MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skydhash | 2025-08-13 14:48:04+00:00
> a lot of us use our own opinions when we inevitably find a corner case that isn't working exactly the way we want.

Most standard toolkits provide escape hatches to have your custom components. I think most designers wants their view imposed to the users instead of following the platform constraints. Like instead of the standard play/pause button every player have, they want their own custom ones. Instead of using the standard tree widget, they want to create another that is the same, but behaves a bit differently. And then they say GTK is not good, let's go with HTML in Electron.
by philistine | 2025-08-13 14:48:47+00:00
And how, pray tell, where all of these people made aware of Chrome?

Google made the first ad for its front page for Chrome. This is not in itself a problem, but Google has a monopoly in search and ads. They cannot be allowed to also have a monopoly in browsers. That’s the whole point of American monopoly laws. Once you have a monopoly, you can’t do everything you want. There are limits. Owning a browser is too much power in one monopolistic giant.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-13 14:49:17+00:00
While I have tremendous sympathy for anyone who loses their job, this feels very industry specific. Embedded and hardware spaces (like satellites) are doing really well, lots of advancement and hiring going on, while things such as data science are struggling to get relevant interviews. I'm also not a huge fan of industry specific hiring data, because it's usually tied to a specific HR/hiring software (like indeed), which holds hidden variables (like big companies may be more likely to use one hiring software than the other).

As a final note, however, most engineers will find a point in their career where the skills they've developed are obsolete or outdated, and that is terrifying to me.
by bargainbin | 2025-08-13 14:50:06+00:00
Just got stung with this on GPT5 - It’s new prompt personalisation had “Robotic” and “no sugar coating” presets.

Worked great until about 4 chats in I asked it for some data and it felt the need to say “Straight Answer. No Sugar coating needed.”

Why can’t these things just shut up recently? If I need to talk to unreliable idiots my Teams chat is just a click away.
by jon-wood | 2025-08-13 14:50:19+00:00
> None of the major political parties care about digital rights and in fact want MORE surveillance.

This is because most of the public don't care about those rights either, and are entirely happy with surveillance. You've got nothing to hide right? If you don't the government to know what you're looking at its probably because you're a paedo, or maybe a terrorist. Maybe even both.

Its not the government who need to be convinced on this, it's the general public, and currently there's not really anyone out there explaining how you can't have a backdoor that only the government and good guys will be able to use.
by itsalotoffun | 2025-08-13 14:50:23+00:00
Daniel's freaking out about an ongoing correction still playing out from '21, and finding struts to support his argument like the "30-50% of the work" is being "done by AI" nonsense lines spouted by talking suits. This is hogwash. It's standard corporate brain fart miss the actual point. Yes, 50%+ of code written might be done by AI, but pretending this is "AI doing the work" reveals the tumor that is management misapprehension of what's going on.

There's a correction coming, but not the one Daniel's fearmongering about.
by stevekemp | 2025-08-13 14:50:28+00:00
Of course you did. I've been submitting GDPR subject information requests to companies that spam me - and most of them ignore me.

The ones that do take the time to reply usually say "We've deleted your personal data now", which is not at all what I want. I want to know what details they have about me, where they obtained it, and why they think spamming me is acceptable.

I've got a folder where I keep printouts of the recent offenders, and once I get a few weeks of holiday I'll start filing small-claims cases against them.
by tayo42 | 2025-08-13 14:50:34+00:00
> A very large number of people dread Monday, and that's not because they show up Monday morning and bring all their creativity and brilliance. It's because it's clocking in and clocking out on a job they'd rather not be doing.

This is a management problem. I don't think it's that hard to figure out how to motivate people. Give them some autonomy and respect. This isn't even hidden knowledge.

But businesses and managers for some reason totally forget this, and treat everyone as cogs in a machine and completely replaceable, monitored by metrics.
by svara | 2025-08-13 14:50:37+00:00
You can't say that with any certainty, but I personally share the impression that growth has not kept up with the hype of 2023. Take the following for example. That's an article from April 2023, that strongly implies that the next version of GPT would be so much more powerful than the current one that it would be dangerous to work on or even release.

Altman specifically used the version number "GPT5" back then. GPT5 is quite good, but is it the kind of technology that requires a word-wide moratorium on its development, lest it make humanity redundant?

"""

(Friedman) asked Altman for his thoughts on the recently released and widely circulated open letter demanding an AI pause. In response, the OpenAI founder shared some of his critiques. “An earlier version of the letter claimed OpenAI is training GPT-5 right now. We are not, and won’t for some time,” Altman noted. “So in that sense, [the letter] was sort of silly.”

But, GPT-5 or not, Altman’s statement isn’t likely to be particularly reassuring to AI’s critiques, as first pointed out in a report from the Verge. The tech founder followed up his “no GPT-5″ announcement by immediately clarifying that upgrades and updates are in the works for GPT-4. There are ways to increase a technologies’ capacity beyond releasing an official, higher-number version of it.

"""

(from: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-open-ai-chatbot-gpt4-gpt5-185...)
by bluGill | 2025-08-13 14:50:49+00:00
It might be enough to get someone to try transit and see that it actually does work. If you are used to driving everywhere and have never used transit then you won't actually know how it works. Routes, timing, transfers, missing the bus... - there are a lot of things that are different about using transit, none of it hard, but all of it needs to be learned. Free transit may be enough to get you to try it once (exactly once!), and if transit works that will be enough that you become willing to figure out how to buy the fare in the future.

In general free transit is a bad idea - nearly everybody is willing to pay a small fee for transit and what they really want is better service (better service meaning more routes, faster routes, and more frequent - pick as many as possible)
by noboostforyou | 2025-08-13 14:51:29+00:00
> This push is mostly coming from the C-level and the hustler types, both of which need this to work out in order for their employeeless corporation fantasy to work out.

The irony, at least in my mind, is that C-level hustler types are exactly the perfect role to be replaced by "AI" for big cost-savings. For obvious reasons, it won't happen.
by gonzo41 | 2025-08-13 14:51:33+00:00
If we look back at all types of mechanization, all that happens is we keep our jobs, they get more complex and the jobs get harder and more technical. in 2-10 years if my job as a software engineer is speedily porting and upgrading banking code with AI assitants then cool. But I don't think we're going to see a crash. Human development doesn't stop. We're going to keep making new stuff and that takes people.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-08-13 14:51:37+00:00
I've never been a fan of UBI (and I'm often downvoted for that, ha ha). I like the idea of mandating an 18 hour work week or similar though. It still keeps the incentive to work — still rewards those who want to achieve more.

One wonders though what impact that will have on society — so much additional free time. More television binging? I hope not.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-13 14:51:43+00:00
I'm worried too. I share most of his concerns, but I'm going to go one step further.

We have a president who is 1) prone to make seat-of-the-pants decisions and 2) prone to over-reach presidential power. And we're going to have a population that is 1) desperate for a quick fix and 2) not willing to let anything stand in the way. The combination is a recipe for further erosion (or the complete destruction) of separation of powers, and also for catastrophic mistakes. If we slide into tyranny (whether or not it keeps a democratic facade) and have Trump - with no restraints - trying to fix the economy, God help us all.
by avanai | 2025-08-13 14:51:50+00:00
Man I loved my Pebble but I’d say the three things I use my Apple Watch for most are: telling time (++), reading notifications (~), and getting Siri to set timers or control my Home Assistant* (—-).

Since Apple simply won’t allow 3rd party apps the full api access they need to do everything, I’m stuck with my Apple Watch if I want all the Apple stuff, and I’m too lazy/annoyed to try to switch ecosystems.

*via Apple Home via Homebridge
by cmacleod4 | 2025-08-13 14:51:57+00:00
Here's my geoblock message for https://newsgrouper.org -

Blocked due to UK Online Safety Act

You appear to be connecting from an IP address in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately this site is no longer available to UK users. This is due to the requirements of the UK's Online Safety Act, which are not practical for this site to comply with. If you feel this is unjustified, I can only suggest that you write to your Member of Parliament. This site remains in operation for non-UK users, as they are outside the scope of the Act.

For more information see Ofcom's official site, and an unofficial guide.

Other web interfaces to Usenet are available, and may continue to allow UK users, see Wikipedia.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-13 14:52:03+00:00
Yeah that’s interesting. Imagine what could happen if AI allowed us to work fewer hours and in exchange there was a program to enable people to pursue volunteer programs in their communities

Some “it takes a village” type of mentoring for children. Or programs to spend time with the elderly. Get outside and get involved in public works projects like repairing parks and waterways.

Total fantasy, for sure, but that’s what revolutionary new tech like AI could actually benefit society by letting humans be more human.
by immibis | 2025-08-13 14:52:05+00:00
Simple solution for that. If you jam GPS and it makes an autonomous tractor run over a school, you're liable for the manslaughter of the school kids. Trains can be derailed, but they're still allowed to operate and we just put the derailer in prison. And knives can be used to stab people. And someone can even grab your arm and force you to stab someone with the knife, and the law understands this.
by herodotus | 2025-08-13 14:52:29+00:00
It might be informative to compare this with what happened when retailers introduced automated checkout machines. It seems that the net effect on staff sizes was not that dramatic. These stores need more anti-theft security people and some oversight. Not to mention the people they need for technical support. I wonder if there will develop a new category of skills for checking that AI produced code is correct, effective and optimal?
Show HN: eBPF memory profiling at OOM kill time
by gnurizen | 2025-08-13 14:52:33+00:00
Check out our new project to add some insight into OOM kill events for Go programs.

Source code: https://github.com/parca-dev/oomprof/

Description of how it was put together: https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/08/13/oomprof
by tete | 2025-08-13 14:52:55+00:00
Ah yeah that "extreme pacifism" that has grotesque ideas like people shouldn't murder other people just because their governments think so.

How dare them being opposed to that poor military sector, that nobody ever speaks up for. Completely forgotten by politics and media, nobody ever takes their side and see how in reality they make the world a much better place.

After hundreds of thousands of deaths and daily news about one war crime chasing another by all sides, daily uncovered cruel lies, essentially all wars being illegal and not defensive according to UN laws. Laws that the very countries that now break them established. Only not being sanctioned because of vetoes by these countries.

And all of them being lobbied against by some nerds meeting in their spare time to follow their interests. Those horrible, horrible extreme pacifists!
by pyrale | 2025-08-13 14:53:50+00:00
You're mixing two things here: having an app with more than just CRUD interactions, and making that app an SPA.

My point was giving an example of an app that's a bit more featured than just some forms in a CRUD interface, not that you can only do that with a SPA.

> And why not have the DnD and the more complete change form?

It was, in fact, what we did.
by jadamson | 2025-08-13 14:54:02+00:00
I said "mostly", did you miss that? The reality is that these gangs were overwhelmingly not made up of police or politicians, and they did indeed have thousands of victims.

We are long past the point where this sort of denialism will work - it will only generate further backlash. Is that your intention?

I'll leave you with a quote from Baroness Casey's recent report on the subject[1], the recommendations of which have been entirely accepted by the UK Government[2]:

> Despite reviews, reports and inquiries raising questions about men from Asian or Pakistani backgrounds grooming and sexually exploiting young White girls, the system has consistently failed to fully acknowledge this or collect accurate data so it can be examined effectively.

> Instead, flawed data is used repeatedly to dismiss claims about ‘Asian grooming gangs’ as sensationalised, biased or untrue. This does a disservice to victims and indeed all law-abiding people in Asian communities and plays into the hands of those who want to exploit it to sow division.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685559d05225e... (PDF)

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-audit-on...
by tantalor | 2025-08-13 14:54:04+00:00
This seems to open the door to operators not being literally in the driver's seat.

I think "location on the vehicle" could reasonably be interpreted as including virtual locations. For example a drone operator is physically in a little room somewhere but they are in actuality operating controls that fulfill all of those requirements remotely. It's not hard to go from there to "I can press the stop button on my phone whenever I want" so I am effectively "stationed at the vehicular controls".
by denismi | 2025-08-13 14:54:28+00:00
I've pulled the trigger.

When Pebble died I decided that I'd rather less smart and more battery than more smart and less battery, so I got a Withings watch and have been reasonably happy since.

But this looks really good now and I'm happy to support it even if it doesn't win over my wrist space.

Hopefully they sort out Health Connect support on the Pebble Android app by January so that I can at least sync steps between watches if I'm switching between them.
by jpetso | 2025-08-13 14:54:56+00:00
About 4-6% in US and other Western countries, depending on analytics source. Increases in the past year or so by a full percentage point or so. More in India, less in South America, barely any in China.

The increased visibility due to SteamOS/Proton, coverage by various prominent TechTubers, end of Windows 10 support, availability of image-based OS upgrades and Flatpak/Snap to supercede package dependencies, all seem to combine into an actual breakout year comparatively. We'll see if the trend holds or was just a one-off.
by hyperhello | 2025-08-13 14:55:16+00:00
Take the even more global view of the United States. We can grow more than enough good food for everyone, and there is plenty of land. We have water, working infrastructure, and all the other ingredients.

The rest is just giving people money to do what they please. Really. Do we need faster technology? Do we need to alloy new metals or develop new medicines?

No. We could live the spartan life of fifty years ago, or a hundred. The population will keep reliably replenishing. The rest is all just fashion.

When, not if, AI takes over crummy jobs that people don’t want to do, and society makes a mass change to deal with that, you’ll be surprised how fast it goes back to whatever equilibrium there is.
by throwway120385 | 2025-08-13 14:55:21+00:00
At my employer the overhiring was in areas where there wasn't actually a business case. For example they staffed an entire internal team to build a unified portal between all of the software systems the company acquired through acquisitions. That team produced nothing and at great expense. They got laid off last year, and the funds re-allocated toward hiring in areas that produced revenue or reduced expenses.
by OrvalWintermute | 2025-08-13 14:56:19+00:00
There are two key truths:

Hackerdom has always had a relationship with Defense, Intelligence & LE.

Most hackers are deeply benevolent and care greatly about the world, and insecurity at large, mostly fostered by Business.

Building relationships with defense & intel are often the best avenues towards moving towards a more secure future, working within the system for positive change. Our way of life, and our freedoms are not secure with imminent threats on the horizon.

Please, disabuse yourself of the notion that Mainland China is not weaponizing their hackerdom against us simultaneously.
by andrepd | 2025-08-13 14:56:20+00:00
There's a database of every question and answer, and almost every episode is also on youtube, complete with transcripts. I really don't see how you can assume that the fact that questions+answers are in the training data (which they are) doesn't affect the results of your "benchmark"...

It also doesn't pass the smell test. These models routinely make basic mistakes, yet can answer these devilish lateral thinking questions more than 9 times out of 10? Seems very strange.
by strict9 | 2025-08-13 14:56:59+00:00
I agree with many of the author's observations. I see a lot of the same thing in my circles.

Where my views differ are when it comes to the leap between layoffs and AI.

Corporate leadership is eager to reduce the biggest source of cost (employees) and happy to use AI as cover. But it's not the reality. AI isn't adding productivity to the company's bottom line in numbers big enough to rationalize the layoffs.

I can point to zero tech roles eliminated where AI performed the same function. Despite the fact me and everyone in my circles use AI on a daily basis and are big proponents of it.

I think the author's biggest incorrect assertion is accepting corporate PR as gospel like this:

>Salesforce says AI bots now do 50% of the company's work. They're pushing what they call a "digital workforce" where AI agents handle customer service, sales, and even coding tasks.

All of these companies have great incentive to say AI is replacing workers. But so far no proof has been offered.

Eventually we will get a recession. For a lot of people that work in tech it feels like we are already in one.

But I do not share the author's concerns with AI taking everyone's jobs in the next few months or years.
by phtrivier | 2025-08-13 14:57:14+00:00
I'm curious at which point the AIs are doing all the jobs of corporations, so that they can sell their products and services to... no one, since everyone is unemployed ?

Or is the strategy of everyone to sell to the same 0.01% of the population ?

(Also, hilarious that the author mentions UBI as a potential solution. UBI is a massive transfer of wealth. Governements are elected nowadays on the promise of guaranteeing wealth is not transfered - see the recent tax bill in the USA ; and any mention of "taxes" in a political campaign.)
by alexfoo | 2025-08-13 14:57:28+00:00
> 1 - ((1-45000)/45000)^(36510) = 0.08

I think you mean:

1 - ((45000-1)/45000)^(365*10) = 0.08

Whilst it doesn't matter if the exponent is even (such as 3650 above) using (1-45000)/45000 will give a wrong estimation for odd exponents.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-13 14:58:14+00:00
If real-time transcription is so bad, why force it to be real-time. What happens if you give it a 2-3 second delay? That's pretty standard in live captioning. I get real-time being the ultimate goal, but we're not there yet. So working within the current limitations is piss poor transcription in real-time really more desirable/better than better transcriptions 2-3 second delay?
by permo-w | 2025-08-13 14:58:32+00:00
having tried it quite a few times with quite a few variations, without making it extremely clear that I was talking in a sense of chemistry rather than dietary, I was unable to get ChatGPT to give anything other than a long list of edible salts

essentially I think it's telling that there are zero screenshots of the original conversation or an attempted replication in the article or the report, when there's no good reason that there wouldn't be. I often enjoy reading your work, so I do have some trust in your judgment, but this whole article strikes me as off, like the people behind it have been waiting for something like this to happen as an excuse to jump on it and get credit, rather than it actually being a major problem
by brohee | 2025-08-13 14:58:33+00:00
Hammond didn't protest during a talk but clearly after its end if https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1mlaw4s/jeremy_hamm... is to be believed. And removed by venue guards not DefCon goons.

And he seems really well loved, as evidenced by https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1mlaw4s/comment/n7p...
by tete | 2025-08-13 14:58:34+00:00
To be fair CCC is theoretically primarily a German club with an event that is overbooked by so so many people, all of that is done by people NOT being paid for anything (from security to health emergency to infrastructure, ticket checking, audio, recording, etc.).

I wouldn't call it crazy that a pure volunteer event that constantly has to switch places because they use up ALL available space of their venues does have a ticketing system that is still better than the one of a lot of big pop stars.

It probably also keeps commercialization down to a minimum.

Yes, sucks that what you describe isn't possible, but I think in perspective it's not exactly "crazy".

It's still always sold out with whole conference areas and more used up.
by epc | 2025-08-13 14:58:52+00:00
It’s 1997. The executives in the boardroom have heard about this AI thing and have tasked the managerial class to make sure they have an AI plan to execute for FY2025 and FY2026. Shareholder Rights Activists are demanding that companies have an AI strategy. There has yet to be a Netscape moment though the ever larger capital raises by OpenAI and others may be the Netscape moment. Money is pouring in even though there’s little measurable benefit yet.

There will be a couple of tells when the bubble is popping: the Shareholder Rights Activists will flip to demanding companies execute the executives who implemented the wasteful AI strategies that they demanded, and “AI” companies will take over all of the ad slots for the SuperB*wl.
by plainOldText | 2025-08-13 14:58:58+00:00
I couldn’t see passed the 100% mark.

Looking at some YouTube videos, it looks like this was the greeting upon booting:

“Stored on this single, 1.44 Mbyte floppy disk is a demo copy of the QNX realtime operating system, the Photon microGUI windowing system, the Voyager web browser, Ethernet networking, TCP/IP, an embedded web server, an editor, a file browser, a vector graphics animation, and a television set-top box simulation.

Just think — if we can do all this with a 1.44 Mbyte floppy disk, imagine the devices you could build with QNX realtime technology.”