MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by enraged_camel | 2025-10-09 13:32:24+00:00
First point is very annoying, yes, and it's why for large refactors I have the AI write step-by-step instructions and then do it myself. It's faster, cheaper and less error-prone.

The second point is easily handled with proper instructions. My AI agents always ask questions about points I haven't clarified, or when they come across a fork in the road. Frequently I'll say "do X" and it'll proceed, then halfway it will stop and say "I did some of this, but before I do the rest, you need to decide what to do about such and such". So it's a complete non-problem for me.
by lmf4lol | 2025-10-09 13:32:25+00:00
It's not that the so-called "modern fascists" don't use the term, it's that the VS does not even use the term. Not that it matters because it lost any meaning anyway.

Also the AfD does not subscribe to the main ideology of Hitlers party. Did you read the party's program? Where in god's name do you find anything in there that can be compared to the program of the NSDAP? The AfD is in large parts much more liberal than any of the other parties when it comes to the economic side of things. The AfD is also not against immigration per se, as long as it provides a benefit for teh country. Much like countries like Canada do. If you don't believe me, watch some speeches from their members, for instance the one that took place in Hannover a while ago. Don't believe just randomly what some leftist ARD/ZDF journalists want you to believe.

DieLinke on the other hand is a direct follow-up party from the SED. They want to end our capitalistic system and replace it with democratic socialism. That's 1:1 SED.

Anway, coming to Höcke. Höcke is far-right. For sure. Is he extreme? Does he want to use violence? Nope. I don't think so. It looks like people elect him in a demogratic elections. Does he say things that are on the edge? Sure! Is that his right: YES! If you don't like him, then don't vote for him. Attack his arguments with your own arguments. Labelling him fascist is a poor tactic and doesn't mean anything anymore anyway.

And you know. You base your arguments on the Verfassungsschutz. I think its a biased agency that should be removed from power as soon as possible. Same as with most of the judges, especially the radical left judges in Berlin. And I know, I know, you will call this now "anti-democratic" or whatever. Well, in a democracy, it is my RIGHT and my DUTY to critique the powers that be. That also includes the judges. Left wingers did that as well, until they successfully conducted their marche throught the institutions. Now, they LOVE the institutions. Don't believe me? The Greens SUED at the Verfassungsgericht, I think in 1983, AGAINST Germanys entry in the EU. Together with the Republicans. The reason? The EU is anti-democratic. Well, they lost because the Verfassungsgericht was pro-EU back then. However, now they LOVE the EU. Were TheGreens now less democratic than they are now? Were TheGreens "fascists" or "Nazis" or whatever you wanna call them becasue they dared to critize the institutions? The answer is no. And so aren't people that are critizing the current institutions.

And finally, to the guy claiming that I am a troll and that my posts are hidden. That's bs. I posted here maybe 10 times. And I am not a troll but a sincere citizen who just happens to really like the AfD and what it stands for.
by thrance | 2025-10-09 13:32:28+00:00
I think you're being way too charitable with Vercel's CEO. I don't doubt he came up with some way to justify to himself that what Israel is doing is completely necessary and reasonable. But I doubt you can get access to a press conference with Benyamin Netanyahu, then get close enough to shake his hand and take a selfie, then post the photo on social media with a tagline of the likes of "eternal glory to Israel" while having no idea of what is actually happening there. Either he's really that clueless about the world (in which case, how can he be CEO?), or he knows about the genocide and fully supports it.
by brachkow | 2025-10-09 13:32:29+00:00
I have tried most of the RSS on the market, and for last three years i'm staying on BazQux.

I try to read everything on the internet via my reader so it is important to me that it:

1. can discover not so obvious feeds like youtube or reddit 2. makes rss feeds for non rss services — in the past it had feeds for twitter, vk and instagram that didn't provide feed. Sadly this is no longer a thing I beleive as such thing as social media public api dissappeared 3. can retreive full text of article

That said I believe you need to think of choosing of RSS reader as about choosing a mighty backend for the feeds. There is nothing difficult in rendering nice text from XML. Real difficulty is in making RSS avaliable on sites that are hostile to RSS (and will became more hostile in future).

And for the chosen backend, you can choose any frontend — just look at RSS apps in app store for your platform. Most of them will support using other backends. Reeder for Apple devices is nice.
by Gregaros | 2025-10-09 13:33:20+00:00
I _don’t_ think that empathy has anything to do with it though.

Behaviour modification yes, but that is “stop talking so critically”. Or “don’t be so harsh” or “give this person special treatment”. WHEN to do that might be key here—perhaps the colleague’s husband has cancer, or their child missed school 3 days this week with the flu, or their project wasn’t productionalized/their new to the role/etc—and so a blanket “don’t talk so harshly” isn’t called for—instead what is really desired is social calibration.

But instead it seems everyone is getting caught up on the literal interpretation of this figure of speech instead.
by davidmurdoch | 2025-10-09 13:33:37+00:00
Commenters here are experts in react and have interests in technology, or are looking to understand more about these topics. No one reading here is an expert on geopolitical issues. You're just connecting on the wrong post, and probably the wrong website, if you want to talk about these things. There are places for that, but it's not here this comment section and if you keep trying to make it that you're just going to get down voted over and over.
by Apreche | 2025-10-09 13:34:05+00:00
If someone invoices me, and I don’t pay the full amount in a timely manner, what do you think will happen? Late fees, reports to credit bureaus, collections agencies hounding me, maybe even lawsuits?

If insurance companies underpay, doctors should treat that no differently. Don’t appeal through the insurance company itself. Imagine I go to a store and pay less than the full amount at the register, and then the grocery store appeals to ME to decide whether I actually should have paid the correct amount. It’s absurd.

Doctors should treat the insurance companies like anyone else who owes them money and isn’t paying in full on time.
by tock | 2025-10-09 13:34:10+00:00
> What I lament is that people with those views insist that everyone should cut ties with people with other views, rather than accepting that different people may have different views.

It's only natural to think that way because these particular decisions are based on ones moral framework. It isn't like choosing a favourite tea. People will be pissed at each other when moral frameworks don't match.

> Cowtowing to people in power and taking photos with hateful people is just repulsive noise.

It comes down to what you said before. People have different views. It's noise to you. It isn't noise to others.
by an0malous | 2025-10-09 13:34:14+00:00
The startup I work at is doing the same strategy pivot, we’re integrating AI into every feature of the platform. Every textbox or input field has the option to generate the value from AI. Feature that no one used when it was a simple form with a button can now be done through our chatbot. We have two key product metrics for the entire company and one of them is how many AI tokens our users are generating.
by tialaramex | 2025-10-09 13:34:15+00:00
Sure, you can keep telling me that and it doesn't stay. I'm completely happy writing Rust, and I am aware it needs variance to work in principle and when I do need that information I know the magic words to type into doc search.

It's like how I can hold in my head how classical DH KEX works and I can write a toy version with numbers that are too small - but for the actual KEX we use today, which is Elliptic Curve DH I'm like "Well, basically it's the same idea but the curves hurt my head so I just paste in somebody else's implementation" even in a toy.

Sorry?
by johnisgood | 2025-10-09 13:34:57+00:00
Use static analysis (Coverity, Coccinelle, sparse), enable KASAN/UBSAN, follow the SEI C Coding standard or MISRA C, and rely on the review process.

Many popular C projects do really well. Projects that you probably use.

Memory-safe languages eliminate vulnerability classes, but well-engineered C has proven viable for security-critical <insert whatever you want> infrastructure. The real question is whether the framework maintains that standard, not whether C is inherently unsuitable, thus the security concerns are legitimate but not absolute.

I think you are being a bit too dismissive, and your comment puts nothing concrete on the table.
by sammy2255 | 2025-10-09 13:35:09+00:00
I recall I was once on a Deutsche Bahn train, it was delayed more than an hour (not that I cared I wasn't in a rush). One worker came around handing out envelopes, since everyone was entitled to a partial refund, I had to sign it, and then mail it back to them? What the fuck? Not even Hitler would've allowed this
by InfinityByTen | 2025-10-09 13:35:20+00:00
Oh yeah, I've had one of those several years ago. It was a Bahn25 and I got a new one in 2 months and got sent a bill for it. Then, I called them because I couldn't cancel and I tried to tell them about this. At least at that time, the customer support knew about this sneaky practice, and would, on request, allow you to cancel it manually.

I did get a debt collectors post about my unpaid bill and I had to send around emails to them as well that I was pardoned and I didn't use the card at all. I don't remember if I got a confirmation about it and that's why I still have it on my records. After like 7 (8?) years, who knows when they would go under and then come up to me that I owe them like half a million in unpaid debt.
by tveita | 2025-10-09 13:35:37+00:00
It's for investors AFAICT. When Masayoshi Son opens your home page it better say 'AI' in big bold letters.

Is your product a search engine? It's AI now. [1][2]

Is it a cache? Actually, it's AI. [3]

A load balancer? Believe it or not, AI. [4]

[1] https://www.elastic.co/

[2] https://vespa.ai/

[3] https://redis.io/

[4] https://www.f5.com/
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-09 13:35:41+00:00
It does. If the tracker is monitoring DHT. Or, more likely, if your client finds a similar "no respect for private flags" DHT peer, sends data to it, and reports that to the tracker.

Does that weird DHT peer report to the tracker? It may not even have an account there. From the tracker's end, that peer is a ghost, and it looks like your client has reported sending data no one ever received.
by walkabout | 2025-10-09 13:36:02+00:00
Approximately 95% of my experience using "AI" so far is as something I accidentally activate then waste a few seconds figuring out how to make it stop. What little I've seen of other people's experiences with it on e.g. screen sharing calls mirrors my own. I saw someone the other day wrestling with Microsoft's AI stuff while editing a document and it was comically similar to Clippy trying to help but just fucking things up, except kinda worse because it was a lot less polite about it.

(And I develop "AI" tools at my day job right now...)
by Sharlin | 2025-10-09 13:36:58+00:00
It's not particularly easy to teach what that actually means and why it's a thing. It's quite easy to show why in general G<A> cannot be a subtype of G<B> even if A is a subtype of B, it's rather more involved pedagogically to explain when it can, and even more confusing when it's actually the other way around (contravariance).

Anyway, Rust has no subtyping except for lifetimes ('a <: 'b iff 'a lasts at least as long as 'b) , so variance only arises in very advanced use cases.
by ravila4 | 2025-10-09 13:37:42+00:00
I’ve tried this approach when working in chat interfaces (as opposed to IDEs), but I often find it tricky to review diffs without the full context of the codebase.

That said, your comment made me realize I could be using “git apply”more effectively to review LLM-generated changes directly in my repo. It’s actually a neat workflow!
by cheema33 | 2025-10-09 13:37:49+00:00
> But I'm a little surprised that they let the messenger get killed along with all the other innocents.

There was bad blood between the managers. My immediate manager bypassed his immediate manager and went above a few levels. Top management lost all confidence in the team and decided to can the project. We were all treated as peasants and told to find other jobs inside or outside the company.
by alberth | 2025-10-09 13:38:45+00:00
McKinsey has pitched my company on projects where their compensation is entirely outcome-based — for example, if a project generates $20 million in incremental revenue, they would earn 10% of that amount.

I have to admit, the results they demonstrated — which we validated using our own data — were impressive.

The challenge, however, is that outcome-based contracts are hard for companies to manage, since they still need to plan and budget for potential costs upfront.

So even when you have measurable benefits - it's still not so easy either.

EDIT:

To clarify the issue — companies are used to budgeting for initiatives with fixed costs. But in an outcome-based contract, the cost is variable.

As a result, finance teams struggle to plan or allocate budgets because the final amount could range widely — for example, $200K, $2M, or even $20M — depending on the results achieved.

Additionally, you almost then need a partial FTE just to manage these contracts to ensure you don't overpay because the results are wrongly measured, etc.

None of these challenges are insurmountable, but it's also not easy for companies either.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-09 13:39:16+00:00
Yeah donors on both sides are a problem, but there is no both sides in California. It’s the Democrats and their big donors all the way down. And that is the problem.

Even good new laws (new laws are rarely good imo) are only secondary to the powers that be winning at any cost. After going on and on about fair elections(tm) for about a decade and burning a ton of money and political opportunity cost, the Party is now going to gerrymander-max the entire state to the cost of what billions of dollars to specifically disenfranchise any voters that they disagree with. “We’re doing it To-Save-Democracy!”

In other words, there are no principals behind anything, only the Party’s needs. So a law like the featured one only exists to the extent it benefits the Party or hurts its opponents, and when that stops being true the law gets changed or some new law created to carve out exceptions for big blue donors like LinkedIn or anybody that has deep pockets for Newsome’s federal ambitions. Consider the two-faced orientation with respect to oil companies. Gavin talks tough about climate change while, as churches are locked down, going to French Laundry dinners to get wined and dined by fossil fuel lobbyists, and the prols are too stupid to know better! The loyal and earnest supporters (dupes) keep giving their money and votes to the machine while poor old people die of heat stroke because they can’t afford to run AC anymore.
by chem83 | 2025-10-09 13:39:28+00:00
WinApps is the project to watch (https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps), although they're still working on Wayland support (https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/issues/779#issuecomme...). It can get by through xwayland for the time being, it seems.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-09 13:39:39+00:00
Maybe 40 years ago or in some cultures, but I've always focused on $ / person. If we have a smaller team that can generate $2M in ARR per developer that's far superior to $200K. The problem is once you have 20 people doing the job nobody thinks it's possible to do it with 10. You're right that "there is an unlimited number of things to do" and there's really obvious things that must be done and must not be done, but the majority IME are should or could be done, and in every org I've experienced it's a challenge to constrain the # of parallel initiatives, which is the necessary first step to reducing active headcount.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-09 13:39:52+00:00
I don't understand the example. Does it even compile?

It's been a long time since I've used C, so maybe it's using some syntax that I'm unaware of?

IE: What defines "home" that is referenced as an argument to the "appRoute" function, and then passed to the "get" function to set up the "/home" route? Is "home" defined in lavandula.h, or is this really pseudocode?
by rybosworld | 2025-10-09 13:40:00+00:00
Looking at this from a software dev perspective:

- The moment AI is actually good enough to replace us, it will also be incredibly easy to create new software/apps/whatever. There could/would be a billion solo dev SAAS companies eating the lunch of every traditional tech org.

- People (Executives) seem to underestimate just how much of the work is iterating and refining a product over a long time. Getting an LLM good enough to complete a Jira task is missing the point.

- IMO LLM's are also completely draining the motivation of workers. A lot of software devs are intrinsically motivated by solving the problem. If your role is being watered down to "prompt the chat bot and baby sit what comes out", the motivation disappears. This also absolutely destroys any of the creativity/discovery that comes out of solving the task hands-on.
by paulcole | 2025-10-09 13:40:04+00:00
> What's an equal concern to me is how insufficiently resilient Reddit collectively appears to be, in face of this.

I don’t see this as a big a problem as you do.

As soon as you solve this, then you have the issue of people you see as good actors being ousted and having their influence taken down. If the bad guys can be silenced then so can the good guys and then it’s just a matter of how we figure out the good guys and the bad guys!
by maerch | 2025-10-09 13:40:24+00:00
People being prevented from doing their job because of code formatting? In my nearly 20 years of development, that statement was indeed true, but only before the age of formatters. Back then, endless hours were spent on recurring discussions and nitpicky stylistic reviews. The supposed gains were minimal, maybe saving a few seconds parsing a line faster. And if something is really hard to read, adding a prettier-ignore comment above the lines works wonders. The number of times I’ve actually needed it since? Just a handful.

Code style is a Pareto-optimal problem space: what one person finds readable may look like complete chaos to someone else. There’s no objective truth, and that’s why I believe that in a project involving multiple people, spending time on this is largely a waste of time.
by dahart | 2025-10-09 13:40:25+00:00
Open source does mean source available to many people, especially the non-programmer lay-public, no matter how much OSI and people who adopt OSI’s definition dislike it, c.f. the dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source

(And BTW I like OSI’s definition!)

Instead of claiming the words “open source” always mean OSI’s definition, it’d be better to clarify up front that you’re talking about OSI’s “Open Source Definition”, which is (effectively) a trademark or term of art and does not preempt all possible definitions of the phrase. (Special note that the words “open source” do not always refer to code.)

The turf battle over the words free and open seems silly to me, with both sides arguing that the other side’s word literally means something other than they intend. Stallman has argued that open means source available, and OSI has argued that free means price. Both sides are right, and both sides are stubborn too.
by its-kostya | 2025-10-09 13:40:52+00:00
We have to accept that sometimes technology that was envisioned to change the future one way, may be beneficial in other ways instead - and that's okay. We are very clearly still in the phase of "throw AI at everything and see where it is useful." For example, just yesterday I was sent a contract to sign via DigiSign. There was a "Summarize contract with AI" button. Having read the contract in full, I was curious how good the summary would be. The summary was very low fidelity and did not go into the weeds of the contract and I would be essentially signing the contract blind. Although AI is pretty good at summarizing key point of things like articles and conversations, this was a very poor use case imho. But hey, they tried it and hopefully see it is a waste. Nothing wrong with iterating we just have to converge on acceptable use cases.
by gaoshan | 2025-10-09 13:41:06+00:00
Most companies don't really need the majority of React's power. There is room for a low to mid level complexity library/framework to fill the space that the majority of sites really need (like, that brochureware site should be statically generated and needs none of what React offers and the site that deals with dozens of requests per minute can be greatly simplified). What we need is a low complexity tool that has a fantastic DX. Of the many projects that deal with this none has taken hold in the way that React has.
by mesofile | 2025-10-09 13:41:21+00:00
Besides the many other factors mentioned by commenters here, I'll add one other: drivers in the US rarely face consequences for killing pedestrians or, for that matter, other drivers, even when it's the result of willfully negligent or reckless behavior. It's such a longstanding trend that it's become a meme: if you want to get away with murder, make sure to kill your victim with a car. "I didn't see them/I made mistake" works so well that authorities just don't bring charges, because juries are so willing to accept this excuse. Perhaps because so many of them can see themselves doing the same thing.

See: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-k...