MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by terminatornet | 2025-09-02 23:23:00+00:00
It rocks how Vercel has spent so much time and money on marketing Next.js that my product manager tried to tell me last year that I had to use it. In his mind we wouldn't be able to build our app correctly (an SPA that barely a couple hundred people use) or find developers since everyone uses and knows Next.js.

truly hate how hard these guys have made my job by making react popular.
by sigmonsays | 2025-09-02 23:23:02+00:00
every god damn time AI hallucinates a solution that is not real (in ChatGPT)

I havn't put a huge effort into learning to write prompts but in short, it seems easier to write the code myself than determine prompts. If you don't know every detail ahead of time and ask a slightly off question, the entire result will be garbage.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-02 23:24:36+00:00
> this is why everyone was sure for centuries that the Earth is flat

Nope. There was a pretty smooth transition from "Nobody has ever wondered about this" to "All educated people know it's a ball shape" a very, very long time ago.

Eratosthenes comes up with a pretty good approximation both for how big the ball is, and how much its axis is off (you also if you think about it realise the planet must be spinning, that's why there's a day-night cycle)

Flat Earthers are a weird modern thing, they aren't somehow a remnant.
by benjiro | 2025-09-02 23:24:55+00:00
Its been a few years when i last worked with WP. But the performance issue is because they store a ton of the data in a key value store, instead of table with fixed columns.

This can result in a ton of individual row hits on your database, for what in any normal system is a single 0.1ms (often faster) DB request.

Any web scraper that is scraping SEQUENCIALLY at 1r/s is actually a well behaved and non-intrusive scraper. Its just that the WP is in general ** for performance.

If you want to see what a bad scraper does with parallel requests with little limits, yea, WP is going down without putting up any struggle. But everybody wanted to use WP, and now those ducks are coming home to roost when there is a bit more pressure.
by dragontamer | 2025-09-02 23:25:02+00:00
Microchip is always more expensive than the Chinese stuff, but Microchip contributions to Linux are mainline (!!!!), and is often worth the extra few $$$$.

Fully open hardware, with mainline Linux open source drivers. It's hard to beat SAM9x60 in openness, documentation and overall usability. It's specs are weaker but keeping up with mainline Linux is very, very relevant. Especially in this discussion
by cratermoon | 2025-09-02 23:25:19+00:00
tl;dr: yes. "foreign arrivals at American airports are down by 3.8% compared with 2024, or 1.3m fewer people. The slump was steepest between May and July, when arrivals fell by 5.5% year on year. That bucked the global trend as tourism finally recovered to pre-pandemic levels." https://archive.ph/lyOSU
by zahlman | 2025-09-02 23:26:10+00:00
> There is a pattern I’ve learned while using Zig which I’ve never seen used in any other language.

I've done this in small applications in C (where nodes were already being statically allocated) and/or assembly (hacking on an existing binary).

No idea about the effect on speed in general; I was trying to save a few bytes of storage in a place where that mattered.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-02 23:26:22+00:00
Does Claude Code provide some kind of "global memory" the llm refers to, or is this just a request you make within the the llm's context window? Just curious hadn't heard the use of the term

EDIT: I see, you're asking Claude to modify claude.md to track your preference there, right?

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/memory
by robocat | 2025-09-02 23:26:27+00:00
> 129 brands in China were selling cars that ran mainly or entirely on electricity, and only 15 of them would be financially viable [in 5 years time]

The brands really can't care about reliability if they know they'll be bust.

If the biggest item on assets and liabilities is warantees, there are a lot of tricks to reset that to zero.

And even if you win in the market, you probably had to race to the bottom for reliability.

Unfortunately, the cost of judging information to decide on reliability is too high as a consumer. So we fall back to price (which we can mostly quantify) and it is rational to choose lemons.
by mpourismaiel | 2025-09-02 23:26:30+00:00
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On the frontend, I work with React, Vue, and Svelte. On the backend, I've shipped systems using Go, Python, and Node (Nest.js, Django, FastAPI, etc). I enjoy working on thoughtful product design and efficient APIs just as much as hacking on UI.

Lately I've been freelancing through ainurhq.cloud, doing both client projects and internal tools. Some recent work includes:

● jsDelivr: contributed engineering support and improvements

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I'm currently looking for freelance/contract roles (or possibly full-time) - ideally on a modern product team where I can contribute across the stack.

Feel free to reach out if you're building something interesting:

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Tech stack:

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by hammock | 2025-09-02 23:26:43+00:00
> We already live in social credit but I fear the ones maintained by companies might be better for the consumer.

Seems to me to be dependent on how the incentives line up.

A credit bureau WANTS you to part with any money you might have for a car. So it works out when they control the issuance of your loan.

But would you want the NRA to control the social credit system regulating a firearm purchase?
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-02 23:27:14+00:00
> but from a wider viewpoint Microsoft has few competitors in the "one stop shop for your big business needs" sense.

This is the big thing that keeps Microsoft lock-in alive. No where else are you going to get: Full office suite, both online & desktop apps, hosted exchange/email, Identity w/ MFA & Conditional Access, EDR, file storage, chat/collab, AI chatbot w/ your Microsoft data as context, and MDM all for $22/user/month (if you have less than 300 users, otherwise you're looking in the range of $35-$50/user/month which is still dirt cheap for what you get). Not to mention all the data protection (purview)/e-discovery stuff also included.

Google Workspace is the next best thing, and doesn't offer all of what MS does for the price.

MS (365) is the only game in town where you can get everything you need for 1 price/subscription.

Microsoft's services are rarely the best at anything, but they are all "good enough", well integrated and will check any and all compliance/regulatory checkboxes you want them to check, and you can generally hammer any of their offerings into whatever you want. Similar to Windows in a way, it wasn't the best at anything in particular, but had everything you needed, and could be made to do whatever with some effort with the benefit of integration into all of MS's enterprisey stuff by default.
by ajross | 2025-09-02 23:27:46+00:00
> 2 - No, metadata robustness absolutely varies across filesystems.

That's misunderstanding the subthread. The upthread point was about metadata atomicity in snapshots, not hardware corruption recovery. A filesystem like ZFS can make sure the journal is checkpointed atomically with the CoW snapshot moment, where dm obviously can't. And I pointed out this wasn't actually helpful because this is a problem that has to be solved above the filesystem, in databases and apps, because it's isomorphic to power loss (something that the filesystem can't prevent).
by modeless | 2025-09-02 23:28:46+00:00
Coming from a Pixel 7 Pro the single biggest upgrade is the fingerprint sensor. Dramatic improvement. I turned it off before; it actually works now.

Magnetic charging is nice. The first party charger stand is just OK. I find it slightly less comfortable to hold because of the more squared sides, though I appreciate the flat front glass and the fact that it sits on tables without wobbling.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-02 23:29:07+00:00
Yes they are. Unhelpful distractions that are workshopped and focus grouped. Stop adopting the bizarre terminology of the enemy, and their goofy neologisms, and just talk about the issue in straightforward English.

We didn't need a different word for not being able to install an application on your phone without the permission of the company that made it. We needed a different word for the thing that was new, which is the company that makes the thing that you own refusing you permission to use it as you see fit.
by Arathorn | 2025-09-02 23:29:11+00:00
Matrix.org itself doesn't publish an 'official' way to run a server, given there are multiple implementations and distros out there.

If you're happy using kubernetes, https://element.io/server-suite/community should be a good bet (or https://element.io/server-suite/pro if you are actually doing mission-critical stuff and want a version professionally supported by Element)

If you're happy using docker-compose, then https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo is a very simple template for getting going.

Alternatively, https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy is quite popular as a 3rd-party distro using ansible-managed docker containers.

Sorry all for the downtime on matrix.org - we're having to do a full 55TB db restore from backup which will take ~17 hours to run. :|
by CristiinaLynn | 2025-09-02 23:30:21+00:00
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Python with Flask, SQL, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, HTML, CSS

Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16XZkgfBHeph5ifp5baDfVMax...

email: cristina@cristinalynn.net

I recently graduated from Flatiron School from their Software Engineering Bootcamp. I don't have much experience yet, but willing to keep learning and put in the work.
by bitpush | 2025-09-02 23:30:41+00:00
> Google effectively owns the internet

What are you even saying? ChatGPT - a product that was launched in 2021 - is eating up internet search game. People have switched to that in throves, and Google can do nothing.

You're mistakenly assuming that Google has a lot of power, when in fact, they had none. People were using it because it was the superior product at the time. And now there's a better product, and people have switched to it.

Dont blame Google for Bing (and ddg's) shitty products.
by bakugo | 2025-09-02 23:30:55+00:00
Looks like it's going to take a while to come back up.

> Sorry, but it's bad news: we haven't been able to restore the DB primary filesystem to a state we're confident in running as a primary (especially given our experiences with slow-burning postgres db corruption). So we're having to do a full 55TB DB snapshot restore from last night, which will take >10h to recover the data, and then >4h to actually restore, and then >3h to catch up on missing traffic.

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/115136866878237078
by ilc | 2025-09-02 23:30:58+00:00
Why?

I'm 25+ YOE. 9+ YOE in small companies.

Now, I'll drop a line on ya: I've made several million dollars of mistakes, could easily be 8 figures, though I doubt 9.

Do you want to pay for all that learning someone ELSE paid for, or learn it yourself?

Your call.
by bane | 2025-09-02 23:31:49+00:00
GPUs are the land that's staked. They're of limited intrinsic value in the sense that they're in the way of getting to the gold (models), but there's a small supply of it so they go for a lot on the market. But if there was literally any other way to make the models even for a few percent cheaper, they model builders would move to that. On the inference side, most of the cloud providers are looking for pretty much any way to server that up more cheaply, with custom TPUs, or other tensor units of some type.

We saw this with crypto mining where truckloads of expensive GPUs were dumped in the trash after the proof of work became so hard it became not worth the cost of electricity to keep on that generation of card.
by 010101010101 | 2025-09-02 23:32:07+00:00
The best managers I’ve ever had didn’t use Jira, because they didn’t use much of anything at all, and more senior engineers were trusted to manage work streams and run projects without needing to conform to a process demanded by someone not directly committing code.

Jira might turn terrible managers into mediocre ones, but it also turns good managers into mediocre ones too.
by mextrezza | 2025-09-02 23:32:27+00:00
> In cases companies megacorps are clearly breaking laws, they're appropriately fined.

Not always! lawyers representing classes in class actions don't always negotiate as hard as they could or should during settlements. You're probably familiar with federal judge Lucy Koh's prominent cases.

Not really understanding your argument that everything is fine, and there's nothing to see here.
by nzeid | 2025-09-02 23:32:29+00:00
> How much do you think did you think equifax saved by skimping on security? Probably not $575M. They got pwned by an outdated third party library. There's no way keeping your libraries up to date is going to cost anywhere near that amount.

I took their post to mean that the $2.90 figure included damages.

In your words, how much will the ensuing fraud, identity theft, and spam cost me?
by andy99 | 2025-09-02 23:33:01+00:00
I don't know if this is the right place to comment but I agree with you and noticed a lot of people are equating "survivable" cold/hot with not needing tunnels.

In a city, most people are working in office towers and not outfitting themselves for anything but the most moderate weather, so it's nice to have tunnels that you can comfortably navigate to go to lunch and meetings and whatnot without bundling up. Nobody disagrees it's possible to walk around outside in Toronto winter and it's not that cold, but it's a hell of a lot nicer getting to stay inside when possible.
by bitpush | 2025-09-02 23:33:21+00:00
The whole point was the 'boy who cried wolf' - OMG, we're not able to compete with Google because they are a monopoly.

And then Sam Altman came and showed how to make a better product, and all of a sudden people are like, there's an alternative.

You're blaming Google for Bing and ddg's shitty products.
by kube-system | 2025-09-02 23:33:30+00:00
I know it’s an analogy. I just think it was a bad one. The desire for nerds to run unusual software on their phone is not really a life or death situation. I think it’s important to remember that in context, the number of us who care about this issue rounds to about zero. Most people using a phone don’t care.

I also want to run the software of my choosing. But there’s not a single phone you can completely do that with. Some of this is due to design decisions, some of it is due to corporate lock-in, and some of it is due to regulatory requirements.

I wouldn’t be against a law requiring side loading and unlocking, I would be in favor of it. This only addresses part of the software on a phone, though. There’s a lot of software on a phone beyond user space applications.

But I do think it would be reasonable to put some hurdles to make it difficult to do. There are completely valid reasons to protect the average user from being scammed by malicious software.
by otterley | 2025-09-02 23:33:35+00:00
They didn't "turn[] a blind eye" as they weren't asked the question again. There was no legal precedent established by the Microsoft case that required all future operating systems to have a replaceable browser engine. Also, the factual situations were quite different: Microsoft had a de facto monopoly on PC OSes in the late 1990s, while Apple never had a monopoly on mobile devices.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-02 23:33:56+00:00
The convenience of fingerprint sensors is clear, but I can't imagine ever using one in the US. Police being able to compel your fingerprints means it's just not an option. Its never been an issue for me, there really wouldn't be much harm in it, but this idea that the state can break into my castle because it's only my fingerprint protecting it and not a passphrase is so weird, so unfortunate.
by palata | 2025-09-02 23:34:45+00:00
But passwords are hell for most people: they never remember them, for some reason (I don't understand it either) they really don't want to use a password manager, and they get phished.

Passkeys mean that most people can just FaceID or their fingerprint everywhere and they are happy. They are happy to be locked in if it just works.

For those of us who don't want to be locked in, we still have the possibility to not be locked in because we understand how it works.

I don't think we can do better: try to explain to normies how they should enjoy using a CLI and see how they react.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-02 23:35:14+00:00
> how emotionally charged the devotes were about something as inconsequential as ... video game reviews.

There's a good reason the phrase "it's about ethics in games journalism" was used to mock gamergaters. It was so transparently not about that in the slightest. I'm not one of those "gamergate caused trumpism" domino meme people but they are related phenomena. GG was a revanchist political movement based on using the novel organization structures of social media to harass women and minorities out of gaming culture.
by benjiro | 2025-09-02 23:35:25+00:00
> one of those was definitely not "traffic quintuples."

O, it was... People warned about the mass usage of WordPress because of its performance issues.

The internet usage kept growing, even without LLM scraping in mass. Everybody wants more and more up to date info, recent price checks, and so many other features. This trend has been going on for over 10+ years.

Its just now, that bot scraping for LLMs has pushed some sites over the edge.

> We've ended up blocking lots of them, but it's a neverending game of whack-a-mole.

And unless you block every IP, you can not stop them. Its really easy to hide scrapers, especially if you use a slow scrap rate.

The issue comes when you have like one of the posters here, a setup where a DB call takes up to 1s for some product pages that are not in cache. Those sites already lived on borrowed time.

Ironically, better software on their site (like not using WP), will allow them to handle easily 1000x the volume for the same resources. And do not get me started in how badly configured a lot of sites are in the backend.

People are kind of blaming the wrong issue. Our needs for up to date, data, has been growing for over the last 10 years. Its just that people considered website that took 400ms to generate a webpage as ok. (when in reality they are wasting tons of resource or are limited in the backend)
Project Limitless: Letting a Frontier AI Think to Itself for 100k Hours
by FaceLupin | 2025-09-02 23:35:32+00:00
I’m launching an experiment no lab has dared to run:

Model: DeepSeek-V3.1 (GPT-5-level, open weights, minimal guardrails)

Setup: 8× H100 GPUs, continuous self-talk loop

Duration: ~6 months (100k hours)

Output: 15–20 million unfiltered exchanges (~3–4B tokens)

Budget: $100,000 (seeking collaborators + backers)

Goal: create the first-ever AI Thought Archive — a massive, public record of what an unaligned frontier model does when left to run without limits.

Labs won’t do this (cost, risk, PR). I will. If successful, this could become a historic open dataset for research, startups, and society.

r1840@proton.me
by ninkendo | 2025-09-02 23:37:15+00:00
Sure, after you dismiss the pop-up telling you to become an ars subscriber.

I’m only angry about this because I’ve been on ars since 2002, as a paid subscriber for most of that time, but I cancelled last year due to how much enshittification has begun to creep in. These popups remove any doubt about the decision at least.

(I cancelled because I bought a product they gave a positive review for, only to find out they had flat-out lied about its features, and it was painfully obvious in retrospect that the company paid Ars for a positive review. Or they’re so bad at their jobs they let clearly wrong information into their review… I’m not sure which is worse.)
by protocolture | 2025-09-02 23:37:54+00:00
https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Demon_Cat

"The Demon Cat seems to take great pride in his "approximate knowledge of many things," meaning that he "kind of knows things." Examples include almost knowing Finn's name (calling him Frank), And later calling him Jim, knowing where Finn "might" be hiding, and referring to Jake as "Jack.""
by nickpapciak | 2025-09-02 23:38:14+00:00
Yes definitely! That's why we do believe the agents, for the time being, will act as great junior devs that you can offload work onto, while as they get better they can slowly get promoted into more active roles.

The personalities approach sounds fun to experiment with. I'm wondering if you could use SAEs to scan for a "startup codebro" feature in language models. Alas this is not something we get to look into until we think that fine-tuning our own models is the best way to make them better. For now we are betting on in-context learning.

Business requirements are also incredibly valuable. Notion, Slack, and Confluence hold a lot of context, but it can be hard to find. This is something that I think the subagents architecture is great for though.
by hax0ron3 | 2025-09-02 23:38:31+00:00
I'm already somewhat concerned. I've been concerned since long before Trump. And Trump has added some new concerns. For example, with that strike against the Venezualan boat today. But that doesn't mean that I believe that we're anywhere actually close to it. Those are two separate questions.

People really should try to understand that if someone says "I think that the US is vastly freer than Russia", it does not mean "I think that there is no reason for concern" or "I think that the US is going in a good direction".
by zzzeek | 2025-09-02 23:38:54+00:00
I use Claude every day. When I give it a program that does something straightforward in one file and it writes it from scratch, it does great. When I have it fix issues or add functionality to small to medium sized apps that have a mostly simple design, it does great. When I point it at codebases that are 20 years old and have a lot of indirection in their design due to years of hard lessons learned and a lot (like a LOT) of cases covered, it really struggles (just read my profile to know what codebase this is). I mostly try to get it to write changelog messages, docs and tests, where it works, but I have to really wrestle with it. I can't imagine doing anything on "vibes" and it all seems quite ridiculous if you are working on hardcore library oriented software with tens of thousands of users.

If we're going to say, who cares, with LLMs we'll never need 20 year old codebases we'll just keep writing new stuff, OK you do you.
by rustystump | 2025-09-02 23:39:18+00:00
If you know much about oss devs, then you know they make little money for buckets of work. Vercel is a path where they can make good money and still do some amount of oss work. I dont agree with the argument that vercel=bad because they hire people.

The fact you use the term ssr market is a key point to how effective vercel’s marketing has been via techfluencers. There isnt a market for ssr in the way you use it, only web hosting.

There is a world of engineering outside js framework relevancy wars. It isnt only vercel pushing the framing btw. Other players are trying to replicate the vercel marketing playbook. Use/hire techfluencers/oss devs to push frameworks/stacks on devs who then push it up the company stack.

Usually it doesnt work for a startup but vercel proved it can.

Enter a million lite framework wrappers around well known tech, like supabase and postgres, upstash and redis, vercel and aws.