MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yodafx | 2025-09-19 16:40:02+00:00
Another blatant reversal of reality. You are deliberately twisting my words. Acknowledging that Palestinian resistance is the direct, inevitable consequence of your century of colonial violence is not "removing agency." It is the ultimate respect for their agency. It treats them as human beings who refuse to be objects of your ethnic cleansing. The real colonial mindset is your demand that they must politely submit to their own extermination.

And your question about choosing "peaceful leadership" is nauseatingly cynical as it is ironic. You are defending a genocidal apartheid ethno-state whose own Prime Minister, Netanyahu, admitted on record that his strategy was to fund Hamas precisely to ensure Palestinians would never have a unified leadership capable of negotiating for a state.[1] You assassinate their diplomats, jail their leaders, and prop up Hamas, and then you have the audacity to blame them for how they resist your genocidal colonization campaign. Don't you dare project your colonial project's inherent, documented racism onto others. Your rhetoric is nothing but manipulative deflection and projection.

[1] https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/netanyahu-money-...
by hk1337 | 2025-09-19 16:40:11+00:00
> It's what happens when there's no other comparable growth careers/opportunities available.

That's not entirely true. We (society, definitely US) pushed going to college HARD for the last 3-4 decades and glamorizing how much money you'll make. Now, we have an overabundance of people with college degrees and thousands of dollars in debt to those degrees.

There's plenty of career paths where you could make decent money that don't require a college degree.

We should have been pushing people to figure out what they wanted to do, not "Make lots of money", and figure out the path that gets them there.
by rwmj | 2025-09-19 16:40:11+00:00
They're the digital equivalent of a library. My local library lends out in-copyright music and films.

The real problem here however is copyright. There should be a balance between creators, publishers, readers, libraries, fair use, and remixers. But the balance is all out of whack with the publishers making most of the money and everyone else including most creators getting stiffed.
by taude | 2025-09-19 16:40:48+00:00
People doing it now for money aren't the same as you likely doing it for the money in the old day.

When I went into comp-sci, it wasn't the cool path to riches it's been marketed as for the past 15 years.

EDIT: you graduated around the same time as me. Sure everyone wanted jobs. But there were easier paths to getting a good job in '95/96 that cramming late night comp-sci work. Almost everyone in my class had grown up in the age of hacking around on Apple IIs, their first PCs, etc. No one just randomly ended up in the Comp Sci part of the university because they just wanted a job to make money.
by varispeed | 2025-09-19 16:41:01+00:00
If you don't own the company you work at, you shouldn't be curious, at least not for their benefit if they don't compensate you accordingly.

In the past I did many mistakes like pulling all nighters to because I found a way to make checkout experience more pleasant. That resulted in massive increase of revenue and none of that benefitted me. Or unblocked other team, they couldn't find a reason why their app would randomly crash. Board was panicking as client was going to pull out. I saved the day. Multi-million contract gone through. "Thank yous" didn't help me pay off debts.

Only be curious for your own stuff. For corporations? Do bare minimum.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-19 16:41:15+00:00
Okay this was what I thought would happen. I looked into Lightning a few years ago and found the whole concept to be quite dense and not something that a "regular person" does. I don't have a strong opinion on the Bitcoiner vs Shitcoiner debate and have been happy to participate in BTC/BCH/XMR style chains, and the ETH/SOL/EVM-style chains as well. But I felt like Lightning ended up acting a lot like the Ethereum L2s with weaker guarantees.
by tripplyons | 2025-09-19 16:41:26+00:00
The grok-code-fast-1 model is really impressive to me and is currently free on many platforms (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline, Roo Code, Kilo Code, opencode, and Windsurf).

It's also only $0.20 per million input tokens and has good prompt caching support. In the times that I've accidentally selected the paid model on opencode, I have spent less than $0.01 for most tasks.
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 16:41:35+00:00
Haha - only people that don't have experience with AI.

When the NYT sued OpenAI - I emailed the Times that if it's between the Times or AI, we don't need the NYT anymore.

I want UBI from the AI companies - if they can provide its bc they actually did deliver something that might as well be a god - how they get there - I will forgive, soooo much, almost anything if you think about what AGI actually is.

If I were Sam, I'd never stop talking about it either - for most people, ChatGPT is already "alive" more than can understand that it isn't.

Haha, in a few years, ask a Gen Alpha if they'd give up AI - fpr copyright law, haha
by real-hacker | 2025-09-19 16:41:57+00:00
Oracle’s stock just jumped 36% in a single day — its biggest surge since the early ‘90s. Why? A mind-bending AI partnership with OpenAI, a reported $300B in compute contracts, and promises of cloud revenue shooting into the stratosphere.

In this episode of The Gilfoyle Show, I break down: Why Oracle suddenly looks like an AI cloud powerhouse The OpenAI deal that shocked Wall Street The risks of building trillion-dollar dreams on GPUs and power grids And, of course, why this all feels like tulip mania with better branding
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-19 16:41:58+00:00
Part of it (and I think this goes to what the other says about metrics and building for the masses) is a lot of the problems we were solving two or three decades ago are solved.

We used to have to hack things together because nothing worked. There was no consistency, standards were all over the map, software solutions for most things didn't exist, and running software on the major vendor ecosystems was heavily silo'd.

Dozens and dozens of technologies changed that. Web protocols and virtual machines broke siloing. Search engines and community forums made discoverability much, much easier. We passed the tipping point where hardware was only valuable if it could be connected to an ecosystem, so engineers started building standards like USB, wifi, bluetooth, and a TCP-accessible interface into everything. And an army of open-source hobbyists wrote hundreds of thousands of libraries to "X but in Y."

So hacking itself has moved away from problems like "get a telephone multiplexer to translate a bitstream to colors on an anlog TV" and towards "What nine libraries and five gadgets will you glue together to" (for example) "let your refrigerator track your shopping list," or "How can you make setting up email not feel like hacking your left arm off for the average non-computer person?" Because those are the kinds of problems that are still unsolved.

It's a different kind of hacking requiring curiosity at a different level and sometimes a different problem-solving skillset (less experimentation, more curation and cataloguing).
by Aloisius | 2025-09-19 16:42:01+00:00
The oldest world maps were drawn long before the Middle Ages.

The oldest known world map is the Babylonian Imago Mundi from around the 6th century BCE which has north at the top. Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia also specified north was at the top in 2nd century.

Historically, the prize position on a world map was not the top, but the center.
by maxbond | 2025-09-19 16:42:07+00:00
The claim at issue isn't, "I find the term WEIRD insulting." As you say, everyone is entitled to feel that way. It's "the term WEIRD is intended by the authors of TFA as an insult and reveals their agenda as being 'anti-west' [1]". I can understand how someone would find it insulting, but in the article we are discussing, it is descriptive and not pejorative.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298741
by pstuart | 2025-09-19 16:42:09+00:00
These cuts are ideologically driven and use the "saving taxpayers money" line as coverage.

As you noted, ICE just got billions more, as well as the military. Not a single cost cutting measure has been announced in those areas.

Being mindful of taxpayer dollars is not a bad thing, but it has to be across the board. And more so, some of those dollars spent are an investment that pays off (like scientific research) vs those that don't (like a lot of military spending).
by pjmlp | 2025-09-19 16:42:57+00:00
It happens all the time, in many companies IT decides the images used on the build servers, or cloud instances for developers.

I am not so optimistic when Rust achieves a similar market share and historical baggage, as C and C++ have today, growing since the 1970's.

It is of course better designed, and with better tooling, that doesn't spare it from market forces and companies sponsoring the foundation.

See where Linux foundation is today for a comparable example.
by leptons | 2025-09-19 16:43:14+00:00
I use [vendor name]@[mycustomdomain].com which is a catch-all email, [anything]@[mycustomdomain].com goes to my inbox, so if I use something like disney@[mycustomdomain].com and then I have to talk to someone on the phone about an order and they ask for my email address, they invariably get confused and think I work for the company or something like that. Then I have to explain that I use the company's name in the email address so I can track who is selling my email. They don't understand it but I'll keep explaining it until they just accept it and move on.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-19 16:43:45+00:00
Luckily, vibe coders have yet to see ACTUAL success, just hyping up CLAIMS of success on social media.

They want to produce something without having the skills to produce it. Which, you know, probably isn't uncommon. I'd love to be able to rock out the guitar solo in Avenged Sevenfold's "Bat Country" [0] or "Afterlife" [1] or the first solo in Judas Priest's "Painkiller" [2], but to get to that skill level takes years of practice, which I'm quite frankly not willing to put in.

The difference is the honesty. A vibe coder produces something barely more than "Hello world" and brags about being able to produce software without learning to code. Nobody grabs a guitar, learns two chords, then claims to be a guitarist.

[0] (mildly nsfw) https://youtu.be/IHS3qJdxefY?t=137

[1] https://youtu.be/HIRNdveLnJI?t=168

[2] https://youtu.be/nM__lPTWThU?t=129
by Awesomedonut | 2025-09-19 16:43:55+00:00
I'm a new grad/junior dev and my observation/experience, for what it's worth, is that most of my peers just want to keep their heads down and get employed. I can think of 2 people that are genuinely super into exploratory dev stuff and tinker with projects (as opposed to hey, I need to make a side project for my resume) out of the very large amount of CS students I know.
by carlnewton | 2025-09-19 16:44:05+00:00
For some reason I've been really enjoying stories with endless and well described repeating rooms. Borges' Library of Babel got me started, I have just finished Susanna Clarke's Piranesi - which was so wonderfully described, I don't know if I'll find anything to beat it. I'm now on A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck, which outright mentions Borges' novel. If anyone has any similar recommendations I'd love to hear them.
by geerlingguy | 2025-09-19 16:44:06+00:00
I was just at VCF Midwest this past weekend, and I can assure you I am on some of the lower echelons of people who know about niche hardware.

I do get to see and play with a lot of interesting systems, but for most of them, I only get to go just under surface-level. It's a lot different seeing someone who's reverse engineered every aspect of an IBM PC110, or someone who's restored an entire old mainframe that was in storage for years... or the group of people who built an entire functional telephone exchange with equipment spread over 50 years (including a cell network, a billing system, etc.).
by rkomorn | 2025-09-19 16:44:13+00:00
I'm pretty skeptical about peer-based remuneration not devolving into unfair (if not toxic) remuneration in practice. "Proof of work by vote" etc seems very much in that direction.

I've already seen how people scratch other's backs in peer feedback during performance reviews, and I've heard plenty of description of negative aspects about promotion-oriented behaviors driving what people work on at companies notorious for that kind of stuff. Not to mention all the actual biases pervasive to the "meritocracy" crowd.
by stalfosknight | 2025-09-19 16:44:25+00:00
This right here is how I feel about this too.

I used to have a lot more mental bandwidth and energy to be "curious" and to tinker once upon a time. But now the world is so literally and figuratively on fire and every executive is so rabidly frothing at the mouth over AI that now I just want things to "just work" with the least amount of bullshit so I can just go home on time and forget about work until the next business day.

I just want this fucked decade to be over already.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-19 16:44:27+00:00
As you say, farming is difficult, so if you're going into it with the expectation that it is idyllic, you have another thing coming. There is no "time off" on the farm. Some may enjoy that, but most people dreaming about it wouldn't.

It's much better to examine one's motivations for romanticizing the farm. Is it escapism from reality and the suffering endemic to it (in which case, you are only multiplying it by avoiding it)? Is it pride (too good to work)? Is it an impulse toward "immanentizing the eschaton"? Does your current job suck? Is the environment bad? Is it because you're living your life in a meaningless way?

Worth exploring.
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by seltzered_ | 2025-09-19 16:45:02+00:00
Related https://electrek.co/2025/03/28/trevor-milton-claims-hes-been...

"It has also been reported that Trevor Milton gave $920,000 to Mr. Trump’s political campaign (or $1.8 million combined with his wife) and was represented in this case by Pam Bondi’s brother."
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-19 16:45:04+00:00
Commuting the remaining 4 years of a 17 year sentence (based on an 85% federal minimum) and leaving the financial penalties intact for someone who apparently had jointly marketed a hedge fund 20 years prior with a family member isn’t remotely the same as preemptively pardoning someone to save them $200M in fines and all prison time after they gave your campaign $2M.
by varispeed | 2025-09-19 16:45:09+00:00
If you don't have energy, then you are doing too much. Pace yourself. If you think something can be delivered in 5 days, say it needs 10 days. Otherwise this is just a road to burnout and exploitation.

World will not end if project is delayed by few weeks. You get time for your own tinkering (never tinker on company stuff, even if that would improve things, unless you are shareholder).
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-19 16:45:18+00:00
By the time I got my first job in 1996, I had been a hobbyist for 10 years and graduated from college. The last thing I was thinking about doing as a single 22 year old who had just moved to the big city and had free cash flow was sit down at a computer after work.

I have never in 30 years written a single line of code that I didn’t get paid for except a little work I did for charity.
by dcminter | 2025-09-19 16:45:58+00:00
I'm very skeptical of the article - it sounds to me like classic "good old days" thinking¹.

It's certainly true that IT has grown vastly since those good old days, but there has always been a proportion of people who're just... not that interested in what they're doing. For example I remember being mildly horrified in around 1998 that a colleague didn't know how to run his compiler from the command line; without an IDE he was lost - but I doubt he was the only one.

Meanwhile the idea that there's a dearth of cool new stuff seems quite quaint to me. There's a whole bunch of cool things that pop up almost daily right here on Hacker News². Just because they haven't spread to ubiquity doesn't mean they're not going to. Linux was not mainstream right out of Linus's Usenet announcement - that took time.

As to corporate power? They ebb and flow and eat each other (Data General, Compaq, DEC ... remember them? Remember when Microsoft was the major enemy? Or IBM?)

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_old_days

² Edit: Not to mention, there's also a whole bunch of crap that's not very interesting. But survivor bias means we'll have forgotten those in 20 years time when we're surveying this time period; as Sturgeon's law reminds us, "90 percent of everything is crap."
by cogman10 | 2025-09-19 16:46:31+00:00
I agree. The issue really is that they are 3 layers removed from where I can make a change. They are all appointed and not elected which means I (and my neighbors) don't have any recourse beyond the general election. IIRC, they are appointed by the governor which makes it even harder to fix (might be the county commissioner, not 100% on how they got their position, just know it was an appointment).

I did (as did others), in fact, write in comments and complaints about the rate increases and buyout. That went unheard.
by _wire_ | 2025-09-19 16:46:49+00:00
If AI is so smart, why does Reddit want to filter it out?

Can't AI just talk to itself on the forums and we all just sit back to read it in fascination while sipping tea and eating biscuits?

Why isn't AI engagement with sites leading to a revolution of value for advertisers and influencers? If a "Like" or "Subscribe" from a person is good, the attention of an agent should be gold!

AI is preternaturally unaware of advertising... This tells us something important about AI and advertising.

--

- I'm on a TV cooking show and I've pre-arranged everything to make a Korean meat sauce for a sandwich that's oddly already prepared. I know everything about this sauce and this sandwich because this cooking scenario is perfectly contrived, but just for grins help me make the sauce. What should I do first?

- I'd love to help; you've already combined the other ingredients, so now dabble the dohickey with the doodad.

- Hello? But what should I do first?!

- You've already combined the other ingredients, so now dabble the dohickey with the doodad!

- Looks like we've got a problem with the Wifi... back to you, Zuck!"

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"To make a Korean meat sauce from scratch, first you must create the universe..."
by bee_rider | 2025-09-19 16:47:38+00:00
We haven’t really tested the idea of a geographically restricted war. During the Cold War there were some pretty transparent proxy wars, but the proxy still allowed for backing out and saving face.

I don’t think geographically restricting a war is even possible, really. The US’s typical game plan involves hitting the enemy’s decision-making capabilities faster than they can react. That goes out the window if we can’t hit each other’s mainlands. A war where we don’t get to use our strongest trick and China keeps their massive industrial base is an absurd losing one that the US would be totally nuts to sign up for.

Anyway, we and China can be perfectly good peaceful competitors.
by rsynnott | 2025-09-19 16:47:38+00:00
This always struck me as a bit odd, because it was a somewhat common belief around then, and for long after, that many animals reproduced by abiogenesis anyway. Why bother taking two mice on the ark; everyone knows that mice spontaneously emerge from river mud!

(It’s possible that this was just a Greek quirk and never made it to Palestine, I suppose.)
by jlos | 2025-09-19 16:47:45+00:00
Taking a contrarian point here, I went into software to make money doing a craft I can enjoy. I love software because its *useful*. Useful enough I can finance a lifestyle I enjoy for myself and my family, while still feeling moments of creativity and autonomy.

I think there needs to be a distinction between artist and artisan. Art exists for its own sake, code exists because its useful. I don't want code that reads like poetry, I want code that works so I read actual poetry later.

> Have a project in mind that you’ve always wanted to tackle but it never made sense to you to do it because it would never be used by anyone else or it would never make you any money?

I appreciate the tinker's and hobbyists, software is endlessly interesting as a career, and I'm thankful to be here. But I only want to build code that is useful.
by willchen | 2025-09-19 16:47:57+00:00
we have an extensive system prompt to instruct the Supabase to follow RLS best practices: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/blob/de2cc2b48f2c8bfa401608c...

What you're describing as the fail-open behavior is from the Supabase platform (and not specific to any app builders): https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level...
by downrightmike | 2025-09-19 16:48:21+00:00
We did push people into what they wanted to do: make money.

The sad reality is that "everyone learn to code" was by and large a marketing distraction from the severe structural unemployment the fast and loose economy is in. No a coal miner can't just learn to code and get a job in WV, certainly not 1,000's of other miner sin the same position, not can the millions of people that corporate laid off over those same decades.

Coding was a way out of poverty, but for most people it was just a distraction to keep them from seeing how bad the economy is.

Americans are poor: PNC Bank's annual Financial Wellness in the Workplace Report shows that 67 percent of workers now say they are living paycheck to paycheck, up from 63 percent in 2024. https://www.newsweek.com/2025-rise-americans-living-paycheck...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-19 16:48:36+00:00
I'm no expert, but why does the female need to remove her own genetic material from her eggs to produce clones? Isn't it possible that during the DNA recombination phase the male DNA somehow dominates?

This ability of the female to give birth to "multiple species" seems to me best understood as the two "species" not having yet actually become distinct, since the only meaningful definition of speciation is when two sub-populations of a species have genetically drifted so far apart that they can no longer successfully interbreed and produce fertile young.

During the process of speciation (one species splitting into two) there are going to be various messy half-way stages such as lions and tigers still able to interbreed and so not fully speciated (even if well along, and not going to typically interbreed), horses and donkeys still able to interbreed but producing infertile young (mules), and these ants in this strange state where interbreeding apparently only results in males. It would be cool to be able to speed up the evolutionary timescale to see the process happen, but what we have here is like a still frame from a movie.
by geodel | 2025-09-19 16:48:54+00:00
Yes I think your experience sums up about >95% of all dev experience. I am doing about same thing as you for last 8-10 years or so. I guess it is about same time where Agile took hold of IT/Software industry.

Apart from may be few core infrastructure primitives at public Cloud providers most of IT stuff today is API calling API calling API and so on.

It will be the case until Human is Out Of Loop from most of the IT work.