MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gunta | 2025-08-27 19:53:20+00:00
You raise a great point - and honestly, it's exactly the reaction that validates why this exists.

You're right that the visible part is just a landing page. But that's like saying Stripe is just a payment form, or that Product Hunt is just a list. The innovation isn't the frontend - it's the system underneath.

What I actually built in 3 hours is a "commitment engine". Not a survey asking 'would you use this?' (everyone says yes), but a system that asks 'will you put money behind this?' The difference between intention and commitment is everything in product validation.

Here's what's actually happening: - In 24 hours, I've collected hundreds of dollars in binding commitments for a product that doesn't exist yet - Each payment is a data point with skin in the game - real signal, zero noise - I got real feedback from real users and I am changing the business model and details of the specs of the Github bot as we talk - The GitHub bot implementation? That's the easy part. I can do that in less than 3 hours. The hard part was proving people will pay for it BEFORE building it

Think about it: How many products die after months of development because nobody actually wanted them? How many 'validate with landing pages' experiments get false positives from people who click 'interested' but never convert?

This flips the entire model. Build nothing → Get paid → Build only what's already sold.

I believe this is the future of how products get built. Not 'build it and they will come,' but 'they came, they paid, now build it.'

so, what's the twist? Once this works, the validation platform itself (product #2) becomes the real business. This would be something like Kickstarter meets AngelList meets GitHub, every idea gets validated with real money before a single line of code is written.
by xenotux | 2025-08-27 19:53:32+00:00
I'm surprised this is aliased to char*, not const char*. The benefit of the aliasing is convenience, but the main risk is absent-mindedly passing it to a libc function that modifies the string without updating the SDS metadata. Const would result in a compiler warning while letting the intended use cases (e.g., the printf example) work fine.
by RobLach | 2025-08-27 19:54:06+00:00
It’s impossible for me to think of what purpose taking this deliberate misinformation effort to this extent can have.

I can only consider that this is a purposeful attack on the American people and government credibility from the top. And if so, how could someone be so influenced to follow it through? Is it just a personal hatred of Americans justifying harm to them?
by glenneroo | 2025-08-27 19:54:13+00:00
Happened to me with Moneybookers a few years ago. Started getting spam from various casinos at a unique email address. I contacted support and spent a few weeks explaining that, nobody could have gotten this email address unless they were hacked or willingly sold my address. After sending full dumps of the emails and a minor threat to go public with the information, suddenly the spam stopped.
by simulator5g | 2025-08-27 19:55:12+00:00
I don't think it's fair to blame individual developers for a systemic failure. Its not their fault there is no governing body to award or remove the title of "software engineer" and promote the concept of a software engineer refusing to do something without harming their career. Other engineering disciplines have laws, lobbied for by their governing body, that protect the ability of individual engineers to prevent higher-ups from making grave mistakes.
by nerdsniper | 2025-08-27 19:55:15+00:00
Wendell at Level1Techs often goes more in-depth on the software testing and datacenter use-case analysis through partnerships with friends who run lots of machines in datacenters.

GN is unique in paying for silicon-level analysis of failures.

der8auer also contributes a lot to these stories.

I tend to wait for all 3 of their analyses, because each adds a different "hard-won" perspective.
by dkarl | 2025-08-27 19:55:33+00:00
> when you find yourself having such a hunch, you should generally stop and verify what the specification actually says

It greatly heartens me that we've made it to the point where someone writing Javascript for the browser is recommended to consult a spec instead of a matrix of browsers and browser versions.

However, that said, why would a person embark on research instead of making a simple change to the code so that it relies on fewer assumptions, and so that it's readable and understandable by other programmers on their team who don't know the spec by heart?
by gruez | 2025-08-27 19:55:34+00:00
>The marketing department picks the number they want based on how they want customers to think about the chip, and which competitors they want you to compare it against. They just plug in whatever numbers are needed into the formula so that the number comes out how they want it.

Are you just describing product segmentation? ie. how the ryzen 5700x and 5800x are basically the same chip, down to the number of enabled cores, except for clocks and power limit ("TDP")?
by yogorenapan | 2025-08-27 19:55:50+00:00
The conflict between the US and the rest of the world might be the death of open source. Most GitHub handles and whatnot are anonymous. A competent malicious actor would not directly link themselves to Yandex or any other suspect entity. Perhaps they'll want us to provide ID just to publish source code like Android is making app developers do? This would not be unprecedented. China already requires you to register to publish a website.
by godelski | 2025-08-27 19:56:13+00:00
This was quite weird and honestly a bit infuriating. Just felt like it was encouraging really bad habits in vim.

You start out and you only have `h,j,k,l` available to you (despite what the help says). So just end up holding the keys and maybe that's fine but then that first level is WAY too big.

Like I got to the second area and it starts talking about word motions and then you try `w,b,e` and it then tells you those keys aren't available. That's not even the first character you talk to that is mentioning movement keys while those keys remain unavailable to you!

I rage quit after unlocking `w,b,e` and moving back to that chest at the beginning only to realize I had forgotten there was a space between the word and punctuation meaning I'd need to unlock something like `B`, `0`, `^`, or even the ability to use numbers which a character had already mentioned to me...

[1/10] do not recommend. I believe most people will be able to read half of `vimtutor` before you will unlock the `b` key in this game as well as have a much better understanding of how vim actually works.

I highly suggest vimtutor to people because what a lot of people miss while learning vim is that there isn't actually much to remember. There's sets of motion keys and sets of command keys. The beauty of vim is that the commands are putting these together. For example, say you learn `b,w,e` and then you learn `d`. You now automatically know `db, dw, de, dd`. You didn't learn 4 new things, you learned 1 new thing. Similarly learning `B,W,E` isn't learning 3 new things, you learn one new thing: capitalized motion keys work on WORDS instead of words (aka: big movements)
by prisenco | 2025-08-27 19:56:19+00:00
It may have started earlier. This study came out a year ago, showing consumers overwhelmingly were turned off by companies slapping "AI" on products.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...

| Adverse impacts of revealing the presence of “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” technology in product and service descriptions on purchase intentions: the mediating role of emotional trust and the moderating role of perceived risk

Witness how quickly we went from being awed by Dall-E and Midjourney to saying "looks like AI" as an insult.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-27 19:56:23+00:00
Amusingly things are going with AI like with any complex topics nowadays. It’s easier to hold a strong position than a nuanced one. So you see a lot of vapid articles either for or against, even - or especially actually - if you don’t really know for or against what exactly, and very few insightful ones.

Plague of our ages I guess. Ironically AI might even make it worse.
by stockresearcher | 2025-08-27 19:56:58+00:00
There’s a nice stream that feeds into a river near a family member’s home in northeast Ohio. It’s got crystal clear water and a gravel stream bed - the kids love to flip over rocks to find and catch crayfish. On the opposite side of the bank is a sheer wall of sandstone about 20 feet tall. If you stand there for any length of time, you can hear it cracking and every 30-45 seconds you’ll hear (and maybe see) a small rock or a pebble come down and splash into the water. (It’s been doing that for decades or longer and nobody has ever seen anything larger come down so I’ve always felt it was perfectly safe to be on the opposite bank)
by r2_pilot | 2025-08-27 19:57:26+00:00
I feel like this level of opprobrium is disproportionate. At least Claude has enabled me to live a more full life, spending extra time with those I love more while being able to rubberducky my random thoughts(who are they to judge what fleeting thoughts I allow myself?). I've been burned by AI falsehoods and read the same slop, sure, but I also went through the same with search engines and even books before that. This tool would have unlocked so much more of my potential had it existed 30 years ago and I'm excited(maybe a lot of dread too) to see what the next 30 years will bring.
by ubermonkey | 2025-08-27 19:57:38+00:00
I mean, by that standard Linux is a walled garden, because you probably can't take all your apps and data with you to another system without significant overhead.

I'm no spring chicken. I've had painful migrations. I'm not interested in tools that don't have an exit. Nothing about a normal Mac setup is locked-in. I could migrate my data to Linux, I expect, with minimal hassle. I mean, I wouldn't, because I enjoy the network effects of using the Apple ecosystem, and I find MacOS more pleasing to interact with than any Linux window manager I've yet seen. But it's absolutely possible for me to leave, and simple to do so.

There's no lock in.
by lubujackson | 2025-08-27 19:58:11+00:00
No links to share, by my approach is to create rich, up-to-date documentation that is structured positively for LLM prompt usage but also serves as breadcrumbs to the mental model of the product. When things change, have the LLM update the docs.

Think of this as "document-driven development" in the vein of "test-driven development". The goal is to never lose the big or mid-level picture of things and allow the LLMs to careful adjust those, then implement the details as it sees fit.
by treyholterman | 2025-08-27 19:58:42+00:00
Headlines abound about the 95% failure rate of ‘AI projects.'

And while it’d be fun to pile on against exaggerated hype, the real failure here is our collective blindspot in understanding just how low the odds of success are for ANY custom-built enterprise project.

Discussed are the reasons why enterprise ‘AI’ projects are particularly fraught, but not far worse than technology builds over the last 30 years.
by noshitsherlock | 2025-08-27 19:59:15+00:00
Not sure why you refer to the person who visited Paul on the Damascus Road with the term “divine being“ when this divine being as you put it specifically identifies himself as Jesus Christ, whom Paul was persecuting. And there’s further dialogue where Jesus communicates additional information to Paul as to the things he must suffer for Christ’s sake. He should also point out that Paul went over Peter and many of the other disciples to accepting him and his recount of the Damascus Road experience, despite the fact that he persecuted the church and was sending people to jail just prior to this encounte. I would take Paul at his word as faithfully recounted by Luke more than I would take your words as once so far removed, and obviously skeptical of the scriptures themselves. The entire New Testament and Christ life focuses on faith, which is supported by actual historical miracles and healings not to mention in Christ resurrection itself. That’s the whole issue, faith and belief versus skepticism and unbelief. It’s the grand drama that’s the whole point of both Old Testament and New Testament, that sprouts in the garden of Eden, where the serpent casted out on God‘s veracity when describing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. of course there will be people like you that argue on the side of skepticism and unbelief and that’s been true throughout history so nothing new here
by badsectoracula | 2025-08-27 20:00:31+00:00
AFAIK that wasn't a general response to AI but of a very particular implementation of a procedural animation system shown to him by some (IIRC) students for the movement of a disabled person and he found it distasteful as it reminded him of someone he knows who is disabled and had issues moving.

The quote was taken a little bit out of context.
by gunta | 2025-08-27 20:00:33+00:00
Ha, you know what? Your actually making my case for me. 'Markdown is the universal language of AI' - yeah ok, I got carried away with the marketing speak there. Guilty. But here's the thing tho... every single AI model is literally trained on github. When you ask ChatGPT or Claude to write docs, what format does it use? Markdown. When you feed it code documentation, whats it expecting? Markdown. Its not some cosmic truth, its just... practical reality. But yeah, calling it "universal language" was cringe, I'll give you that. You might remember the recent debate of JSON vs XML vs Markdown: https://x.com/_Anshuman_Jha/status/1953826030084665804 Anyways.

'Vaporware',, This is EXACTLY the problme I'm trying to solve here https://gunta.github.io/PRiority/ !! You know what vaporware actually is? Its when someone builds for 6 months in secret, launches with huge promises, then disappears with peoples money.

What I'm doing is literally the opposite - I'm asking 'will you pay for this?' BEFORE I build anything. If people say no (with their wallets), I build nothing. Zero vaporware created.

Think about it... I've collected hundreds of dollars in 24hrs for something that I explicitly tell people DOESN'T EXIST YET. Thats not vaporware - thats just pre-orders with honesty.

The difference? Traditional vaporware: Build promises → Take money → Never deliver My approach: Take commitments → Hit threshold or refund → Build only what's funded

'Buzzwords and hype' - You got me there. But you know what else is hype? Every successful product launch ever. The difference is whether you deliver after the hype or not.

The github bot? I could literally build it tonight if I wanted. Its not that complicated - parse PRs, check payment status, merge or don't merge. The tech is trivial. The innovation (if you can even call it that) is just asking 'who wants this enough to pay?' before writing a single line of code.

Your skepticism is totally valid btw. We've all seen too much BS in tech. But engagment is signal too - even you cared enough to comment. And honestly? I'd rather have skeptics keeping me honest than cheerleaders enabling vaporware.

The real test: if I don't deliver after taking money, come back and roast me. Screenshot this. I'll deserve it.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-08-27 20:01:51+00:00
Reminds me of death, which, while not entirely the same, has certain similarities.

We always see death as something perpetually in the future. But death can strike at any moment, like the proverbial thief in the night. Not only that, when it does come, it will not be in the future. It will be lived and experienced in the now, just like this very moment.

It's like we're on a speeding train with no view of what's in front of us. At any moment, that train might slam into an impenetrable wall or hurtle off a cliff or sink into the depths of the ocean.
by jfengel | 2025-08-27 20:01:58+00:00
Yep. It's wildly unlikely that this was any kind of deliberate signal. Whatever caused it, it only happened once -- which isn't what you'd expect from aliens hoping to make contact.

We only recorded the fact of the signal's existence, without enough resolution to make out any pattern within it. If the aliens were hoping we'd decode it, they were banking on us happening to catch their signal at a very specific instant in time, never to be repeated.
by deadbabe | 2025-08-27 20:02:12+00:00
It has nothing to do with that.

In a hype cycle, at the beginning, it is easy to harvest attention just by talking about the hype. But as more people do this, eventually the influence market is saturated.

After this point, you then will get a better ROI on attention by taking the opposite position and discussing the anti-hype. This is where we currently are with AI, the contrarians are now in style.
by Buttons840 | 2025-08-27 20:02:39+00:00
Yes, the cost of borrowing for the government will go through the roof.

The Fed will drop interest rates, this will make borrowing easy, people in the economy can get easy money. Inflation will rise, which makes borrowing even easier, because any debt is just inflated away. People will want to hold assets that can't be devalued by inflation, which means people will not want to hold government bonds unless the US pays a high interest rate on those bonds, and when the US government pays a high interest rate on its bonds.

So, we would expect the stock market to increase temporarily, and people will want to buy that increase. The long-term bond market would tank because people would know nobody will want to hold US bonds. Overall it would be a very schizophrenic market.
by inglor_cz | 2025-08-27 20:02:49+00:00
"Yeah, it just means that up until now, the chance of any astronaut crew surviving any trip anywhere is 0%. But hey, if some of the next tests don't end in an explosion, this maybe can be improved to 50/50 chance of death. Yeah, astronauts will buy that. After all, people also still buy Telsa's "Full Self Killing"."

Uh, this is very unfair to SpaceX as a whole, which has had 0 fatalities so far on the ground and in the sky, after almost quarter of century of operation. This is a remarkably good record for spaceflight.

Contrast it to the Apollo project, which killed three astronauts even before the first flight (Grissom, White and Chaffee burnt to death during testing on land) and almost killed another three during mission 13.

Contrast it to the space shuttle with its 14 victims, and the first flight of the space shuttle was touch and go as well.

Contrast it to Boeing whose recent Starliner proved so problematic that they did not dare fly the astronauts back to Earth using the same ship and made them wait for a Dragon.

Contrast it to Scaled Composites, which never reached orbit, but three engineers were killed on the ground and one test pilot during a suborbital test flight.

Insinuating that SpaceX is a killing machine is absurd, when you look at their actual safety record and compare it to their competitors.
by drwu | 2025-08-27 20:02:58+00:00
Agree that decisions/designs are important.

However, not everything can be well designed at the beginning. Skills of editing will affect efficiency, especially in a try-and-error loop of new ideas/approaches, where only a rough design exists.

Besides, some niche editing tasks (which may involve column editing, macro recording then batched execution, regex based operation, encoding transformation etc.) may otherwise require writing awk/sed or even perl/python scripts as subprojects to achieve, if one does not known the editor well.
by empath75 | 2025-08-27 20:02:59+00:00
What happened is that long form writing on the internet bifurcated into professional work and social media, and a lot of popular bloggers either became influencers or professional writers, and the 'casual' bloggers moved to social media, especially facebook. People switching to phones over computers also made reading long form text more difficult.

Blogging _seems_ like it was more popular in retrospect because for a while it was a large percentage of content _on the internet_, but the internet wasn't that popular at the time. Social media now absolutely dwarfs the size of any of the blogging sites even at their peak, and Substack and Medium are probably roughly the same size that the old blogging sites were.
by gambiting | 2025-08-27 20:03:30+00:00
Poland has Blik, it's amazing and I wish it existed everywhere - you can pay someone using a phone number or you can generate a Blik number that you can give anyone else to request or send a payment - and it's instant. Most stores accept Blik payments, and I've paid using it in places where bank cards are not accepted or where there is no infrastructure to accept them - just use Blik.
by taylodl | 2025-08-27 20:03:58+00:00
This is Orwellian doublespeak.

"Investigate" means "harass." There's no intent to do any fact-finding.

"Allegations" means "baseless accusations." Trump often employs the tactic of saying "people say" and then say something nobody has ever said before. It's a rhetorical device - appeal to anonymous authority - used to make people think this thought is widespread when it isn't.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-08-27 20:04:05+00:00
Yes, I guess in Rust terms, that is called moving. However, when I have some code that "moves" the value into another procedure, then the code after that call, can no longer use the moved value.

So I want to move a value, but also be able to use it after moving it, because I don't mutate it in that other function, where it got moved to. So it is actually more like copying, but without making a copy in memory.

It would be good, if Rust realized, that I don't have mutating calls anywhere and just lets me use the value. When I have a mutation going on, then of course the compiler should throw error, because that would be unsafe business.
by JdeBP | 2025-08-27 20:04:09+00:00
No. Because the GR/QM conflict comes up in the other direction that way. GR predicts infinities for zero-radius particles. Indeed, so too does classical electromagnetism. In any case, "quanta" does not really mean the same as the classical notion of point particles.

* https://youtube.com/watch?v=zPZrDbPAuKs
by metalman | 2025-08-27 20:04:16+00:00
"Where once there were sea beds, there are now jagged mountains, and there will sometime be fields and then seas again." true, except next time around the mountains will have sedimentary metamorphic rock faces with pontiac bumpers embeded in them , anthrolithic assemblies?, there are many things made from alloys that are essentialy impervious to almost all chemical attack and other objects and piles so massive as to guarantee some things will retain a clear signature of bieng manufactured it is strange to think that things here now, will continue to exist into the far future