MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aredox | 2025-09-08 17:28:13+00:00
The potentially "explosive" part of AI was that it could be self-improving. Using AI to improve AI, or AI improving itself in an exponential growth until it becomes super-human. This is what the "Singularity" and AI "revolution" is based on.

But in the end, despite saying AI has PhD-level intelligence, the truth is that even AI companies can't get AI to help them improve faster. Anything slower than exponential is proof that their claims aren't true.
by rsync | 2025-09-08 17:28:35+00:00
"... wow, not sure about avoiding cheese & milk - sounds risky for calcium/bones health ..."

A disappointing level of knowledge and sophistication in this late, 21st century era.

Your bone health is almost entirely correlated to the load bearing exercise and gravity stress that you put on your musculoskeletal system.

Fine optimizations to your diet (just like fine optimizations everywhere in life) are only sensible after you've taken care of the big, macro factors.
by jasode | 2025-09-08 17:28:38+00:00
>when your credit card is telling people where and when you work

This article's domain (Ramp) is a SaaS company that tracks employee expenses for other companies.

Tracking employee credit-cards and reimbursements is part of their service that companies use:

https://ramp.com/expense-management

https://ramp.com/corporate-cards
by maxwellg | 2025-09-08 17:28:48+00:00
I should caveat this by saying this is certainly not 9/9/6, yeesh. Weekdays are fuzzy but never 12 hour days. Do you count going to a meetup after hours as work? A dinner with a prospect? Early coffee with a coworker? Saturdays or Sundays are maybe two or three hours at the most.
by homefree | 2025-09-08 17:28:51+00:00
People here just whine and complain - yes they’ve “only” just sent a skyscraper to space for now and caught the booster on reentry, it’s a work in progress (along with their reusable rockets, earth scale telecom side project etc.)

My point is people will still be calling him a fraud when they do get it to mars, no evidence is sufficient for the HN cynic that thinks their “above the fray” ethos makes them smart.

Tesla has had massive success despite the haters, the model y becoming the literally best selling car on earth and you wouldn’t know it from HN. FSD has gotten really good, good enough to use more than not as they continue to improve it.

The best thing about capitalism is the losers here don’t matter - the winners get rich and keep going.
by kunley | 2025-09-08 17:29:03+00:00
You did not had Go in mind, but the [original commenter](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45167394#45168550) apparently did as he has quoted exactly the line about Go. Then you (and me) commented under that comment.

So my snarky remark was about him, not about you. I think it's ok to rewind the tree up to see what is about whom. I can sincerely apologize that I have put replies to two distinct human beings, you and that other commenter, in one paragraph. Honestly, I can see that could let to confusion.

I think we can stop now..
by bbor | 2025-09-08 17:29:42+00:00
For those of us who are particularly slow: care to cheekily hint at whether this is sincerely intended as satire or not...? In other words, first-order or second-order?

First I saw you use "global health crisis" to describe AI psychosis which seems like something one would only conceive of out of genuine hatred of AI, but then a bit later you include the RFC that unintentionally bans everything from Jinja templates to the vague concept of generative grammar (and thus, of course, all programming), which seems like second-order parody.

Am I overthinking it?
by yboris | 2025-09-08 17:30:08+00:00
Humbly sharing my own project: Video Hub App which lets you browse your videos in an elegant infinite scroll gallery with various ways of searching, filtering, and tagging. Only local - nothing goes online with my app.

https://videohubapp.com/ and it's open source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
by kube-system | 2025-09-08 17:30:21+00:00
Practically speaking, however, they are liable for the time to service those customers and diagnose product issues to determine that the customer was at fault. And, that extends to any future buyers of used devices. And, any resulting displeasure from customers, even though it wasn't Apple's fault.

These sorts of things are exactly the types of problems that exist in the used car market, for exactly the same reasons.
by thfuran | 2025-09-08 17:31:32+00:00
>Sorry but it doesn't make any sense to me. If your argument is "a trailing comma is a good thing," it should go into any and all function calls/list declarations/et

No, the argument is quite specifically that a one line diff to add a new argument/element to the end of a list is preferable to a two line diff to do the same thing. The presence of the trailing comma is necessary to achieve that only when elements are on their own line.
by craftkiller | 2025-09-08 17:32:09+00:00
> Sometimes I'll get a pull request with like 2 lines of change and 120 lines of some reformating tool.

The reformatting tools should be CI-enforced so you'll only end up with sudden massive changes like this once when you start using auto-formatters.

Regardless, tell your teammates to separate out formatting changes vs logic changes into separate commits (preferably separate PRs). Since they're auto-formatters it wouldn't even be any additional work, just:

git fetch origin git checkout origin/main git checkout -b formatting ./run_the_autoformatter.bash git commit -a -m "Ran the auto-formatter, which should have been enforced by the CI." git push -u origin formatting
by tingfirst | 2025-09-08 17:32:12+00:00
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by mikewarot | 2025-09-08 17:32:42+00:00
I've heard rumors that the recipe for Cobblestones has been lost. Here in Indiana, they used to be cast at a factory in Attica[2], I have a pile of them from an old walkway we've replaced. The embossed lettering is proof they aren't carved or cut, but rather cast with a debossed negative mold.

I was surprised to learn that most cobblestone was actually quarried rectangular blocks[1], used as ships ballast, discarded after cross-Atlantic voyages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_(paving)

[2] https://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/5FA11838-DE...
by capitainenemo | 2025-09-08 17:32:51+00:00
I don't know if you can draw any good conclusions from that on a linux install. Seems just as likely that after your 64 bit install switch, 32 bit libraries it was depending on were missing.

Linux distros don't tend to be as obsessive at maintaining full 32 bit support as the Windows world.

A better test would be to fire up a 32 bit VM and see if Firefox 32 bit crashed there...
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-08 17:33:03+00:00
No, they're saying their is an alternative, but it comes at a huge disadvantage. Perhaps not for individual users, as a DDG and Firefox user I'm quite content, but it's definitely an overwhelming disparity for website admins. Even if that admin is not literally in Google Analytics to view their site data (and they probably are), they're still looking at an overwhelming majority of organic traffic coming from Google Search using Google Chrome. And for site publishers and advertisers, Google AdSense or Google Ad[Word]s are enormous.

In 1870, if you wanted to get from Chicago to San Francisco, it would be facetious to claim that Union Pacific did not have a monopoly on that route. No, Union Pacific wasn't forcing you to board their train. Just like you can Ctrl+T over to duckduckgo.com/ or bing.com/ or kagi.com/ in seconds, and never go back to Google. You could avoid the railroad monopoly by 'just' riding a horse, or walking, or taking a boat down the Mississippi and launching a sailing expedition around Cape Horn. That's still a monopoly.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-08 17:33:24+00:00
I know about Hare and V too, so, then what exactly does it say for me to know about a programming language? Not much.

I have technically written more Odin than Hare (one Godbolt example, arguably two if you count my explaining how to modify the example to illustrate another problem) but that just means I have more justification to say I don't like it.

I've written a lot more Scheme and I had so thoroughly forgotten writing Scheme that I had to go read the source for myself when I got email about it decades later to be sure it wasn't just a coincidence of author names.

I'm not convinced there is space for any of the "C successor" languages in the twenty-first century and in the event space is made or given for one I doubt there'll somehow be room for more. So with today's field I would bet on Zig.
by withinboredom | 2025-09-08 17:33:38+00:00
> I'd probably go looking for a new password manager if it fails to do one of the basic features they exist for, copy-pasting passwords defeats a lot of the purpose :)

This isn’t the fault of the password managers themselves, but devs not putting the right metadata on their login forms, or havo the password field show only after putting in the email address, causing the password input to fail to be filled, etc.
by cooljoseph | 2025-09-08 17:33:50+00:00
> The system is full up at the moment and you can't really add anything without removing some things.

Middle school seems rather un-full to me. Right now students start learning about fractions in 4th grade. They don't move on to algebra until 9th grade. What is there in the middle? Not much, in my experience.

Maybe instead of having a giant no-math gap during middle school, they could move everything down and free up some space later on.
by kstrauser | 2025-09-08 17:35:24+00:00
It’s certainly not a cheap city, but IME expenses aren’t high proportional to tech salaries. (Side note: …which feeds the “techbros” criticism.) Yes, it costs more to live here than where we were in Nebraska. It also pays a much higher percent more than the average salaries there, so the number of hours I have to work to buy a thing is significantly less.

That aside, SF is a world city with an enormous amount of interesting and fun things to do. And if you get bored with that, it’s a short trip to see giant redwoods or hike through forests or climb mountains. There is a lot to see and do.
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-08 17:35:37+00:00
I wanted to say earlier when first reading this that I got like 15 minutes in without any explanation of what this scene was, and it felt like that might be a reason for a scene to die, if someone like me who got his first Commodore 64 in 1986 and has been alive for nearly half a century with interest in what this sounded like had never heard of it, outreach and publicity to new folks must not be great.

But Wikipedia says this is primarily a European thing, so I guess that's why.
by herpdyderp | 2025-09-08 17:35:46+00:00
I also see:

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hfm8-9jrf-7g9w

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5g7q-qh7p-jjvm

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8mgj-vmr8-frr6

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m99c-cfww-cxqx

I wonder if they're all from the same thing, they all popped up at the same time.

edit: they do appear to all be the same thing, and the advisory version wildcard is wrong: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/issues/6099
by rc-1140 | 2025-09-08 17:36:04+00:00
Places like this (hackernews) and Reddit are where concepts like 996 become normalized and picked up by everyone else, including unrelated industries. I think this is something that needs to be nipped in the bud ASAP and not given any time to fester because "startup founders need to work 996 to secure revenue" or whatever.

No sarcasm, no humor; 996 posts should be met with nothing but flat out ridicule and disgust. One's life isn't solely about work and this kind of behavior just makes everyone else's life worse in the long term because there's a chance for short term gain.
by koolba | 2025-09-08 17:36:20+00:00
Another great example of why things like dependabot or renovate for automatically bumping dependencies to the latest versions is not a good idea. If it's not a critical update, better to let the world be your guinea pig and only update after there's been a while of real world usage and analysis. If it is a critical enough update that you have to update right away, then you take the time to manually research what's in the package, what changed, and why it is being updated.
by chaps | 2025-09-08 17:36:24+00:00
Total anecdata, but whenever I've had to take an IQ test for an interview process, it's never the IQ test that's used to disqualify me. It's usually something like culture fit.

But these days if a job requires me to do an IQ test to join, I'll use that as a signal to get the fuck out of there and find a different role. So again, anecdata, but I suspect I'm not the only one who would eschew those results.
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-09-08 17:36:29+00:00
As a C developer, having being told for a decade that minimising dependencies and vendoring stuff straight from release is obsolete and regressive, and now seeing people have the novel realisation that it's not, is so so surreal.

Although I'll still be told that using single-header libraries and avoiding the C standard library are regressive and obsolete, so gotta wait 10 more years I guess.
by slg | 2025-09-08 17:36:55+00:00
>If you are an employee of a company, you have a duty to do what the company wants you to.

It is frustrating how these things are always discussed. "The company" is used to deflect blame on any individual as if "the company" is some organism that acts of its own free will. When "the company" makes an immoral request of you, a person is doing that. You can respond to that person by telling them "no". In my experience, I have found this effective. And if I ever run into a situation in which it wasn't effective, that isn't the type of place I would want to work anyway. Sure, this is a stance somewhat made out of the privilege of the financial security my career has provided me, but the original company being discussed here is Meta, the average person making these decisions is likely much better off than me.
by zozbot234 | 2025-09-08 17:36:56+00:00
This theory only makes sense if consumer cards are sharing dies with enterprise/datacenter cards. If the consumer card SKUs are on their own dies, they're not going to etch something into silicon only to then fuse it off after the fact.

Regardless, there's "tricks" you can use to sort of extend the precision of hardware floating point - using a pair of e.g. FP32 numbers to implement something that's "almost" a FP64. Well known among numerics practitioners.
by daft_pink | 2025-09-08 17:36:59+00:00
Are they saying no to patients or are they saying no to providers?

I’ve found numerous instances where providers have billed over $5,000 for procedures that I could get for $250 if I paid cash. They do things like seperating a test panel into 100 different separate procedures, etc.

I think they need some context in the article of the interplay between providers billing practices to maximize their fees and insurer denials instead of just demonizing the insurance companies.

Every denial doesn’t result in a patient not receiving care, but is sometimes pushback against overly aggressive providers/negotiation and some of that can and probably should be automated.

Obviously them denying necessary treatment is really bad, but I find that propublica articles are often highly opinionated against certain interests and leave out a lot of context to create an extreme headline.
by sqircles | 2025-09-08 17:37:13+00:00
> There is very little incentive to produce high-quality software, to not alienate your customers, and to support the thing you already sold.

I think some of what I'm trying to portray is that this should be the incentive. Either do it or you don't have a customer. Yet, the customers don't hold this standard.

As an individual consumer, if I don't get what I pay for, I return it or can even submit a charge-back. Is it not irresponsible of business management to not do the same?
by pseudosavant | 2025-09-08 17:37:37+00:00
This is actually probably the best thing OpenWRT have done in quite a while. I got two (one for a backup) and I've been super happy. I've happily used TP-Link, GL.iNet, and Raspberry Pi 4 devices, with OpenWRT in the past, but nothing beats the "it just works" aspect of a first party device designed for this, fully open, and a reasonable price.

Most off-the-shelf devices have too slow of CPU for a low latency/buffer router. The Raspberry Pi 4 is easily fast enough but needs to use USB3 network adapters which require packages not in the default rpi4 OpenWRT image. Not insurmountable, but a consistent pain every upgrade.
by ieuanking | 2025-09-08 17:37:42+00:00
The video is sped up at 2.5x, and the actual time spent was around 7 minutes.

We are now setting up an Eval suite and hope to run evals on our agents within the coming month. We are almost finished with the entire local app.

Ubik is an AI studio with two agents: Fiig (built for research workflows (searching, analyzing, and writing)and Precog (Just like Fiig, but Web search-based instead of using academic databases).

If this looks like a helpful tool for you, I'd love to hear your feedback!

try ubik -- https://app.ubik.studio/chat
by georgeck | 2025-09-08 17:37:45+00:00
Thanks, that’s helpful.

I’m also hoping similar media management options are available on iOS and desktop, since I use Signal across devices.

By the way, does Signal treat synced devices (like desktop or a second phone) as “replicas” vs a “primary”? If so, does this affect how storage or message history is handled between them?

Would appreciate any insight from folks familiar with the technical side of this!
by ars | 2025-09-08 17:37:46+00:00
It's Debian, it can handle 32 bit and 64 bit applications at the same time, and the package manager makes sure you have all the dependencies.

I didn't change libraries, it was a gradual switch where you convert applications to 64 bit - and I didn't think to do Firefox, but it wasn't missing 32 bit libraries.

It was simply a profile that I'd been continuously using since approx 2004, and it was probably too large to fit in 32 memory anymore, or maybe Firefox itself needed more memory and couldn't map it. (The system had a 64 bit kernel, so it wasn't low on RAM), but 32 bit apps are limited to 2/3/4GB.
by zokier | 2025-09-08 17:37:57+00:00
Not a stupid question, the article is asking essentially the same question

> That brings me to another question… I understand the need for specialized training, but does anyone know what actually happens on these transatlantic flights that couldn’t be done in a simulator or classroom? Obviously these are all pilots who already know how to fly the plane, so it’s just transatlantic operations that they’re being certified on. So is it about interacting with air traffic control, understanding the North Atlantic Tracks, etc.?
by dcminter | 2025-09-08 17:37:58+00:00
> Are the tags themselves AI generated?

Yes. The full explanation's on my blog and the code's public in my GitHub repo btw.

The main nuisance is that it will use inconsistent synonyms, so an article might be "ai" or "artificial intelligence" or "llms" without obvious differences in the topic.

When I get around to the stat-tracking I might do a Show HN or something, although it feels a bit frivolous for that.

> Also some tags include quotes and other don't haha.

Yeah, that kind of thing is a nuisance too. I'll add some more scrubbing rules to clean questionable characters out when I get back.

Repo: https://github.com/dcminter/hntags.com
by hunglee2 | 2025-09-08 17:38:02+00:00
Arguably capitalism isn't the problem either, because in its purest form the state would simply be a neutral platform, rather than an active participant, in the game of free market competition.

What Trump is doing is putting capital 'under the authority of the state' very similarly to what China did in bringing down in 2020 - cancelling Ant Finance IPO, bring down Jack Ma, breaking the edtech industry, setting salary limits for finance sector etc.

OP is right though - you can't blame Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg or any of the CEO's who are kowtowing to the King. Role of the CEO is to protect shareholder value, and maximally increase revenue and profit. Hard to see how refusing Donald Trump what he demands would support those objectives.
by theologic | 2025-09-08 17:38:03+00:00
This really is a good use for Perplexity. I suggest a prompt along the lines of "what is the pubmed indications for what somebody should take for omega-3 or n3 pufa for X". This way your pull the primary research and you can have a conversation to your needs.

With that written, generally the literature indicates that somewhere around 1-2G daily of EPA/DHA is in the range of what is fringe mainstream. There is a lot of variance around this and a lot of debate. For example, you'll get a debate about the ability of the body to convert 22 EPA into 24 DHA, so some will push DHA as the preferred source for the body.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-08 17:38:03+00:00
The chart title says "996 is taking over San Francisco" and the Y-axis shows that the difference between 2024 and 2025 transactions per hour on Saturday for food-related categories is 0.4%

This is what happens when some team sees "996" is trending and demands a blog post be made with any possible supporting data they can find.
by bitpush | 2025-09-08 17:38:06+00:00
Exactly. It has never been easy to search stuff using non-Google search engines.

You like traditional search engines? Use bing, ddg.

You like AI powered ones? ChatGPT, Perplexity

You want to pay for your search? Kagi

You want to plant trees each you search (!)? Ecosia

There are soooo many choices. But people choosing Google out of free will seems to be a bad thing for Google.
by 827a | 2025-09-08 17:38:13+00:00
Exactly yeah, my point is that there's a lot more to running these models than just the raw memory bandwidth and GPU-available memory size, and the difference between a $6000 M4 Ultra Mac Studio and a $2000 AI Max 395+ isn't actually as big as the raw numbers would suggest.

On the flip-side, though: Running GPT-OSS-120b locally is "cool", but have people found useful, productivity enhancing use-cases which justify doing this over just loading $2000 into your OpenAI API account? That, I'm less sure of.

I think we'll get to the point where running a local-first AI stack is obviously an awesome choice; I just don't think the hardware or models are there yet. Next-year's Medusa Halo, combined with another year of open source model improvements might be the inflection point.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-08 17:38:18+00:00
Compare: "Can you prove that alien explorers cannot make contact with us?"

Nobody has the tools to begin proving a negative [0] in either of those cases, and it's possible they'll eventually occur... But so what?

Just because it could happen someday does not mean it's happening now. Instead, we have decades of seeing humans excite themselves into perceiving semantics that aren't present [0], and nobody's provided a compelling reason to believe that this time things are finally different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect