MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ddingus | 2025-08-05 19:24:44+00:00
>>I saw the future. I thought that was how things was supposed to work. I have never experienced such a smooth and well running system ever since

Me too. Seeing the future was one of the more common sentiments expressed by people running IRIX, especially when there was enough gear available to exercise the better features.

In the later 90's we would break for 3D games with voice and video chat, yelling taunts and such asbif we were all in the same room.

Software manager was one of the better future features in my view. That thing was quite powerful!

Once, while doing the video render stunt I mention up thread, one machine ran out of space. Software manager [swmgr] paused, offered me the choice of changing what I wanted to install, the option to uninstall additional subsystems to free space, exit to a shell to do that manually, and or continue, all while another user was running the machine, busy doing CAD work, and without a reboot, or interrupting that user.

I specified more software to remove, swmgr finished up and it was go time! Easy Peasy.
by timkam | 2025-08-05 19:24:45+00:00
It is well-known that top-conferences had and still have many problems. Some examples: There used to be the problem with authors adding new co-authors after acceptance, aka "selling seats". There is a debate about how many papers one should be allowed to submit, as some people with money and influence are heavily franchising. It is unclear to what extent there is implicit and explicit reviewer collusion. Even double-blind reviews don't really solve the problem.

If we don't admit that there are fundamental problems that affect all of us (academics) and instead pretend it is only the lesser people who f things up, we'll all be screwed sooner or later.
by WXLCKNO | 2025-08-05 19:24:51+00:00
o3 feels pretty good to me as well but o3-pro has consistently one shotted problems other LLMs got stuck on.

I'm talking multiple tries of claude 4 opus, Gemini 2.5 pro, o3 etc resulting in sometimes hundreds of lines of code.

Versus o3-pro (very slowly) analyzing and then fixing something that seemed completely unrelated in a one or two line change and truly fixing the root cause.

o3-pro level LLMs at reduced cost and increased speed will already be amazing..
by freedomben | 2025-08-05 19:24:52+00:00
Kagi sucks, this is a bad call.

Just kidding, I love Kagi and I get a ton of value from it! I always like the saying that "the best ideas are obvious in hindsight", and that is absolutely how I feel about Kagi. Being able to uprank, downrank, and/or pinning, blacklisting domains is a killer feature, and something that would have been so easy for Google to have done at any time. Their approach to AI has also been perfect IMHO. From the beginning they didn't have the models provide answers, but (basically, as far as I can tell) RAGged the results and summarized (and included sources). I find myself using that feature all the time. Also the ! support and generally clean interface make for a great UX. I also very much appreciate their pro-rating and transparent billing, and the prices being pretty reasonable.

The search results themselves are also better than Google (in no small part to my own fine-tuning of domains, i.e. downranking/upranking/blacklisting, but even just the vanilla results are better most of the time). It has been so long since I've had to !g something that I don't even remember the last time. I do routinely use !gm to open something in google maps though because Apple maps has not been a good experience for me, but I don't fault Kagi for that.

If you haven't tried Kagi, you should. Also play around with the lenses feature while you're at it, cause you can find some cool stuff that way that otherwise doesn't surface in the results.

Initial set up to make Kagi the default search engine is a little involved because you have to put your token in the query string, but the instructions are solid and once it's done, it's done. Very happy customer.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-08-05 19:24:59+00:00
All modern FE frameworks are effectively observer patterns, it's that there are two camps on how those changes in the state are propagated.

In signals-based platforms (Vue, Svelte, Solid), the signal targets specific subscribers and callbacks where the developer has opted in to state changes.

In React, though `useEffect` looks a lot like Vue's `watch`, they behave entirely differently because the entire component is registered as the callback.

The code examples in my second link [1] above are worth a glance because it makes it very obvious how similar these libraries are when glancing at the code, but how different they are in terms of how they deliver update signals.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-05 19:25:05+00:00
With all due respect, you need to actually test out Qwen3 2507 or GLM 4.5 before making these sorts of claims. Both of them are comparable to OpenAI's largest models and even bench favorably to Deepseek and Opus: https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/62430a...

It's cool to see OpenAI throw their hat in the ring, but you're smoking straight hopium if you think there's "no reason to run other open source models now" in earnest. If OpenAI never released these models, the state-of-the-art would not look significantly different for local LLMs. This is almost a nothingburger if not for the simple novelty of OpenAI releasing an Open AI for once in their life.
by JoshuaDavid | 2025-08-05 19:25:17+00:00
Are we using the same LLMs? I absolutely see cases of "hallucination" behavior when I'm invoking an LLM (usually sonnet 4) in a loop of "1 generate code, 2 run linter, 3 run tests, 4 goto 1 if 2 or 3 failed".

Usually, such a loop just works. In the cases where it doesn't, often it's because the LLM decided that it would be convenient if some method existed, and therefore that method exists, and then the LLM tries to call that method and fails in the linting step, decides that it is the linter that is wrong, and changes the linter configuration (or fails in the test step, and updates the tests). If in this loop I automatically revert all test and linter config changes before running tests, the LLM will receive the test output and report that the tests passed, and end the loop if it has control (or get caught in a failure spiral if the scaffold automatically continues until tests pass).

It's not an extremely common failure mode, as it generally only happens when you give the LLM a problem where it's both automatically verifiable and too hard for that LLM. But it does happen, and I do think "hallucination" is an adequate term for the phenomenon (though perhaps "confabulation" would be better).

Aside:

> I can't imagine an agent being given permission to iterate Terraform

Localstack is great and I have absolutely given an LLM free rein over terraform config pointed at localstack. It has generally worked fine and written the same tf I would have written, but much faster.
by dakiol | 2025-08-05 19:26:06+00:00
Regarding the job market: it really depends on you mostly. If you know you are better than the average then you'll get a job. I did quit my job at the beginning of the year with nothing lined up (but for different reasons than yours). I thought I could get a job as I usually got it before (send a targeted application to the company i wanna work and pass the interview)... it kinda went like that (but I did fail the interview with the company I wanted, so I applied to another one).

For juniors, sure. The market is bad no matter how good you are.
by techpineapple | 2025-08-05 19:26:10+00:00
Linkedin shows that the number one place where Palantir employees studied is Stanford. They love to dig on these universities, but yes, he's wrong, by his own companies hiring processes. And I can't find the number of applicants, but at all these universities the number of accepted students is rising, and the acceptance rate is falling dramatically, which suggests many more people are applying. So he will tell you Elite universities suck while absolutely advising people he knows to go to an elite university.

Pedigree matters tremendously. I don't want it to! I went to a state school, I want to believe going to Harvard doesn't matter. But it's bananas to think it actually doesn't. Alex Karp doesn't believe elite education is useless, he wants YOU to believe it's useless.

Clicked on 20 random Palantir profiles on LinkedIn. All went to college, disproportionate number of ivies/elite
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-05 19:26:17+00:00
So what?

Really? Wow. It does not matter one iota who employees vote for. That is a dark and ugly slope. Maybe we should extend such dystopian views to the periphery, too, such as lobbyists.

It is not a surprise to anyone that people who see themselves as Republican, "the party for smaller government" are less likely to work for said government.

But the insult (and I am not even a public servant) that because people are democrats, they are somehow beholden to that over doing their job professionally, is a strong one. You've basically accused them of having a loyalty to party over their jobs.
by tomrod | 2025-08-05 19:26:39+00:00
> Why is this the top comment on so many threads about tech products?

Because you overestimate the difference that the representative person understands.

A more accurate analogy is that Nike sells green-blue shoes and Nike sells blue-green shoes, but the blue-green shoes add 3 feet to your jump and green-blue shoes add 20 mph to your 100 yard dash sprint.

You know you need one of them for tomorrow's hurdles race but have no idea which is meaningful for your need.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-05 19:27:50+00:00
>No, it's not.

South Korea, Japan, and even Russia would like to have a word with you.

>Thankfully, my country has been sparred pretty much all the discussion about transgender and bathroom and most of the religious reactionary non sense. It's very much a problem of the USA and by extension countries which consume media in English like the UK.

The bathroom and pronoun stuff is definitely originating in the anglosphere. But this is being pushed out to all corners of the world. If you managed to avoid it, be thankful and continue to live in your bubble and don't lecture me about it. By the way, resistance to this garbage is not "religious" in general. Even atheists hate the propaganda and woke moralizing.

>Which are? You are turning the discussion into a for or against irrefutable facts by the way. Thank you for nicely illustrating my point.

I don't have time to write a dissertation on this topic. But the facts I refer to are the ones that everyone has to deal with in their daily lives. You can try to tell me it's this way or that way but you're a foreigner telling me my experience of decades is actually just the imagination of a terminally online weirdo. Tell it to someone less committed to trusting their eyes and ears.
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by zer00eyz | 2025-08-05 19:28:01+00:00
> I know many talented engineers who hate AI coding.

People whos primary skill is coding, hate AI coding. No talented engineer hates AI coding. The distinction is this: a coder knows how to use their tools, an engineer knows how to work with people, understands product, process, users, and knows how to use their tools.

Talented engineers hate the HYPE around AI. And those of us old enough to remember sigh and think "This is just dreamweaver all over again". It is ESB's with "drag and drop" workflow tools. AI is just another useful tool that a good engineer can pick up and put down where appropriate.
by blacklion | 2025-08-05 19:28:05+00:00
Type of transaction directly influences commission of the system, as high-risk transactions are linked with higher commission.

If you sell adult products you are subject to higher commissions. If you sell adult products and don't mark these transactions as adult products you evade higher commission.

I don't say I agree with this logic, and I think tat Visa and MC are f*cking bastards, but it is how it works now.
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-08-05 19:28:16+00:00
> The US is not currently willing to send our citizens to die in Ukraine

The US is currently not wanting Ukraine to win for a single reason - it’s personal to Trump. So much has happened that we’ve collectively forgotten that it was Zelensky said “No” to Trump on the phone when wanting to find any dirt on Joe Biden helping Hunter in business deals.
by epolanski | 2025-08-05 19:28:20+00:00
Former solar researcher here, had the same experience.

I'll summarize it like this:

- join one of the most prestigious laboratories for my master's thesis in the world

- be assigned work based on a paper published in the same lab by a previous researcher

- can't replicate the results for s*t for months, put in insane overtime hours getting ridiculously good at all the processes, still nothing

- randomly talk about my issues with a random phd in the lab (great scientist with tens of thousands of citations) which quickly scans the data and notes that the voltage obtained by the system in the publication is literally impossible, but by raising the voltage you can easily fake out the amount of electricity generated by the system. Nobody really caught it before because you need some very intimate experience with those systems, and it's just one random (albeit important) point.

- ask why this happens

- she explains that only high impact numbers get citations, only citations get you a chance to progress in the academia pyramid

- she explains that only professors that run labs with a huge number of citations can find good funding

- only good funding can allow you to get the material, equipment and countless number of bodies (phds) to run as many experiments as possible and thus grow your position in the scientific world

Essentially there's way too many incentives to cheat and ignore the cheating for all the people involved.

And due to the fact that as soon as you enter a niche (and literally everything is a niche in science) everybody knows each other toxic things happen all around.

I wanted to be a researcher, but having wasted ultimately 7 months of my life trying to get numbers that were impossible to get, and having understood it was ALL about money (no funds -> no researchers/equipment -> papers -> citations -> funds) and politics I called it quits.

I don't know how to fix it other than several governments and their education ministries making a joined effort to have scientific papers where each result has to be thoroughly reviewed by multiple other labs. It's expensive, but I don't see other ways.
by morsch | 2025-08-05 19:28:23+00:00
I could have fiber, but I see no point in upgrading from DSL. Why? It works. In fact, I could have upgraded to 250 Mbit DSL years and years ago, but 100 Mbit is fine. Why bother spending money or time making changes to my home's critical infrastructure. I doubt I'm the only one.

And then there's the millions of boomers around whose only device is a smartphone and they never exceed the 10 or 20 or 30 GB they get on a mobile contract that's less than any DSL or fiber contract. Good luck selling them 900 Mbit symmetric links.

In fact I'm sure there must be hundreds of thousands who still pay for DSL that's essentially unused because their phone lost the Wifi credentials and there's no grandkid around to notice it. Their house will be upgraded to fiber when it gets resold because it ticks a box for the real estate agent.
by samtp | 2025-08-05 19:28:24+00:00
What type of work do you do and what type of code do you produce?

Because I've found it to work pretty amazingly for things that don't need to be exact (like data modeling) or don't have any security implications (public apps). But for everything else I end up having to find all the little bugs by reading the code line by line, which is much slower than just writing the code in the first place.
by WalterBright | 2025-08-05 19:28:46+00:00
> unlike a metal hull, carbon fiber hulls accumulate subtle damage on compression that's hard to detect

All metals suffer from that, too. It's called fatigue damage. It bedeviled the aviation industry for a long time because there was no reliable way to detect the fatigue damage.

Eventually, an ad hoc formula was developed to calculate the fatigue damage, and then replace parts that were getting close to the limits.

That's why airliners are scrapped after something like 62,000 flight cycles.
by Petersipoi | 2025-08-05 19:29:03+00:00
Just about every single adult woman in my wife's extended family is on Ozempic. None of them are obese at all. Or diabetic. They are all using it to "lose a few pounds" (we're talking like less than 20 pounds; Yes, as you might expect, there are some unrealistic beauty/success standards in my wife's family). So I think there are a lot of people who are annoyed by that, because of the message it sends to completely healthy-weight girls/young women who don't look like professional super models in a swimsuit.

Since we have young daughters, that aspect of Ozempic really bothers my wife. Though she would have no issue with obese/diabetic people using it to get healthy.

Personally I do think it is a miracle drug and I'm glad people are getting healthy because of it.
by skopjadurk | 2025-08-05 19:29:39+00:00
Built my first pc in 1987. RLL/MFM were the drive choices. I had a 32 MB had entering college and it was cheaper than 640 KB of DRAM DIPs. I upgraded to a 100 MB ide in 1992 for ~$220 US. But I Was booting from HDD from day 1 in 1987.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-08-05 19:29:40+00:00
This counterargument does not hold. The vast majority of crashed vehicles are not sent back and resold by Tesla. They are resold at auto auctions, junkyards, ebay, etc. Deleting the crash data protects Tesla from lawsuits on both ends of the chain: the victims and the new owners, while also preserving the part's lifetime.
by schwartzworld | 2025-08-05 19:29:50+00:00
I’d go further and say that writing code for a living requires a great deal of self-teaching regardless of your background. CS degrees typically don’t teach you how to build software, and even if they did, the problem space is huge. There is a lifetime of self-teaching to do from the moment you take your first job.

I think that my being self-taught helped my career quite a bit. It did make it harder to get in the door, but that was just a one-time problem to solve.
by NicoJuicy | 2025-08-05 19:30:02+00:00
Ran gpt-oss:20b on a RTX 3090 24 gb vram through ollama, here's my experience:

Basic ollama calling through a post endpoint works fine. However, the structured output doesn't work. The model is insanely fast and good in reasoning.

In combination with Cline it appears to be worthless. Tools calling doesn't work ( they say it does), fails to wait for feedback ( or correctly call ask_followup_question ) and above 18k in context, it runs partially in cpu ( weird), since they claim it should work comfortably on a 16 gb vram rtx.

> Unexpected API Response: The language model did not provide any assistant messages. This may indicate an issue with the API or the model's output.

Edit: Also doesn't work with the openai compatible provider in cline. There it doesn't detect the prompt.
by philjohn | 2025-08-05 19:30:09+00:00
I'm in the UK on a 900Mbps symmetric for £40 a month.

Turns out regulation can be a good thing - first of all, OpenReach (the infrastructure part of BT that was split up post privatisation) are regulated in how much they can charge other providers for last mile FTTP/C[1]

But then there's also Access to Infrastructure regulation[2], which means duct and pole access isn't up to the telco's (and after all, existing infra was publicly funded, and new infra is often paid for by housing developers). This means I have 2 providers of FTTP to my property - CityFibre and OpenReach (and a third offering DOCSIS cable in Virgin Media).

These combined have led to a thriving market with genuine competition. Whilst most ISP's use the two providers with the most footprint (OpenReach and CityFibre) they compete on things like technical chops (AAISP), Price (the PlusNets of the world) and a mix of the two (Zen).

Regulation, when well designed, leads to more competitive markets.

[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-broadband/telecoms-infra... [2] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/700/contents
by alphazard | 2025-08-05 19:30:19+00:00
Most of the opinions you hear online about the importance of funding science come from science fanatics who don't have any idea how the sausage is made, and are not themselves scientifically minded. It's part of their self constructed identity as a "smart person" who "believes in evidence".

Press your face against the glass, and it's much more complicated. The institutions that we have made for funding science don't reliably channel money towards the best ideas. All the experts in the field have figured out how to work the system well enough to build lives for themselves, and this leads to the tautology that "experts" support the status quo. We don't consider someone an expert if they aren't thriving in the current institutions.

Anytime someone mentions new institutions e.g. prediction markets that might better allocate funding, or even enrich the best scientists, there is a visceral backlash.
by n8cpdx | 2025-08-05 19:30:20+00:00
I tried it. I started down about 80 lbs from my heaviest, but a good 40 lbs from ideal/20 lb from healthy weight.

The first time I tried it I followed dosing guidelines for ramp up; side effects were horrible, didn’t lose much weight, and it just kept getting worse.

Second time, after a few months off, I started at lowest dose and stayed there. Side effects were better to start but ramped up again. Eventually my digestion stopped entirely and I couldn’t eat without pain; that actually was good for weight loss but very unhealthy (e.g. despite being hungry and lightheaded the pain kept me from eating more than 400 calories). Eventually it passed but I couldn’t justify taking it after that.

Basic side effects: exercise intolerance (higher starting rate, much faster increase exertion, chest pain after ~150bpm when previously I could run nearly an hour and go up past 180 without issue), fatigue in the morning (despite essentially maintaining my pre-ozempic nutrition), significant increase in resting heart rate, significant decrease in HRV, and digestive upset (basically alternating diarrhea and constipation).

Many of these side effects are well known, others less so.

Ozempic, when micro dosed, did help reduce hunger and make a weight loss diet easier to sustain, until the side effects got so bad I wanted to comfort eat. But mindfulness and healthy lifestyle are similarly effective without crippling side effects.
by AstroBen | 2025-08-05 19:30:41+00:00
only 10x? I'm at least 100x as productive. I only type at a measly 100wpm, whereas Claude can output 100+ tokens a second

I'm outputting a PR every 6 minutes. The reviewers are using Claude to review everything. It used to take a day to add 100 lines to the codebase.. now I can add 100 lines in one prompt

If I want even more productivity (at risk of making the rest of my team look slow) I can tell Claude to output double the lines and ship it off for review. My performance metrics are incredible
by pxc | 2025-08-05 19:31:05+00:00
Qwen3 Coder is 4x its size! Grok 3 is over 22x its size!

What does the resource usage look like for GLM 4.5 Air? Is that benchmark in FP16? GPT-OSS-120B will be using between 1/4 and 1/2 the VRAM that GLM-4.5 Air does, right?

It seems like a good showing to me, even though Qwen3 Coder and GLM 4.5 Air might be preferable for some use cases.