MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kbolino | 2025-09-30 15:50:42+00:00
Eric Lippert describes the difference between immutability and what he calls "persistence" and explains why C#/.NET copies the string contents to make a substring: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6750591/814422

Go's strings are also immutable and yet substrings share the same internal memory. Java/JVM also has immutable strings and yet substrings shared the char[] array of the parent string up until Java 7, when they switched to copying instead (for the same reason as .NET): https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-June/0...
by ModernMech | 2025-09-30 15:51:04+00:00
Having to do this pretty much destroys the value proposition that AI companies are pushing though. At best, what this means is that current software shops can write taller software stacks. Which is valuable, don't get me wrong. But the value proposition, the fantasy of LLMs, is that they will be able to replace your entire development team. If all it does is make the dev team 15% more capable -- because no one else has the knowledge to use it -- that's not a trillion dollar world-shifting technology, it's just another layer in the tech stack.
by esafak | 2025-09-30 15:51:20+00:00
This would have been great 10-20 years ago, or even at the coining of Unix pipes. By today's standards, however, the syntax feels clunky and dated. I'd like to see contemporary shells like nushell and elvish copy these ideas, with attribution of course, in a more modern way. That is the best way I can see to honor this stagnant project: https://github.com/dspinellis/dgsh
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-30 15:51:40+00:00
It's also important to highlight the origins of modern US civil service (read: the Wilson+ era you're referencing) in the anti-Conkling/spoils Congressional factions and presidents of the late 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Breeds_(politics)#Setback...

As recently as 1880s the US was still assigning important civil service roles to whomever donated the most money to election campaigns.

The 1880s - 1970s generally featured a more protected civil service, with both advantages (insulation from changing presidents / legislators, maintaining institutional knowledge and competence) and disadvantages (insulation from performance-based hiring / firing, optimizing for bureaucratic rules became more effective than doing a great job).

The latter of which and anti-government sentiment post-Nixon drove deregulation and more direct executive control of the bureaucracy (e.g. the OPM).

As with all pendulums, we're now again seeing the excesses of affording too much power to the presidency (firing institutional knowledge because their role/expertise isn't currently politically en vogue).

Hopefully post-Trump this will spur reinforcing and insulation of civil service expertise.
by nereye | 2025-09-30 15:51:52+00:00
[1] “ The Glazer family’s acquisition of Manchester United remains controversial to this day.

Their £790m takeover in the summer of 2005 came by way of a leveraged buyout: when a significant amount of borrowed money is used to fund the acquisition of a company, with the debt secured against that company itself.”

1 - https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/manchester-unit...
by mh- | 2025-09-30 15:51:54+00:00
Cool! If you're taking feature requests, I'd love to see an endless mode. No idea how hard it would be to build while keeping puzzle quality high, haven't thought about it much.

Pips is easily my new favorite NYT game apart from the daily (full) Crossword. Forces me to use my brain in a way the other games don't. Would love to be able to play this more than once a day.
by jsheard | 2025-09-30 15:52:14+00:00
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dry-powder-running-s...

Summarized by Ed Zitron: The Information recently published some worrying data from venture capitalist Jon Sakoda — that “at today’s clip, the industry would run out of money in six quarters,” adding that the money wouldn’t run out until the end of 2028 if it wasn’t for Anthropic and OpenAI.
by duothrowaway99 | 2025-09-30 15:52:21+00:00
There are a number of institutes/colleges dedicated to language learning in the US: Alliance Française [0], Goethe institute [1] with multiple satellite offices around the country, all offering language classes for a few hundred dollars.

There are a multitude, nay - infinite! number of online classes with teachers who will use "traditional", textbook-based approaches. [2]

Young Americans regularly go for 1-2-3 month trips to Italy, France, Germany, etc. American passports give folks a ton of latitude. You can stay in a hostel and eat cheaply - many thousands of people have done it.

I'm not saying it's easy, but I will definitely push back on the idea that it's impossible.

(and will also absolutely agree that the convenience of an app will be 10,000,000x more tempting to use than doing any of the above)

[0] https://www.afusa.org/

[1] https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/index.html

[2] https://www.italki.com/en/teachers/french
by bassrattle | 2025-09-30 15:52:37+00:00
Yes. The elderly people in my family are falling into watching AI-generated videos which a human never touched before getting views. Grandpa is watching AI-generated stories of puppies saving lives (I had to break it to him, none of these are real) -- just search "puppy saves baby" to see an endless stream of slop. Mom is watching videos from a Galactic Light Federation which she says raise her vibration, and she doesn't believe these are AI. It's tragic, such a waste.
Show HN: I've build a Tik-Tok styled app, but for GitHub
by wiwoworld | 2025-09-30 15:52:44+00:00
I built GitScroll: a TikTok-style vertical scroll app where you can quickly swipe through repositories.

Key features:

Learning Paths - Curated progressive journeys (React→Next.js, Python→AI/ML) with hand-picked repos for each step

Smart Quick Actions - Context-aware commands based on repo type. Libraries show install commands (npm/pip/cargo), templates show "Use Template", books show "Read Online"

Discovery Modes - Time Machine (explore 2015-2022), Hidden Gems (quality 50-500 star projects), Rising Stars, Contribute Mode (good first issues)

Three-column desktop layout - Trending panel, main scroll feed, detailed README viewer with contributor info

Favorites system - Save repos, share collections publicly with shareable URLs, privacy controls

Repository intelligence - Auto-detects if something's a library, tool, book, template, or config and adapts the UI accordingly

Technical challenges:

Scroll-snap CSS for smooth mobile experience proved trickier than expected GitHub API rate limiting required intelligent caching and query strategies Making learning paths feel cohesive while mixing curated + search results Balancing discoverability with overwhelming choice

Built with Next.js 15, Supabase for auth/favorites, GitHub API. Open to feedback on what discovery modes to add next.

Live at: https://gitscroll.dev
by motbus3 | 2025-09-30 15:53:04+00:00
If productivity was a problem, why accept paying less for a less capable worker? Same thing as for counterfeiting/cheap china products. They are good enough for the price. Increasing productivity does mean doing more, but doing more with less. Sadly American people already accepts being exploited by having no rights, no benefits and no work life balance (in many cases). The only thing that can get worse is to get less money.

But to be honest, I don't think people will get less money. This is politically hard to explain. Things will get more expensive.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-30 15:53:10+00:00
Well, the lacking passion could be explained because the most known tech companies aren't very attractive. They intentionally obfuscate any technology, restrict access and disallow experimentation.

If you want to leech on the crowd that likes tinkering, you shouldn't give them some shitty iOS/Android environment and call it a day. For the industry, tinkering has become a security problem, scary warning boxes about unverified code being run on a piece of metal. How horrible! It is old and stagnant and just not that interesting.

There are some alternative venues instead, but they have a focus elsewhere.
by boomlify | 2025-09-30 15:53:41+00:00
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by jerf | 2025-09-30 15:53:44+00:00
This is the motte & bailey fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

While it has gotten around the "logical fallacy community", for lack of a better term, in the last few years, it could still stand to be known by more people. It's become very popular. I think there are many who have subconsciously picked it up as just how things are done.
by lambdasquirrel | 2025-09-30 15:53:45+00:00
And yet it all circles back.

We used Peano arithmetic when doing C++ template metaprogramming anytime a for loop from 0..n was needed. It was fun and games as long as you didn't make a mistake because the compiler errors would be gnarly. The Haskell people still do stuff like this, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone were doing it in Scala's type system as well.

Also, the PLT people are using lattices and categories to formalize their work.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-30 15:53:59+00:00
> Everyone I know who raised money is a moron or narcissist.

Not all though but to me, I okay, I am mentioning this a lot nowadays but I am in high school and this is relevant.

When I first lets say wanted to do a startup, my idea was that people would invest in me for me to grow and then I can sell it really later after 15 years of working or sorts to have financial freedom.

I wanted to build things that could make profit for 15 years and be something that could've needed capital to expand the growth just like any other business.

Just because it is in coding/tech and its spicy right now doesn't make the principles of sound business go away.

Yet, the more time I invested in here / seeing YC, it seems that the story is about hype/growth/operating at a loss knowing things aren't sustainable/building wrappers.

Only to sell them at insane profits to somebody later on while the company never made a single profit or something while hiring many people...

What can I say, its just something that I can understand if someone is doing and there might be companies that have this fundamental but untill I find something like that, I am pretty sure not gonna just go and paste AI sticker in somethings as some other people are doing right now...

Its a matter of moral backbone. I can't charge my investor wrong knowing that my project doesn't have potential or sorts and its an hype thing... ,Idk. There are a lot of systemic issues in the whole world that we have to think through to discover how we got here.

> And the genuine hackers I know of are wasting life away working on pointless projects.

Man this is something that I grapple with a lott, we must do something to survive and so most of us work a dead end job even though we can be really passionate about something and so there's definitely that which I resonate with a lot.
by rayiner | 2025-09-30 15:54:01+00:00
Trump supporters are voting the same way as you—for the kind of country they want to live in, not just narrowly on policies to benefit themselves personally. But they think that their policies will achieve that, while your policies will just direct more taxpayer dollars to the layers of government and NGO employees who never manage to fix any of the problems they’re tasked with fixing.

I want your average Democrat to grow up with the privileges I had: a household with two married parents, an upbringing that emphasized hard work and resilience and discouraged ethnic identity or solidarity, a school where everyone speaks English and nobody belongs to a gang, a society with a safety net but without long term dependence on the government, etc. I think these things will make the country better for you, not just for me. Look at Mormons: they’re happy, healthy (the longest lived people in the country besides asians), and upwardly mobile. I want that for Baltimore!

I have empathy too! I lived in downtown Baltimore and saw that extensive social programs mostly go to funding middle class lifestyles for government workers and NGO employees. I think the people in Baltimore would be better off if they had the rigid social infrastructure they have in Utah rather than spending more money on programs that never seem to work.
by mikestorrent | 2025-09-30 15:54:05+00:00
I agree with your sentiment. The thing is, in the past, the abstractions supporting us were designed for our (human) use, and we had to understand their surface interface in order to be able to use them effectively.

Now, we're driving such things with AI; it follows that we will see better results if we do some of the work climbing down into the supporting abstractions to make their interface more suitable for AI use. To extend your cooking metaphor, it's time to figure out the manufactured food megafactory now; yes, we're still "cooking" in there, but you might not recognize the spatulas.

Things like language servers (LSPs) are a step in this direction: making it possible to interact with the language's parser/linter/etc before compile/runtime. I think we'll eventually see that some programming languages end up being more apropos to efficiently get working, logically organized code out of an AI; whether that is languages with "only one way to do things" and extremely robust and strict typing, or something more like a Lisp with infinite flexibility where you can make your own DSLs etc remains to be seen.

Frameworks will also evolve to be AI-friendly with more tooling akin to an LSP that allows an MCP-style interaction from the agent with the codebase to reason about it. And, ultimately, whatever is used the most and has the most examples for training will probably win...
by throw0101c | 2025-09-30 15:54:28+00:00
See also perhaps "Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars from 2011 to 2022":

> The artificial glow of the night sky is a form of light pollution; its global change over time is not well known. Developments in lighting technology complicate any measurement because of changes in lighting practice and emission spectra. We investigated the change in global sky brightness from 2011 to 2022 using 51,351 citizen scientist observations of naked-eye stellar visibility. The number of visible stars decreased by an amount that can be explained by an increase in sky brightness of 7 to 10% per year in the human visible band. This increase is faster than emissions changes indicated by satellite observations. We ascribe this difference to spectral changes in light emission and to the average angle of light emissions.

* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7781
by jfengel | 2025-09-30 15:55:11+00:00
Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Hamas is not going to agree to banish itself. You would need to set up an alternative Palestinian government, and make this agreement with them.

The 'international Board of Peace, headed by Donald Trump' is an ego trip, not a serious proposal. So is the economic development plan. The Gazans don't want to be colonized by the US any more than they want to be colonized by Israel.

It's hard to imagine that they consulted with anybody who knows anything about the Palestinians on this. It's not even clear that the goal is anything other than having the Palestinians reject it, so they can be blamed.

I hope I'm wrong about that. Some basic parts of the plan are reasonable -- phased cessation of hostilities for exchange of prisoners and bodies. Everything about the last two years has been so horrific that practically anything is an improvement. But it requires more trust from the Palestinians than this plan inspires.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-09-30 15:55:13+00:00
I think you should understand quite how bad your examples are. I understand the examples you gave are given in the best of intentions, but this reads as pure blissful ignorance.

PETA literally funded a terrorist convicted of arson.

> A page from the 1995 annual tax return (form 990) of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), showing a $45,200 payment for the ``support committee'' of Rodney Coronado, a felon. Mr. Coronado was convicted of arson in federal court for the 1992 firebombing of a Michigan State University research lab.

---

> Would you personally do what the people they are "making trouble" for are doing?

Would I eat meat? Yes.

Would I keep animals as pets? Yes.

Do I think it's ethical for humans to use animals for service, e.g., guide dogs for the blind? Yes.

Do I think it's ethical to use animal models in medical research? Yes.

All of these things, PETA are against.

Further:

- https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/animal-righ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Coronado

- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107hhrg77615/html/C...
by loudmax | 2025-09-30 15:55:27+00:00
LLMs can be used to vibe-code with limited or superficial understanding, but they can also be extremely helpful parsing and explaining code for a programmer who wants to understand what the program is doing. Well-managed forward thinking organizations will take advantage of the latter approach. The overwhelming majority of organizations will slide into the former without realizing it.

In the medium to longer term, we might be in a situation where only the most powerful next-generation AI models are able to make sense of giant vibe-coded balls of spaghetti and mud we're about to saddle ourselves with.
by rtkwe | 2025-09-30 15:55:43+00:00
It was but it did also end and hamper future investigations by agencies like the FCC, CFBP, NHTSA, etc that had investigated or would be overseeing future businesses (eg Elon always talks about making X and 'Everything App' which would include transactions and quasi-banking which would be in CFBP's jurisdiction).

I'm fairly sure that was Elon's main goal, slash the ability for regulators to get in his way because they've been a constant minor nuisance to him and he saw a chance to hamstring them going forward even if Democrats get back in power soon the agencies will have a drastically reduced investigatory and regulatory efficacy just from losing the people that know how to do it.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-27/elon-musk-...
by Agraillo | 2025-09-30 15:56:07+00:00
You're probably talking about infamous Dark Matter Developers [1]. When the term was coined, I thought there were many of them, now seeing how many developers are here at HN (including myself) I doubt there are many left /s.

The quote that is interesting in the context of the fast-pacing LLM development is this

> The Dark Matter Developer will never read this blog post because they are getting work done using tech from ten years ago and that's totally OK

[1] https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un...
by diob | 2025-09-30 15:56:17+00:00
Funny enough I find LLMs useful for fixing the "death of a program" issue. I was consulting on a project built offshore where all the knowledge / context was gone, and it basically allowed me to have an AI version of the previous team that I could ask questions of.

I could ask questions about how things were done, have it theorize about why, etc.

Obviously it's not perfect, but that's fine, humans aren't perfect either.
by tanjtanjtanj | 2025-09-30 15:57:03+00:00
Interesting theory but there’s not a chance that it’s true. Anthem had been in development for like 6 years by the time the idea for the Mandalorian was even pitched by Favreau.

The weird story absence was due to the studio trying to make it one of those live-service “forever games” that would make them infinite money.
by TuringNYC | 2025-09-30 15:57:09+00:00
>> A prosecutor, Micah Fergenson, though, said JPMorgan “didn’t get a functioning business” in exchange for its investment. “They acquired a crime scene.”

I do not understand how an acquisition this big got thru due diligence without noticing all the fake users. Anyone in corporate M&A know if it is normal to spend this much money without inspecting the goods? Seems like the most basic of OLAP queries and two days of effort would reveal very suspicious userbase.
by socalgal2 | 2025-09-30 15:57:19+00:00
I have disqus on several sites. No ads so shrug?

Having written my own multiple times and used several others before disqus I’m unlikely to switch unless the new thing is super compelling and I believe it will stick around.

Spam is hard to deal with. Akismet fails miserably for me. disqus has the fact they can track users across sites. Spam one site and you’re off all sites.
by psunavy03 | 2025-09-30 15:57:34+00:00
There's always the illusion of a quick and easy path to being rich. But the only one of those that really exists is winning the birth lottery and inheriting.

All else is a combination of luck, skill, and grit, because for every rock star, star athlete, and successful influencer, there are tens or hundreds of thousands who aren't famous because they didn't win that game.
by txru | 2025-09-30 15:57:44+00:00
> then it’s completely unsurprising it will become dominated by the party that prefers bigger government.

I think you've assumed the conclusion here. One could equally say that if one party becomes overrepresented by people with higher education, that party will become overrepresented in any administrative position.

> Aaron Burr

I find myself more and more often in the position of having to look back many decades for precedent of things that are currently happening. Again, that's not necessarily a bad thing. But the variance of what to expect is wider, and I think it's fair to cast out one's net of expectations wider, and possibly darker.

Burr was a complicated man, doing complicated things, in a newly defined nation that was still defining norms. His trial was no stellar example of how to find truth and remonstrate wrongdoing. And I agree, "Lying to a federal officer" is absolutely ripe for misuse. A critical component of any subjective human system is integrity and adherence to justice. I don't think many people will look at Comey's prosecution and see it as the clear-headed and honest pursuit of justice.
by atonse | 2025-09-30 15:57:54+00:00
I LOVE this. The app feels very clean, the data's presented beautifully, and it hasn't been enshittified yet. And hopefully never will, because I pay Kagi in hopes that they don't.

I feel this is what Apple News should've been. Instead it's just god-awful ad-filled mess of news articles. And the only reason I have it is because of Apple One. But it is a clearly neglected product.

I also pay for ground news but it hasn't met my expectations, mostly because there's a lot of redundancy with wire stories. Like it'll show 50 sources but they're all just regurgitating the same AP or Reuters article. So it skews the "bias"
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-30 15:58:19+00:00
But what if the screwdriver has a really cool website though with cool animations which would run lagging even on modern hardware though?

I am sure then you will talk about screwdrivers...

Screwdriver wrappers probably lol /s

(This was a joke of sorts and replace screwdriver with AI/AI wrappers and these websites owned by AI wrappers)