MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leo_researchly | 2025-09-17 15:22:08+00:00
There’s a lot of talk about how AI will replace content creators. I doubt that.

To improve our lowest ranking blog post (<100 impressions; some AI-written, some hybrid, some completely manual) I have built an N8N-workflow which checks SEO-density, internal linking and On Page-issues. I took me 16 full hours to build a basic workflow. As you can see in blog post, the workflow is quite complex and still only scratches the surface. And: this workflow only serves to get recommendations on how to improve blog posts. Rewriting them is a whole new category.

Based on that, I do not see how "ChatGPT will replace content creators".

In the blog post I also share the N8N workflow and a detailed dive into caveats.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-09-17 15:22:14+00:00
Good to know! To be clear, when I said “only some would be tech bro wannabes”, I was commenting on the general pattern and not the specific incident or people. I didn’t mean that assertion to imply anything about any of the particular individuals or companies involved in this story.

In other words, I meant “only some of the people in the industry who react to situations like this the way Jonathan’s peers seem to have according to his blog post would be tech bro wannabes”. That may very well not be true for anyone at Blue Systems / Techpaladin, and indeed my point was that it would be true for “only some” such people in the industry in general and definitely not true for all of them.

The only reason I even addressed the possibility of the “techbro” mindset at all is because it was mentioned by the person I was replying to; it wouldn’t have otherwise been something I would have thought to mention in this context.

I do have quite a high general opinion of the ethics of KDE hackers as well as the technical side of Valve. (I have no strong opinion either positive or negative on the business side of Valve, though I do appreciate their kindness in sharing Steam keys for their products with Debian developers back when they were basing SteamOS on Debian as well as allowing Debian to distribute Steam in its non-free section.)
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-17 15:22:23+00:00
> Having a difference of opinion on a very complicated geopolitical situation that is the culmination of a century of regional conflict is not being a "hateful bigot" or abuse.

i think it's worth stating simply and unequivocally that denying or defending a genocide that is the culmination of a century of colonialism and apartheid is Bad
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-17 15:22:57+00:00
Problem 1 happens, say, 10% of the time when using a C struct.

Problem 2 happens only when doing SLAB allocations - say, 1% of the time when using a C++ class. (Might be more or less, depending on what problem space you're in.)

Problem 3 happens only if you are also declaring your allocated stuff const - say, maybe 20% of the time?

So, while not perfect, each solution solves most of the problem for most of the people. Complaining about std::launder is complaining that solution 2 wasn't perfect; it's not in any way an argument that solution 1 wasn't massively better than problem 1.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-17 15:23:04+00:00
> Oh, that one is easy to understand. They want to change the sentiment to "adblockers are bad, it's basically stealing"

Ah yes, the good old "don't copy that floppy" argument.

The advertising industry brought this upon themselves. The web is straight up unusable without an ad blocker. Between malicious ads, drive-by-downloads, content shifting, and other dark patterns, websites are now more ads than content.

It's like in the days of streaming (when it was still good and not enshitified) reducing piracy rates - companies can get me to disable my ad blocker if they start becoming good citizens actually make their site or service usable without it.

Get rid of the invasive tracking, dark patterns, un-dismissable modals, etc. Stop jamming your content so full of ads and SEO spam and maybe I wouldn't need an ad blocker as much.
by jm4 | 2025-09-17 15:23:19+00:00
Anybody who was anybody back then was an active participant in PRISM. There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to that. There are businesses that get to keep doing business by doing what the government tells them to do, there are ones that shut down (Lavabit), and there are ones that don't have enough going on to be on the radar for a project like PRISM.
by mindcrash | 2025-09-17 15:23:22+00:00
It's basically Arch and a fully customized ready to go Hyprland setup (which is a fully customizable/programmable DE running on top of Wayland).

I would recommend just installing Arch, Hyprland and customize what you need yourselves so you aren't stuck using DHHs preferences.

Bonus: Along the way you will also figure out how he did it, like creating your very own application launcher with some scripting and https://github.com/abenz1267/walker

(I am in the process of exactly doing that)
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-17 15:23:24+00:00
Seeddream works with a fixed patch size in transformer rope and vae. While it has impressive prompt and image understanding the generated images are full of small patches of high frequency artifacts. The real kicker with nano banana is that the model works in pixel space without degrading input images besides the resolution constraints. None of these hype blog goes into the technicalities that really matter for production or "replacing Photoshop" it's just novelty here, novelty there. Now ignore the shortcomings and look at Darth Vader in a pink tutu.
by artrockalter | 2025-09-17 15:23:36+00:00
> It’s the same reason why most of the people who pass your leetcode tests don’t actually know how to build anything real. They are taught to the test not taught to reality.

True, and "Agentic Workflows" are now playing the same role as "Agile" in that both take the idea that if you have many people/LLMs that can solve toy problems but not real ones then you can still succeed by breaking down the real problems into toy problems and assigning them out.
by runarberg | 2025-09-17 15:23:50+00:00
The claim (or rather the joke) isn’t that Uber was operating in unregulated free market capitalism, but that Uber is unregulated free market capitalism. A more accurate (and a non-joke) way to describe this is to observe that Uber’s only innovation was to find a way to operate in an unregulated marked while all their competitors remained regulated.
by Closi | 2025-09-17 15:24:52+00:00
> maybe they are at around $200k/vehicle? That would be pretty easy to pay for a with a few months of rides.

The 'few months' bit doesn't seem quite right - the cost to get a human to drive a car would maybe be $50k per year, so i'm not sure how a $200k vehicle can pay itself off in a few months vs a $50k car + $50k per year driver.

I'm aware that the cost / ride is higher for Waymo, but it doesn't sound like that would be enough to cover the extra $200k and not certain that scales to other geographies outside of SF.

I mean to pay off a $200k vehicle in a few months you would need each car to be clearing $3k a day in revenue or something like that.

It's probably a few years per car if they are at $200k. If they are 'in the black' or not will probably depend more about their accounting rules (i.e. depreciation) more than anything else.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-09-17 15:25:03+00:00
I don’t think it is crazy and I have suggested beforehand there needs to be some sort of proof of work on the candidate side to prevent resume spam.

I think your idea is very elegant as everyone has access to the mail system, an actual stamp is pretty cheap, but it is just enough hassle to mail an application that it will filter out some of the spam.

The other suggestion I have had is that candidates need to hand in the resume in person, but I guess you could accept resumes from both mail and in person drop offs.
by dathinab | 2025-09-17 15:25:06+00:00
> It seems pretty bad to need to print your own grill when Noctua collaborated on the project.

not really, like if that would be seen as bad in general then the only solution would be to keep it a secret that they "collaborated" on it

like giving you employees a bit of time to work on product related passion projects, which might even cross company boundaries and can be used in a PR context is one thing. And a good example for it is software companies reserving some time of employees to work on OSS (in a context where OSS contributions go beyond what the company needs). It boost employee moral, is positive PR, let people learn/train their skills etc.

but going from there to a product they sell is a HUGE step, like far larger then it seems

like the cost between the tinkerer project from the article and turning it into a product is more like a x-times multipler then some two digit % increase.

a good example is a previous collaboration where for a 3d printed casing for the framework 13 motherboard, where due to high demand they then decided to produce it

but for production lines you now need to meet higher quality standard and 3d printing often isn't an option, so no it needs 2 molds and in addition the screw now need to have proper stable/metal thingies you screw them into in-layed into the mold. And you need to have QA, production line inspections etc. Idk. if they made money or a loss or neutral on it but at least from a QA perspective they got burned as many of the casings had quality issues where you needed to fix them with a sharp knife or they wouldn't close properly

now companies have 3 choices

- not allow such passion projects, which sucks for everyone

- allows them, but keep them secret, which still sucks for most

- rebrand it as "some vision prototype", "experimental change to the form factor" or similar (which is what many other tech companies do), now most people are happy except the tinkerers which could just print it, let it be printed with a 3d printing service

- allow them, show them, and make most people happy except the small amount of people which really want it, aren't fine with any tinkering and blame the company for showing something nice which might not make sense to sell as a product

and in that context I really prefer it the way Framework and Noctua tend to do it
by kbolino | 2025-09-17 15:25:36+00:00
IMO <em> is a terrible example.

For ca. ten years, the advice was to pointlessly "replace <i> with <em> and <b> with <strong>" and it utterly screwed over most new web developers' understanding of semantic tags. There are many reasons to use italics (and they vary between languages) but "emphasis" is just one of them, and none of the others ever materialized as tags.

It would have been far better to have recommended <i class="emphasis"> and <i class="media-title"> and <i class="snarky-aside"> etc. than to have added the <em> tag and said "just use it instead of <i>".
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-17 15:26:19+00:00
I too have noticed a lot more slop in my feed the last several months, and generally have to explicitly check my subscriptions to be sure I don't miss videos.

And I'm quite deliberate with avoiding ragebait and slop, and I remove stuff from my watch history if I get duped etc.

That said, I have noticed a trend amongst the creators I've subscribed to that the average video length has gone up. This has been a longer term trend, but many who used to do 30-40 min videos now often to 1-1.5 hr videos.

I've heard YouTube punishes people quitting a video midway, so perhaps there's something going on there too. At least for myself I often have to watch these videos over multiple sessions, and chances are there that I just forget and move on.

So perhaps some compounding factors making things worse.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-17 15:26:26+00:00
Waymo can hit break even even with the relatively expensive Jaguar SUVs and Driver 6 hardware suite. As someone else pointed out, Google is making more money than most people realize on a per unit basis. My back of the envelope estimate is at least $2000 per vehicle per week. That easily covers financing the capex with thousands left over for opex and overhead.

Just switching to the Hyundai SUVs takes tens of thousands of dollars out of capex.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-17 15:26:45+00:00
Over fitting isn't evidence of non-reasoning, but that aside, what's interesting is that ChatGPT (free) trips on this, as did older models. But GPT-5 thinking, Opus 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro all pointed out that there is no trick and it's likely the man just views it as a conflict of interest to interview his son.

It's hard to say whether this has been trained out (it's an old example) or if it's just another hurdle that general model progression has overcome.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-17 15:26:54+00:00
I think your parent may be slightly confused, in the sense of terminology: "owning reference" is a contradiction in Rust terms.

Here's the document I believe your parent is referring to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSt2VB1zQAJ6JDMa...

The claim in the article:

> Yes, C++ can be made safer; in fact, it can even be made memory safe.

The claim from this document:

> We attempted to represent ownership and borrowing through the C++ type system, however the language does not lend itself to this. Thus memory safety in C++ would need to be achieved through runtime checks.

It doesn't use "owning reference" anywhere.
by k310 | 2025-09-17 15:26:55+00:00
Wouldn't that depend on who programs/configures/"tweaks" the AI?

Haven't we seen crazy results, and after tweaking, "bespoke" (as in "This is what I would say") results.

It's software .... you know the rest.

Asking sincerely.

And what happens when you remove human weaknesses, such as love of Smoot-Hawley and days gone by, gunboat diplomacy (literally), greed, etc?

If it reduces creativity, etc, won't we have to argue with it (Landru)[0] to moderate its power or self-destruct?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons
by mikepurvis | 2025-09-17 15:27:02+00:00
Alan Weisman's lovely book World Without Us speculates a bit about this, basically saying that more recently built structures would be the first to collapse because they've all be engineered so close to the line. Meanwhile stuff that already been standing for 100+ years like the Brooklyn Bridge will probably still be there in another 100 years even without any maintenance just on account of how overbuilt it all had to be in an era before finite element analysis.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-17 15:27:22+00:00
> but it's a run-time check

And that's the problem. In other languages that have a Maybe type, it's a compile time check. If your code is not handling the "empty" case, it will simply fail to compile.

I honestly don't see any value in std::optional compared to the behavior pre-std::optional. What does it bring to the table for pointers, for example?
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-17 15:27:39+00:00
My recommendations are generally aligned with my interests as derived from my view history, likes, and subscriptions. But more and more of it is AI-generated or videos copied from the original creator and reposted by someone else. I try to use "don't show me videos fron this channel" on those but more and more just appears. I think there must be bots creating new channels and copying/generating content faster than I can block them.

And please, let me opt out of Shorts permanently. I keep telling them I don't want shorts but they always come back. I pay for a Premium account, so they should resepect my wishes on this.
by tene80i | 2025-09-17 15:27:40+00:00
Very interesting idea. I like the approach of using AI to flesh out a persona.

I am skeptical of the accuracy of a detailed AI-generated response, but as a broad guide to what a type of user I don't know well might be thinking, this is clever.

It's useful beyond B2B, but you'd want to pitch it in terms of generating living personas rather than focusing on linkedin profiles.

From a product / CRO background more than marketing, I'd be thinking of it in terms of identifying any issues different types of users might find with a page.

It's a clever idea. I think maybe it's so novel it would be easy to miss the value. Consider making the landing copy more concretely value-related. "Drive business growth" is very broad. "Drive more inquiries" or whatever makes sense in your area.
by anagogistis | 2025-09-17 15:27:47+00:00
Hi, I'm the author of the blog post and just wanted to say thanks for the discussion.

I agree that relying solely on desktop VPN clients (especially closed-source ones) is risky... The network namespaces approach is new to me, but it looks like a solid way to isolate traffic and avoid these kinds of leaks entirely. Thanks for the suggestions.
by maxdo | 2025-09-17 15:27:50+00:00
It's already done - they have unmatched engineering capabilities.

Whatever resources you are thinking they are much better.

- math and engineers- soft/hard. they are #1 in the world, and their education system is ready to produce in 2-3 years even more in any domain.

- electricity for ai, they are producing nuclear plants and solar like candies.

- semiconductor industry - NVIDIA + TSMC is really the last frontier. They are leaders everywhere else.

The US is run by lawyers, China is run by engineers.

Unfortunately for the software/AI industry, this likely means the same outcome as every other industry China has dominated: displacement.

If you work in software and you're complaining about your situation now... this is just the beginning. China will capture major market share, and AI will transform what remains.

The US can't even ban TikTok, let alone address the broader presence of Chinese cameras, drones, and other devices packed with AI and software. Meanwhile, the EU is eager to buy Chinese cars loaded with everything from software to chips and hardware.

you all can see a capitulation messages from western media:

US made phone will cost 30% more or 60% whatever. Basically refusing any attempt to protect the market and invest into engineering power etc.

Just to remind you how china got here. They place crazy restictions, they ban google, car manufactures, etc. and stimlate stimulate invest for decades.

Now this strategy pays off, and we will be with no jobs.
by palmotea | 2025-09-17 15:28:15+00:00
> different cultures (like Chinese or Indian or Latino) aren’t compatible with a Christian society and its norms or whatever.

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which thing is not like the others by the time I finish my song?

I don't know if the error is yours or theirs, but Latinos are by and large Christian.
by evgen | 2025-09-17 15:28:26+00:00
> Uber and Lyft are sitting pretty for the moment.

The two completely replaceable components of this project are 'sitting pretty'? They should be scared to death because this is in fact the death knell for both companies. If the market decides that they are going to be nothing more than 'fleet management' companies for waymo then their share price will crater.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-17 15:28:28+00:00
"Well, the old vga= option that you are used to doesn't work when you booted from UEFI or on non-x86 platforms."

This is one reason I appreciate older computers; I prefer VGA textmode

But, for today's computers, kmscon and libtsm, and frecon from a trillion-dollar advertising services company, are interesting.^1 For example, being able to zoom in and out using keyboard shortcuts is useful

When I used computers with only VGA textmode running NetBSD, I always wished for a console that could possibly display images, like a Linux framebuffer, perhaps; vesafb on NetBSD was still a WIP. I was tired of switching back and forth from textmode to X11. Eventually I gave up on X11 and began using separate computers on same local network but with not gateway to the internet in order to view graphics

As a Linux user today, it's funny to read the complaints about framebuffers

I am not "either/or" when it comes to BSD v Linux. I use both. Each has its merits. But I think NetBSD may be the nicest OS for people who prefer the console. At least it is for me

Making it easy for mortals to run the OS on older computers^2 is important

1.

https://github.com/dvdhrm/kmscon/raw/master/src/kmscon_conf....

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/frecon...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/frecon...

2.

For example, computers that are unsuitable for delivering today's internet ads
by dkobia | 2025-09-17 15:28:36+00:00
What a time to be alive. 3 companies competing for what might be the next trillion dollar business.

- Waymo has the advantage of launching sooner but has much more expensive vehicles which will eat into margins.

- Tesla has the advantage of full vertical integration owns their hardware and cheaper cars but also trying to do this with vision only.

- Zoox has the advantage of building purpose-built autonomous vehicles from the ground up with Amazon's deep pockets behind them, but faces the challenge of manufacturing at scale for a novel vehicle.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-17 15:29:06+00:00
It is also important to note that this is not specific to Zed. As someone else have mentioned, it is a cultural problem. I picked Zed as an example because that is what I compiled the last time, but it is definitely not limited to Zed. There are many Rust projects that pull in over 1000 dependencies and they do much less than Zed.
by integrii | 2025-09-17 15:29:19+00:00
I used Codex mostly, but my CLI Codex would run out of quota after an hour or so because I only have the OpenAI Plus plan.

That said, when I used the agentic version on the website, the quota currently seems to be infinite. I could get 10+ agents running and work for hours without a mention of quota limits. I'm guessing this is a temporary business maneuver to help Codex catch up on market share.

That said, the online version was pretty good. I found myself building out code and docs from my phone sometimes.
by lillecarl | 2025-09-17 15:30:16+00:00
I assumed the parent was referring to "GDP growth" which doesn't matter when inflation eats it all and new coins go to megacorps rather than back into society, European standards of living has been consistently improving, especially for the poorer nations.

I can't defend Germany for refusing nuclear in favor of Russian gas, but at the time it seemed to some like a good idea to strengthen relationships through trade and encourage democratization.

It's a damn shame that we're buying Russian gas, it's hilarious that I keep hearing about this from Americans but not Ukrainians.
by delichon | 2025-09-17 15:31:05+00:00
It's just me, so I only need one running at a time. Every day I take one serving out and put another one in. I clean the tank about once per week, or if something breaks. My favorite is short ribs, my daily drivers are chuck roast or shank. The prices have skyrocketed in the last few years. I buy in bulk on sale and portion it into bags with a chamber style vacuum sealer. It goes straight from the freezer into the tank.
by marklubi | 2025-09-17 15:31:36+00:00
> It's not gonna pass any legal scrutiny

Probably going to cost a lot to get to that point, probably more than they will scam you for. They're after the quick hit that gets them something right away while also believing that you won't take it that far.

It's like knowing how to pick a lock vs just throwing a rock through the window that's next to the door to gain access. They both get you there.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-17 15:31:59+00:00
Not quite. He is a better developer than most who happen to minimize dependencies, but according to my experiences it is not as common as you would like to believe. Do I really need to make a list of all the Rust projects I have compiled that pulled in over 1000 dependencies? If I need to do it to convince you, I will do so, as my time allows.