wrapping behavior. This direction was motivated by:

> * Performance concerns, whereby defining the behavior prevents optimizers from assuming that overflow never occurs

You may disagree, you may think they're wrong, but their motivation is performance, that's why this is UB. It's right there in black and white. This was C++, not C, but it's not at all unthinkable that the C standard will also mandate two's complement at some point, and if they do, they almost certainly keep signed overflow undefined for exactly the same reason.

It's not hard to write code that optimizes much better when you use signed loop variables. One of my favorite examples is this function [2] to turn a 3D mesh inside out by flipping the edges of each triangle in a triangle mesh. The godbolt link has two versions of the same function, one with a signed loop variable, one with an unsigned one. The signed one auto-vectorizes and optimizes much better because it can assume that the loop variable never overflows (this version is C++, it's trivial to rewrite it in C and get the same results).

This is why signed overflow is UB.

[1]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p09...

[2]: https://godbolt.org/z/a1P5Y17fn
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 15:14:26+00:00
> if all you're looking at are homicide stats you really need to think about how those are affected by technological changes which greatly increase lethality.

Funnily enough, academic work suggests the exact opposite, that the homicide rate in this country could be 5x higher were it not for advancements in trauma care[0]. Inner-city hospitals are applying battlefield medicine techniques and saving lives, turning homicides into aggravated assaults.

> we have a lot of unhappy people buying, and economically marginalized young people

The state of West Virginia, which has more guns and a higher share of unhappy, economically marginalized young people than Virginia, has a lower homicide rate than its eastern neighbor.

Ultimately, we likely disagree on "the root cause of crime", as it were. I don't believe that more aid for the poor or reducing income inequality will materially reduce violent crime rates, because by and large people do not commit violent crime in order to escape poverty. Instead, people are poor for a lot of the same reasons that they commit crime: they have poor impulse control, high time preference, and little consideration for those around them. We have not yet figured out a way to apply money to people in such a way to change these undesirable behavioral patterns, so I am against spending more of the taxpayer's money in this fruitless endeavor. The ways that do work have fallen out of favor in society.

I believe what will make a material impact is lengthier sentences and more pretrial detention; that is, policy must favor the rights of the law-abiding majority over the rights of repeat criminals.

[0]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1124155/
by michaelmrose | 2025-08-12 15:14:36+00:00
Doing this requires massive tangible infrastructure subject to seizure to pay your new bad debts as you become subject to arrest in a lot of the places one may want to spend time in.

This doesn't seem like as much of an actual risk. A better way to make money would be to create a perception that the value of the coin is at risk before buying it cheap.

Actually devaluing it doesn't seem worthwhile financially.
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-12 15:14:53+00:00
Thinking too hard about anything will drive you insane but I think the real issue here is that rationalists simply over-estimate both the power of rational thought and their ability to do it. If you think of people who tend to make that kind of mistake you can see how you get a lot of crazy groups.

I guess I'm a radical skeptic, secular humanist, utilitarianish sort of guy, but I'm not dumb enough to think throwing around the words "bayesian prior" and "posterior distribution" makes actually figuring out how something works or predicting the outcome of an intervention easy or certain. I've had a lot of life at this point and gotten to some level of mastery at a few things and my main conclusion is that most of the time its just hard to know stuff and that the single most common cognitive mistake people make is too much certainty.
by mk_stjames | 2025-08-12 15:14:56+00:00
>GPT estimates (...)

Dude it's middle school math. Average pedal assist e-bike battery, estimate at 500 watt-hours. Electricity prices at my home are about 20 cents per kilowatt-hour.

(0.5 kwhr) * (20 cents/kwhr) = 10 cents. With an additional 10-15% due to charging system inefficiencies (lost to heat). 11 cents.

It can be good exercise to do an 8th grade level word problem every now and then.
by matthewfelgate | 2025-08-12 15:15:17+00:00
I use Todoist and I like it for repeating tasks:

* A list of daily tasks small and quick too many to remember * Tasks to do or check every three or four days ie about twice a week * Tasks to do about once a week eg hoovering. * Tasks to do every three months like wash house windows etc

Most days I put my todo list into ChatGPT and get it to put my todo list in order from quickest to longest.

Sometimes I ask ChatGPT to order my todo list by importance.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-12 15:15:36+00:00
> Never mind that. Nothing except the highest-end premium kit had the specs to run it well. You needed 2GB of RAM for half decent performance but new kit was shipping with 512MB.

That's an exaggeration. I didn't have the highest-end premium kit. I had good hardware (I was a gamer after all), but I doubt very much if I had more than 2 GB memory and I ran Vista with zero performance issues whatsoever.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-12 15:16:11+00:00
> If the military is on the streets, and there is broad support for it, then objectively speaking it's because we're at a tipping point of imbalance in policing crime.

Where is this "broad support" coming from? The actual people living in Washington DC, or rural outsiders who have conjured up some picture in their minds of "crime infested cities?" If you did a poll of everyone in DC, would the majority be in favor of increased policing?

It always seems like the people who are most vocal about crime in big cities are always the people who don't live in or visit those big cities.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-12 15:16:15+00:00
We live in an irrational time. It's unclear if it was simply under reported in history or social changes in the last ~50-75 years have had breaking consequences.

People are trying to make sense of this. For examples.

The Canadian government heavily subsidizes junk food, then spends heavily on healthcare because of the resulting illnesses. It restrict and limits healthy food through supply management and promotes a “food pyramid” favoring domestic unhealthy food. Meanwhile, it spends billions marketing healthy living, yet fines people up to $25,000 for hiking in forests and zones cities so driving is nearly mandatory.

Government is an easy target for irrational behaviours.
by jadamson | 2025-08-12 15:16:21+00:00
That's centralization, which is the opposite of what's intended and has its own risks. Most blocks are mined by pools, so you'll have to whitelist them, and while you might trust the pool operators now, will you forever? You'll be making the cost of an attack significantly cheaper for them (or someone who steals their magic key, or tricks you into adding them to the blessed list).
by bayindirh | 2025-08-12 15:16:32+00:00
From my experience, newbie users are generally more interested in the end result: Their intended packages are working, and what that package is doing. They are not yet interested in all the libraries required and whatnot.

As they get familiar with their systems, they get interested in what makes the particular package or software tick. Then, the digging starts. At that point they are already pretty proficient with their package managers, and start to learn their systems inside out. At that point they're not beginners since they can do targeted tinkering.

Except very rare circumstances, I didn't see anyone to dive to the deep end directly.
by noqc | 2025-08-12 15:16:32+00:00
Perhaps I will get downvoted to death again for saying so, but the obvious answer is because the name "rationalist" is structurally indistinguishable from the name "scientology" or "the illuminati". You attract people who are desperate for an authority to appeal to, but for whatever reason are no longer affiliated with the church of their youth. Even a rationalist movement which held nothing as dogma would attract people seeking dogma, and dogma would form.

The article begins by saying the rationalist community was "drawn together by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky’s blog post series The Sequences". Obviously the article intends to make the case that this is a cult, but it's already done with the argument at this point.