MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by laserlight | 2025-09-29 20:40:14+00:00
That's a gross misrepresentation of reality. It gives the false impression that gold prices always increase, which is not the case. Gold is a volatile asset, i.e., it's a relatively risky investment.

It took 8 years for gold to recover from circa 2012 drop. 8 years is twice as long as S&P 500 took to recover from 2008 financial crisis. More importantly, see the 1980 high. It took 26 years to get back to the same point. Anyone considering investment should adjust their expectations accordingly.
by Kaibeezy | 2025-09-29 20:40:29+00:00
Here is the underlying paper:

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion

B. Stokes, T. Keitt, Ecology and Evolution, 10 Sep 2025

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72148
by omgJustTest | 2025-09-29 20:40:31+00:00
It is valid to say they do not have the majority of trade-secrets in the schematics.

However having high quality documentation that is easily accessible is always the first step, and if there are information there that are important it is _much_ more likely it will be known.

It is not "a much less of a deal" as you say, it is a pretty big deal for a global product that billions of people touch.
by elAhmo | 2025-09-29 20:41:12+00:00
Don't be so grim! This will just give you access to not worry about writing clean code as much as you did in the past - you can focus on other parts of the development lifecycle.

The skill of writing good quality code is still going to be beneficial, maybe less emphasized on writing side, but critical of shipping good code, even when someone (something) else wrote it.
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-29 20:41:17+00:00
> That's not detecting "announcers", but maybe more like detecting "indexers".

I think you’re correct, as the secondary freebooting indexers are adding their tracker(s) after the fact of the private torrent’s creation/origination to the original prefilled list of trackers, and inserting their tracker(s) to the reuploaded, usually public, torrent, and sometimes even removing the original private trackers so as to not phone home and tell on themselves.

I’m happy to be corrected, but private trackers typically bind the downloading IP of the torrent to the announcing tracker to validate legitimate clients. Private trackers don’t consider any extra trackers (announcers in this context) as valid or authorized. I have heard that modded BitTorrent clients can intentionally misreport upload stats to fudge the numbers for gaming your quota, as many private trackers/torrent sites enforce a positive >1.0 or higher minimum ratio.

I’ve heard of ways that folks with legitimate access to the private torrent tracker and torrents clone the IPs of other clients and then use a secondary torrent client to request blocks, bypassing the tracker entirely and not reporting any downloads (or uploads, for that matter), so the quota of the first legit client is not affected positively or negatively.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-09-29 20:41:24+00:00
The thing is.. chatgpt can be genuinely useful. I did purposefully use it to get some some product comparisons and whatnot. It could be genuinely good if it is handled well and not devolve into constant buy blast ( like with emails and just about any other medium ).

Still, there is a reason I am frantically working on working on a more local setup that I can trust not to:

a) oversell me stuff b) is under my control c) not profile me ( in a way that can be sold to other merchants )

The issue seems to be the same as always. I am either a minority or the money pull is way too strong.
by ntonozzi | 2025-09-29 20:42:05+00:00
I really like the extension pattern. I wish more of the tables at my company used it.

Another huge benefit that we're realizing as we move some of our heaviest tables to this pattern is that it makes it really easy to index a core set of fields in Elasticsearch, along with a tag to associate it with a particular domain model. This has drastically cut down on our search-specific denormlization and let us avoid expensive index schema updates.
by vladimirralev | 2025-09-29 20:42:22+00:00
It's a little bit broader than this. In the Fed there is the so called "statutory price for gold" and it's not limited to gold certificates. Any gold in the Fed would be priced at $42 by law. The fact that they don't technically own any gold and work around the issue only makes it so much more amusing. It only serves to tell people they can fix prices and make outrageous course-correction changes overnight and people will still argue "it's fine and it's legal" afterwards.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/intlsumm/current.htm
by dylan604 | 2025-09-29 20:42:43+00:00
reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-29 20:43:13+00:00
I'm a CS professor and this is not really what we are seeing. I'm not at Berkeley but it's an R1. Yes, students on the lower end of the GPA scale are having a harder time finding jobs. But in terms of my program's ability to place students after graduating, the vast majority have been placed.

It's important to also note that some who have not found a place did so because the thought they could find a better salary by holding out for longer. So yes, probably average post-grad offer is going down, that's true. But it's definitely not true to say "everybody is struggling to get jobs"
by McAlpine5892 | 2025-09-29 20:44:13+00:00
> I think I’m past being curious about the kind of person that makes claims like it’s dangerous for a person with right-leaning political alignment to walk through Portland

Please, please continue to be curious. I feel you. Every day I find myself throwing in the towel on "those people". I use "us vs. them" language far more than I should. My instincts say to give up.

It's a fight that maybe I'm losing, but if we stop trying to understand then the remaining options on the table are considerably worse.

Just look at Daryl Davis'[0] success in convincing Klansmen to denounce the KKK. The man is an absolute hero and had major cojones for what he did. I truly can't fathom the guts it took for him to do that. I'm white and it would scare me.

Few people are beyond being reached. MAGA is fueled by fear (and anger). We need to dismantle the fear and redirect the anger. Fear leads to brain-rot. Anger can sometimes be justified and a powerful ally when pointed in the right direction. I have no implementation ideas that are worth discussing though.

That being said. Despite the above ramblings, I have given up on some people. And it feels bad. Disconnecting from each other can only escalate further.

All to say, I feel you and I feel your position. But please do your best to not throw in the towel, even though it is so appealing in our current climate.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
by reify | 2025-09-29 20:44:37+00:00
I have this argument all the time with the right wing facists, skin heads and general racist classes here in the UK.

They truly really believe that they are pure bloods. I do find it quite amazing how, even the most undernourished minds can take on this absurd fantasy.

I personally think that we are all related to the Mongols, Genghis Khan's mob. Who's hoards went raping and pillaging across europe. Spreading their seed all the way to southern Spain..

We British have been invaded by every one and his dog for hundreds of years. From the Romans (Italians) to the Anglo-Saxons (Germans) to the normans (French) and those pesky Vikings (Scandinavians). It is enevitable that we all have some of their genes.

I am your typical British resident. Born in london, So I could claim to be a pure blood racist skin head clan member. Luckily I am not, my grand parents shared their generational history.

I am in fact, part German, part Scottish, part Welsh and my children now have Dutch blood from their mother.

The same in the USA, we British were the first foreign invaders on North Amercian soil and we are your blood, there is no pure bloods in the USA. You are all British.

Just because you are born in a country does not make you A PURE BLOOD.

you are not fucking vampires

This is definitely linked to the more recent craze of naming dogs. In my day they were all called mongrels if the they had different parents.

Now its all cockapoo, Cavapoo, Labradoodle, shitguzzler and arsewiper

Like the modern racist pure bloods they are simply mongrels
by dzink | 2025-09-29 20:44:50+00:00
Reading only the title, I thought this was going to be about how little startups can only grow if the are solving some real friction for users, instead of something that can be solved by a user with just a couple of extra queries to ChatGPT. If remembering your company’s niche when it’s needed and finding the credentials to log in is more effort than solving the problem with newer LLM’s, the growth may not be exponential. But then the content turned to be about personal growth.
by renshijian | 2025-09-29 20:45:09+00:00
This website for learning Go is amazing! It's like a gentle old man is teaching you: "Look, they will be out of breath when they put the pieces like this - as if they were gently lifted away." After clicking the mouse a few times, you can actually understand the breathing and life and death in the thousand-year chess game. It turns out that learning Go can be as natural as playing games
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-09-29 20:45:14+00:00
> Readability is a non-concept really. Maxwell's famous equations are readable to some and absolutely impenetrable to the rest of us.

When we talk about a language's readability we're typically talking about 'accidental complexity', to use Brooks' term, [0] and not the 'essential complexity' of the problem being solved. For a hairy enough algorithm, even pseudocode can be difficult to understand.

Readability applies in mathematics too, as a bad notation may make formulae unnecessarily difficult to comprehend.

> So when someone says "code should be readable", to whom exactly?

I'll have a go: to another competent engineer familiar with the general problem domain but not familiar with your specific work. This includes yourself in 2 years time.

This seems rather like the question of readability for scientific writing. Research papers should be readable to other researchers in the field, but they aren't generally expected to be readable to a general audience.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet#Summary
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-29 20:45:36+00:00
Airbnb and Uber are shit in 2025. They're basically no better than what they were trying to replace. "The arc" you describe is people saying that these products aren't a magical solution that prints money and being proven right as the products are worn down to the level of the thing they were trying to disrupt by market forces.

Uber, in particular, drives me nuts because we replaced a supposedly powerful and evil taxi cartel (which happened to be a bunch of small, regional businesses) with a huge multinational corporation. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
by monkmartinez | 2025-09-29 20:45:41+00:00
I have read that thunderbolt and oculink are very different in this regard. Whereas thunderbolt devices can be plugged in at anytime, the oculink needs to be plugged at boot time. This seemingly innocuous detail is the catalyst as to the reason why oculink is better performing. It comes down to PCIe vs Thunderbolt in general.
by coffeemug | 2025-09-29 20:46:16+00:00
IMO this view puts the cart before the horse. Suppose ChatGPT builds a UI that consumers prefer over web browsing to purchase products. How should merchants plug into that UI? This protocol is an easy way for merchants to do that. And once merchants are plugged in, consumers still need to be able to pay, and merchants need to get paid. Stripe makes that easy.

Consumers will only use the UI if it's better. Merchants will plug into the UI to make more money. So everyone wins-- consumers, merchants, OpenAI, and Stripe. And since the protocol is open, other chatbots and other payment processors can implement it too. Who loses?

(I agree that at scale these things tend to accrue to top players and you get all kinds of weird unsavory consequences. But I'd argue that's a critique of our regulatory apparatus, not of the companies building products and services.)
by kragen | 2025-09-29 20:46:51+00:00
You ask, very reasonably, "I don't know what you mean. As far as I'm aware there is no downvoting on submissions." I mean this:

> If a user has 31 Karma, they can flag submissions. Although submissions cannot be downvoted, flags act as a "super" downvote and enough flags will strongly reduce the rank of the submission, or kill it entirely (flagging is supposed to be used for submissions which break the site guidelines, but that isn't always the case in practice). A submission that's flagged to death will have a [flagged] tag.

So I mean it hasn't been tagged with "flagged", but it has been removed rather quickly from the front page.

I agree that any hypothetical liability judgments against ICE are unlikely to have a major impact on the pressure to inflate the dollar. And I agree that other currencies are also fairly weak.
by wongarsu | 2025-09-29 20:48:06+00:00
bitmagnet only has the info you get by looking up the infohash in the dht, which is basically the same info that's stored in a .torrent file: a name, a list of files with offsets and paths, and a bunch of block hashes. That's not a lot to go on, and e.g. doesn't tell you if the zip is encrypted

I guess you could filter all torrents that include just zips/rars/7zips. That would exclude a lot of harmless content. Probably too much harmless content to make it a default, but if you only care about hollywood releases it would be a useful filter

If there was a public list of hashes of (8/18KiB blocks of) CSAM content that would be useful for a filter, but I don't think such a thing exists
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-29 20:48:43+00:00
The issue with the PC tablet form factor, in my opinion, is that it's extremely limiting so long as you're trying to keep the device reasonably light and portable. It's also awkward at sizes larger than ~13". If I think about a tabletified form of a 16" M4 Max MBP for example, it'd be so clunky (including kickstand an all that) that I'd question the usefulness of it being a tablet. A 13" MacPad Air would probably be the upper limit.
by mikestew | 2025-09-29 20:50:08+00:00
That’s because no one prints headlines that read “Gold has been in a trading pattern for the past six months, 15% below its ATH”, or at least that headline didn’t stick in your mind like “ATH!!!” does.

As a sibling comments outlines, gold is actually quite volatile and risky versus returns, and your returns will very much depend on when you bought it.
by somat | 2025-09-29 20:50:14+00:00
Almost no private solar installations give power during outage, for the most part they use something called a grid tied inverter. This uses the power grid to shape the waveform and costs about a tenth of what a self shaping inverter costs. the unexpected downside, no grid, no power.

I have yet to find conclusive evidence if it is possible to use a small full inverter to drive grid tied inverters, that is, have the grid off capability of a full inverter with the cheap cost of a grid tied inverter. It sounds reasonable, but I don't see anyone doing it.
by jack_h | 2025-09-29 20:50:31+00:00
> There's something that happened during ZIRP & Negative Real Interest Rate Policies that completely divorced the value of money in the real economy from the value of assets & future cash flows

I’m not sure I follow. The USD is just a medium of exchange. 100% of the dollars commands 100% of the wealth of the economy. If you increase the number of dollars but the size of the economy itself doesn’t increase then the underlying prices would go up and the value of individual dollars would go down.
by swalsh | 2025-09-29 20:50:41+00:00
As an Architect, i feel like a large part of my job is to help my team be their best, but I'm also focused on the delivery of a few key solutions. I'm used to writing tasks, and helping assign it to members on the team while occasionally picking up the odd-end piece of work myself, focusing more on architecture and helping individual members when they get stuck or when problems come up. But with the latest coding agents, i'm always thinking in the back of my head (I can get the AI to finish this task 3x quicker, and probably better quality if I just do it myself with the AI). We sit on SCRUM meetings sizing tasks, and i'm thinking "bro, you're just going to take my task description paste it into AI and be done in 1/2 hr" but we size it to a day or 2.
by th0ma5 | 2025-09-29 20:50:59+00:00
> So tell us how to safely run this stuff then.

That's the secret, cap... you can't. And it's due to in band signalling, something I've mentioned on numerous occasions. People should entertain the idea that we're going to have to reeducated people about what is and isn't possible because the AI world has been playing make believe so much they can't see the fundamental problems to which there is no solution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-band_signaling
by dgunay | 2025-09-29 20:51:32+00:00
I've found that it can be hard or expensive for the agent to do "big but simple" refactors in some cases. For example, I recently tasked one with updating all our old APIs to accept a more strongly typed user ID instead of a generic UUID type. No business logic changes, just change the type of the parameter, and in some cases be wary of misleading argument names by lazy devs copy pasting code. This ended up burning through the entire context window of GPT-5-codex and cost the most $ of anything I've ever tasked an agent with.
by m101 | 2025-09-29 20:51:36+00:00
Central bank money printing is morally bad given it's largely used to bail out either irresponsible government spending, or irresponsible private sector actors.

Central banks could reduce their balance sheets significantly more (and until recently the pace was pretty quick), but given where things are today it will undoubtedly be pretty politically unpalatable to do so (bond markets puking, making deficits even worse in the face of an inability to cut spending).
by southwindcg | 2025-09-29 20:52:25+00:00
"Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. Don't post landing pages or fundraisers."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
by kketch | 2025-09-29 20:52:32+00:00
The seems to be looking to let the agent access the source code for review. But in that case, the agent should only see the codebase and nothing else. For a code review agent, all it really needs are:

- Access to files in the repositorie(s)

- Access to the patch/diff being reviewed

- Ability to perform text/semantic search across the codebase

That doesn’t require running the agent inside a container on a system with sensitive data. Exposing an API to the agent that specifically give it access to the above data, avoiding the risk altogether.

If it's really important that the agent is able to use a shell, why not use something like codespaces and run it in there?
by HaZeust | 2025-09-29 20:52:49+00:00
No there isn't. America has 120 guns per 100 people.

The closest runner-up country, the Falkand Islands, is almost exactly half of that - at 62 guns per 100 people [1]. There's a sharp decline from there.

1 - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-owner...

That said, I've long shared the belief that despite the absurd number of guns in the USA, and how they literally outweigh the population; the average person ought to re-calibrate have more faith in humanity and respect for their access to firearms, because the stats for gun violence are not nearly as high as you'd think if they're that accessible.
by toxicdevil | 2025-09-29 20:54:43+00:00
Copied from the end of the page:

What the law does: SB 53 establishes new requirements for frontier AI developers creating stronger:

Transparency: Requires large frontier developers to publicly publish a framework on its website describing how the company has incorporated national standards, international standards, and industry-consensus best practices into its frontier AI framework.

Innovation: Establishes a new consortium within the Government Operations Agency to develop a framework for creating a public computing cluster. The consortium, called CalCompute, will advance the development and deployment of artificial intelligence that is safe, ethical, equitable, and sustainable by fostering research and innovation.

Safety: Creates a new mechanism for frontier AI companies and the public to report potential critical safety incidents to California’s Office of Emergency Services.

Accountability: Protects whistleblowers who disclose significant health and safety risks posed by frontier models, and creates a civil penalty for noncompliance, enforceable by the Attorney General’s office.

Responsiveness: Directs the California Department of Technology to annually recommend appropriate updates to the law based on multistakeholder input, technological developments, and international standards.
by sho_hn | 2025-09-29 20:55:37+00:00
It may be true that youth confers certain physical and mental benefits, but I feel it's generally under-appreciated what a massive amount of value older people can still easily bring to society around them.

I grew up as a young 20-ish programmer in a FOSS community that had multiple people in their 60s and 70s act e.g. as module maintainers and similar, and you can be productive and matter and contribute to greater things for far longer than most people seem to assume.

The bottom line is perhaps more that "finding ways to apply yourself" and doing the right things is challenging at any age.
by blub | 2025-09-29 20:57:35+00:00
It is broader since it applies to things which can be perceived visually, but does not apply to any random creative activity. The list is finite and programming is not on it.

Furthermore, taste in one area is more likely to manifest in other areas. Somebody that has good taste in fashion would likely have good taste in interior decoration or art.

> Secondly, having good taste and being able to apply it is also wildly different. I can recognize what looks good in fashion or paintings without being myself able to achieve that.

Ok, but applying it is the interesting part.

> Thirdly, there's really no such thing as a "normal human". The longer you live, assuming you're willing to actually examine your experiences, the more you'll learn that the trite expression "everyone is unique" really is accurate.

The things that make individuals truly unique are often irrelevant in the greater scheme. One could draw a line across continents and ages to connect quite similar people.
by zahlman | 2025-09-29 20:57:59+00:00
> I am a long way from the Americas (New Zealand), so I know little of the racism in the USA

Then how can you assert

> You were cherry picking

with any confidence? The ideology I refer to is all over the place. I am constantly finding new examples.

> here the realisation that our dominant paradigms were based on racist and sexist assumptions

I don't think they actually were.

> The reactionary bigots appear to have the upper hand for now

In my experience, the large majority of people accused of being "reactionary bigots" around here are quite simply nothing of the sort.