MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sungchi | 2025-09-08 00:05:32+00:00
In practice, Korean staff are essential for the initial setup of Korean companies’ factories. But even though Korea has an FTA with the US, it’s not allocated short-term work visa quotas (unlike Singapore, Chile, or Australia). For various political reasons, Korean firms have instead relied on ESTA short-term visas, and the US had tacitly allowed it. This time, however, a Republican filed a complaint saying these companies weren’t hiring Americans, which left ICE with little choice but to step in.
by msuniverse2026 | 2025-09-08 00:06:10+00:00
Seems the modern corollary to the demoscene is TouchDesigner programming. I always thought it would be such a neat thing for demosceners to jump to TD and work with other forms of art like live dance and live music. The fact you can have body tracking, hand gesture recognition and also have it react to sound seems like the next step in demoscene stuff.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-08 00:07:01+00:00
There isn’t an option to not resolve “you’ve reached your billing limit and now storage charges are exceeding it.” You can resolve it by unceremoniously dumping the user data. You can resolve it by… continuing to charge the user, and holding their files hostage until they pay the back storage charges, and then the egress fees (so, it isn’t really a limit at all). Or you can resolve it by just giving the user free storage by some other name.

Just saying that there should be a limit is not an explanation.
by pamelafox | 2025-09-08 00:08:01+00:00
I am giving it a go for parenting advice- “My 5 year old is suddenly very germ concious. Doesnt want to touch things, always washing hands. Do deep research, is this normal?” https://chatgpt.com/share/68be1dbd-187c-8012-98d7-83f710b12b...

The results look reasonable? It’s a good start, given how long it takes to hear back from our doctor on questions like this.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-09-08 00:08:34+00:00
Prove it. You can put your stack data structure on the stack anyway. A balanced tree isn't going to have more depth than your memory address bit length. Why would copying a single value be slower than pushing an entire call frame to the stack? Locality is what matters and there is no truth to what you're saying.

More important is the debugability. If you have a normal data structure you can see the full stack of values. If you use recursion you have to unwind through multiple call frames and look at each one individually.

Recursion is for people who want to show a neat clever trick, it isn't the best way to program.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-08 00:08:41+00:00
Yeah this is what people are doing with LLMs every day. I don't quite get what is supposed to be different in the blog post.

HN is a bit weird because it's got 99 articles about how evil LLMs are and one article that's like "oh hey I asked an LLM questions and got some answers" and people are like "wow amazing".

Not that I mind. I assume Simon just wanted to share some cool nerdy stuff and there's nothing wrong with the blog post. It's just surprising that it's posted not once but twice on HN and is on the front page when there's so much anti-AI sentiment otherwise.
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by pjjpo | 2025-09-08 00:08:55+00:00
Circle is the company managing USDC and is the one to watch for a similar number. They just IPO'd and will probably have more precise data in the next earnings report, but for IPO it seems they reported 2024 $1.5B revenue mostly from interest. I couldn't find holding percentages but as a founder of the token, we can assume much lies on Coinbase - they give a pretty good yield so any coins there will have fairly low interest income for Circle, and their revenue would be mostly coins moved off of Coinbase.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-08 00:09:03+00:00
Which is why they are being flown home. I see no dehumanizing going on. They were detained because they had no right to be in the country. You are putting a spin on this that simply doesn't exist.

I'm frankly baffled. You have a large capitalist corporation, flouting the laws of the country they're in and exploiting cheap labour. The US are simply enforcing the law like you would expect from any non banana republic. I can't think of in issue where the left should be so aligned with the government. It's a scandal and i hope the executives get held to account.
by hackable_sand | 2025-09-08 00:10:13+00:00
Knowledge processes are more amenable to automation than physical processes, especially in food service.

Cleaning and automated meal assembly are hard problems, not to mention accountability for food safety.

But this issue is larger. I've had several customers come through who refuse to interface with NLP/AI. A select few refuse to use the touch-pad kiosks because they want to interface with a person (who is ultimately reading off a script with light banter).

Take it anecdotally, but adoption is not cut and dry for local economic engines. At the very least, my coworkers and I will be able to pay for our higher education while serving the community.

What is that worth?
by akerl_ | 2025-09-08 00:10:58+00:00
I don't think cash is saving anyone from the knock-on effects of international sanctions on their citizens. The same people who don't have access to a Visa because they're citizens of a sanctioned country aren't in a position to easily turn their local currency into USD, and the ways they'd start to earn money outside of the sanction bubble overlap the ways they'd get an internationally accepted payment card.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-08 00:10:59+00:00
I've heard that Google works [sort of] that way (don't know, myself). They have a lot of tools that allow devs to use what formatting they want, and it's made standard, during checkin.

I heard this, many years ago, when we used Perforce. The Perforce consultant that we dealt with, told us this, as an example of triggers. Back then, I was told that Google was a big Perforce shop (maybe just a part of Google. I dunno).

I have heard that this was one of the goals of developing IDLs. I think the vision was, that you could have a dozen different programmers, working in multiple languages (for example, C for the drivers, Haskell for the engine, and Lua for the UI). They would be converted to a common IDL, when submitted to configuration management, and then extracted from that, when the user looks at it.

I can't see that working, but a lot of stuff that I used to think was crazy, has happened, so, who knows?
by hereme888 | 2025-09-08 00:11:11+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmJvvqYgfUU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtg9qBq110

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgMagIqZNuA

I'm not a politician. I don't offer policies. But I did specify policies, based on policies that have been proposed, and some that are thankfully being implemented. But unreasonable people want extremist implementations, and go against reasonable policies.

I'm being as specific as it gets. Now, you can try keeping me on the defense, or give in and admit I've proved my point.
by toofy | 2025-09-08 00:11:39+00:00
the number of places that beg me to install an app is ridiculous. if i installed an app from every single place that begs me to my phone would probably shut down in protest from the thousands of apps i’d have cluttered everywhere.

from the different grocery stores, restaurant, to every f’ing gas station, every coffee chain, car wash, home depot, and on and on with everywhere we go in between somewhere is begging us to install an app. it’s creepy af.

just begging us. how bout just let me buy my gas, please. just let me buy a shake please. i shouldn’t have to beg to just let me buy this loaf of bread and gallon of milk. it really has gotten stupid.

honest to god i’d rather deal with the begging of walking down a street full of homeless than the incessant nonstop pressure begging of corporations to install their app.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-08 00:11:59+00:00
I don't know how big the impact really is, but Intel is pretty far behind on encoder quality mostly. Oh wait, on most codecs they are pretty far behind, but av1 they seem pretty competitive? Neat.

Apologies for the video link. But a recent pretty in depth comparison: https://youtu.be/kkf7q4L5xl8
by foobarian | 2025-09-08 00:12:36+00:00
I quote:

>That is not what ‘power source’ means. You probably want to read up on some thermodynamics and definitions. I’m guessing you think that if you connect the heat pumps output to it’s input, you’ll have infinite energy?

There is no answer in that whole comment to my question. However, you did answer it in the comment I am replying to:

> you pumped the energy inside and concentrated it a bit.

Yes! That's exactly right. But furthermore:

> You didn't generate more energy than you had before. You did make existing energy more useful for you, comfort wise.

This is exactly right, and it is also known as the first law of thermodynamics. [1]. There is no way to produce energy. Even with electrical generation from geothermal, we are moving energy and concentrating it a bit, as you say, just in different forms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics
by hn92726819 | 2025-09-08 00:13:30+00:00
I don't know if it will. I actually have never even heard of this bug before, but I would assume that it gets fixed somehow and I imagine it involves unplugging it and plugging it in again.

I just suggested a smart plug because the original commenter said it was for HomeAssistant, which is really good at scripting stuff like this (if smart plug detects wattage below X, assume ipad is bugged and cut power and return it after n duration, for example). A mechanical timer might also work.

Also, I just bought 11 smart plugs so everything is starting to look like a nail :)
by karmasimida | 2025-09-08 00:13:30+00:00
It seems to me Hyundai is at fault here, or they just outright organized this.

Koreans can come to US without visa, but that visa doesn’t allow you to work. That means no hands on work at the site. Considering the raids happening at the factory itself, I would really be surprised if they are only there to receive training by their US counterparts, which seems pretty unlikely.

As immigrants, our visa status has been tracked by day one, and constantly validated. It boggles my mind why Hyundai didn’t just pay to apply for H2B visa, to invite those workers to come here legally. Yeah it takes time and money but it is the correct thing to do
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by simonw | 2025-09-08 00:14:31+00:00
What's different is that LLMs with search tools used to be terrible - they would run a single search, get back 10 results and summarize those.

Often the results were bad, so the answer was bad.

GPT-5 Thinking (and o3 before it, but very few people tried o3) does a whole lot better then that. It runs multiple searches, then evaluates the results and runs follow-up searches to try to get to a credible result.

This is new and worth writing about. LLM search doesn't suck any more.
by mlyle | 2025-09-08 00:16:08+00:00
This is one of those weird edge cases that comes from us having an incoherent immigration policy.

We know that fitting out and commissioning these kinds of factories takes foreign workers who have the subject matter expertise on how the parent company does it. But we have a history of not providing proper work visas for it and looking the other way.

On the other hand, if you don't let these people in, it's not clear how Hyundai gets a functional battery factory that's built like their other ones.

The old policy of looking the other way was broken. But suddenly "fixing it" with enforcement isn't too smart, either.
by geor9e | 2025-09-08 00:16:12+00:00
I used to build factories. We'd design and install the robots and machines of the assembly line. Final install took months. We never got work visas in those countries. We'd just say we were there for engineering meetings. Which we did have, but mainly we were installing, calibrating, and testing the machines we designed. I wonder if it's something like that. We did however hire local subcontractor labor for the generic work. If we sent 300 Americans over I suspect it might have set off some alarms.
by mastazi | 2025-09-08 00:16:15+00:00
As anyone who's used it knows, CB radio is very much unlike anything you can do with a smartphone[1][2], so I argue it should go in the second list at the end of the article, where the author talks about things that can't be replaced by a smartphone.

[1] notice how CB radios can still be bought at major retailers such as this one, one of the largest in my country https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/4wd-recovery/uhf-cb-vhf-ra...

(the same can't be said of cassette recorders or answering machines or VHS camcorders)

[2] there were many attempts to make smartphone apps where you can communicate with people that are physically around you. These never picked up steam and the two examples I remember are now defunct (I can't remember the names, I will update this post if I find them)

EDIT: the apps in question were called Highlight app and Glancee app.

Highlight:

https://parislemon.com/post/18994363772/meeting-people-is-ea...

https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/highlight2x/

Glancee still has a website, but it no longer exists as a standalone app as they were acquired by Facebook many years ago:

https://glancee.com/
by theptip | 2025-09-08 00:17:15+00:00
A good case study. I have found these two to be good categories of win:

> Use these tools as a massive force multiplier of your own skills.

Claude definitely makes me more productive in frameworks I know well, where I can scan and pattern-match quickly on the boilerplate parts.

> Use these tools for rapid onboarding onto new frameworks.

I’m also more productive here, this is an enabler to explore new areas, and is also a boon at big tech companies where there are just lots of tech stacks and frameworks in use.

I feel there is an interesting split forming in ability to gauge AI capabilities - it kinda requires you to be on top of a rapidly-changing firehose of techniques and frameworks. If you haven’t spent 100 hours with Claude Code / Claude 4.0 you likely don’t have an accurate picture of its capabilities.

“Enables non-coders to vibe code their way into trouble” might be the median scenario on X, but it’s not so relevant to what expert coders will experience if they put the time in.
by nicwolff | 2025-09-08 00:17:32+00:00
This article doesn't mention "subagents" https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents which makes me wonder when it was written. I'm finding that just delegating "scan the memory bank for information relevant to the current task" and "run the unit and functional tests and report back only the failures or coverage" to subagents does a lot to keep the main agent's context from filling up.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-09-08 00:17:51+00:00
I'm completely baffled by that. It would be preferable for the ICE to turn a blind eye to a huge corporation that is breaking the law in a large and systemic manner? It sounds like Hyundai has been dealing with the us in bad faith. Or the standing practice has been to choose not to enforce the law based on political considerations. That sounds awfully like end stage capitalism to me...
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-08 00:18:56+00:00
> "These old PCs encouraged exploration, expansion, tinkering, and development."

Most users of that era did none of those things. They used apps or shareware they purchased, not much different from today. If anything, it was vastly harder at that time to get the tools to tinker. Compilers and assemblers were quite expensive products; users would be limited to Microsoft GW-BASIC and debug.com that came with MS-DOS or a copy of Borland Turbo Pascal if they were willing to pay extra to get it.
by pylua | 2025-09-08 00:19:42+00:00
I've also experienced this, and I completely agree. The reality is that you have to pay a very high salary in the US if you want someone to do a very good job. You probably have to recruit from the top universities, or the top candidate from other universities. Also, for a fraction of a US salary you can hire the very best bands in other countries, which is obviously a logical decision for any company to make.

That does not, however, excuse anyone from following the law.

I could be wrong, but the intent of the law is to encourage companies to train candidates to make them ready for the job. If you are just bringing in workers from other countries to work on us soil, even though there are us workers that can you do the job, in my mind you are essentially circumventing the intent of the law. This weakens the country for everyone.

Part of the problem right now with regards to skills is that there is essentially a threshold that has been crossed for outsourcing where the skills are just more prevalent in other countries. That's obviously not a great look for the United States.
by benoau | 2025-09-08 00:19:47+00:00
This story's been going around for a while but at the end of the day the issue is a low/no/whatever coding platform where the development occurs against the production version conflated by not having any sort of backup or versioning for the production data / database. AKA this is a problem with "Replit", anyone sufficiently drunk or distracted could achieve this outcome without a coding agent.
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-08 00:20:51+00:00
This is excellent!

I worked at a Visa Level 1 merchant 2003-2006. We had Luhn checks scattered throughout the code, which led to some delightful bugs.

From the post: "walk over the digits from right-to-left, alternating between adding the digit and adding the “Luhn double” of the digit to a rolling sum."

That algorithm is good to see, and I'm glad that everyone has come around to that method, but in 2003, that was absolutely not how folks did it. MasterCard and Discover numbers were known to be 16 digits. Visas where 16 digits, and it was rumored that some accounts had 12 digit numbers. Never saw one in the wild. Of course American Express is from Mars and has 13 digit numbers, and a 4 digit CVV.

The several Luhn-checks in the code always looked at length of the card number and based on that, started with a "luhn double" or with a regular number. The Luhn check documentation at the time did it that way in their examples. That made for some super clunky code resembling Fortran, no matter what language you wrote it in.
by akio | 2025-09-08 00:21:34+00:00
> I think in this case Europe/Kyiv would actually change its UTC offset to match Europe/Moscow, which I'm pretty sure the TZ database would handle just fine.

Another user has already responded to the rest of your comment, so I’ll just respond to this.

In the Ukraine scenario Russia does not control Kyiv, so no, Europe/Kyiv would not change its offset.
by karmasimida | 2025-09-08 00:21:44+00:00
I can see your argument here.

But if you take things at face value, this isn’t a case where ICE is going berserker mode. They went through investigation and obtained search warrants.

Regardless how they handle detention, the only conclusion is to send them back. Thankfully it seems swift so the workers won’t endure long uncertainty.

Last but not least. One of the arguments of said investment, is to boost local employment, in exchange of other benefits, mostly tax reduction. It is a two way door
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by tinatina_AI | 2025-09-08 00:21:57+00:00
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by sungchi | 2025-09-08 00:24:34+00:00
I don’t know the full story, but a couple of things seem likely. One is political pressure—ICE needed to show they were “doing something,” which explains the 500 agents and helicopters. The other is that it works as a signal from Trump: if you’re a foreign company, invest all you want, but make sure the jobs and know-how go to Americans from the start.
by istjohn | 2025-09-08 00:24:41+00:00
You're moving the goal posts. OP wrote:

> The distinction I want to emphasize is that they don't just predict words statistically. They model the world, understand different concepts and their relationships, can think on them, can plan and act on the plan, can reason up to a point, in order to generate the next token.

You replied:

> How can an LLM model the world, in any meaningful way, when it has no experience of the world?

> An LLM is a language model, not a world model.

No one in this discussion has claimed that LLM's are effective general purpose agents, able to throw a curve ball, or drive a vehicle. The claim is that they do model the world in a meaningfull sense.

You may be able to make a case for that being false, but the assumption that direct experience is required to form a model of a certain domain is not an assumption we make of humans. Some domains, such as mathematics, can only be accessed through abstract reasoning, but it's clear that mathematicians form models of mathematical objects and domains that cannot be directly experienced.

I feel like you are arguing against a claim much stronger than what is being made. No one is arguing that LLM's understand the world in the same way human's do. But they do form models of the world.
by Bud | 2025-09-08 00:24:54+00:00
I have an Ioniq 5 and I have had nothing but perfect experiences with my Hyundai dealer. Both for sales, and service. Not that service has been much of a thing, since EVs require so little service.

It's also clearly not just me, as the Ioniq 5 has been rated the EV of the year several years running by multiple publications.
by unethical_ban | 2025-09-08 00:25:38+00:00
He was already loading "arbitrary" Claude code, no? I'm suggesting there was a way to skip password entry by narrowly tailoring an exception.

Another thought, IIRC in the plugins for Claude code in my IDE, you can "authorize" actions and have manual intervention without having to leave the tool.

My point is there were ways I think they could have avoided copy/paste.