MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fouc | 2025-08-26 15:08:22+00:00
You seem to believe that not following the news leads to ignorance?

My question to you is - Is following the news even a form of participation?

I would argue that news has an incredibly high noise to signal ratio. Most news anchors and talking heads and commentators talk a lot but convey very little. It's obvious they understand very little and ultimately focus on regurgitating what is "commonly understood" that everyone else also repeats. Plus usually there's heavy biases involved - so many implicit assumptions every time they open their mouth. Hardly any nuance is conveyed.

Anyways let's forget news for a second and discuss how to make some kind of impact, some kind of change.

To my mind at least 3 options occur to me:

1. Writing. Don't write to a wide audience, write to a narrow one. Really get in deep on a political issue.

2. Start local. Participate in town council, or similar, get involved as an active member in local politics to gain practice/exposure. Don't need to be a politician or be elected yet.

3. Or my favorite - focus on some technical solution for helping people to organize perhaps..
by dwarksidle | 2025-08-26 15:09:08+00:00
> Make of that what you will; the arrogance of some people to assume they know better than anyone else sure is stunning.

So you make this comment right after making a really reductive, ignorant comment on the Soviet planned economy collapse?

Yeah I'm 49. I was there. Watched Soviet Union fall on live TV. Berlin wall too. After years of intentional outside effort to force it to fall.

Market-driven has worked because media told everyone it has to work, and no other nations were strong enough to exert outside influence until modern China came along.

Tell everyone the Soviet economy must work without outside influence to collapse it, does it still collapse?

You're shipping propaganda of your culture.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-26 15:09:09+00:00
Nothing even remotely similar to that happened on previous tightenings. Going from not a peep to enough outrage to overturn a decision this thoroughly debated all at once seems really unlikely. Also, what are the aggrieved enterprises going to do, threaten to move from GCP to AWS if Chrome doesn't do what they want? That's an empty threat and everyone knows it.
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-26 15:09:10+00:00
That's because most of the surplus agrarian workers found new jobs from factories and service sector in cities. Industrial society needed more people to work the factory lines, transport stuff, feed those city living workers and so on. I'm not sure this latest wave of automation will be similar, because it's not obvious what new occupations increasing AI use could create, at least not in large enough amounts.
by CRConrad | 2025-08-26 15:09:38+00:00
> Borland's OWL predated MFC... I myself started with Borland's tools on MS-DOS, moved to Windows with straight Win16/32 SDK programming and then moved to VC++/MFC before moving away from Microsoft platforms

So you totally missed / skipped Borland's VCL[1], right?

That would explain your comments: It's the only way I can see how one could come to think that "Microsoft had the lead" in Windows IDEs at... Well, ever.

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[1]: Written in Delphi and of course used there, but also used in C++ Builder.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-26 15:10:00+00:00
Young people often ask "what's the point of fine art photography? It's just capturing what I can already see with my eyes, I prefer art like paintings which are more creative and imaginative"

And the answer is often "GOOD photography is about capturing a fleeting moment in time, forever, so that we can enjoy it longer"

But what is happening now is going the other way - people are using photography to be more imaginative, as a creative medium more akin to composing a painting. Transforming reality rather than merely recording it
by gspencley | 2025-08-26 15:10:11+00:00
> Is it possible to stay better than AI? Maybe for some people. Not for the average person.

I know we're talking broadly across all industries but I can only speak to what I know and am able to observe directly.

My opinion of the average software developer with a few years experience is not very high. Yet now that we have non-coders shipping features written with LLMs, and we're starting to observe the fallout from that, I'm getting closer to saying than an entry level coder is far better than an LLM (depending on how we evaluate "better").

There are also a lot of hidden costs associated with LLMs. For example, I'm spending a lot more time reviewing PRs than I used to. And we're taking a lot more time doing rework than we were before.

We can't yet say that LLMs have caused an increase in regressions, since we've been racing towards a major new version release, and so people are rushing in general and that skews the numbers. Over time, however, we'll have data on rate of bugs introduced before the widespread company adoption of LLMs vs after, controlled for crunch times as well.

If the average software developer only spends an average of 20% of their time actually writing code, then even if an LLM can offer an optimistic 50% productivity increase, then we're only optimizing for 10% best case scenario.

I think there is a lot of marketing-hype-driven ideology around "AI" right now that is leading a lot of people to buy into some of the overstated claims. This ideology may have companies genuinely slowing down their hiring of entry-levels at the moment, since some people are saying that an LLM is like having an incompetent intern. The business thinks "If you need to babysit a junior and you need to babysit an LLM, then why pay for the junior?" And we still need better data to determine if, on average, what a company pays for a junior is truly more expensive than delegating the work to an LLM + taking on the maintenance and review overhead. We don't have the answers yet. My personal bias has me thinking that on average a junior will provide higher returns although not necessarily immediately. The benefit of a junior is that they learn from mistakes and can adapt more readily to specific business requirements.

This is not to say that LLMs aren't valuable. I think the trade-off for entry-levels is that I would have killed to have something like Cursor when I was a a pre-teen teaching myself to code in the 90s. When you want to build something complicated and don't even know where to start, and LLM can get you some scaffolding and show you a basic strategy that you can build on. Then you go fix bugs and poke around and break stuff.. it's a great learning tool. So I expect that, over time, the talent of entry-levels will probably increase. In the short term, we need to get through this AI bubble and stabilize. Companies will learn where LLMs save costs and where they can still benefit from less-experienced coders. It will just take a bit of time.
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-26 15:10:21+00:00
Sorry, I believe I've been misapprehended.

I didn't mean the intent is to control Intel's capital.

I meant controlling capital flows. In this particular case, controlling the flow of capital in a strategic sector out to TSMC et al. The idea is that regulation, state backed companies, etc etc all concert to oblige the market to keep those capital flows inside of your jurisdiction.

China does the same. It's extraordinarily difficult to exfiltrate capital from China. One of the only ways to do it is to turn the capital into products and exfiltrate those products out of China in place of the capital.

I think, long term, the US wants the same sort of environment over here.
by ericmay | 2025-08-26 15:10:36+00:00
I don't think we're comparing apples to apples though, and even so it's again just a trade-off we can make.

> the local good doesn't suddenly get cheaper it rises to match $180

Lowering prices isn't the goal, otherwise we could just export everything to (insert low-cost country here) and have products made as cheaply as possible regardless of working conditions or other considerations. The goal in part with tariffs would be to make it so that domestic products or products from friendly countries are cost competitive, not necessarily cheaper. Some folks just want the cheapest possible products and they don't care about any other issue. But that's just one factor among many for the nation. Some think that we should have lunch breaks and 40 hour work weeks and different environmental standards - that costs money and makes labor more expensive in countries like the United States.

I would disagree that there isn't an incentive to improve your local products, at least in the United States. The market here is big enough that we generally have competition regardless of whether or not competitors from other countries are participating in the market. But even so, it's not like competitors aren't participating in the market even with tariffs, it just changes the pricing calculations.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-26 15:10:38+00:00
> All that to say: M1 is pretty fast, but the reason the battery life is better has to do with everything other than the CPU cores. That's what AMD and Intel are missing.

Apple is vertically integrated and can optimize at the OS and for many applications they ship with the device.

Compare that to how many cooks are in the kitchen in Wintel land. Perfect example is trying to get to the bottom of why your windows laptop won't go to sleep and cooks itself in your backpack. Unless something's changed, last I checked it was a circular firing squad between laptop manufacturer, Microsoft and various hardware vendors all blaming each other.
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-08-26 15:10:49+00:00
> Software in x86 world is not optimized, broadly, because it doesn’t have to be. The demoscene shows what can be achieved in tight performance envelopes, but software companies have never had reason to optimize code or performance when next year has always promised more cores or more GHz.

This is why I get so livid regarding Electron apps on the Mac.

I’m never surprised by developer-centric apps like Docker Desktop — those inclined to work on highly technical apps tend not to care much about UX — but to see billion-dollar teams like Slack and 1Password indulge in this slop is so disheartening.
by codeclimber | 2025-08-26 15:10:54+00:00
Community-maintained comparison of AI coding tools with actual free access to frontier models (GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen3-Coder-480B). Only includes models scoring >60% on SWE-bench Verified.

Turns out Qwen Code gives 2,000 requests/day to Qwen3-Coder-480B while Rovo Dev CLI gives 5M tokens/day of Claude Sonnet 4 during beta, among others.

The catch: every tool counts differently (requests vs tokens vs credits), and the number of requests to solve particular coding problems varies significantly from tool to tool. Makes comparison quite hard.

Quick survey: How many actual coding hours do you get from your coding tool? (Free or paid, rough numbers fine)
by oftenwrong | 2025-08-26 15:10:58+00:00
Many drivers do let their mind wander. This is especially true of motorway driving; it is easy to enter a state where the mind is only passively engaged in driving.

I do somewhat miss and romanticise my public transport commute in the pre-smartphone era. I had a lot of time to look out the window, read books, listen to music, and think. No internet connection.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-26 15:11:04+00:00
I can't tell if it's a typo but HTTP-01 would contact your webserver on :80 in order to successfully retrieve a very, very, very specific ACME path and does not care at all what you do with your issued TLS afterward, including what port you run it upon

Also, I know firsthand that the DNS Validator also works perfectly fine, no http check required
by shkkmo | 2025-08-26 15:11:07+00:00
> For example, we can all agree "schadenfreude" is not an English word, but it's in the dictionary.

I don't agree.

> Yes, we can borrow from German; that doesn't make it suddenly become English.

It doesn't suddenly become English. It happens gradually as more English speakers encounter the word and start using the word.

Dictionaries start adding the word as usage becomes widespread. If a borrowed word is frequently used in an English context by English speakers and is understood by English speakers and that is widespread enoythat it is listed in English dictionaries...it is pretty safe to say that the word is part of the English language.

While I do speak German, I learned the English word "schadenfruede" well before I started studying any German. Similarly, I don't speak any Russian but I know what "kefir" means. I didn't learn it from a Russian, I learned it from other English speakers in the course of speaking English about 20 years ago. In fact, I didn't even know that word originally came from Russian until very recently.

Part of why English is so hard to learn for non-native speakers is because it is full of loan words from lots if languages. Many of them you probably don't even realize originally came from other languages.
by alt227 | 2025-08-26 15:11:18+00:00
> there is no alternative to a Mac nowadays

I need to point this out all the time these days it seems, but this opinion is only valid if all you use is a laptop and all you care about is single core perfomance.

The computing world is far bigger than just laptops.

Big music/3d design/video editing production suites etc still benefit much more from having workstation PCs with higher PCI bandwidth, more lanes for multiple SSDs and GPUs, and high level multicore processing performance which cannot be matched by Apple silicon.
by andrewljohnson | 2025-08-26 15:11:21+00:00
This almost exact thing happened with me with a hiking app I used to make. We had a 7-day trial when you started the app, but we shipped a release that broke this and made all the paid features immediately paywalled. This led to a big increase in sales and we got rid of the trial forever.

It’s possible that our trial might have worked better if it were like modern iOS trials that start charging you after a certain period, but ours just let you use the paid features for 7 days and then lapsed, and it stifled sales. My theory was people urgently needed the paid features (mostly to download maps for a coming trip) so the trial got in the way of them paying right away.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-26 15:11:24+00:00
Speaking to your point about a jobless recovery… that’s not accurate.

The US had recovered to full pre-recession employment levels by 2017[1].

Unemployment is around 4% right now.

I can’t speak to discretionary income or why the market is high, and maybe there is some sort of structural “underemployment” going on, but people are working.

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/research/chart-book-the-legacy-of-the-g...
by DonnyV | 2025-08-26 15:11:50+00:00
I started my programming journey with VB6. Ruby reminds me of Visual Basic. But its never evolved past that. Python became popular because it was a scripting language that had classes and a nice built out framework of features. But it has a god awful syntax and should never be used for a large project. Also their package management is a dumpster fire.

This brings me to C#. At .NET 10 there will be another option then python. .NET 10 brings the ability to run C# script files without the need for a proj file or a main method. This will bring the full .NET Framework and NUGET eco system with it. I can't wait to replace all my python scripts with this.
by quotemstr | 2025-08-26 15:11:54+00:00
Your comment is a perfect example of the worldview I described. Your argument is essentially that without rules stupid people will do foolish things and get hurt.

Yes, they will. So what? That's the price of freedom. I've never been a fan of slave morality.

> Who should bear the burden of treating these people?

You're arguing that we're all the hook if we let people do dangerous things and clean up after them when they screw up. There are two ways out of this situation, not one.
by gus_massa | 2025-08-26 15:11:58+00:00
I don't remember an official description, but my guess is that the dupe detector is hard for a few hour and detects any reposts, and then go to a soft mode that only detect dupes with a lot of upvotes and/or comments in the last year or so.

So if some post gets a lot of traction or gets to the second chance pool after the other has been posted, there are two live posts. This is fine after a few days, but for a few hours it's a tiny problem.

Probably dang/tomhow change the details from time to time without warning, but this is guess model matches the behavior I saw.
by bccdee | 2025-08-26 15:12:33+00:00
Empirically, I think you'll find that Go code generators are bad compilers. Go codegen isn't written with AST transformations and quasi-quote libraries. A macro system would be an opportunity for the Go compiler to take responsibility for the the tooling around metaprogramming; in the absence of that, we have a fragmented ecosystem where everyone is always reinventing a minimal, hacked-together version of the wheel so that they can get on with building the thing they actually need.

Frankly, an official Go codegen library would solve pretty much all my complaints, but the only difference between that and a macro system is compiler integration.
by lovehashbrowns | 2025-08-26 15:12:39+00:00
Sounds so similar to something we had set up when I worked for a major retailer a few years ago. In order to get a cert you had to email the security team or some junk like that and THEY would go through the digicert UI. I stopped reading the absolutely giant and incredibly confusing certificate support document and swapped everything I was responsible for to ACM.

Side note, at some point I got an email telling me to stop issuing public certificates and only issue private certs. I had to get on a call with someone and explain PKI. To someone on the security team!
by wowczarek | 2025-08-26 15:12:55+00:00
To an extent. You can get previous generation GNSS receivers with sawtooth correction for cheap, eBay is full of those, say an old Trimble Resolution whatever, and lots of LEA-6T carrier boards going for $20-range, and bare modules for less. I would trust those carrier boards more though, less chance of getting a fake module.
by glenstein | 2025-08-26 15:13:08+00:00
Exactly, that's where my mind went too. I think people are tempted by a well-meaning skepticism to think that it's high minded to be skeptical of affirmative claims of knowledge, but it ends up throwing a very hard won model of everyday physics out the window.

I saw a very frustrating live "debate" between Dr Blitz (monikor of a really cool science communicator and irl PhD physicist) and a flat earther, where the flat earther essentially borrowed these arguments (eg observations aren't really predictive or generalizable or able to count in favor of specific theories, confirmed theories have no special status etc) to dismiss the evidentiary support of the earth being round. It's an intellectual car crash masquerading as a respectable position on scientific foundations.
by roblabla | 2025-08-26 15:13:15+00:00
What's frankly ridiculous is that the big softwares like Nginx and Apache don't deal with this on their own. I've been letting Caddy (my http host of choice) deal with TLS for me for _ages_ now. I don't have to think about anything, I don't have to setup automation. I just... configure my caddy to host my website on https://my.domain.com and it just fetches the TLS for me, renews it when necessary, and uses it as necessary.

You don't need to be a professional sysadmin to deal with this - so long as the software you use isn't ass. Nginx will _finally_ get this ability in the next release (and it'll still be more configuration than caddy, that just defaults to the sane thing)...
by mwpmaybe | 2025-08-26 15:13:23+00:00
Interesting. The serial GPS module currently wired up to my Raspberry Pi doesn't have a stationary mode per se but there is a feature called AlwaysLocate that seems related. I can choose between Periodic Backup/Standby and AlwaysLocate Backup/Standby modes. I'll need to look into this...

ETA: I can also increase the nav speed threshold to 2m/s.
by nothankyou777 | 2025-08-26 15:13:57+00:00
Teletext had a better run in Europe for the same reason as public transport: higher population density. It is more economical when you can spread the cost over more customers. In places as sparsely populated as flyover US & Canada, the cost of maintaining a teletext presence wasn't worth the handful of contacts you'd get out of it. Boston or New York could have benefited, but for the rest of the country, it was brutally outperformed by the cork board.
by vonneumannstan | 2025-08-26 15:14:12+00:00
>Also what exactly happens if intel goes under? We have to buy 'foreign' licensed ARM? Manufacture in Asia? We're already doing that. And we have AMD which is a good, if not, superior product, regardless of manufacturing locale. We don't need local fabs the same way we don't need local factories for a lot of other things. You can't just depress wages with a wave of a hand nor do tariffs work outside of some really focused edge cases.

This is the same short sighted nonsense that got us into this mess. What happens if China invades Taiwan tomorrow? They can cut off the supply of chips to most of the world and global economies will collapse overnight. You really haven't thought through the implications of having critical dependence on a single small island that a global power is incredibly invested in controlling.
by 0x3f | 2025-08-26 15:14:17+00:00
I did try out random characters as well, but if it's too long it becomes a pain to read out over the phone. Not unlike masked iCloud emails, which are horrific. Plus the lookup issue you mentioned.

I've also considered some kind of word-based approach. Similar to the old XKCD correct-horse-battery-staple passphrase idea, since words tend to be less ambiguous when read aloud.

I also wondered if it was possible to do this (a) deterministically from the company name/domain, (b) with an algorithm I can do in my head [to solve your lookup issue], and (c) with some kind of 'salt' that prevents easy enumeration.

One other interesting aspect of doing a per-company email is that you find companies you might never suspect of selling your data spamming you, or otherwise subject to data breaches that they never announce.
by apparent | 2025-08-26 15:15:01+00:00
I don't understand why gmail's spam filters aren't good enough to detect the AI slop founderspam that I get all the time. They're relatively short messages from people I've never emailed with with a vague unsubscribe message ("if you'd rather not hear from me again just say 'nah' and I'll desist") at the bottom.

At the very least, I'd think there would be an easy way to put all email from new senders in another folder, since these are almost always junk (and never require urgent review). Or am I the only one getting all this AI slop?
by fariszr | 2025-08-26 15:15:30+00:00
This is the gpt 4 moment for image editing models. Nano banana aka gemini 2.5 flash is insanely good. It made a 171 elo point jump in lmarena!

Just search nano banana on Twitter to see the crazy results. An example. https://x.com/D_studioproject/status/1958019251178267111
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 15:15:33+00:00
> Doesn't change the fact that H1-Bers have turned the US IT job market harmfully hyper-competitive for US citizens

Sure, maybe. I don't know. I don't think that explains why "since the widespread adoption of generative AI, early-career workers (ages 22-25) in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 13 percent relative decline in employment even after controlling for firm-level shocks. In contrast, employment for workers in less exposed fields and more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow" [1].

Unless the ratio of H1Bs in these fields to recent-college graduates has exploded in the last 5 years, immigration is not a sufficient explanation for the effect.

[1] https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/...