MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nxrabl | 2025-08-03 23:21:33+00:00
As the saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. There are any number of ways a firm can do things that, in isolation, are bad for business, and still do very well overall if they’re protected by other factors (such as, case in point, the money printing machine that is Google ads). I think what the GP is saying is that sitting back and leaving things to the market to work out is essentially resigning the issue not to be resolved in our lifetimes.
by foobarian | 2025-08-03 23:21:35+00:00
To be clear, I am not arguing against pickup trucks. The reason I bring up the bed length is a personal pet peeve thing. I have some amount of OCD going on, and I will be damned if I will ever approve of a truck that can't fit a piece of lumber in its bed without leaving the tailgate open that can fit into a Ford Fiesta with the trunk closed.

I am fully aware of why and how people use pickup trucks and I have no beef with that on cultural grounds. But if I were to get one it would be a long bed truck and I would sacrifice the cab space if needed.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-03 23:21:52+00:00
I guess you could blame Craigslist for commoditizing their competitor’s complement, which mattered because newspapers found their lunch being eaten from both ends: first by Craigslist with classified ads (which CL capitalized on with low-ish transparent flat fees for job, rental, real estate, and commercial posts), then by Facebook, which first became a direct source of truth for citizens to find local and regional newsworthy information, and then again when Facebook Marketplace became a competitor with classified ads in newspapers and on Craigslist.

Elon Musk talks about wanting X to be a super app, and I think he’s jealous of Zuck and Meta. Meta is a super app without having to be one, but since the failure of Libra Meta has been trying to get another bite at a similarly large apple, and general purpose AI isn’t a bad one to bob for, and X is trying to swim in those same waters.
by primitivesuave | 2025-08-03 23:22:35+00:00
I completely agree that people should be able to enjoy Yosemite without needing to "rough it", but realistically this is something that is only accessible to people who can afford to spend upwards of ~$300/night (that's the room rate in El Portal, right outside the park entrance). Factoring in the park entrance fee, transportation, and food, it's easily a $1k weekend trip - not something the average American has access to.

The campsites are affordable and several have nice bathrooms/showers, but they get snatched up en masse at the beginning of the season by tour operators, so your only hope of getting one is by monitoring campflare.com.

We all collectively support an enormous commercial venture in and around Yosemite Valley, so we all collectively contribute toward increasing the price of entry and thus making the valley less accessible for everyone else.
by zahlman | 2025-08-03 23:22:55+00:00
> A lot of these things happen with or without AI.

Of course the AI had to learn from somewhere. In previous discussions I've been told that certain kinds of executives may naturally write like this and/or prefer for others to write like this. But now the style has become homogenized and ubiquitous, and I personally just find it extremely grating.

> This site is run by a VC.

Sure. But the VC culture here is about trying to connect VCs with people who want VC funding. It's not about marketing the resulting product.

> So what is the right way to write about projects? I've thought about writing something up that I'm building and it probably would have been similar to this structure.

Be up front about what your project does, and use only the plainest language to explain what it actually is. If you contrast with known alternatives, make sure we can directly understand your design taste/aesthetic and why you were motivated to make another one. Are you trying to provide something faster? simpler? more featureful? Or on the other hand, is it something you just re-created because you have a personal interest in things like it? It's perfectly okay to do that, and preferable to be honest about it.

If you're passionate about the underlying design, consider describing it in long-form prose.

Give a brief overview of how to use it. Not in a way that tries to convince us that it's easy to use, but in a way the directly illustrates that. Show, don't tell. Even if you have a full README already, repeat a simple example or three.

And please, don't say things that should already be obvious from the fact that you're posting it in the first place.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-08-03 23:23:05+00:00
Nope, you’re reading way too far into it. Given that born infants almost certainly possess a kind of “partial personhood,” the reason we assign them full personhood isn’t out of recognition of observable fact, but out of practicality and necessity. It wouldn’t make sense to structure society in such a way that newborns weren’t people, and would likely result in lots of moral harm. The idea of partial personhood doesn’t work in law or politics, even if its biologically founded, so we should choose a cutoff point that makes the most sense and prevents the most harm before which we don’t consider fetuses people, and after which we do.
by lastdong | 2025-08-03 23:23:51+00:00
Taking a class in technical writing greatly improved my ability to summarize written documents. The course emphasized a “cut with a red pen” approach (write, cross out, rewrite), which focused on using as few words as possible to communicate concepts and ideas clearly. This method has multiple layers and becomes easier with practice. I also try to share this knowledge with the teams I work with, but it’s important to remember that it’s a skill that requires regular training.
by bloqs | 2025-08-03 23:24:06+00:00
the Boomer retirement(or lack of) bomb is currently going off. This generation had quite a large cohort who experienced an economic "miracle" throughout their childhood, and developed a troublesome and largely unrealistic grasp of pay and quality of life level for expected labour. They were the generation of just showing up to work and a firm handshake was enough for automatic promotion over time.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-03 23:24:57+00:00
TCL is popular for automated scripting, and is still quite popular with "expect" and "autoexpect" package users. The key feature is opening a remote scripted or interactive ssh session, and running setup/install commands admins would otherwise have to type in thousands of times a month (or worse, leave sensitive information/CSR on short lived host nodes.)

Being able to compile ephemeral objects is actually pretty useful in some use-cases. =3
by Animats | 2025-08-03 23:25:53+00:00
The problem with Helion is that their "Polaris" device isn't working yet. That was supposed to do some fusion and recapture some energy, even if not breakeven. It was supposed to be operational by now.

Success with Polaris would be a big deal. Helion isn't mentioning it much any more. Not good. December 2024 discussion on Reddit.[1] Discussion in the last month on Reddit.[2] Video from Helion that mentions mostly Trenta, the previous machine.[3]

Yet they're pouring concrete for the next machine.

Uh oh.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/1hlojqu/any_news_on...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/1lv4e2h/what_has_ch...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuB3bIsJeJA
by rowanG077 | 2025-08-03 23:28:45+00:00
as someone who has actually written stuff in non-"half-assed type systems". It's really not about understanding. Even if you understand, it's a HUGE pain to write things in them. It can be worth it if you are extremely high assurance but in general it's just not worth it in most software.

Dynamic typing is on the other end of the spectrum. That is a huge pain precisely because there are no automated checks.

In between those two extremes there is an (subjective)sweet spot. Where you don't pay much at all in terms of overhead, but you get back a ton from the checks it provides.
by robotnikman | 2025-08-03 23:28:45+00:00
>However what we can simply never do is make another one from scratch as all the tooling has been gone since the 1960s. They could do an “inspired by the B52” replacement like the B21 is to the B2, but much like the B2 and F22 we just won’t make more of them for practical and Military Industrial Complex reasons.

iirc they are doing this with the new F-15's they are producing, the F-15EX Eagle II
Ask HN: How do you personally evaluate new LLM models?
by _samjarman | 2025-08-03 23:29:05+00:00
Hey folks, how do you personally evaluate new HN models? Vibes? Or do you have some tests you like to run? Or do you just use them in your IDE/text iterface for a bit and see how it feels? I know we could probably trust some more public benchmarks but I'm curious on personal evaluation techniques. Thanks!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-03 23:30:01+00:00
Companies get money from workers (i.e. customers), pay some back to workers (employees), and keep the rest as profit (or waste it on some kind of bureaucratic inefficiency). Workers can get more money by either paying less as customers or getting paid more as employees.

Monopolies screw them on both ends. Customers pay more because there are fewer suppliers, and then employees make less because there is less competition for hiring which also makes it easier for the large employers to coordinate non-poaching agreements.
by credit_guy | 2025-08-03 23:30:52+00:00
> So when will a similar thing happen with Desktop Linux? Who will do it? Can it be done?

Even if this happens, it would not matter for Microsoft. Windows is now almost a rounding error for them. Here's their revenue and operating income for the fiscal year 2024 [1]. There are 3 categories, with fancy names, but they mean roughly 1. Office, 2. Azure, 3. Windows+Xbox+LinkedIn+Copilot. The profit for the first two (combined) was a bit more than $90B. For the last category, it was a bit less than $20B, and Windows is roughly a third of it.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q4...
by exasperaited | 2025-08-03 23:31:15+00:00
This is absolutely correct; it's as true in the UK as in the USA. Nobody can identify even the slightest window of time in which there really was a non-sexist, colour-blind, non-homophobic, chill meritocratic consensus that did not need rebalancing.

People often point at the 1980s but culture was extremely aware back then of the need to re-balance, but it did so in a kind of crass way at every level of the media. Token hiring was rampant, and used as a way to wash society's hands of the problem by laundering seemingly diverse figures into the unmodified culture, as long as they didn't question it too much.

I would echo your point. Anyone here: when was it better, genuinely, for everyone, than it is now? When was it less complicated?
by ajross | 2025-08-03 23:31:46+00:00
I can't tell which side of the argument you're on here. The driver in the Tesla case didn't "drop a pen". Your Subaru is a recent car and not a 2018 Tesla Model S (which was launched before the Full Self Driving product everyone here seems to think they're arguing about existed!).

And... no pilot is allowed to operate any automatic pilot system without supervision, I genuinely can't imagine that's what you're implying[1].

[1] Your "drop a pen" example seems deliberately constructed to invent a scenario where you think you're allowed to stop supervising the aircraft because it sounds harmless. It's not. You aren't. And if the FAA traces that post to your license I bet anything they'll suspend it.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-08-03 23:32:36+00:00
Is it great? No! It's certainly not an outcome I would wish for anyone. I'm not a monster.

But there's two things here:

1. allowing people freedom to make their own choices.

2. the dangers of borrowing large sums of money

Adding those two together in a free(for some notion of free) market means there will be losers. In this case, the outcome sucks but it isn't like they lost their life in a car crash.

If you start guaranteeing outcomes... that way madness lies.
by jeffvroom | 2025-08-03 23:32:58+00:00
Yes, most of this was cleaned up by Claude absolutely. I'm not getting paid. I have a busy day job right? Why would I subject my readers to my crappy prose when I can clean it up. Why wouldn't I use Claude for research, then followup and double-check conclusions, new chats, different lines of questioning. I am totally sympathetic to the fact that I messed up big time in framing this for this audience. I'll get it fixed but please have an opened mind. I'm not wrong about this and you're not wrong to give it a pass. Sorry for the noise on a Sunday but again, I appreciate the feedback cause it is making the story better.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-03 23:33:52+00:00
>It must suck to be an expert right now?

You just have to be a little more careful these days. Previously ideas that sounded good tended to have more experienced people behind them. Now somebody coming to you with a bonehead idea sounds a little more sophisticated, but honestly it keeps me a little more in check than previously as I have to give a little extra attention to everything, which I probably should have been doing anyway.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-03 23:33:57+00:00
> The idea that there's a significant lobby on fucking Hacker News unhappy that a startup IPO'd for a zillion bucks and made everyone rich is twilight zone shit. It makes no sense according to the stated values in the fucking masthead.

Blocking the merger was good. But I'm not convinced the IPO was good. I think trying to be a company that's worth tens of billions of dollars is only going to make Figma worse. I care about the users more than the people that got rich.
by Lucasoato | 2025-08-03 23:34:15+00:00
It's not about owning an house, having kids, or a luxury car. Most people just want to work with dignity, a mean to reach their workplace wether by car or a decent public transport, affording to live in a place you can call your home, in which maybe one day you could raise a family if you find a person that shares your view of life. This is not granted at all, for most people this is just not the reality and actually it's getting worse year by year.
by farkin88 | 2025-08-03 23:34:23+00:00
Solid advice on clarity and editing. The only gap is what happens after the doc is approved? Without upkeep it decays into "design archaeology." A few years ago, Andrew Harmel-Law wrote about an interesting approach to scaling architecture conversationally, which includes lightweight Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) as one tool that could help here. ADRs live beside the code (adr/001-use-postgres.md) and capture context, decision, and status in a format short enough to, I think, revisit in every PR and easy to supersede when reality changes so the original rationale stays searchable months later.

Here’s a link to Harmel-Laws’post if anyone's interested: https://martinfowler.com/articles/scaling-architecture-conve...
by bobthepanda | 2025-08-03 23:34:29+00:00
> big businesses and those with money

There are obviously the people in this cohort and there are also the people who think they will be in this cohort, who think they will be the victors in a cartel-like world.

Heck, before layoffs and the threat of AI started concentrating even more power into tech leadership there were plenty of tech folks along for the ride as the high paid, in demand workforce benefiting from the above.
by throwanem | 2025-08-03 23:34:50+00:00
> You [brought] up Alan Watts again

I just checked again, and it does look like you posted [1] the relevant links. Are you seeing something different? My experience has been that people who use apps or scripts which purport to "improve" on HN's interface do sometimes run into such bugs.

I bring it up because I feel like if we're not working from similar sets of facts, that would be a reasonable explanation for what otherwise is seeming very much like you doing everything you possibly can to avoid acknowledging I called bullshit, on the naked appeal to authority to which you resorted, in order to try to lend your words a weight you lack the ability to give them yourself.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44753964
by LorenDB | 2025-08-03 23:35:04+00:00
External GPU is actually a really good option here. Get a laptop with a beefy CPU (definitely Ryzen; Strix Halo chips are really good and would be decent at standalone AI as well) and Thunderbolt/Oculink, then grab an eGPU dock and get the best GPU you can afford. For gaming, eGPUs suffer from bandwidth constraints, but for LLMs it shouldn't matter as much since the model only needs loaded once; after that it can sit in VRAM.
by rvz | 2025-08-03 23:35:36+00:00
Perhaps the technology that you are using is loaded with hundreds of foot-guns if you have to spend time on enforcing these patterns.

Rather than taking the logical focus on making money, it is wasting time on shuffling around code and being an architecture astronaut with the main focus on details rather than shipping.

One of the biggest errors one can make is still using Node.js and Javascript on the server in 2025.
by strcat | 2025-08-03 23:35:45+00:00
This post is a German translation of the Kiwi Farms thread personally targeting me with harassment based around fabricated stories, spin and completely unsubstantiated claims/theories. The post was made by a someone after they made similar personal attacks towards me in a recent Hacker News thread for an LWN article about GrapheneOS. Several of the posts were hidden so it's not all visible there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=onli

The blog post includes links to content which clearly exists to target me with harassment from both Henry Fisher (Techlore) and Louis Rossmann. Nearly everything in both videos is highly inaccurate and both are people engaging in bullying towards me using their platforms to cause further harm towards me with their communities. Rossmann's video was posted shortly after I was repeatedly swatted by the Techlore community. Rossmann had been repeatedly making personal attacks towards me in our chat rooms, his videos and elsewhere including but not at all limited to expressing public support for Techlore's content attacking me. In that video, Rossmann falsely claims to have stopped using GrapheneOS which his own followers found he was still clearly using as a daily driver many months later. He did that as part of presenting a false narrative about him being scared to use it. He also presented us potentially publicly replying to his public jabs as forcing him to make a video targeting me with harassment. None of it makes much sense. In reality, he continued using it as shown by multiple later videos. He eventually acknowledge that he'd kept using it. He was quite clearly not scared to use it and stopped using it because we didn't make content with him and were upset with his attacks on us.

Louis Rossmann openly has a verified Kiwi Farms account (larossmann) where he seeks their respect/approval and was quite openly catering to them in his content attacking me. Not possible to link to the site here without it being filtered but it's easy enough to find. It doesn't accomplish much to disallow linking to it when posts laundering the same content like this one are permitted.
by simoncion | 2025-08-03 23:38:16+00:00
The exciting misconfiguration I was thinking of was one where Internet hosts could send packets to the router with LAN IPs as the destination IP and the router would happily forward those along and output them on the LAN interface(s).

On a Linux router, perhaps setting ip_forward to 1 and leaving rp_filter at 0 would do the trick? It has been ages since I've had to play with rp_filter, so I can't remember exactly what its behavior is.
by capitainenemo | 2025-08-03 23:38:17+00:00
yep. certainly occurred to me. not the most practical if you just wanted to look at a single file, and still breaks the legacy links. BTW, they also made JS required to get the "clone" link off their website, although you can of course guess it most of the time.

In any case, wasn't using w3m/lynx this time, so just whitelisted the 2 domains github requires.
by TheCycoONE | 2025-08-03 23:38:54+00:00
This comment got me thinking how relative the centre is to your experience, ideology, and perhaps the particular policies being referenced.

From my vantage point the US has never in my lifetime been remotely left of centre, they are moving from right to slightly further right.

DEI hiring is of course an easy target. It's a weak policy to tackle a complicated problem with obvious flaws and no track record of success. I think a truly left wing society would have quickly replaced it with more direct policies to hit generational poverty - EU style public education comes to mind.
by fluidcruft | 2025-08-03 23:38:55+00:00
I work in hospitals and it's just a constant stream from IT of "oh you just figured it out! congratulations! time to change they way you do things! this time we've solved all your problems that you're not complaining about! try to reengineer how to do anything now! lol! we hear you and feel your pain! here read ten pages of drivel that tells you how important and amazing IT is but won't actually tell you how to do anything with the new new tools and lives in some fantasyland that has nothing to do with the work that you actually need to get done!" all while simultaneously making every single computer and workflow somehow slower and more complex. Add another login here... force a quicker logout there... And then admin will come in with "thanks IT! you're doing amazing work! by the way everyone else we expect your productivity and caseload to increase!"

Meanwhile getting things to work is filing tickets followed by "oh gosh that's so complex!" and months of moron pitcrew showing up " to fix it" who can't fix anything and who seem to think it's just that we're dumbasses who can't figure out who to reboot a computer.

Honestly it's difficult to not grow the instant opinion that IT should just shut the fuck up and fire themselves. Who the hell do they even work for?
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-03 23:39:14+00:00
Currently going through this with Reddit. Their appeal process is to submit a form which may or may not be processed, and there is zero feedback for the user. Common advice is to submit the form daily.

I have submitted it 200 times over the past year. I know that it probably just goes into a black void, but it is apparently the official review process, and I am 100% sure there were no rule violations (I was flagged for responding to new threads too quickly and reposting the same educational link a few times because I was answering the same sort of question). It's cruel really. Somehow they made something even worse than the Google approach. Presumably tens of thousands of users are wasting time every single day doing this.

Like others have said, most tech companies are like this and it's unacceptable, even if users are the product.
by benreesman | 2025-08-03 23:40:48+00:00
Because none of them are good enough yet to trust completely with any task. Even the absolute best ones still fart out at surprising times, and for most stuff I have an AI that's always on, it requires no cognitive overhead to delegate to my own brain. So to delegate, it has to be a reliable win: I'm not here to make AI look good, I'm here to make my own performance be good, only a sure thing is a candidate for reflexive delegation.

AI companies advertise peak AI performance, users select AI tools on worst case AI fuckups: hence, only SOTA is ever in demand. TFA illustrates this well.

AI will be judged on it's worst performance, just like people are fired for their worst showing, not their best. No one cares about AI performance in ideal (read: carefully contrived) settings. We care how bad it fucks up when we take our eyes off it for 2 seconds.