MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by safety1st | 2025-09-19 04:09:11+00:00
Why are this and the first reply being downvoted? Perfectly legitimate thoughts.

Anyway, I'd just point out that users don't even need to depend on the bots for increase productivity, they just need to BELIEVE it increases their productivity. Exhibit A being the recent study which found that experienced programmers were actually less productive when they used an LLM, even though they self-reported productivity gains.

This may not be the first time the tech industry has tricked us into thinking it makes us more productive, when in reality it's just figuring out ways to consume more of our attention. In Deep Work, Cal Newport made the argument that interruptive "network tools" in general decrease focus and therefore productivity, while making you think that you're doing something valuable by staying constantly connected. There was a study on this one too. They looked at consultants who felt that replying as quickly as possible to their clients, even outside of work hours, was important to their job performance. But then when they took the interruptive technologies away, spent more time focusing on their real jobs, and replied to the clients less often, they started producing better work and client feedback scores actually went up.

Now personally I haven't stopped using an LLM when I code but I'm certainly thinking twice about how I use it these days. I actually have cut out most interruptive technology when I work, i.e. email notifications disabled, not keeping Slack open, phone on silent in a drawer, etc. and it has improved my focus and probably my work quality.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-19 04:09:32+00:00
In recent times, spurred on by the rhetoric coming out in some other countries, I’ve noticed a big swing in how Japanese social media figures discuss politics. Maybe it’s that they feel that they’ve been given permission to speak openly due to the rise of the Sanseito party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanseit%C5%8D), whose leader is allegedly a fan of Mein Kampf.

But partly it is because they fear the things they see evidence of in other countries that go quietly ignored, like illegal immigrants or asylum recipients committing rape or other violence against women. The trust and safety that is foundational to the Japanese way of life is something they closely guard. They don’t know what to expect when they hear their leaders want to invite 50K immigrants workers from India, even though these cultures are quite compatible. The phenomenon of leaders gaslighting concerned citizens in other countries gives life to the myths in Japanese social media that this article discusses.

In my opinion, there are social media myths but also some truths. Talking about the truths honestly will prevent the myths from taking hold. Otherwise I suspect the fear held by Japanese citizens will continue to fuel the rise of the extremist Sanseito party.
by bamboozled | 2025-09-19 04:09:40+00:00
Do you think his algorithms have kind of, you know, sewed the seeds of hatred and rage through our society?

Do you think all the lies an misinformation his products help spread kind of...get people elected who take away the aid which millions of women and children rely on?

Not blaming him for it all, we all play our part, but the guy has definitely contributed negatively to society overall and if he is smart enough to know this, but he cannot turn off the profit making machine he created so we all suffer for that.

The parent said alluded to the dangers of AI, well the algorithms that are making us hate each other and become paranoid are that AI.
by fdwrt | 2025-09-19 04:11:12+00:00
What this suggests is that activities like the creation of mind maps (reference from 1990s research in this Google documentation) and dual coding theory (1991) can and should be outsourced to automation.

For a student, how do we define the value of actually doing this work (proven decades ago) vs having an AI translate it to them?

Is there anything in this “research” that suggests outcomes for students are better based on this insight?

We see in figure 9 in the study a response based on an immediate test that that is marginally statically significant from a population of 60 students where the latter population is only digital readers.

Why not actually compare to a textbook?
by geor9e | 2025-09-19 04:11:17+00:00
Google wiped my account for posting a jpeg of a credit card form with "THIS POST ONLY VIEWABLE WITH GOOGLE+ GOLD" to their old social media site. Gmail,Gdrive, everything tied to the account gone forever. They would only tell me it got flagged "phishing". The TOS has a laundry list of words to ban you under. Whichever reason their overseas moderation farm clicks, after looking 0.7 seconds at a screengrab flagged by a hallucinating AI, isn't ever going to be reviewed by anyone further. There's no support or appeal path for a free account.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-19 04:11:26+00:00
You, and I, and millions of others. Yet another example of how this shooter was stuck in some serious online bubbles. If there was even a vaguely contrarian voice, they would have mentioned his entire idea would, and has, turned a guy most people have never even heard of into a vastly more well known martyr.

Anyhow, the post that was "giving context" linked the actual video that likely got Kimmel canned second. Here it is timestamped to the section: https://youtu.be/-j3YdxNSzTk?t=122
by asnyder | 2025-09-19 04:12:09+00:00
There's also open-source solutions such as rocket.chat, Mattermost, and likely a few more I haven't played with.

I wish Mattermost wasn't always trying to nudge you out of community version, but otherwise pretty solid, better than Slack IMO. Is unfortunate they require weird gitlab spoof bypass to use SSO in community version. Shameful it's not out of the box.

Many years ago Pidgin with multi-channel IRC was all I needed, but seems Slack killed that whole party, which brings us to the current situation :(.
by bitwize | 2025-09-19 04:12:39+00:00
Yes, companies were lazy and greedy even way back when. But there are a number of facts that come into play when it comes to UI being much shittier today:

1. Personal computers before the 21st century were really kind of shit. Let alone mobile devices.

2. Software was largely a product that people paid for. It even came in boxes.

3. Software vendors were usually in a highly competitive environment. They had to deliver value for money if they didn't want to get eaten alive.

This meant that the software had to both work on the limited resources of 1990s shitty computers—limited storage, limited speed, limited display colors and resolution, etc.—and be useful to the end user. So companies were kept a lot more honest in terms of UI design. Circumstances forced them to deliver functional, efficient UIs. These days, our computers are fairly powerful and companies are in the business of selling services (or eyeballs to advertisers) rather than software. The user-facing software itself is a loss leader, and if making it a shitty Electron app, or desktop-mobile "convergence", helps save development costs, companies will do it.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-19 04:12:41+00:00
There was a lot of fake news following the shooting trying to suggest that the shooter was MAGA and decided to kill Charlie Kirk because he 'wasn't MAGA enough.' In particular a photoshopped image of him wearing a MAGA shirt was shared millions of times on social media [1], along with suggestions he was a "groyper" which is apparently some fringe right wing group. You can see the substantial impact of this by looking at Google trends on the term. [2]

This fake news was wide spread and even leaked into Hacker News through at least dozens of comments. [3] People are still implicitly trying to promote this misinformation by flagging any comment that mentions it, and spinning Kimmel stating, "with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them" to mean anything other than what it does.

[1] - https://xcancel.com/CollinRugg/status/1966575444435890341

[2] - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=groyper&...

[3] - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by tropdrop | 2025-09-19 04:14:33+00:00
In my experience, ChatGPT, at least, seems to have had multiple languages used to train its corpus. I am guessing this based on its interaction with me in a different language, where it changed English idioms like "short and sweet" to analogous versions in that language that were not direct translations.

But my guess is that the data sets used from the other languages are smaller (and actually, even if it had perfect access to every single piece of data on the internet, that would still be true, due to the astonishing quantity of English-language data out there compared to the rest. Your comment validates that). With less data, one would expect a poorer performance in all metrics for any non-Anglophone place, including the "cultural world view" metric.
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by shirro | 2025-09-19 04:15:41+00:00
Can anyone explain to me convincingly why Singapore is in the Global South on development and economic grounds?

I suspect the Global South at least as far as Asia is concerned is almost entirely about global political alignment.

Countries in the US alliance appear to be labelled North. Singapore is highly developed and like the rest of ASEAN is non-aligned. China is a global superpower and people align to them. SK, Japan, Aus and NZ are strongly US aligned for better or worse.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-09-19 04:16:42+00:00
I think I've found ways to dodge the problems you describe. I am a person who is has been addiction-adjacent in my search for novelty for an absurdly long time. I've been quite devoted, however, to physical exercise very much like that described in the article for around 20 years, with favorable results. Throughout this time, I have listened to audio recordings while exercising, and it has always been my favorite aspect of the routine. But I have switched between music, audiobooks, and podcasts a few times during the 20 years, and the novelty of the various genres and topics available is enough to keep me going. For the last few years I've been doing the podcasts, and these seem to keep my interest. I've got a 32 GB mp3 player, which allows me to select from 15 or so roughly hour-long episodes of 15 or so podcasts, some of which take in a wide range of topics and most of the rest are put together by people who embody novelty in their deepest vesicles. I spend an hour or three every month or three searching out new episodes of the podcasts that continue operating and archives of old podcasts that arouse my interests. And I like doing that, too.
by csmoak | 2025-09-19 04:16:49+00:00
i lived about a half mile from this house in the same neighborhood -- it could be a lot more expensive if it had the view some properties around there have.

note that mulholland dr is just up the street from the house. this overlook is worth a visit: https://maps.app.goo.gl/muMirzaSJsEt9YnR7
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-19 04:17:11+00:00
Probably because it brings into focus the unconformable truth of what we have been doing.

In a similar vain, I was talking with a friend about plastic straws and the movement at the time to ban them. My friend was all on board and told me about the stainless steel ones they just bought from Amazon Prime. It's very convenient, delivers straight to your house and if you don't like it you just send it back.

So here we are worried about the straw but are having things shipped with 2 day delivery to the door. We live in a reasonable large city, drive to and from work past stores that are selling the same items. 2019 numbers have Amazon's van fleet at 30,000. Assuming 67 tons of GHG per vehicle(https://www.transportationenergy.org/resources/the-commute/l...) gets you 2 million tons.

I don't worry about the straws, I worry about the thinking that gets us to focus on the straws instead of the larger picture.
by red369 | 2025-09-19 04:17:20+00:00
That's what I hoped too. The way the letters moved just seemed strange to me, like they were moving too far. But I find it entirely likely that exactly what you described would look strange to me - I don't look at these comparisons very often so I don't know what is normal. Sort of like how moving closer while zooming out to keep the subject the same size does a strange (but neat) effect on everything else in video.
by eviks | 2025-09-19 04:17:35+00:00
> I guess both of those places are especially space constrained, which maybe makes it feel more worth it to me.

See how easy it is to justify "the scourge"? Also, this is exactly the same situation here - using a permanent toolbar on your main screen (not a submenu or some secondary settings screen where extra labels don't cost anything)

> crazy to have the labels on shown-by-default buttons fade only after a certain number of clicks on them.

Great idea, had the same, though an even better is to use frecency as a proxy for memory everywhere (and also apply it to various tips and keybinds etc) - if you've clicked the button 10 times, the label disappears, but if you haven't clicked in a year, it reappears (all configurable per button of course, OS-wide, there are some frequently use symbols like clipboard that you'll never forget due to use in other apps)
by supriyo-biswas | 2025-09-19 04:17:40+00:00
> That seems to be the best possible strategy for any feedback you have to give as a captive audience?

It is, but at that point why even have that bureaucratic process that achieves exactly nothing?

Of course, I understand that being able to pat yourself on the back and concluding with statements like "Leadership is truly connected with its employees, keeping in touch every day through questions about improving the workplace. Our surveys show 99% of our employees are very satisfied with their team, their work, and work-life balance" is "valuable", I guess, I just feel very sad about humanity.
by chmod775 | 2025-09-19 04:18:32+00:00
If by "genuinely confused" we are talking about what is generally called the emotion "confusion", then you need meta-cognition to even recognize your thinking is confused in order to then experience it. LLMs can model reflection by using their own output as input, but otherwise lack meta-cognitive processes. Through reflection they can later recognize what they did previously was wrong, but they will never experience "what I am currently thinking seems wrong/does not fit".

However "confusion" can also mean "mistaking one thing for another" or simply "doing the wrong thing", which is something computer programs have been able to fuck up since forever.
by SilverElfin | 2025-09-19 04:20:00+00:00
There is no company that could be less competent in this area than Amazon. Look at the waste with Alexa. A decade of spending and 10000 employees and nothing interesting to show except undeserved promotions. Anyone remember other hardware flops like a phone or a ring? The culture of Amazon is good for certain problems but this type of deep innovation isn’t it.
by ehnto | 2025-09-19 04:20:14+00:00
I was using Qwen3 locally in thinking mode, and noted that even if it is talking to me in Japanese, it is doing it's "thinking" steps in English. Not having a full understanding of how the layers in an LLM handle language connections I can't say for sure, but for a human this would result in subpar outcomes.

For example (not actual output):

Input: "こにちは"(konichwa) Qwen Thinking: "Ah, the user has said "こにちは", I should respond in a kind and friendly manner.

Qwen Output: こにちは！

It quiiiickly gets confused in this, much quicker than in English.
by travem | 2025-09-19 04:20:40+00:00
I am not sure what is going on with that screen, but the whole page seems to be "vibrating" in a very distracting way, never encountered that on another site before!

It appears to be related to my display settings on Mac OS. When the text size for the display is set to the "Larger text" it shows this vibrating. When the text size is set to one of the smaller sizes the shaking/vibrating does not appear.
by jeffinhat | 2025-09-19 04:22:26+00:00
It's definitely a different use case but given they haven't had to tap into their follower replicas for scale, it must be pretty efficient and lightweight. I suspect not having ACLs helps. They also cite a minimum 2MB size, so not expecting exabtyes of little bytes.

I wonder if a major difference is listing a prefix in object storage vs performing recursive listings in a file system?

Even in S3, performing very large lists over a prefix is slow and small files will always be slow to work with, so regular compaction and catching file names is usually worthwhile.
by never_inline | 2025-09-19 04:22:30+00:00
Sir, I live in a "developing" (that designation is forever) country, where traffic is uncontrollable and haphazard, stray dogs roam under the protection of the government, and a flyover bridge can fall on your head at any point of the road.

Hypothetically, I would rather live in a country like the US. I'm sure the machinery of US is good enough to protect its inland citizens when they wage wars on less fortunate ones for whatever reason.

Russia is a different matter. I get it.
by smittywerben | 2025-09-19 04:22:48+00:00
I avoided KDE after first experiencing several bad dates with Gnome. Skipped straight to xfce or a tiling wm. Years later, decided to try KDE again because someone made an arch linux joke about it. I don't remember the joke, but it screamed "I use arch btw". That's when I realized KDE and I had something going on.

In fact, my Gnome-fearing worldview was reinforced just last month by my construction of samba/s3/sftp windows NTFS-LFS FUSE netshare vpn on my Proxmox server to solve this issue of multiple desktop environments for the last and final time. Compatibility with everything? No issue.

I achieved a monumental 2kb/s transfer speed, slower than the modem speeds I experienced in my childhood on dial-up. My 2kb/s supercomputer environment was remarkably consistent across all protocols. Thanks to the Gnome community, I was glad to hear that the speeds I was getting were apparently a major improvement since the last release.

Surprisingly, nobody has provided me with any file access architecture memes from the thriving Arch Linux PDP-11 community. Needless to say, having the choice of a desktop environment is great. And KDE is just happy I showed up with a cool ride.

edit: less neg
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-09-19 04:23:24+00:00
What an awful, condescending attitude. No, not "everyone living in a modern country" can make Korean food without a recipe. And tools that reduce the barrier for learning and acquiring new skills should be applauded.

Almost half of Americans cannot cook today. And the number 1 cited reason is a lack of time.

That said, I agree with the grandparent that this isn't really a "killer feature". Nor am I interested in the product. For so many reasons.
by MBCook | 2025-09-19 04:23:35+00:00
This is something I’ve always wanted from a type system, or a way to make it if you can easily make custom types. Especially for strings, bags of bytes are easier. Seems like it could help in a lot of circumstances with security issues.

Writing a web app? All user input is untrusted until you process it. And if Untrusted<String> can’t be converted to String accidentally then it forces the programmer to think about it.

Unfortunately in Java (my everyday language) this isn’t feasible. I’d want to be able to join or process Untrusted<String> the same as normal. Really it would need to be built into the stars library.

Back to the article it sounds like this could work really well for the kernel. I hope this kind of idea catches on outside of that.
by georgelyon | 2025-09-19 04:23:50+00:00
Gaudi is among the best engineers and artists who ever lived, and I won’t belabor his greatness. It is cool though that Rhino (https://www.rhino3d.com/) got a shout out in this article, it is a similar blend of engineering and artistic excellence that I’ve only dabbled in briefly, but repeatedly pops up in the toolkits of the most interesting engineer-artists. One of my personal favorites is John Edmark who among other cool things made these shutter-synced 3D sculptures that are absolutely amazing: https://www.johnedmark.com/phifib/#itemId=572301305559869e24...
by casey2 | 2025-09-19 04:24:42+00:00
https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse

If they can't figure out the problem from there with you description then they are just incompetent and you shouldn't be doing business with incompetent companies no matter how large or popular they are.

You should bring everything you rely on in house as much as possible if not possible then on business that has an incentive to work with you. If you can't afford to then question if your product is really providing value. Why anybody with greater memory than a goldfish would build on top of a google service is beyond me (probably just people falling for ads or propaganda) it's no different then building on known vulnerable software.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 297 times (+ all the soft killed services without adequate support) , shame on me!
by neurolife111 | 2025-09-19 04:24:59+00:00
The care system for neurodivergent kids is siloed: doctors, teachers, and therapists don’t share one plan, and parents are left to stitch it together. We built CAIT, a digital care passport with a 24/7 companion for parents at home. It unifies care teams, tracks progress, and supports families in their hardest moments. Early pilots at several major research hospitals are underway, and we’d love to hear thoughts from builders and parents here.
by ycui1986 | 2025-09-19 04:25:06+00:00
The apple’s calculator is so bad, I cannot believe it that tech website used praise this.

If you type too quick, it misses numbers.

If you type too many times “+” it add too many times

If you try to use it as old standalone calculator, things does not calculate right.

It is hard to clear numbers.

Just so stupid.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-09-19 04:27:17+00:00
This is... a woefully uninformed statement. You realize they just lost several monopoly cases, including around Chrome? They just got off on the meaningful penalty.

Google is an anticompetitive monopoly, and Chrome is an anticompetitive monopoly. This has been established by multiple courts of law. Your armchair claims to the contrary hold no water.
by kolinko | 2025-09-19 04:27:36+00:00
They don’t want to spend 30 min explaining domain knowledge required to understand a certain super specific case.

Instead they show tech’s quality on a basic highest common denominator use case and allow people to extrapolate to their cases.

Similarly car ads show people going from home to a store (or to mountains). You’re not asking there “but what if I want to go to a cinema with the car”. If it can go to a store, it can go to a cinema, or any other obscure place, as long as there is a similar road getting there.