MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lynx97 | 2025-08-12 06:21:21+00:00
> any common idea that we can agree on

I'm afraid there is no common ground anymore.

There is nothing "smug" about having an opinion. And there are no compromises in sight.

However, while 2020 helped a lot to escalate the situation, I also feel like politics were always pretty hopeless. Its just that if you grow older, you learn more about what is going on, so things seem increasingly bleek.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-12 06:21:24+00:00
Ya man, my father (a grandfather) moved here from Poland, not speaking the language with $200, bought a house within 3 years in California, had a successful career in construction management building amazing buildings you might currently be sitting in.... How could he ever figure out Outlook, that takes real concentration and determination reserved only for no name state school cs grads under 40!
by tayo42 | 2025-08-12 06:21:31+00:00
I would probably adjust my original post to say you cant better without useful feedback.

I always ask for feedback after an interview, its almost always useless. And conflicting between company interviews.

Its pretty rare for me to totally bomb an interview to the point i don't know the question. Usually the situation is I answered the coding question, handled the follow ups, wrote working code and still get the feedback that the coding portion didn't go well. How do you use that feedback? Useless imo.
by electroly | 2025-08-12 06:21:51+00:00
I really think it's just simply about scrolljacking and not anything deeper. The GeoCities style sites have normal scrolling and the F1 site has hijacked (and very bizarre) scrolling. If your site hijacks the scrollbar then you will get complaints on HN. Keep it in mind and see how many HN complaints you read that are actually just about scrolljacking. I think readers here love quirky websites as long as it doesn't mess with scrolling.
by ofrzeta | 2025-08-12 06:22:17+00:00
When I clicked I already thought about the comments that ask "is this vibe coded". So I kind of asked myself that question. As someone who manually codes as well as experiments with AI-assisted coding I ask myself what attitude we should develop towards AI-assisted coding in the long run. Right now on HN it almost seems like "AI shaming" at work. If you post a project that's a result of using AI you can expect a lot of critique around here. While I understand that to a certain extent I guess we also need to overcome that sentiment. After all we don't blame people using IDEs, code completion or other tools that have become the norm.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-12 06:23:04+00:00
> Without specification, we employ a decoder-only language model GPT2 (Radford et al., 2019) with a configuration of 4 layers, 32 hidden dimensions, and 4 attention heads.

Yeah, ok. The research is interesting, warranted, but writing an article about it, and leading with the conclusions gathered from toy models and implying this generalises to production LLMs is useless.

We've been here before with small models. Training on LLM outputs leads to catastrophic collapse. Every outlet led with this. But no-one red the fine-print, they were testing on small toy models, and were using everything that came out to re-train. Of course it's gonna fail. L3 / phi / gpt-oss models showed that you can absolutely train on synthetic datasets and have great results.

Research in this area is good, and needed. Mainly to understand limitations, discover if there are any scale levels where "emergent" stuff appears and so on. But writing articles based on incipient research, based on tiny models is not worth the effort.
by Arainach | 2025-08-12 06:23:51+00:00
>will raise some interesting questions about why things have been so bad for for long.

Crime in DC is near a 30 year low. If you think they've been "so bad for so long" then go spend some time in the city instead of watching TV.

Here, from the feds themselves (wonder how much longer this site will be live): https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-...

>Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)
by brnt | 2025-08-12 06:26:20+00:00
> this time we seem to be a lot more aware of it

I dunno mate. From my perspective Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram et al are all late entries in this game. I recall 'everyone' being very aware of this in the mid aughts as well. But these new, Big Tech networks rode the wave of mobile internet, where phones became the primary and in most cases only device people use. This was the age of scaling. When the voices that are critical are decimated a few times over, the message gets lost. Speaking of Eternal September...

Now everybody is hooked to the Big Tech firehose, so critical voices of AI are drowned out at will. I have a hard head thinking this round will be different. Especially it is the stated goal of Big Tech financiers to take control like this. This isn't just happening...
by gwd | 2025-08-12 06:26:25+00:00
Haha, I just taught my 5-year-old "high card" poker last week. He loves it. Planning on doing a similar progression. Not sure when to stop showing the hands at the end when people fold. He's still in the place where he really hates to lose, but it didn't take him long to get the idea of "minimize losses for bad hands, maximize gains for good hands", which is the main life lesson I'd like him to take from poker.
by bertman | 2025-08-12 06:27:44+00:00
Interesting quotes:

>“We try to disclose complexity only when necessary,” he said. “So if you don’t ask for a particular tech stack or anything, we will build you a web app. It’ll be using Next.js, it’ll be written in TypeScript, and it’ll be styled with Tailwind.” These are the “most modern technologies” that are available for web development, he added.

So this makes sense I guess:

>The Next.js team is updating the framework so that it plays better with LLMs and agentic AI, Khandelwal said.
by zwnow | 2025-08-12 06:27:49+00:00
Maybe I dont value community if I consider most people brainless? That's my conclusion of 30 years of life experience. I was traumatized at the age of 15 and didn't value community ever since. During that time I was dropped and ignored by society. Fake ass society, the only value you have as a human is what you can provide, you are never on the receiving end.
by mort96 | 2025-08-12 06:28:02+00:00
> This is not true because you are imagining a world with strict parsing but where people are still acting as though they have lax parsing. In reality, strict parsing changes the incentives and thus people’s behaviour.

Dude I lived in that world. A fair amount of developers explicitly opted into strict parsing rules by choosing to serve XHTML. And yet, those developers who opted into strict parsing messed up their XML generation frequently enough that I, as an end user, was presented with that "XML Parse Error" page on occasion. I don't understand why you'd think all developers would stop messing up if only strict parsing was hoisted upon everyone rather than only those who explicitly opt in.

> In your hypothetical world, they are making that syntax error… and just deploying it anyway.

No, they're not. In my (non-hypothetical, actually experienced in real life) world of somewhat wide-spread XHTML, I'm assuming that developers would make sites which appeared to work with their test content, but would produce invalid XML in certain situations with some combination of dynamic content or other conditions. Forgetting to escape user content is the obvious case, but there are many ways to screw up HTML/XHTML generation in ways which appear to work during testing.

> We have strict syntax almost everywhere. How often do you see a Python syntax error in the backend code?

Never, but people don't dynamically generate their Python back-end code based on user content.

> How often do you run across an SVG that fails to load because of a syntax error?

Never, but people don't typically dynamically generate their SVGs based on user content. Almost all SVGs out there are served as static assets.
by themafia | 2025-08-12 06:28:38+00:00
> i don't think you're accurate here.

You're approaching this as if it would be a binary across an entire industry. That's obviously not the correct level of analysis. The question is, "are more and more manufacturers doing this?" You've made no case to this point.

> And so today i own a van with an absolutely absurd oil change interval of 25k miles.

Would you share the Year, Make and Model please? I want to see this and I want to see precisely which oil products they recommend. The part you may have missed is that specialty oils have come a long way in the last 2 decades.
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by globular-toast | 2025-08-12 06:29:19+00:00
They're all using it to virtue signal their hatred of child porn. It's basically religious at this point. You stray from the line and someone just shouts infidel and you get stoned to death.

Unfortunately the atheism movement of a about ten years ago didn't go far enough in making people aware that religion isn't just about big men in the sky who are the same colour as you. What it actually is is a deficiency in human ability, a bypass for the logical centres of the brain and a way to access the animal areas that can get people to do terrible things to each other. Some of them, like Hitchens, definitely understood this, but nobody seems to be talking about it any more and we didn't learn to be vigilant of this deficiency.
by aredox | 2025-08-12 06:29:39+00:00
It is still weird to see the health fad/moral panic/potomania in the US, about "drinking enough water". This is a borderline mania, that doesn't exist in other countries- including ones with hot climates.

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a60249105/how-much-water-t...

https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/do-americans-drink-mo...

https://www.delicious.com.au/drinks/article/why-we-so-obsess...

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/waterlogged-america-d...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/08/drinking-...

https://archive.ph/Y0W7e

No, you are not "chronically dehydrated". The rest of the world isn't, and you wouldn't be either if you drank "only" two liters a day instead of a full gallon.

This is one more symptom of that "freethinking" country that falls for every con.
by anotherpaul | 2025-08-12 06:29:46+00:00
I feel like Claude code is great but how is it so much different from the agent of GitHub copilot? They both can use the same model (Claude 4) and the agent behaves very similar. For 10 bucks I think GitHub copilot is very reasonably priced as well. But ofc usage limits are maybe where they differ a lot. Am I missing out?
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-08-12 06:29:49+00:00
> If you have access to the sea and to uranium you can make all the freshwater you need

I don't believe that would be true on a large scale because the seaside would quickly become polluted with brine, and then having an infinite supply of uranium wouldn't help you.

Desalination only works in the long term if there is an unlimited amount of body water to dilute the brine produced by the process.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 06:29:57+00:00
It is both. Use a thing you wanted to do anyway to distract from a crisis. It's just an optimization, really: if you are going to have to do something as a distraction it may as well be something that you intended for all along rather than something that you don't want to do because it is a more effective distraction. If it weren't it would be easier to see that it was in fact a distraction and now you have one more thing you wanted anyway.
by joules77 | 2025-08-12 06:30:28+00:00
Attention Economy Dynamics in 2025.

If they don't capture a share of the finite pool of Attention someone else will. In this case prospective investors, employees, customers etc etc.

It's the same logic that drove European colonial expansion. Then the scarce resource was Land, Gold, Silver, Oil etc. Today it's Attention.

This why anyone whose success is tied to Attention Capture has to constantly produce Content all the time. There is a reason why Trump or Elon or Altman are constantly talking to the press or the plebs. Not because they give a shit about them, but because they believe Attention Capture has become fundamental to success, and they can out maneuver anyone who has captured less Attention.

They have growing armies of people (narrative maintenance depts) dedicated to this shit production pipeline internally and externally. So it's like a trap they all fall into. With no exit in sight without harming themselves.
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by samhclark | 2025-08-12 06:33:00+00:00
To comment on the part about what keys Secretive uses, I looked at this recently and I think it looks like the SE will be able to do ML-KEM soon.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptokit/secureen...

Not totally sure that I'm reading it right, since I've never done MacOS development before, but I'm a big fan of Secretive and use it whenever possible. If I've got it right, maybe Secretive can add PQ support once ML-KEM is out of beta.
by looperhacks | 2025-08-12 06:37:34+00:00
I haven't used micronaut specifically, but I remember using Quarkus when it was rather new. It also does a lot at compile-time compared to, say, spring. The one big disadvantage I noticed that it's had to eject if you need to defer something to runtime for some reason. Don't know if it's still an issue, but that's really the only disadvantage I remember
by Lio | 2025-08-12 06:38:40+00:00
True but all the other parties are currently saying that they 100% will not reconsider this stupid law[1].

I don’t like Farrage. At all.

He’s also currently the only MP questioning this law and he’s making fair points about it.

The government response is not a clever rebuttal but Jess Philips and Peter Kyle making ad hominem arguments comparing him to one of the nastiest people in our country’s history.

This is government overreach and they know it.

1. It’s stupid not because of its goals but because it doesn’t protect kids but does expose vast numbers of adults to identity fraud just to access Spotify or wikipedia.
by greysphere | 2025-08-12 06:38:45+00:00
There's no inherent right to anything, really. The statements in whatever declaration or philosophy are just arbitrary lines. Physical property rights are just as arbitrary as the divine right if kings (and incredibly closely related when that property is inherited!)

The argument really isn't based on rights, it's based on the rules of the game have been that people that make things get to decide what folks get to do with those things via licensing agreements, except for a very small set of carve outs that everyone knew about when they made the thing. The argument is consent. The counter argument is one/all of ai training falls under one of those carve outs, and/or it's undefined so it should default to whatever anyone wants, and/or we should pass laws that change the rules. Most of these are just as logical as if someone invented resurrection tomorrow, then murder would no longer be a crime.
by lenkite | 2025-08-12 06:39:39+00:00
In March 2024, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, a Democrat, announced that she would deploy 750 members of the National Guard to New York’s subway system.

Troops in military uniforms patrolled the subway with rifles.

Nobody raised an eye and nobody in this thread apparently even remembers.

National Guard has deployed to Washington DC dozens of times already - many times to combat crime and disturbances. (Technically hundreds of times if you count inaugurations).
by jacquesm | 2025-08-12 06:40:26+00:00
The military is a blunt instrument. It is good at destruction and killing, not so good at construction and subtle care. Neither is the police, but they are at least a little bit better at it. You call in the military as a means of last resort when you are in a war. To call in the military to fight crime is about as useful as to bring a chain saw into an operating theater.
by Oreb | 2025-08-12 06:42:21+00:00
Isn’t that how most coworking spaces work already? I’ve worked from a lot of them, and it always worked like that: I check in when I arrive in the morning, and when I check out at the end of the day, I pay for the number of hours I have spent there (often capped to a maximum of 5 hours or so, even if I stay longer).
by personjerry | 2025-08-12 06:43:09+00:00
The reason why there's always a million reinventings of the todo wheel is because at its core, notes are just databases. A TODO form of note is about as flexible as Redis, and so the use-cases are many, from quick writes/reads (i.e. jotting down TODOs) to sortedset (i.e. priority list TODOs) to full task management (i.e. more data in the value), and everything inbetween.

In the same way we build around Redis for whatever tasks we need, you see engineers build around the concept of the note, complaining every other solution isn't exactly what they're using it for, and they're right, because on the other end is another engineer building for their niche use pattern.

By unpacking the use cases and slicing the right niches there might be a better notes app product somewhere, but I think it takes a very strong product person, not an engineer, to figure that out.
by Frieren | 2025-08-12 06:43:32+00:00
This assessment fits with my anecdotal evidence. LLMs just cannot reason in any basic way.

LLMs have a large knowledge base that can be spit out at a moment notice. But they have zero insight on its contents, even when the information has just been asked a few lines before.

Most of the "intelligence" that LLMs show is just the ability to ask in the correct way the correct questions mirrored back to the user. That is why there is so many advice on how to do "proper prompting".

That and the fact that most questions have already been asked before as anyone that spend some time in StackOverflow back in the day realized. And memory and not reasoning is what is needed to answer them.
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-12 06:43:55+00:00
> Yeah, they tried this, this was the old setup as I understand it. But every time they needed support for a new model and had to update llama.cpp, an old model would break and one of their partners would go ape on them.

Shouldn't any such regressions be regarded as bugs in llama.cpp and fixed there? Surely the Ollama folks can test and benchmark the main models that people care about before shipping the update in a stable release. That would be a lot easier than trying to reimplement major parts of llama.cpp from scratch.
by globular-toast | 2025-08-12 06:44:22+00:00
If I can tell something is "vibe coded", that means it's bad. It doesn't matter what tools people use as long as the output is good. Vibe coding smells include:

1. Tons of pointless comments outlining trivial low-level behaviour,

2. No understanding of abstraction levels,

3. No real architecture at all,

4. Not DRY, no helper functions or inconsistent use of said functions across project,

5. Way too many lines of code.

None of these are shaming for use of any particular tool, they are just shaming the output.
by setopt | 2025-08-12 06:44:33+00:00
To add a different perspective, I love Emacs Org-mode for note taking but gave up on it for task management after a couple of years. Not because the tool is inadequate – my attempts at Todoist or Taskwarrior didn’t fare any better – but because the GTD-style workflow just doesn’t fit my personality.

I’ve now happily used a paper-based bullet journal instead, and am about to transition to a Rocketbook for this use.

The problem is that a GTD-style workflow requires a lot of discipline to stick to daily/weekly reviews, where you prune or reschedule tasks, and it requires you to be strict about deleting tasks you’ll never do. If not, you just get an endlessly growing list of stale tasks, and for me personally the list becomes so associated with guilt and stress that I just burn out and get paralyzed unless I regularly throw it all out and start from scratch. (Is "TODO bankruptcy" a thing?)

Surprisingly, this led me to the conclusion that being able to forget tasks is crucial for me to remain focused, productive, and mentally stable. Being able to start each day with a blank page, write or transfer tasks that I can realistically do today, and letting the unimportant ones silently disappear on old pages without having to consciously delete them, somehow works better for me.

For notes however, Org-mode is great. I’ve found great value in rediscovering old ideas and knowledge 5 years later, whereas finding 5 year old undone tasks is rarely something I want.