MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hodgehog11 | 2025-09-30 13:31:41+00:00
For those like me who are wondering "why?", the tutorial answers this up front:

"I don't know why anyone would choose to learn this unless they're a very specific kind of masochist"

Well, there are all types in the computer science community, so to each their own. The quote from Alan Perlis in 1982 is definitely interesting too:

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing"

I'm sure this made a lot of sense in 1982, but it most definitely is not true now. As a mathematician doing a fair amount of numerical analysis, I must know several programming languages, all of which do roughly the same sort of thing, simply because important implementations of certain algorithms are historically spread across multiple languages. God help me if there is an important implementation of something in Mercury that I'll need to decipher one day...
Show HN: Text-Only RSS Reader
by windbug99 | 2025-09-30 13:32:04+00:00
Focuses on fast information browsing and acquisition speed.

- Excludes images and other features

- Concentrates on selecting content to read and quickly grasping key points

- Receive summaries of related news and feeds every 24 hours when registering keywords

- Limited to technology category

- Supports multiple languages and themes
by rkagerer | 2025-09-30 13:32:10+00:00
Array element accesses are bounds-checked in C# for safety. But, that means that there's performance impact...

Why don't we have hardware support for this yet? (i.e. CPU instructions that are bounds-aware?)

Edit: Do we?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40752436/do-any-cpus-hav...
by HankStallone | 2025-09-30 13:33:01+00:00
Right. I've seen a CoC used as a power-grab by people who had barely made any contributions to a project, when the people in charge were too easy-going or naive to shut down dishonest use of it, so they tended to side with the squeaky wheel. Once the bad actors got people they didn't like removed or driven away from the project, they just got worse, saying things like "go kill yourself" without consequence, because they were now in control and could interpret the code however they liked or just ignore it.

You can't write a CoC that will prevent bad behavior from bad actors in charge, so it's worthless at best and a weapon for the unscrupulous at worst. What matters is who enforces standards of behavior, and if those people are decent and honest, no written code is necessary.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-30 13:33:09+00:00
>But it may be worth pointing out that this annex to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is out by Dulles and not very convenient for visitors to access.

It's also the better campus IMO. The one in DC is basically a speed run of the stuff you see in a kids book that just highlights all the "firsts". The one at Dulles has all the cool displays of big or technologically unique stuff.

I agree access isn't great if you're trying to shoehorn it into a visit to all the typical DC monuments type stuff.
by varispeed | 2025-09-30 13:33:09+00:00
Fine, let's grant that only the schematic was leaked. The conclusion is the same. A schematic is not a mere netlist; it's an architectural document. It reveals the entire power delivery architecture - the choice of PMICs, the topology of every buck converter and LDO, and the meticulous partitioning of power rails for the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine. That power strategy alone is a goldmine of portable R&D.

Furthermore, it details the complete bill of materials and the exact circuit design for every high-speed interface. To suggest this knowledge isn't portable is to claim that the principles of designing a stable power network or a clean USB4 interface are somehow unique to Apple. Any experienced engineer knows that learning from a competitor's complete, validated, and mass-produced system is an invaluable shortcut. An appeal to personal authority doesn't change these fundamental realities of hardware development.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-30 13:33:21+00:00
That companies send a LOT of money to the "owners" of this animation instead of people linked to their union. Which is valid, but also, it's not a new thing - some years ago there was an AI generated model already that was huge on Instagram, or video game characters (Lightning from FFXIII was a Louis Vuitton model), animated characters (Hatsune Miku is decades old by now), there's thousands if not more influencers/personalities with generated appearances (vtubers), etc.

I don't think it's as big as the media makes it out to be, but there's rumours that people are willing to send money to the company behind the character, if that hasn't happened already, which is of course triggering outrage.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 13:33:29+00:00
Showing up to work and actually doing their job, even if it’s the minimum, would be an upgrade over the Reddit toxic mindset I was describing about.

The problematic juniors show up to their jobs determined to be uncooperative, sow discontent among coworkers, stonewall progress in meetings, and think they’re just going to job-hop to the next company before the performance management catches up to them. They see the jobs or even the concept of working to live in general as a scam and feel like they’re winning some deep cultural war if they collect paychecks while making life difficult for their manager.
by tirant | 2025-09-30 13:33:38+00:00
Another advice for cooking pasta:

The water does not need to be boiling the whole time.

You can boil the pasta just 2 minutes, turn off the stove, close the lid and leave the pasta in the water for the rest of the time until reaching the desired cooking time, plus around one more minute.

The result will be the same and you would have saved round 80% of the energy.
by catigula | 2025-09-30 13:33:43+00:00
I found myself holding some critical feedback back recently of a poor management decision due to caution about my career. My co-worker, who is more matured in his career, with less need for caution, instead took up my complaints (a viewpoint he shared).

I imagined how profoundly impossible it would have been for someone on an H1B visa to do this whose immigration status is contingent on their employment. Scary.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-30 13:34:03+00:00
Are there resources you recommend for that? I feel like I've run into articles that take that approach here on HN but its been so long. Fiddling with making a small OS is something I have wanted to try for a little while. If Rust is fully capable of doing so, I might give it a shot that way. It will be an excuse to finally use Rust for something.
by latexr | 2025-09-30 13:34:50+00:00
> I've compared the bias from X and other platforms

Mind sharing your methodology? I doubt a single person could accurately determine this without a very well laid out process.

Every study I’m finding, even when specifically searching for left biases, concludes Twitter is very right leaning. Which makes sense: Its owner is very openly right-wing, repeatedly posts right-wing-leaning fabrications, has shown to be thin-skinned and actively amplifies his own account and those who spout right-wing views, so it’s no wonder most who remain are those who agree.
Show HN: ProcASM v1.1
by Temdog007 | 2025-09-30 13:35:23+00:00
ProcASM is general purpose, visual programming language that I've developed. A few months ago I made a post about ProcASM v1.0 here <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43892442> and got some feed about the UI.

So, I spent that last few months trying to improve the UI. Before, I used a GUI library, that I developed specifically for this app using SDL3, for ProcASM. I used Emscripten to port it to run in web browsers for those who wanted to try the app. Now, the front-end is written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to execute in a web browser. The back-end is a server that stores user's projects and handles user's requests. There is also a tutorial with text and video that will walk you through the usage of the app. My hopes are that the UI will be more approachable for those who want to try out the app.

The plan going forward is to develop new software using ProcASM and blog about the details and the advantages of using ProcASM.
by ygra | 2025-09-30 13:35:23+00:00
> C# doesn't do escape analysis and automatically put things on the stack

There has been work ongoing in this direction since .NET 9 at least, but the effect is very limited currently. The following code however, has no allocations at runtime, despite having an object creation in the code:

https://sharplab.io/#v2:C4LghgzgtgPgAgJgIwFgBQcDMACR2DC2A3ut...
For those who figured out their purpose / hearts desire / achieved their dream
by bsuki | 2025-09-30 13:35:30+00:00
Hey all,

One thing I don’t understand is “what does my heart want.” Imo, this is the same as one's purpose or dream.

In any case, these make intellectual, but not intuitive sense.

I'm curious, what does it feel like to achieve your dream / find your purpose / figure out what your heart wants?

And for those who felt lost at some point, what helped?

Thanks!
by VladVladikoff | 2025-09-30 13:35:46+00:00
I absolutely adore LLMs for SQL help. I’m no spring chicken with SQL but so many times now I’ve taken a poorly optimized query, run it with ‘explain’ in front of it, and dumped it into an LLM asking to improve performance, and the results are really great! Performance vastly improved and I have yet seen it make a single mistake.
by runako | 2025-09-30 13:35:51+00:00
Also worth noting that it's free to go see the shuttle now.

The proposed location charges $30-40 for adults and $25-$35 for children. $150 for a family of 4 to see the shuttle[1] feels steep? But also somehow taking a thing that is free/low-cost in most countries and making it expensive is on-brand for America, I guess.

1 - Yes, there are other things there, as there are at the free Smithsonian where the shuttle currently lives. For comparison, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is in New York City and kids enter free (adults are $30). Also, residents of the region are allowed to pay what they want for entry.
by supermatt | 2025-09-30 13:35:54+00:00
India is not a country that needs to “punch above its weight”. It is already a heavyweight. With one of the highest absolute GDPs in the world (third by PPP, fourth by nominal terms), it is a global leader across multiple sectors: IT, industry, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and renewable energy. Its domestic market of more than 1.4 billion people gives it unmatched scale, representing nearly a quarter of the world’s population. India’s policy choices and growth trajectory directly influence global markets. That scale, diversity, and systemic impact are what make it a true economic powerhouse. Saying otherwise is naive, and seems a common rhetoric from a certain demographic...
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-30 13:35:56+00:00
If the code outputted does not look like code I cannot maintain in a meaningful way (barring like some algorithm or something specialized) I don't check it in. I treat it as if it were code from Stack Overflow, sometimes its awful code, so I rewrite it if applicable (things change, understandings change), other times it works and makes sense.
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-30 13:36:04+00:00
"I have some anecdotal evidence that suggests that we can accomplish far more value-add on software projects when completely away from the computer and any related technology.

It's amazing how fast the code goes when you know exactly what you want"

Yeah its the same reason why demand for pen and paper still exists. Its the absolute best way for one to think and get their thoughts out. I can personally attest to this - no digital whiteboard can ever compete with just a pen and paper. My best and original ideas come from a blank paper and a pen.

Solutions can emerge from anywhere. But its likely to happen when the mind is focused in a calm state - thats why walking for instance is great.
by stillsut | 2025-09-30 13:36:17+00:00
Encoding / decoding hidden messages in LLM output.

https://github.com/sutt/innocuous

The traditional use-case is steganography ("hidden writing"). But I see more potential applications than just for spy stuff.

I'm using this project as a case study for writing CS-oriented codebases and keeping track of every prompt and generated code line in a markdown file: https://github.com/sutt/innocuous/blob/master/docs/dev-summa...

My favorite pattern I've found is to write encode implementations manually, and then AI pretty easily is able to follow that logic and translate it into a decode function.
by _heimdall | 2025-09-30 13:36:34+00:00
This is how I've been using Gemini CLI. It has no permissions by default, whether it wants to search google, run tests, or update a markdown file it has to propose exactly what it needs to do next and I approve it. Often its helpful even just to redirect the LLM, if it starts going down the wrong path I catch it early rather than 20 steps down that road.

I have no way of really guaranteeing that it will do exactly what it proposed and nothing more, but so far I haven't seen it deviate from a command I approved.
by Cornbilly | 2025-09-30 13:36:48+00:00
I get where you’re coming from. I’ve have experienced the “smart person who panics”.

I usually tell them upfront that I’m not looking for the correct answer and that I just want to see how they break the problem down. I also try to reiterate that it’s okay to fail (at least at my employer) and that’s the point of having a team.

Usually, that calms them down enough to get the interview going. If they don’t calm down, I’ll try to simplify the problem or give them small ideas.

We’ve also resorted to having a follow up interview with the candidate if we get the sense that they were overly nervous. I have a couple teammates that are very good at getting people to relax and we’ve had a good amount of success with letting them lead the follow up (instead of myself since I know I can come across fairly cold).
by mesk | 2025-09-30 13:37:34+00:00
Yeah, it looks like when everything is now hyper effective and all unnecessary spending was already cut, thanks to DOGE and BBB, there is no problem spending few millions on Shuttle moves, Ball rooms etc... /s

btw. Where is DOGE now ? Was it self-optimized to 0 employees now - like when there is no cost cutting needed anymore - than cost cutting agency is the most ineffective part of the government ;-)
by Forgeties79 | 2025-09-30 13:37:43+00:00
That’s a (good) choice by the shows you listen to. There are plenty of ad injection services for podcasting, pretty sure Acast (popular hosting service) has it built in for instance. Search “DAI podcast” or “dynamic ad insertion podcast.”

The biggest giveaway is when the ads are dropped in the middle of someone talking. Pretty much any hits that are manually added are led into by the hosts if it’s mid-show.
by kossTKR | 2025-09-30 13:38:33+00:00
While interesting this is not the point of the article.

Point is LLM's makes this problem 1000 times worse and so it really is a ticking time bomb thats totally new - most people, most programmers, most day to day work will not include some head in the clouds abstract metaprogramming but now LLM's both force programmers to "do more" and constantly destroys anyones flow state, memory, and the 99% of the talent and skill that comes from actually writing good code for hours a day.

LLM's are amazing but they also totally suck because they essentially steal learning potential, focus and increase work pressure and complexity, and this really is new, because also senior programmers are affected by this, and you really will feel this at some point after using these systems for a while.

They make you kind of demented, and no you can't fight this with personal development and forced book reading after getting up at 4 am in the morning just as with scrolling and the decrease in everyones focus, even bibliophiles.
by ghaff | 2025-09-30 13:38:39+00:00
Oh, I don't disagree. Though it took me ages to get there because I sort of needed to arrange a long enough layover in Dulles to grab an Uber and spend a few hours.

You need a lot of space for a really good aviation museum. It's no coincidence that the one in the Seattle area is on a Boeing campus near their big plant.
by rapind | 2025-09-30 13:38:58+00:00
I could also argue that 20 years ago EJBs made it a lot worse, ORMs made it massively worse, heck Rails made it worse, and don't even get me started on Javascript frameworks, which are the epitome of dead programs and technical debt. I guarantee there were assembly programmers shouting about Visual Basic back in the day. These are all just abstractions, as is AI IMO, and some are worse than others.

If and when technical debt becomes a paralyzing problem, we'll come up with solutions. Probably agents with far better refactoring skills than we currently have (most are kind of bad at refactoring right now). What's crazy to me is how tolerant the consumer has become. We barely even blink when a program crashes. A successful AAA game these days is one that only crashes every couple hours.

I could show you a Java project from 20+ years ago and you'd have no idea wtf is going on, let alone why every object has 6 interfaces. Hey, why write SQL (a declarative, somewhat functional language, which you'd think would be in fashion today!), when you could instead write reams of Hibernate XML?! We've set the bar pretty low for AI slop.
by hippo22 | 2025-09-30 13:39:02+00:00
Of course, profit motivated offshoring is a cause of the current situation. But it feels a little revisionist to attribute that as the _only_ cause.

Culturally, the country derided blue collar work for a long time. The fact that everyone should attend college and strive for white collar work was unquestioned orthodoxy.

Ultimately, this cultural mindset led to the commoditization of society. Everything was a resource to be managed and optimized. Efficiency was paramount. And this viewpoint wasn’t just espoused by the capitalist class, it was shared by our “brightest” academic minds. Nobel laureate economists (e.g. Paul Krugman) told the public how great globalization would be because it increased economic efficiency.

What was missed in all this is that not everything is a resource that can be managed in a spreadsheet, CRM, or JIRA tracker. Delivering value is an art. It requires skills honed through practice and taste that comes from appreciation of craft. Culturally, we’ve lost appreciation for the process of creation. We want to be fat and lazy and do our “important” jobs and get paid. But that won’t work for long.
by Applejinx | 2025-09-30 13:39:48+00:00
If you postulate 'good', who is in there wearing the AI actor like a mask?

I find it easy to imagine some disabled, or disfigured, otherwise blocked-from-stardom person using tech like this to transform themselves and be able to express their truth without being unfairly judged by the physical form they were born into.

But that's not what we're talking about, is it? Be honest.

If you want to impress me, well, I'm a techie nerd. Make a furry celebrity actress, that's the expression of a person. Like a Hollywood-grade implementation of a VTuber. Let 'em be driven by a person that I can get to know and recognize. In this day and age I'm not wedded to forcing everybody to be trapped in the form they're born in, still less so in art.

But this is NOT what we're talking about. You're going to have an AI by committee, drawn from a pandering mass of popular reactions, producing problems not unlike modern-day movies that try so hard to pander to the audience at any given moment that there's no weight to them and no point to any of it.

Here's hoping we also get the other thing. Sort of 'T-pain autotune turned into a style' but for acting. And again, I'm down with it if it's letting artists execute on realities they are otherwise completely unable to reach. But that's not what we're going to get, is it?
by mc32 | 2025-09-30 13:40:15+00:00
What's funny is that they only see the threat to their livelihoods that's where their concern lies.

But... do they protect their human animators from CGI? Or using cheaper foreign filming locations to cut costs?

It's all a continuum but they didn't care about it till it came for them. Nothing else on the continuum mattered... So, yeah, I won t shed a tear for them as they shed no tears for other parts of their production being replaced by different technologies over time.
by lentil_soup | 2025-09-30 13:40:18+00:00
shouldn't it be the other way round? if the UK doesn't like something a non-UK company is doing it should be them that go through the trouble of blocking it.

If I have a website I'm pretty sure I'm bound to break some random country's law without knowing

Answering my own question, I guess it's exceptionalism of the powerful countries where they can just bully you into following their law
by Hikikomori | 2025-09-30 13:40:20+00:00
How much salt also depends on how much pasta water you want to use for your sauce and how much cheese you intend to put in. With more cheese you'll need more starch and then you need to avoid over salting the water.

For the type of rigatoni (smaller) in the article and my local brands it varies between 11 and 15m recommended cooking time depending on brand, and from experience the recommended time is when its ready to be put in a sauce, so not fully cooked. My favorite but more expensive brand says 14m, I usually set a timer to 13 and then try it until its ready to be cooked in the sauce.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-30 13:40:30+00:00
Not only is intuition important (or the entire point; anyone with some basic training or even a computer can follow rules to do formal symbol manipulation. It's the intuition for what symbol manipulation to do when that's interesting), but it is literally discussed in a helpful, nonjudgmental way on Math Stack Exchange. e.g.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/31859/what-concept-...

Other great sources for quick intuition checks are Wikipedia and now LLMs, but mainly through putting in the work to discover the nuances that exist or learning related topics to develop that wider context for yourself.
by elicash | 2025-09-30 13:40:52+00:00
I think two things are being communicated with "actor"

1. Unlike traditional animation, these AI characters are being "directed" in a sense that's unlike traditional drawing frame by frame.

2. The broader question of relationships that people are forming with AI, whether that's chatbots or AI influencers or the weird hologram Girls In a Jar stuff or whatever else.

That's not to say that actor is the right term. I think some of this is in "is a hot dog a sandwich" territory. But I think that's what people are trying to say with their use of the term.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-30 13:40:58+00:00
> whatever they spit out is in no way a replacement for the original?

Is this actually true? I think in many cases it is a replacement. Maybe not in the case of a famous fictional work like Harry Potter, but what about non-fiction books or "pulp" fiction?

Kind of feels like the bottom rungs of the ladder are being taken out. You either become J.K. Rowling or you starve, there's no room for modest success with AI on the table.
by fredwu | 2025-09-30 13:41:02+00:00
I've been working on three micro-saas, all built in Elixir/Phoenix:

https://feedbun.com - a browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website for healthy eating, with science-backed research summaries and recommendations.

https://rizz.farm - a lead gen tool for Reddit that focuses on helping instead of selling, to build long-lasting organic traffic.

https://persumi.com - a blogging platform that turns articles into audio, and to showcase your different interests or "personas".
by jsheard | 2025-09-30 13:41:23+00:00
It looks like this law (which is unrelated to the Online Safety Act) is concerned with children being subjected to ad-tech tracking and similar indiscriminate data harvesting, so a site like this which doesn't feel the need to share your habits with 2,541 partners is probably out of scope.

https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/the-children-s-code-what-i...