MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Arisaka1 | 2025-09-11 12:31:04+00:00
I'm kind on the fence, but not with the article. It's true that there are engineers who lean more towards one or the other way. For example, since the author brings up the switch from Neovim to VS Code due to features, I do love using Neovim for my TypeScript and Golang needs. But, if I were to work with Java or C# I'm switching to IntelliJ or Rider.

I believe it's healthier to attain some kind of pure-leaning... centrism(?) if we were to present pure/impure as black/white choices. I find it easier to imagine someone who deeply cares about squeezing performance through min-maxing to suddenly shift gears and deliberately introduce debt and just ship-ship-ship for the sake of pushing the product out, because they know exactly the price of the corner that they're cutting.

So I don't see it as a "you're either this or that" but more like "you should be this, and also be that when it's deemed appropriate".
by ehnto | 2025-09-11 12:31:09+00:00
The idea that any of those attributes could arise out of an LLM would be surprising to say the least. They do not maintain a continuum of thought for which those things could exist within. In the case of humans, those things are not just thought anyway, they are a complex mix of chemical signals, physical signals and thoughts, memories etc. So complex we barely understand it, even though we live it and have studied it for centuries.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-09-11 12:32:14+00:00
No, for a time any criticism about EU democracy was brushed away. Especially at the time around Brexit. For obvious reasons. But they are undeniable in theoretical and practical terms. This is why the competence of the EU was restricted at first. Problem is that this restriction did get too loose.

Chat control should even be an EU issue. And few national states would be courageous enough to propose such legislation because the democratic accountability would be much stronger.
by rashunain | 2025-09-11 12:32:15+00:00
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by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-11 12:32:18+00:00
As others have pointed out, radix sort is O(64N) = O(N) for a fixed key length of uint64s as in this article

So it comes down to the cost of hashing, hash misses, and other factors as discussed in the article.

I remember learning that radix sort is (almost?) always fastest if you're sorting integers.

A related fun question is to analyze hash table performance for strings where you have no bound on string length.
by ZeroCool2u | 2025-09-11 12:32:23+00:00
I genuinely think book reading is the killer app for foldable devices. A bigger screen for a movie or TV is nice to have, but not a game changer. When you have that much screen real estate you can get a really enjoyable experience reading a novel or just easily read a textbook or research paper in a way that's simply not possible on even the largest of what you might consider a typical size phone.

Plus, you no longer need to deal with buying and maintaining a separate device like an iPad! This is why I suspect Apple is dragging its feet on the foldable category, besides letting the screen technology mature. It will probably cannibalize some sales from that market segment.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-11 12:33:07+00:00
It's an interesting idea, and how it would work with colours other than "bleached" would be the interesting part.

Presumably it wouldn't work on black without fading the garment, but given how we've seen things fade in shop windows, I wonder if there's some novel applications for removing other types of intentional "stains" like ink, or paint, and particularly if they're under/behind a surface like a clear-coat or glass or something else that prevents physical access.
Show HN: TrustGlance – See any business's trust level in seconds
by aaronkn | 2025-09-11 12:33:07+00:00
I built TrustGlance to cut through messy online reviews. Instead of scrolling through hundreds of mixed opinions, TrustGlance analyzes them and turns them into simple trust levels (High / Medium / Low / Zero) with clear pros, flags, and “best suited for.”

It also lets the community add their own notes, reviews, and photos — so you see both automated insights and human input, side by side.

Would love your feedback on:

Does the trust-level model make sense?

Would you use this before booking/visiting a business?

Any glaring gaps in approach or UX?

Please try it here: trustglance.com

Thanks, I’d appreciate your feedback.
by redwood | 2025-09-11 12:33:14+00:00
This technology demos incredibly well and you can just see how everyone gets giddy with excitement around using it. I watch my colleagues and executives proud to show what they could do or make endless jokes about it. It reminds me of when people first got their phones and couldn't stop showing everyone how cool they were.

This leads to an over rotation in the perceived value.. the value is significant just as the mobile phone was, but not going to live up to the hype in the near term.

It's definitely interesting how in anonymous forums there's a lot more people pointing out that they think this is hype whereas when we wear our professional hats many of us join in. It's like we all want you to party going no we all know what's going to happen
by whizzter | 2025-09-11 12:33:25+00:00
While I agree to some extent about branding and colours, things were hardly a panacea with a lot of buttons and checkboxes as the infamous "Bulk Rename Utility" showed how things could get out of control (probably nice for the author and those that used it from the start but waay too cluttered for anyone without exp).

First and foremost an UI shouldn't confuse or even worse mislead the user, now button as hammer for everything chaoses of old or branding idiocy of today both are guilty of those crimes.

The art of UI's has progressed, sadly some fresh designers are dogmatic as they are mostly exposed to "beautiful" B2C products rather that internal products and often miss the effectiveness factor of tools.

https://medium.com/@aneel.kaushikk/bulk-rename-utility-redes...
by Kelteseth | 2025-09-11 12:34:22+00:00
For me it is simply because Qt moc does not support modules yet. This is my last comment from the tracking issue https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-86697

> C++ 26 reflections have now been voted in. This would get rid of moc entirely, but I really do not see how this will become widely available in the next 5-10 Years+. This would require Qt to move to C++ 26, but only if compiler support is complete for all 3 compilers AND older Linux distros that ship these compilers. For example, MSVC still has no native C++ 23 flag (In CMake does get internally altered to C++ latest aka. C++ 26) , because they told me that they will only enable it is considered 100% stable. So I guess we need to add modules support into moc now, waiting another 10 years is not an option for me .
by lucianbr | 2025-09-11 12:34:41+00:00
> Nobody has even close to an absolute majority in the parlement.

If the parliament would elect the government, the situation would be exactly as problematic as it is now. I don't see how the fact that the president chooses the prime-minister has any impact on the stability of the system.

You have pointed out a lot of true things, but none of them seems to be a your-system-specific-cause of the current instability.

I don't understand how a 30-30-30 split would work any better if parliament elected the government instead of the president. They would still be unable to reach any agreement, including an agreement on who to put in the government.
by tempodox | 2025-09-11 12:34:50+00:00
I have to disagree. If those at the top are too perversely rich, it doesn’t matter wether those at the bottom may still be doing well at the moment. Human nature dictates that the rich will concentrate power and use it to dictate terms to everyone else, to pervert justice, and concentrate ever more money and power. Even if those at the bottom were well off before, they won’t be for much longer. Just watch what’s happening in the US. The ratio betwen rich and poor has not gotten smaller over the decades.
by rkomorn | 2025-09-11 12:35:01+00:00
> Nowhere delivers consistently attentive service quite like the US.

I have found this to be true in pretty much all interactions (on average), regardless of whether the person is on a tipped wage.

Americans value salesmanship and customer service in ways that few other countries I've been to do. They market better, they sell better, they make customers feel better, in pretty much all types of businesses.

Source: someone who's lived in three major US metropolitan areas, and two in the EU.
by oDot | 2025-09-11 12:35:13+00:00
I was talking just about the look of it, and not the interactivity. UX's familiarity bar is much higher than than the UI one.

Edit: And even for UX -- I am confident in saying we did not reach max usability yet. Some people (me included) are willing to take the risk of (some) unfamiliarity for potential innovation
by kodablah | 2025-09-11 12:35:33+00:00
Deterministic output is needed when LLMs are used for validations. This can be anything from input validation at runtime to a CI check leveraging LLMs. It can be argued this is not an acceptable use of AI, but it will become increasingly common and it will need to be tweaked/tested. You cannot tweak/test a response you don't know you're going to get.
by stickfigure | 2025-09-11 12:35:46+00:00
As a point of fact, Germans never elected Hitler. The National Socialists never achieved a majority, and their share of the vote had been decreasing over successive elections.

Hitler was appointed to the chancellorship by senior political leaders (the president and the former chancellor) who thought they could control him. Unfortunately Germany at the time embraced the "unitary executive" theory of government.

We all know how that worked out.
by estearum | 2025-09-11 12:36:58+00:00
Probably because homicide rates have been going down for decades (with a slight COVID bump which has since diminished) while domestic terrorism rates have been going up for the last several years.

I think it's clear based on your advocacy for a whites-only town what you're trying to get at here, but the data doesn't bear it out. Homicide isn't a growing emergency. Domestic terrorism is. That's why the FBI focused on it.
by codingdave | 2025-09-11 12:37:05+00:00
There is an answer to retention - customer service.

Retention can be recovered after downturns if you establish trust. To do so requires putting all attention on the customer. That doesn't mean A/B testing and user interviews, or other product mechanisms of customer focus. It means first-line customer service. It means that when people call with problems, those problems get resolved quickly, reliably, and don't recur. And it means having a human give direct responses, so people can build one-on-one trust with the people who actually solve the problems.

It also means having a phone number to call in the first place. Emails and other contact methods are fine, too, but you have to have a way to instantly talk to someone you trust. Many startup/SaaS companies are skipping that entirely, or giving free tiers where support is not included, etc. Yet every company I've worked at that had a direct support mechanism also had high retention. And the retention is 100% tied to the quality of the work done by the people who answer those calls.

I'm sure people have good business reasons why the energy and funds are put in other areas, and that is everyone's own choice to make. But it is no mystery of how to fix retention - offer world-class customer service.
by password54321 | 2025-09-11 12:38:25+00:00
It is like comparing a mediocre magician who is ok at giving an illusion of a debate that gets a reaction from an audience vs people who give thought provoking points.

A quick example: Someone says they don't believe in objective morality. He responds with "do you think hitler was objectively evil?".

The whole point is you either answer A) no, and get a reaction from the audience for looking bad cause hitler or B) yes, and now you have conceded.

It amounts to a party trick.
by wffurr | 2025-09-11 12:39:00+00:00
>> in anonymous forums there's a lot more people pointing out that they think this is hype whereas when we wear our professional hats many of us join in

When your boss is hyping it up and demanding all hands on deck full steam ahead on the Good Ship AI, lots of people join in out of fear, particularly in the currently awful job market which is partly being ruined by AI itself.

Some of us just stay quiet, keep our heads down, and plug away using tools actually fit for purpose, like LSPs and refactoring tools.

Very few have the courage to stand up in a professional setting and say the emperor has no clothes.
Show HN: A Hybrid Post-Quantum Encryption System Implemented in Rust
by znano | 2025-09-11 12:39:01+00:00
I built SARE, a standard for encryption like PGP implemented in Rust. It uses classic cryptographic algorithms like ECCs and Diffie-Hellman like ed25519/x25519 along with post-quantum signature and KEM algorithms like Dilithium3 and Kyber.

The implementations include sare-core for core cryptographical processes and sare-lib as a high-level library built on top of sare-core to make it really easy to use and integrate with your own applications.

Also, there is a CLI implementation called sare-cli built on top of sare-lib, which in its initial version supports asymmetric and symmetric encryption, signatures, revocation and validation certificates, and more.

I am not a cryptographer, so I would really appreciate the security considerations and suggestions that you guys might have.

Repo link: https://github.com/SareProject/sare

Docs link: https://sareproject.github.io/docs
by saubeidl | 2025-09-11 12:39:41+00:00
This feels like a recipe for dysfunction and more paralysis.

The reason nothing gets done in the EU is because the power is too decentralized and we're not all pulling in the same direction. We're getting stuck in petty national interests instead of the European cause.

The fix is the exact opposite - take power from the nation states and centralize it in the EU. There's a reason the US became a single country and not loosely associated states.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-11 12:40:04+00:00
Customers blowing off their feet with ZFS because they felt the need to tweak tunables they didn’t need to use, or didn’t properly understand, is not the fault of ZFS though.

You can do the same with just about any file system. In the Windows world you can blow your feet off with NTFS configuration too.

Of course there have been bugs, but every filesystem has had data-impacting bugs. Redundancy and backups are a critical caveat for all file systems for a reason. I once heard it said that “you can always afford to lose the data you don’t have backed up”. I do not think that broadly applies (such as with individuals), but it certainly applies in most business contexts.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-11 12:40:31+00:00
I remember fighting this one well over a decade ago when management was telling us engineers that our web, Android and iOS should all look, feel and behave the same; it took some time to convince them that what you need is not consistency across platforms but consistency _within_ platforms.

Nobody on iOS cares what/how your app looks/works on Android, they care that the UX meets the expectations they have of that OS because they're switching between apps on that platform all day every day, people actually moving Android<-->iOS are few and far between, I mean literal decade(s) time-frames that people aren't switching.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-11 12:40:35+00:00
> So... if anything, this is the exact situation stricter gun laws wouldn't really prevent. Which would be the targeted assassination of a societal figure by a determined ideologue or partisan or mole.

My point isn't that outlawing guns would stop every possible scenario. Rather it would make killings of all kinds far less likely, which is a win for everyone--even hate-spewing pundits.
by simiones | 2025-09-11 12:41:01+00:00
As an European (Romanian, more precisely) who has visited the USA, I would say that servers there were much more patient and attentive than servers I'm used to both from my own country, and from various European vacations. I still remember a young waitress who repeated all of the options on the menu literally 5 times going around a table of 15 people.

However, I'm not at all convinced this is as tied to tipping as people claim. My own country has a very clear and old tipping culture (though 10% is the more common "target" tip for food service), and yet service here is often terrible, with bored and annoyed waiters. I think it's much more of a cultural norm than any kind of strong economic incentives.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-09-11 12:41:19+00:00
> things were hardly a panacea with a lot of buttons and checkboxes as the infamous "Bulk Rename Utility" showed how things could get out of control

Layout and usability are independent of widget design. I'll take the widgets shown in the "Bulk Rename Facility" over the any of the flat UI "material" nonsense where it's not clear what is clickable and you cannot by process of elimination explore the UI.

That said, usability definitely has been improved over the years. So no, not everything was better then, but the widgets were.
by tremon | 2025-09-11 12:41:36+00:00
The council is composed of representatives of each state. That means you did not vote for 26 out of the 27 members, and most states don't have special elections for European Council members* -- which means that most of them have not been elected into their Council position.

* the Council of composed of ministers and heads of government. Ministerial posts are distributed among the winning party members in pretty much every country, and only presidential systems have a direct election for their head of government. In constitutional monarchies, the head of government is commonly assigned to the largest party leader, but it's not a directly electable position.
by Xelbair | 2025-09-11 12:42:17+00:00
Or just make European Commission be directly elected in such system:

- candidate needs to be proposed in country

- EU wide elections are held, candidates can only gather votes outside of their own country.

- Votes are weighted by amount of seats in EU parliament.

What we have right now does not work at all, EC has 0 responsibility(towards EU citizens) for their own actions and is basically a magical black box.
by fjfaase | 2025-09-11 12:42:43+00:00
Interesting. I am currently in the process of writing an interpreter for a similar stack based language. I already wrote a compiler for this language to x86 assembly that can be compiled to an ELF. The language is used as an intermediate language for a C compiler that I am writing. It is maybe less Forth-like than your language. For more information see: https://github.com/FransFaase/MES-replacement For the interpreter have a look at: stack_c_interpreter.c

At WHY2025, I gave a talk about the reasons why am working on this. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzyyO5wvm0
by anonymousiam | 2025-09-11 12:43:11+00:00
You could benefit by doing further research on Charlie Kirk, and on the 2020 election. Citing Media Matters will not increase your credibility.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/media-matters/

There is much to question about the 2020 election, and much of the evidence is now gone.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742670648433090764.html

What was divisive were the attacks and mockery of Kirk, not the man himself. I noticed that Comedy Central has now pulled their "Charlie Kirk" episode.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/television/202...
by latexr | 2025-09-11 12:43:28+00:00
“Next time” is preferable to now. Giving up and bringing others down is not the answer. If you want to give up, that’s your prerogative, but please don’t drag others down with you, you’re working against your own best interests. The thing you said right now is exactly what the bad actors want, don’t play into their hands. Thankfully not everyone has that defeatist attitude, or the law would have passed the first time.

And the proposal has not been worse, it’s more crippled with every attempt. Maybe we can’t stop the problem indefinitely, but we can mitigate the harm. Or maybe we can stop it long enough that the people making these proposals are replaced and we eventually win.

Don’t give up. You don’t have to fight along every one else, but if you’re not actively helping, I humbly ask that you also don’t actively make it worse.
by estearum | 2025-09-11 12:43:40+00:00
You don't know what an op-ed is, do you? Look it up! Here, you can type this into your favorite LLM:

"what's the difference between an article published by Wall Street Journal and an op-ed published by Wall Street Journal in terms of their expected journalistic quality?"

Re the training: did it have anything to do with being a monster, or was it about identifying and counteracting subconscious biases?

Do you think subconscious biases don't exist? Do you think having them intrinsically makes you a monster?

Re the white-only towns: nobody said diversity is mandatory. Where are you getting that idea?

Don't worry, despite the political climate today, people bummed out about the difficulty of creating whites-only towns are few and far between. In a few years you'll be ashamed of your views just like you were a few years ago, and as you should be.
by alphazard | 2025-09-11 12:44:38+00:00
> common to write emails or letters to their governor, but still I see it somewhat cynical.

Yes, writing letters to these people is unlikely to help. The only language they speak is in votes. They have to be convinced that they will lose reelection over the issue. A conditional prediction market for their reelection given they vote a certain way would be the most effective tool.
by Mizza | 2025-09-11 12:44:40+00:00
What's the path to recouping that money?

Even if every major company in the US spends $100,000 a year on subscriptions and every household spends $20/month, it still doesn't seem like enough return on investment when you factor in inference costs and all the other overhead.

New medical discoveries, maybe? I saw OpenAI's announcement about gpt-bio and iPSCs which was pretty amazing, but there's a very long gap between that and commercialization.

I'm just wondering what the plan is.
by dns_snek | 2025-09-11 12:45:05+00:00
What is actually a meme is this need to squash the entire universe of unrelated political beliefs into a single axis of "left vs right".

The Democratic party is just as, if not more socially progressive than many European "left wing" parties on certain issues, that's true, but that's not what anyone is talking about. Issues like abortion and LGBT rights concern personal freedom, they're orthogonal to the left-right axis.

When we say that the Democratic party is to the right of every European left-wing party, and to the right of most right-wing parties, what we're talking about are the economic policies that affect the lives of everyday people.

US democrats can't even get behind table stakes leftist issues like universal healthcare, social safety, progressive taxation, and wealth inequality. They know who pays for their re-election campaigns and who controls the media - it's not the working class. Democrats aren't leftist, they're liberal, which is a night and day difference.