MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-09 01:56:18+00:00
Hello. It's nice to be able to interact directly with the subject of the article, so thanks for coming on. It's a shame you're being downvoted, because it would definitely be interesting to hear your perspective. This can't be a pleasant experience for you.

I have a couple of questions for you. Firstly the article really didn't hold back about you in a way that you don't usually see. But he makes very specific and verifiable claims. The owner blames the market for 40% of their decline and you for another 40%. You have made over 400 negative comments about the company over the last couple of years. You run the subreddit as a bad faith mod, and you run a rival company so you have an interest in the decline of codesmith. Those are some of the accusations laid against you by the article.

I would be interested in hearing what you have to say about them. Obviously i don't expect you to say anything that might create legal issues for yourself. But you have opinions that youre not shy of expressing. The article was perhaps not wholly neutral so maybe you can clarify your side of the story. Do you have a specific problem with codesmith? why do you care so much about them? Is it because they are competitiors? Do you take such an active role on reddit in order to promote your own interests, outside of creating and maintaining a better community?

To be clear i'm a completely random guy with no skin in the game, just looking for answers.

[edit to reply: There is no plausible scenario that my life will depend on the answer. Literally the only reason i'm on here is for casual chit chat. Frankly, this might be life changing for some people, but i'm really not too invested in the story so i don't mind opening some dialogue in good faith from my end.]
by discordance | 2025-10-09 01:56:23+00:00
I like this approach:

“ What it all means for the future

It's not really my thing to give too much thought about macro-trends that are out of my control or worry about what negative consequences they might have on my life.

The short answer, I really don't know what this means for the future of the career of programming, the business of software, or anything else. Instead of worrying about that I'm going to try to focus on the here and now, the upside potential, and the unique set of advantages that I have available to me to build something valuable, have fun, and maybe profit.

I'm going to do what I enjoy doing, try to learn some new skills and create things.”
by joebo | 2025-10-09 01:56:44+00:00
I have 3 kids (14, 12, 11). I could have used something like this when they were around 10-12 to create some accountability for simple tasks like "pick up your room" or more commonly the dreaded 20 minutes of reading, especially when they ask for extra screen time.

The demo video has more than I would ask my kids to do, but 1-2 minor things that should be done every day isn't a sheesh to me.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-10-09 01:58:12+00:00
> An out-of-position glider out can _easily_ and very quickly overcome the tow planes elevator authority

Would this not be trivially solvable with a system that detects the situation (e.g. by measuring the forces acting on the towing plane's attachment point) and detaches the tow? If in the final concept the towed plane would be unmanned and wouldn't contain fuel, even a crash would not be particularly catastrophic.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-09 01:58:19+00:00
>This isn’t a zero-sum game where Texas grows at New York’s expense.

Not at all.

New York is standing to gain quite a bit.

>TXSE was backed by wealth management giant BlackRock and market maker Citadel Securities, among other firms.

>The Texas company said in June 2024 that it raised a total of $120 million from more than two dozen investors.

Ever heard of "The Texas Company" from 100 years ago when they first discovered huge gushing oil wells in Beaumont? Popularly known as Texaco, it was of course, a New York company.

Go back before 1837 and Houston itself was unpopulated ranchland while San Antonio and El Paso were well-established western towns.

Until New York investors bought the ranch and built the planned industrial community we know today.
by roblh | 2025-10-09 01:58:34+00:00
The router is really baffling, agreed. Magic file names make me so frustrated, and even more so when they all start with the same prefix so all my editor tabs look the same. I wish they’d just make a simple single file router that works the same as every other one. There are a lot of things that aren’t perfect in Vue, which I primarily work on, but the router isn’t one of the things that bothers me. It mostly just works.
by zahlman | 2025-10-09 01:58:38+00:00
> Discord may have leaked sensitive personal information about 70,000 users -- including (but not necessarily limited to) government IDs, names, usernames, email addresses, last 4 digits of SSN, and IP addresses.

Credit card numbers are not SSNs, and I can't fathom why Discord would have the latter (I certainly never gave them any government ID either). Not to mention, "last 4 digits" of a credit card number will commonly appear on, for example, store receipts that people commonly just leave behind. Usernames can hardly be called sensitive information, either. The point is all the other stuff being tied to the username.
by usefulcat | 2025-10-09 01:59:10+00:00
It depends on how thinly traded the stock is. Unless it's very thinly traded or you trade it after hours you'll almost certainly be completely fine. Like if you're talking about something heavily traded like a FAANG, you could probably dump several thousand shares pretty much any time during regular trading hours and have little or no effect on the price. Certainly not enough to be worth caring about for a one time transaction. OTOH if you're running some trading algo that does that kind of transaction thousands of times a day (or more) every day, then that would be a very different story.
by joe_the_user | 2025-10-09 01:59:41+00:00
As GM, I strongly disagree. Any player who wants a character with "I can overrule the GM but I will do that only occasionally" power is a very big red flag. A D&D game isn't a mythological story or TV show. It's a community told story where one character having an "OP" (over powered) character basically destroys the balance between player and GM as well as between player and player, both of which are extremely important.

To make it clearer, the players and the GM will be struggling against each - in a controlled way, yes, but also a meaningful way. I'm not a super deadly GM but players will be risking death in at least low-key way and so everyone will sooner or later be "using everything they have".

Edit: basically, saying "this rule/power/etc exists but won't have an impact" is more or less saying that the "rules aren't serious", in either the 'Chat Control' or the DM situation. But the very nature of rules is that we wouldn't have them if they weren't serious.
by DLA | 2025-10-09 02:00:15+00:00
This is such unserious “reporting” - typical biased, agenda-driven hysteria from The Atlantic. Sixty-day security operations with National Guard to protect Federal officers doing legal deportation operations is not an authoritarian takeover.

I’d like to see a little concern over the lawlessness and crime that’s occurring because certain big cities don’t enforce laws and fail to protect the citizens. Yes by all means protest, 1A rights all day, but attacking police and Federal officers is a crime. This must stop.

And regarding, “extrajudicial killings of random Venezuelan people” - How many ‘random’ people (and a few US citizens) did Obama drone with zero due process?
by jalapenos | 2025-10-09 02:01:11+00:00
Never seems to matter how many horror stories are written or have actually happened regarding totalitarian states, people just seem drawn to them, like they can't help themselves.

What absurd news to be hearing in 2025, that "western liberal democracy" states are discussing whether to have the power to listen in on everyone's conversations - something Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia could have only dreamed of.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-10-09 02:01:14+00:00
The only way to implement this is to eliminate competition between exchanges.

There are two different things being talked about here.

Trading based on arbitrage between exchanges will happen in one way or another no matter what.

Trading millions of times per second automatically on the same exchange when some people have low latency computers at the exchange with huge amounts of extra information is not necessary.

Also, Wall Street would love this. The more of the order book you submitted, the more information you have about its composition.

The point isn't to make something 'wall street hates' it's to make something that doesn't get money eaten away by automated computers in the middle so that it's the best option for people making trading decisions on people time scales.
by simonw | 2025-10-09 02:02:09+00:00
When I'm working with models I'm always looking for the simplest possible way to express a task. I've never been a fan of the whole "you're a world expert in X", "I'll tip you a million dollars if..." etc school of prompting.

I wrote up another real world example of how I use Claude Code this afternoon: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/claude-datasette-plugin...
by kelthuzad | 2025-10-09 02:02:31+00:00
>Seems doubtful to me. Native apps just tend to feel better.

I'm really tired of hearing this quite frankly, because the reasons as to why that happens to be the case in some scenarios is not "just" a coincidence, which has been explained ad nauseam.

>This scorecard says that Chrome for Android already does pretty well, but how many users use PWAs on Android?

While I've not seen any stats, I personally use them where possible. Interestingly, my boomer Dad, who is completely clueless when it comes to technology, independently discovered them. He has no idea what a "PWA" is, but he always asks me to "make this website an app for me".
by andyayers | 2025-10-09 02:02:51+00:00
Microsoft | Compiler Engineer, .NET JIT | C++, C# | Redmond WA / Other locations possible

We are a small tight-knit team, happy to both teach and learn new ways of making code run faster.

If you're curious about the kind of work we have been doing recently, check out the JIT section of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen... and or https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/core...
by credit_guy | 2025-10-09 02:03:00+00:00
This is how financing works. When you buy a house, you get a mortgage from a bank. It is unusual to get a mortgage from a seller. It would feel a bit circular, right? But that is exactly what happens most of the time when people buy a car. They get a loan from the same company that sells them the car. Is that circular?

When you replace people with companies, the financing can become much more complex. The example you provided with Nvidia and Lambda seems quite reasonable to me. Here's an example that happens every day in the world of housing: banks lend money to house buyers. Then they package the mortgages and sell the resulting mortgage back securities. Then they take the money from the proceeds, and give more loans, and package them and create more mortgage back securities. Seems circular, right? But that's just how business is done. There is no Ponzi aspect to this, or fraud, or smoke and mirrors. It's just every day business. Nobody labels that as being circular.
by churchill | 2025-10-09 02:03:11+00:00
On the surface, the circular financing seems worrying but once you dig into it, it seems quite benign, tbh. NVIDIA is handing out GPUs into OpenAI, in return for stock/future revenue, whichever way you want to slice it. OpenAI has wonky unit economics, yes, but they're growing at ~100% YoY, so it all checks out, if you ask me.
by zenmac | 2025-10-09 02:04:31+00:00
>Seems doubtful to me. Native apps just tend to feel better.

That may have being true a few years ago, but now days unless you are really pushing for very specific stuff GPU stuff. With CSS GPU acceleration its barely noticeable for normal UIs. Now there are tons and tons of PWA that is done in a very in efficient way, then you get a really laggy app.
by chavi2 | 2025-10-09 02:04:42+00:00
One thing I worry about, probably unnecessarily, is anything with a sense of urgency.

HEY GUYS WE JUST FOUND A GOLANG COMPILER BUG AND FATAL PANICS!

Everyone is like “Hmm. I need to fix this now.”

So, 99% probability it’s what it is. 1% it’s some secret defensive thing because there was a bad stupid zero day someone would get fired over or that could leave the world in shambles if uncovered, or maybe something else needed to be swept under the rug, or maybe someone wants to distract while they introduce a new vulnerability.

I don’t think this with CVEs, but when someone’s like “install this patch everybody!” the dim red light flickers on.
by treyd | 2025-10-09 02:04:44+00:00
The issue you're gesturing at is that "left" positions tend to be in touch with reality and coherent with each other. Whereas conservative positions tend to be out of touch with reality and often contradict each other.

This gives the appearance to people that hold positions that are out of touch with reality that the coherent narratives are an all-encompassing hegemonic echo chamber that covers the whole site. The incoherent conservative narratives fail to take root among a wider audience since they fall apart when scrutinized. The karma system om reddit's encourages this behavior among neutral subreddit to dunk on people when they say things that are nonsense.

So that's why you only see them being held in specific ideological echo chambers like /r/Conservative where you have mods that censor discussion that debunks or merely calls into doubt the narrative asserted by the moderation team.
by Spivak | 2025-10-09 02:05:53+00:00
I'm so surprised by this, not because I don't think that many people would fall for a phishing attempt, but because the corporate "training" phishing emails are so glaringly obvious that I think it does a disservice to the people being tested. I feel like it gives a false impression you can detect phishing via vibes when the real ones will be much stealthier.

Are your phishing emails good? If so if you don't mind name dropping the company so I can make a pitch to switch to them.
by Crosseye_Jack | 2025-10-09 02:05:55+00:00
No need to blame the user for the companies actions.

Company enacts policy enforced on them by law, for example requiring proof that a user is above the age of 18 to be able to use a channel where other users may use naughty words (The Horror!!!).

User struggles to use the automated age check system (I used the "guess age by letting an AI have a look at a selfie" method and it was a pain in the ass which failed twice before it finally worked) so does what is recommended and make a support ticket. [0]

User, relying on the published policy that Discord will delete ID directly after being used to to the age check [1] decides they wish to remain to have communication with their online friends uploads their ID.

Discord then fail to honour their end of the deal by deleting their users documents after use, and then get breached.

Full blame is on Discord for poorly handling their users data by their 3rd parties, and on the Governments forcing such practices. Discord should have their asses handed to them by the UK's ICO.

Sure, us geeks can and will use self hosted systems and find ways to avoid doing ID checks, but your avg joe isn't going to do that.

Hopefully cases like this will help with the push back on governments mandating these kind of checks, but I see the UK government just falling back to "think of the children" and laying all the blame on Discord, (who are not without fault in this case).

[0] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343...

[1] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343...
by sailfast | 2025-10-09 02:06:54+00:00
Personally think this makes a tech bubble a contagion for other parts of the financial industry - especially if institutional investors take the "easy" trade that everyone is doing and add leverage to it.

Now once these folks don't get 800B per year in revenue and the money runs out, all of the banks go as well. But don't worry - they'll get bailed out with our money...
by stephc_int13 | 2025-10-09 02:08:31+00:00
Every day a new deal involving OpenAI.

Every day one or more article wondering if/when the AI boom will transform into a bursting bubble.

Maybe people are crying wolf or misreading the situation.

My gut feeling is that yes, this is indeed a bubble and behind closed doors the CEOs are in panic mode, weirdly repeating past and well known mistakes
by gruez | 2025-10-09 02:09:13+00:00
>What prevents AMD from turning it around on them?

Matt's telling is a little facetious, so the exact negotiation probably didn't go like that. More importantly, OpenAI has better options. If they want to pay AMD cash for chips, they could do that without also giving up their equity. The same can't be said for AMD. They're the second choice when it comes to GPUs, and they're desperate for market share, so they're willing to cut deals like this. Without this deal OpenAI probably would have bought Nvidia chips with cash.
by breve | 2025-10-09 02:09:29+00:00
> All that instead of making WPF crossplatform.

Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/) and Uno (https://platform.uno/) are cross platform UI frameworks for .NET.

Both work in the browser with WebAssembly. Avalonia renders to canvas. Uno can render to canvas or the DOM. Here are a couple of Avalonia demos:

https://solitaire.xaml.live/

https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-09 02:10:11+00:00
Ok

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517439

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517681

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519680

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45519719

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520063
by Fade_Dance | 2025-10-09 02:10:45+00:00
The part that I think may have some credence is that it may be a way to prop up huge profit margins that may persist for longer than they would otherwise in lieu of further commoditization and competition.

If NVIDIA has a stake in the company, they are less likely to do something like start brewing inference chips in house with the help of the foundry partner and a provider of vanilla chip designs. The company also gets a huge cash injection that is somewhat contingent on not doing that, and hey, they have a fresh pile of cash for cutting edge chips so whatever, right? My first thought was that these deals had more to do with that than anything else.

That aspect may end up being a bit illusory in the end. But then again, Nvidia has been proven to be quite skilled at building out and defending their ecosystem, sometimes through ruthless means, so maybe it persists (and I'm not sure that's a good thing). China certainly isn't a threat to throw a wrench in this situation... the entire US geopolitical complex will ensure that is the case.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-09 02:12:09+00:00
It's not me, because I'm human, and that's not.

Why does that matter? Isn't it all the same? No, because I'm human, and I can make special exceptions for humans.

Isn't that perfect hypocrisy? Yes, but I'm human, and it's okay because I get to decide what's okay and I say it's okay because I'm human.

See also: why can I eat a burger but Jeffrey Dahmer went to prison?
by sailfast | 2025-10-09 02:13:37+00:00
The weird part is the _impression_ that $100B is being paid to a hardware company for chips, when in fact zero dollars are being paid to a hardware company and instead they are relying on public markets to spike the stock price based on potential future orders as if the demand is real.

The only reason this works is if we are the useful idiots buying up the stock.
by Animats | 2025-10-09 02:13:50+00:00
> A common one is VR visits for real estate companies and travel agencies, for example.

Yes. There's a mini-industry doing this for real estate.[1] Some systems let you place furniture in the 3D model.

Versions of this idea go all the way back to Apple's "Quicktime VR", which was a chain of spherical images through which you could navigate.

It's a long way from a fun metaverse. (Doing a big metaverse at all is difficult. Making it fun is even harder.)

[1] https://go.matterport.com/RealEstate3DTours.html
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-09 02:14:33+00:00
Once you start receiving data in bulk, the time it takes is quantity of data divided by your connection speed. Latency doesn't factor in.

Technically you need to consider the time it takes to start receiving data. Which would mean your total time is O(n + ∛n). Not O(n * ∛n). But not all nodes are ∛n away. The closest nodes are O(1) latency. So if you start your scan on the close nodes, you will keep your data link saturated from the start, and your total time will be O(n). (And O(n + ∛n) simplifies to O(n) anyway.)
by moduspol | 2025-10-09 02:14:37+00:00
The ability to make videos with public figures / copyrighted fictional characters was taken away in the first few days. Unless you’re referring to the few public figures that signed up in the app and set themselves to public.

You could make them with public figures that aren’t alive any more for a day or two longer, but those get blocked now, too.

That said: I think you’re ultimately right, it’s just that it’s more of a past tense thing. My primary remaining fun use case is to push as close to the guardrails as possible to make embarrassing funny videos of my friends and family members, who are doing the same to me.
by testaccount28 | 2025-10-09 02:14:43+00:00
fair point. the true society self-organizes at each level to cooperate with itself. they avoid tragic outcomes by noticing the coordination traps that lead to them, and then not doing that.

i disagree that one must be subject to the rotten institutions in order to care about or fix them. but this is a disagreement of method, not of result.

i agree that seeking only the "best" can be a status-treadmill coordination trap. i turn away from this as well.

i have a strong distaste when "cooperation" is imposed from without. it is unstable. (does your collectivism rely on shared goals and reflective understanding? or is it enforced by artificially raising the cost of defection?)

agreed that i responded not quite to your comment as written. apologies.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-09 02:15:04+00:00
The problem is that Amazon will sell things on your behalf and just puts all identical items in the same bin, since on paper they are fungible.

In reality, scum bags are going out and buying cheap counterfeit junk, sending it to Amazon, which just throws it in the bin with every other item. Then someone buys it and gets a counterfeit one.
by mystraline | 2025-10-09 02:15:04+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/wrx_vb/comments/1g8dubh/fyi_no_tpms...

I'm unsure of all the different cars. Its all how a blowout report is handled by the ECU.

I know my cars, Toyotas Prius 2013 and rav4 2017 only do the light. No limp mode.

Ive tested it on a friends Benz, and that one gets positively rude. Limp mode, cabin buzzer, console blinking lights.
by reillychase | 2025-10-09 02:15:21+00:00
Yeah I used PokerTracker 4 to cross reference and kept working with Cursor until it got very close like within 1% of accuracy but there are still some edge cases I might not have found yet. In the beginning it was hallucinating a bit by “estimating” what the percentages “should be” etc but I kept working it until it was doing things right.
by gregorvand | 2025-10-09 02:15:33+00:00
Definitely. I've watched a company move its entire health care plan to a startup, buddy of the CEO, to help juice said startup's customer base for investors. When the company were invited to a call to learn how their health plans had changed compared to the old provider (but after the contract was signed) - the startup 'would need more time to figure that out' .. you can imagine the deafening silence on that well-attended zoom call.