MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-09-11 18:23:37+00:00
I think Deno isn't included in the benchmark because it's a harder comparison to make than it might seem.

Deno's dependency architecture isn't built around npm; that compatibility layer is a retrofit on top of the core (which is evident in the source code, if you ever want to see). Deno's core architecture around dependency management uses a different, URL-based paradigm. It's not as fast, but... It's different. It also allows for improved security and cool features like the ability to easily host your own secure registry. You don't have to use npm or jsr. It's very cool, but different from what is being benchmarked here.
by trhway | 2025-09-11 18:24:18+00:00
Sanctions?! What sanctions? They don't even hide, right in the heart of Western Europe:

https://www.swedbank-aktiellt.se/telegram/WOzsdcJG

"AMSTERDAM, April 10, 2025

MIRhosting, a leading provider of enterprise-grade colocation and IT infrastructure services in Europe, proudly announces the launch of two dedicated, fully equipped data rooms at its newest location within the NorthC data center in Nieuwegein. This strategic expansion strengthens MIRhosting's colocation capabilities, directly addressing the growing demand for reliable and scalable colocation solutions in the greater Amsterdam region...."
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-11 18:24:24+00:00
It doesn’t appeal to me either, but I’ve often heard “functionality, taken to an extreme, becomes fashion”. I think that might be what’s happening here. There are _some_ cases in which you might want a foldable phone. But even if you don’t need it, a (good) foldable phone becomes a status symbol.

See also: expensive mechanical watches, sports cars, bottles that hold temperature for 24 hours
by fn-mote | 2025-09-11 18:24:56+00:00
You're ignoring the engineered addiction to the games on phones. Loot boxes, 2 free hours of play with double bonuses, etc.

There is no engineered addiction to reading the New York Times, so people just put it down when something else wants their attention.

Looking at a phone is a problem to the extent that it cuts you off from real interactions in society. It is a problem to the extent that the attention you pay to the phone does not go toward solving real problems.

It can be a problem because it allows kids to escape from uncomfortable situations like struggling to learn something, and the Instagram-perfect view of the world makes their own lives feel inferior.
by const_cast | 2025-09-11 18:24:59+00:00
Their treatment was unfair because ICE is a domestic terrorism organization and they got fucking propaganda paraded on live television.

Look around you. Is this really the US you want to be living in? Are you really so pathetic as to be proud of this?

What kind of people do we want to be? Do we really want to be cruel cunts and wave around a "well it's technically legal!!1!" flag? Is that who YOU want to be? Is that how the US should treat allies which invest billions into our economy?
by potsandpans | 2025-09-11 18:25:01+00:00
I don't find your analysis compelling.

I've seen you post it elsewhere, for example when DOGE illegally entered government buildings and siphoned off americans data.

During that time apologia for this coup was voted to the top and most of the criticism of the ongoing actions were swiftly flagged and removed. Similar things happened for the michigan assassinations.

I would truly be delighted to be wrong here.

You could release data to lend credence to your hypothesis. Other people have asked for this when you post this from time to time... and they usually get flagged and eventually go dead! If you feel so strongly that its true then show us: hacker news truly is apolitical. I sense however that that data would be damning, and we'll never get to see it.

Anecdotal comments from anonymous internet actors only proves that the mud slinging is equal. But if hacker news did have a right-wing troll problem, I would expect that to be the outcome.
by xp84 | 2025-09-11 18:25:11+00:00
Most schools don't have lockers anymore.

But in most schools where there aren't really strong bans, what happens is of course you're not supposed to be texting and playing games during class, but the teachers at worst would ask you to put it down. They daren't actually take the phone for myriad reasons:

• Could start a physical altercation

• Parents are going to harangue the teacher about how they "need it" to stay in touch with their kids "for safety" or some long story about some supposed responsibility the kid needs to be reachable for

• Risk of liability (what if another kid steals it while it's in custody)

• End of the day one way or another it'll just be given back, so why waste your effort and risk all of the above for basically nothing.

I think the newer bans may be more about actual school administration support intended to assure teachers and other staff that there will be effective consequences of continual phone abuse, so that it's not pointless to try to enforce no-phone rules.
by jjice | 2025-09-11 18:25:40+00:00
>Could an AI have done it faster? Who knows. I’ve tried using Cursor with Claude on stuff like this and it tends to take a very long time, makes mistakes, and ends up digging itself further into holes until I clean up after it. With the size of the code base and the long compile times I’m not sure it would have been able to do it.

I've found the same thing, but I have also found that gen AI is pretty good at creating a script to do this. Generally, for very deterministic, repeated changes, I've found having the LLM write code is way better than having it makes a lot of changes. As it has to read more files, the context gets filled, and it starts to get goofy.
by audunw | 2025-09-11 18:25:58+00:00
Zig isn’t inherently highly unsafe. A bit less than Rust in some regards. But arguably more safe in a few others.

But the language haven’t even reached 1.0 yet. A lot of the strategies for doing safe Zig isn’t fully developed.

Yet, TigerBeetle is written in Zig and is an extremely robust piece of software.

I think the focus of Bun is probably more on feature parity in the short term.
by sgerenser | 2025-09-11 18:26:13+00:00
The fact that something doesn’t scale past X cores doesn’t mean that it is I/O bound! For most C++ toolchains, any given translation unit can only be compiled on a single core. So if you have a big project, but there’s a few files that alone take 1+ minute to compile, the entire compilation can’t possibly take any less than 1 minute even if you had infinite cores. That’s not even getting into linking, which is also usually at least partially if not totally a serial process. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
by ankrgyl | 2025-09-11 18:26:26+00:00
> In ??? coding, the developer specifies code changes that must be made, such as adding a feature, modifying an existing function, or removing unused logic. The AI delivers the complete set of changes to the codebase, and the developer reviews it at the code level. Any corrections are given again as updates to the code, and the cycle repeats until the code aligns.

Yes

> If so, I've most seen the latter be called AI pair-programming or AI-assisted coding.

I specifically considered both terms and am not a fan * "pair-programming" is something that involves two people paying attention while writing code, and in this case, i'm not looking at the screen while the AI system writes code * "AI-assisted coding" is generally anchored to copilots/IDE style agents where people are actively writing code, and an AI assists them.

I totally hear you on conflating async. However, I think the appropriate term would clearly indicate that this happens without actively watching the AI write code. Unfortunately I think other terms like "background" may also be confusing for similar reasons.
by mattblalock | 2025-09-11 18:26:43+00:00
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by throw0101d | 2025-09-11 18:26:56+00:00
> 20 years ago everyone on suburban trains would be looking at a newspaper, magazine or book throughout their journey.

Some folks did this, others chatted with the 'regulars' that they sat with that had the same schedule as them. There were television series based on this:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_48

Some folks didn't want to chat, and in the Toronto-area commuter rail there are designated zones for that:

* https://www.gotransit.com/en/travelling-on-go/quiet-zone
by leo_researchly | 2025-09-11 18:27:01+00:00
This week marks the IAA (International Motor Show Germany; one of the most important car trade shows). To explore the strategies that OEMs are pursuing, I analyzed their recent earnings calls.

Here's the TL;DR - Elon Musk might get a $1 trillion if he comes back to the office and delivers robotaxis and robots as promised (Elon Musk is busy with a lot of things besides cars) - Volkswagen is executing a product-heavy, China-local strategy (30 new models in 2024!) and partnering with US and Chinese-brands for soft- & hardware - While for Tesla full autonomy is just around the corner, Ford is focusing on Level 2/3 - Ford has announced a new Model T equivalent product innovation
by philipkglass | 2025-09-11 18:27:10+00:00
The USSR (first bomb test: 1949) obtained secret American information from spies and the UK (first bomb test: 1952) had secret information that was intentionally shared by the US. France (first bomb test: 1960) is an interesting case because it developed its program relatively frugally without intentional US information sharing or (as far as I know) spies within the US nuclear weapons program. By the late 1950s there was just a lot more information publicly known that couldn't be hidden again. And today there is nuclear information readily available on Wikipedia that would have been considered top secret as recently as the 1970s, like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Teller%E2%80%93...
by immibis | 2025-09-11 18:27:20+00:00
Switching to a nondefault technology takes effort and switching to Kagi in particular also costs money, which is also effort for the purpose of the psychological effect known as effort justification. Therefore, people would be likely to rate switching to Kagi as a good thing even if it was exactly the same as Google (says the effect). Therefore, people who say Kagi is good find it exactly the same a Google (implies the commenter).
by port11 | 2025-09-11 18:27:45+00:00
inglor_cz put it quite well.

Eventually it gets on your nerves how much worse the city has to be to cater to the Institutions.

There's something about non-taxed coddled elites eating oysters and drinking champagne at 9AM on a Sunday that makes you a bit of a cynic.

And then, of course, all your friends works for the research companies that get paid a fortune to provide advice to the Eurocrats. But well, your friend has a Bachelor's in Marketing and she's being considered an expert on Soil Research because… eh, the agency is getting paid.

The Bubble is there and you'll be exposed to it. It's not a good Bubble. It's mostly young MBAs and Political Science majors that think they know how to fix everything.

(And some very talented people, of course. It's not all bad.)
by npoc | 2025-09-11 18:27:51+00:00
We can both be right - when man-made global warming isn't actually a thing.

I agree that

> a government that does nothing to tackle global warming is "bad"

and I think you would likely also agree that

> a government that spends resources on something you think is a fraud, is also "bad"

The only difference is that it has managed to convince you that man-made global warming is real, just like it did me for a long time.
by olalonde | 2025-09-11 18:28:58+00:00
You've missed the parent's point. Society routinely accepts some level of risk, even when it leads to deaths, in exchange for other values. For example, dogs kill about 43 people annually in the U.S., yet we still allow them as pets. Electricity causes over 1,000 deaths a year, yet we don’t ban it. Kirk's position was simply that gun deaths are an acceptable price for the right to own guns - a fairly mainstream view in the US.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-11 18:29:02+00:00
It was impossible because one side of the national debate got tired of talking and started shooting, sadly.

Once that happened, it really wasn't up to Congress or the President any longer. The capture of Fort Sumter and declaration of succession moved the conversation from "How much slavery can America tolerate" to "this insurgent government has stolen half of the country's territory." The response to that threat was as self-evident as it would have been if that territory had been taken by another existing nation.
by whamlastxmas | 2025-09-11 18:29:19+00:00
Happiness is not a single metric you can use to determine what is best. The most rewarding lives are ones where you can sacrifice for something meaningful to you. Sacrificing to have a rewarding, independent life without children may not be the easiest life, but it’s definitely not an any way inferior to a “happier” one raising kids. Because of this, that statistic, even if accurate, doesn’t matter. And doesn’t suggest that anyone should go raise a family.
by NetMageSCW | 2025-09-11 18:29:34+00:00
Apple is like CBS in that regard - shows with viewers that other networks would kill for get canceled at CBS because they expect more. Apple doesn’t get as much ROI on phones that sell in the low ten millions or low single digit percentage of the market. But I do think they could put those phones on a slow refresh cycle and teach e.g. Mini or Plus users to wait for the next release and stack that market together over a few years to be worthwhile to them.
by anl00000007 | 2025-09-11 18:29:53+00:00
One can question. It's a difficult reality sometimes though. Children have minds and bodies of their own. They mature at different rates.

Outside of taking care of a child's physiological needs, their parents are providing a small proportion of the inputs which go into a child's system of being. Peers, teachers, elder family, media, the economic system [and it's insatiable desire for consumers and tools to leverage the consumers], all conspire to forward agenda that often don't align with and support being a good citizen.
by rottyyyyyy | 2025-09-11 18:30:03+00:00
Hi, I’m the author of the book and arriving (a bit late) to clarify a few things.

Although I discuss esolang history in the Spectrum piece (something I get deeper into on my blog, https://esoteric.codes), the book is a monograph of my esolangs specifically: Folders, Entropy, Olympus and more; some are collected at https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs. It’s meant to make esolangs approachable, focusing on concept rather than technical aspects of the languages. I wrote it to encourage people to experiment with esolangs and to show the community-based nature of the work: the delightful conversation that happens when another programmer takes your language in a direction you would never have conceived of.

The languages range from fully implemented works to pieces that are not implementable (e.g. Past Tense is a language whose programs are not runnable by definition and would cease to be programs if they were https://github.com/rottytooth/PastTense). There’s one where even articulating a program into words or symbols invalidates it: only unreified thought is valid.

The languages are presented first as prompts. In the second half, I present details on those that are implemented, showing the sometimes surprising results of carrying out the initial idea. I hope it will expand the conversation around esoteric languages as an art form.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-11 18:30:07+00:00
This. I always dreamed of a Debian / Ubuntu Distro where you could fully separate the "SYSTEM ENV" from the Userland ENV with userland referring to system ENV and then if userland ENV has a different, USerland takes presedence when its the user running the command, vs if its some automated service. I do not know if there's something like this for Linux outside of maybe containers? I guess that comes sorta close.
by asadotzler | 2025-09-11 18:30:57+00:00
If you attached 2 iPhone Airs, you'd have a chonky foldable at 11.2mm getting into territory where people complained with the previous Samsung.

Samsung's current, Fold 7, is 8.9mm closed. Turns out you can actually go thinner than a thin slab like Samsung Edge (5.8mm) or iPhone Air (5.6mm) because you can move components out of one side and put them in the other, including battery. This lets Samsung build a foldable that's 4.2mm when open, meaningfully slimmer than either the Edge or Air.

My guess is Apple's book-style foldable will be ~4mm open and ~8.5mm closed and just edges out Samsung's Fold 8 when they ship next year.
by benwilber1 | 2025-09-11 18:30:59+00:00
I think the nginx-sys Rust bindings are still pretty new and raw. I've experimented with them before and have given up because of the lack of a polished, safe, Rust API.

Right now you're pretty much stuck casting pointers to and from C land if you want to write a native nginx module in Rust. I'm sure it will get better in the future.
by lawlessone | 2025-09-11 18:31:10+00:00
>you've all been inculcated with the notion of "rebel chic" by your professors and you have internalized it

Ok... i don't recall because it was some time ago but i guess we were very liberal with memory management when i studied...

I'm not sure what you think college is but what's in your head doesn't match reality, it matches TV shows.
by ninkendo | 2025-09-11 18:31:13+00:00
Looks like the only unsafe parts are the parts which interop with the rest of the nginx codebase (marshalling pointers, calling various functions in nginx_sys, etc.) Rust cannot guarantee this external C stuff adheres to the necessary invariants, hence it must be marked unsafe.

I don't see a way to integrate rust as a plugin into a C codebase without some level of unsafe usage like this.
by bluGill | 2025-09-11 18:31:13+00:00
If your eyes are young and you only use the phone alone. If you are older you need reading glasses for small screens. If you are showing a video to someone else you need a larger screen to see detail.

of course not knowing you or your uses I can't say if any of this should matter to you. Still it seems like a nice idia not a fad. Only time will tell if people really want it once the fad is over.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-11 18:31:25+00:00
> As do I, I'm ashamed of my screen time reports. I feel weak.

While not everyone agrees with all the precepts/concepts, may be worth noting the first step:

> 1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program

One of the reasons 'God' ("as we understood Him") is invoked because you are admitting that you do not have it with-in you to control things (anymore) and that you need 'something' external to help you clamp down on your behaviour.
by aoki | 2025-09-11 18:31:28+00:00
Can’t speak for the Norwegians but that is not how at-sea watchstanding works in, e.g., the US Navy. The OOD is the captain’s delegate in operating the ship. In peacetime steaming, there may not be another khaki (officer or chief petty officer) on watch who is qualified to stand OOD - the JOOD/JOOW is typically a trainee, and the CIC watch officer is often a non-OOD-qualified junior officer or chief petty officer. They can and should all provide support to the OOD but usually nobody is available to babysit or step in. All of the babysitting should have happened before the OOD ever got their OOD qual.

Which btw tells you what has gone wrong in many of these situations: the OOD was given a qualification they were not ready for, because not having enough OODs means the actually-qualified OODs will be standing port/starboard watch and be exhausted all the time. COs and XOs give the weak OODs quiet steaming watches they think will be easy, but a shipping channel can get busy earlier than expected and everything can go to shit really quickly.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-11 18:31:31+00:00
> you mass produce one robot model that can do all of them.

This just occurred to me: do standard industry robotic arms not fit that description perfectly? They're not specialized for any particular task, the only customizable parameters are the size and the end effector.

They can move around car bodies or seats, or pick up an airbrush. They can probably be installed with a five-fingered hand, or onto a giant human torso, should such tools somehow made sense for some applications. They feel like the generalist robot that meets most of the expectations for the hypothetical factory humanoids, sans being a humanoid. I mean, I get it, but aren't those existing bots just what "the vision" calls for?
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 18:32:41+00:00
You linked a single twelve minute clip. Charlie Kirk’s performances were routinely hours-long. The only videos in that channel that are close to the length of his actual performances have titles like Versus The Wokies and Crushes Woke Lies.

They’re both pretty long, and I’m not going to spend four hours watching Charlie Kirk performances, so if you could tell me which is a better example of his legitimate debate style I would appreciate that.

Which is a better example of reasoned discussion: Crushes Woke Lies or Versus The Wokies?
by ge96 | 2025-09-11 18:33:07+00:00
Idk if I'm a luddite or what

I actually like writing code, it does get tedious I get that when you're making yet another component. I don't feel joy when you just will a bunch of code into existence with words. It's like actively participating in development when typing. Which yeah people use libraries/frameworks/boilerplate.

My dream is to not be employed in software and do it for fun (or work on something I actually care about)

Even if I wrote some piece of crap, it is my piece of crap
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-11 18:33:50+00:00
Tesla went into humanoid robots because they noticed what kind of thing was their AI architecture developing into.

They realized just how much of what an autonomous vehicle needs to do to navigate real world roads is similar to what an advanced robot would need to do to operate in real world environments. If they could get anywhere close to solving FSD, it would be an "in" on advanced robotics too.

The triumph of LLMs then made it glaringly obvious that the kind of advanced decision-making that you would need to power truly universal robots is no longer in the realm of science fiction, so a lot more companies followed.
by Thiez | 2025-09-11 18:33:53+00:00
If you google the Haavara agreement and their little celebratory coin (star of David on one side, swastika on the other) you'll find that the literal nazi government supported Jewish migration to Palestine. Of course Israel technically didn't exist back then.

There are also plenty of evangelicals who want Israel to exist so that biblical prophecies are fulfilled and Jesus returns and takes them all to heaven. Of course non-Christians (like for instance the Jews) will all die and burn in hell for all eternity in this scenario.

So I challenge your point. I think antisemites are as likely to support Israel as they are to oppose it.