MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by otter-in-a-suit | 2025-10-13 19:37:21+00:00
> none single-thread performance (relatively)

I find horizontal scaling with many smaller cores and lots of memory more impactful for virtualization workloads than heavy single core performance (which, fwiw, is pretty decent on these Xeon Golds).

The biggest bottleneck is I/O performance, since I rely on SAS drives (since running full VMs has a lot of disk overhead), rather than SSDs, but I cannot justify the expense to upgrade to SSDs, not to mention NVME.

> Those setups always pure "home-lab" because it's too small or macgyvered together for anything, but the smallest businesses...where it will be an overkill.

That is a core part of the hobby. You do some things very enterprise-y and over-engineered (such as redundant PSUs and UPSs), while simultaneously using old hard drives that rely on your SMART monitor and pure chance to work (to pick 2 random examples).

I also re-use old hardware that piles up around the house constantly, such as the Pi. I commented elsewhere that I just slapped an old gaming PC into a 4U case since I want to play/tinker with/learn from GPU passthrough. I would not do this for a business, but I'm happy to spend $200 for a case and rails and stomach an additional ~60W idle power draw to do such. I don't even know what exactly I'll be running on it yet. But I _do_ know that I know embarrassingly little about GPUs, X11, VNC, ... actually work and that I have an unused GTX 1080.

Some of this is simply a build-vs-buy thing (where I get actual usage out of it and have something subjectively better than an off the shelf product), others is pure tinkering. Hacking, if you will. I know a website that usually likes stuff like that.

> You're not going to learn much about k8s from that

It's possible you and I learn things very differently then (and I mean this a lot less snarky than it sounds). I built Raft from scratch in Scala 3 and that told me a lot about Raft and Scala 3, despite being utterly pointless as a product (it's on my website if you care to read it). I have the same experience with everything home lab / Linux / networking - I always learn something new. And I work for a networking company...
by rob_c | 2025-10-13 19:37:23+00:00
it's been mulled over and keeps getting brought up again and again, the Overton window has shifted from "go away and come back when you're serious to", "christ how would we comply with that?" https://nordvpn.com/blog/tech-world-angry-with-theresa-mays-...

If you live here how can you not spot how every govt since they kicked out brown has been pushing for this?
by alganet | 2025-10-13 19:37:28+00:00
Think of it this way: if your problem can be solved by an LLM with the same quality, then it's not a problem worthy of a human to tackle. It probably never was in the first place, we just didn't knew.

The only exception here is learning (solving a solved problem so you can internalize it).

There are tons of problems that LLMs can't tackle. I chose two of those (polyglot programs, already worked on them before AI) and bootstrapping from source (AI can't even understand what the problem is). The progress I can get on those areas is not improved by using LLMs, and it feels good. I am sure there are many more of such problems out there.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-13 19:38:19+00:00
If you write something which is more than pure sarcasm it might become readable and form into a coherent argument.

Do you genuinely believe that the breakup of the Bell monopoly had a smaller effect on Bell Labs than stock buybacks?

Stock buybacks also are not stock manipulation and managers aren't rewarded because they buy back stocks. The board understand what a stock buyback is, they reward managers for being able to buy back stocks, in other words, they reward them for profits, which are then paid in buybacks or dividends. Stock buy backs are a tool corporations use to reward shareholders, they have no fundamental difference to dividends.

Dividends have the exact same short term incentives. Do you think that a manager can not be rewarded for his paying out dividends, which leads him to cut R&D spending to increase short term profits? It is just delusional to think that there is a difference and certainly in the scientific literature about corporate finance it would be a fringe belief to separate those two as you do.

To be honest it is a bit upsetting to read a comment with so little understanding of the subject and so little imagination. Do you truly believe that managers can not have short term dividend goals? How uninformed are you.
by malux85 | 2025-10-13 19:38:23+00:00
> When I stop the production line to say "wait, let me understand what's happening here," the implicit response is: "Why are you holding up progress? It mostly works. Just ship it. It's not your code anyway."

This is not a technical problem or an AI problem, it’s a cultural problem where you work

We have the opposite - I expect all of our devs to understand and be responsible for AI generated code
by jcla1 | 2025-10-13 19:38:23+00:00
FWIW the import syntax is now part of standard JS, according to the ECMAScript 2026 specification:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

And node seems to be used only as a dev dependency, to test, benchmark and build/package the project. If you'd be inclined you can use the project's code as-is elsewhere, i.e. in the browser.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-13 19:38:34+00:00
Feel free to live in a modest-sized, well-insulated version of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Breakers with a live-in domestic staff serving your meals on solid gold plates.

Or is your definition of luxury "performative wasting of energy"? If so, the lower the tech that you have access to, the better for the rest of humanity. :(
by leakycap | 2025-10-13 19:39:15+00:00
> There's this constant background feeling that whatever I just did, someone else would've done it better and faster.

You're having imposter syndrome-type response to AI's ability to outcode a human.

We don't look at compliers and beat out fists that we can't write in assembly... why expect your human brain to code as easily or quickly as AI?

The problem you are solving now becomes the higher-level problem. You should absolutely be driving the projects and outcomes, but using AI along the way for programming is part of the satisfaction of being able to do so much more as one person.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-13 19:39:20+00:00
> Physics can test those hypotheses under controlled conditions

I genuinely have no idea why so many commenters on HN will spout nonsense based on high school curriculum with the confidence of a PhD when it comes to economics, but won’t embarrass themselves in other fields.

Yes, economics—particularly microeconomics—is constantly subject to experimentation. Macroeconomics is closer to astronomy, in that models are developed, novel data sources sought, old models tested and then validated or rejected. Also like astronomy, or perhaps more accurately fundamental physics, it’s currently off in a loop of DSGE optimizations which are mathematically pretty for the field but not super interesting outside it. (This work is not in that category.)
by dang | 2025-10-13 19:39:24+00:00
You can't attack other users like this here. Since we've asked you many times to stop breaking HN's guidelines and you've continued to do it, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-10-13 19:39:29+00:00
Well designed non-trivial libraries should be open for extension and thus should not hide most of the implementation details, leaving the risk of too tight coupling to users. E.g. if I‘m not 100% satisfied with some feature of a library, I should be able to create a slightly modified copy of implementation of some class, reusing all internal utilities, without forking it. So no, modules as means to reduce visibility are not as cool as you think. And given the specific example of the list, it’s possible to filter out irrelevant suggestions for auto-complete or auto-import in IDE settings.
by themafia | 2025-10-13 19:39:32+00:00
> That's the labor-saving promise.

Where are the labor saving _measurements_? You said it yourself:

> You'd think about the problem. Draw some diagrams. Understand what you're actually trying to do.

So why are we relying on "promises?"

> If I use AI to help, the work doesn't feel like mine.

And when you're experiencing an emergency and need to fix or patch it this comes back to haunt you.

> So all credit flows to the AI by default.

That's the point. Search for some of the code it "generates." You will almost certainly find large parts of it, verbatim, inside of a github repository or on an authors webpage. AI takes the credit so you don't get blamed for copyright theft.

> Am I alone in this?

I find the thing to be an overhyped scam at this point. So, no, not at all.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-10-13 19:39:44+00:00
It (was) also settled precedent that he can't stop spending money required to be spent by Congress (settled during Nixon's term), but the supremes decided it's different now. Same for firing heads of supposed independent federal departments, which was supposed to prevent presidential manipulation.

And the s.c. created presidential immunity out of nothing. For now the president has unchecked power, the conservative dream of a unitary executive.

This will all end when a Democrat is in power again. This is not a sarcastic exaggeration, one way they teed this up was shadow docket decisions like the Kavanaugh rule (ice can arrest/kidnap you based on appearance), it's not a precedent as shadow docket so they can reverse it any time.
by alberth | 2025-10-13 19:40:25+00:00
Unsolicited suggestion: since some people are asking "what is this".

Maybe buy a new domain name like below (and direct to your existing from this new url).

EasyLearnSQL.com TrySQLonline.com LearnOnlineSQL.com

All of these domain names are available for sale under $10.

And the more descriptive name might allow you to not have to change the UI.

(Very cool project by the way and congrats on 11 years)
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-13 19:40:29+00:00
So what just happened logistically?

I assume this is an entirely independent Chinese company without some Dutch sponsor or something. That conforms to local regulations. But now The Dutch government says "we have this new power over you" and that is that. With the consequence presumably being export control on dutch tech, banning from their market, etc? Or were there any more hooks planted that make it easier to force compliance? For example -- and I assume this is not the case in the Netherlands -- in China there is a 51% ownership of the foreign company by a local company (which is more or less state controlled).
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-13 19:40:40+00:00
> Ban bots from social media and all other speech platforms.

I would agree with that, but how do you do it? The problem is that as the bots become more convincing it becomes harder to identify them to ban them. I only see a couple options.

One is to impose crushing penalties on whatever humans release their bots onto such platforms, do a full-court-press enforcement program, and make an example of some offenders.

The other is to ban the bots entirely by going after the companies that are running them. A strange thing about this AI frenzy is that although lots of small players are "using AI", the underlying tech is heavily concentrated in a few major players, both in the models and in the infrastructure that runs them. It's a lot harder for OpenAI or Google or AWS to hide than it is for some small-time politician running a bot. "Top-down" enforcement that shuts down the big players could reduce AI pollution substantially. It's all a pipe dream though because no one has the will to do it.
by liquidise | 2025-10-13 19:41:05+00:00
> How is BTC not the exact opposite of gold?

If BTC is the exact opposite of gold, it follows that Eth, Ripple, USDC, etc are all more gold-like than BTC. I'd be interested to hear why you believe that to be true.

BTC is a coin with longer investments and does not fluctuate as much as other cryptocoins (by %). It has a known supply (past, present and future) and predictable mining rate. It has a known finite future supply cap.

To be clear i don't believe BTC is a perfect gold analog. But if you have to pick the "most gold-like" digital asset, it would make my short list.
Dismissing something just because is AI generated is not critical thinking
by tomdesantis | 2025-10-13 19:41:31+00:00
I noticed a recurrent behaviour on Reddit. When a post is AI generated, users feel the need to dismiss it, even though the content of the post is actually interesting and valid.

The logic seems to be: AI was used to make this, so it's automatically garbage. This is also true for code by the way.

Not gonna lie, I also found myself doing this sort of discrimination in my head.

The problem is the following: this is a bias. Just because AI was used to make something, that something is not automatically invalid.

I understand where the bias comes from, a lot of this AI generated content is extremely lazy and boring. But that's not a valid arguments to disregard something just because our AI radar is triggered. A lot of people, me included, uses AI to correct grammar and improve syntax. And why wouldn't we?

I think avoiding this bias is important because focusing on style instead of content is exactly what we shouldn't be doing in this time and age. We should pay even more attention to the actual meaning of what is written since AI can be very persuasive at making faulty arguments and forging facts.

Em dashes are not a valid reason to shut off your critical thinking.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-13 19:41:35+00:00
In the normative sense of "another atrocity like this cannot occur", then yes.

However your comment instead sounds like you are dismissing it as a non-concern... in which case I suggest you wake the heck up. We've had months now of seeing President and his cabinet actively and willfully breaking federal and Constitutional law, with the entire Republican legislature complicit.

It wouldn't even the first time states tried to remove him from their ballots either. [0]

[0] https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/03/supreme-court-rules-state...
by philipallstar | 2025-10-13 19:43:00+00:00
> Other civilizations had great academic and scientific revolutions

I didn't say they didn't. The ancient Egyptians built the Pyramids, too. But that doesn't mean Egypt sustained that advantage and developed leading-edge science, values, and technology to the present day. They had a brief moment, and they are today in some ways a very cool country, but, as with most countries, they measure progress as "how far along the tech and culture trees we are compared to the West".

> The romans did not discover anything the celts had built in the british isles; they largely existed in opposition to them.

Maybe you should read my comment again tomorrow, with a clearer head.

> What racist and xenophobic BS.

A much clearer head.
by Aloisius | 2025-10-13 19:43:16+00:00
The only member of the Commonwealth that is British anymore is the UK and any of the independent countries in the Commonwealth grabbing a passenger on behalf of a civil judgement in a English court seems no more likely than any other random country doing so.

Even more unlikely is the crown exercising the kind of power you're talking about. Never mind that Charles isn't the King of the majority of Commonwealth countries.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-13 19:43:27+00:00
I have multiple open source projects, maintaining them and coding fixes for mostly edge case bugs, as I hadnt really added new features, became tedious and I didnt want to maintain them anymore.

AI coding fixed that. Pre-AI I loved using all of the features of an IDE with an intention of speeding up my coding. Now with AI, it's just that much faster.

>The result: Nothing feels satisfying anymore. Every problem I solve by hand feels too slow. Every problem I solve with AI feels like it doesn't count. There's this constant background feeling that whatever I just did, someone else would've done it better and faster.

I've had so much satisfaction since ai coding. Ive had greater satisfaction.
by q3k | 2025-10-13 19:43:31+00:00
> I assume this is an entirely independent Chinese company.

It's worth noting that Nexperia is a spin-off of NXP (Dutch company) which itself is a spin-off of Philips' (Dutch company) semiconductor division.

It's also worth noting that Nexperia's Chinese owners (Wingtech) are at least partially state controlled.
by mwkaufma | 2025-10-13 19:43:40+00:00
"Assembly is Brutal"

Counterpoint: I picked it up in high school and I was Not That Bright(tm).

Certainly, some complex instruction-set extensions or sprawling SIMD mnemonics are more challenging that what I was reading in the 90s, but the boogie-man status of assembly is greatly overstated.

The final thesis, that we can-and-should let LLMs micro-optimize assembly into non-statically-verifiable gibberish to save an instruction stacks misunderstandings on top of misunderstandings. Just vapid gold-rush cheer-leading from Wired.
by zkmon | 2025-10-13 19:45:27+00:00
No, it didn't. The way you get your wow moment has changed. You get impressed by your skills in prompting, agentic stuff and your ability to squeeze out the best work from AI, fix its bugs, get it to review and fix your bugs and make the whole collaboration a grand success. That's not easy because now you are expected to deliver 10x output. It's the same hard work, or maybe more hard work.
by jkrejcha | 2025-10-13 19:45:34+00:00
It's not your (unprivileged user account's) place to decide the security posture of the entire system, that's why you're running into issues with root. Even Yama, an LSM, requires root (or de facto equivalent) for initial setup (as it should).

Namespaces, if done incorrectly, can significantly increase the attack surface of the entire system (mount namespaces especially need to be treated with care) and same with regards to anything to do with user accounts.

The real security barrier on most operating systems to date is the user account and if you want full isolation (modulo kernel bugs), run a process as a separate user if you're that concerned about leakage (or ideally, don't run it at all).
by contingencies | 2025-10-13 19:46:37+00:00
While documenting a build path is nice, IMHO renting hardware nobody can afford from VC-backed cloud providers using cold hard cash to produce clones of legacy tech using toy datasets under the guise of education is propping up the AI bubble and primarily helping institutional shareholders in those AI bubble companies, particularly their hardware supplier NVidia. Personally I do not see this as helping people or humanity.

This would sit better with me if the repo included a first tier use case for local execution, non-NVidia hardware reference, etc.
by floxy | 2025-10-13 19:46:39+00:00
I'm out of the loop on this. What is Graphene doing?

https://grapheneos.org/features

>GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with great functionality and usability. It starts from the strong baseline of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and takes great care to avoid increasing attack surface or hurting the strong security model.
by diob | 2025-10-13 19:46:58+00:00
Interesting, I have yet to feel like AI automates everything.

When I need something to work that hasn't been done before, I absolutely have to craft most of the solution myself, with some minor prompts for more boilerplate things.

I see it as a tool similar to a library. It solves things that are already well known, so I can focus on the interesting new bits.
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-13 19:47:19+00:00
Hah #7 really hits home. Every RCA I’ve been a part of always ends up pointing to systemic failures in the org at the top level, because walking the tree always leads there. You can’t blame any one person or system for a failure in isolation. It’s usually some form of, “this is ultimately a consequence of miscalibrating risk associated to business/financial decisions.”

I forget where I heard this but, “you manage risk, but risk cannot be managed.” Ie. there is no terminal state where it’s been “solved.” It’s much like “culture of safety.”
by mattlondon | 2025-10-13 19:47:57+00:00
> The new way: The entire premise of AI coding tools is to automate the thinking, not just the typing

I'd disagree. For me, I direct the AI to implement my plan - it handles the trivia of syntax and boilerplate etc.

I now work kinda at the "unit level" rather than the "syntax level" of old. AI never designs the code for me, more fills in the gaps.

I find this quite satisfying still - I get stuff done but in half the time because it handles all the boring crap - the typing - while I still call the shots.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-13 19:48:00+00:00
Over the last years Android has gotten increasingly worse, which is something you just have to expect from a Google product.

It is still unbelievable to me that Google is shipping a product which takes 10 seconds to show anything when I search through my phones settings. What are they doing?

>open source

Sure. If you buy the right phone you get some open source components. Of course half the Android companies are trying to funnel you into their proprietary ecosystem as well. The rest just wants you to use Google's proprietary ecosystem.
by leakycap | 2025-10-13 19:48:20+00:00
> i wait a week

This is not long enough. You can say whatever deadline you want on your invoice, but in reality it will be paid approximately 30-120 days after it gets received by the person responsible for paying invoices at the company you work with.

> two weeks later i’m refreshing stripe like a fool

This is still definitely not long enough. Also, Stripe is extremely risky. One chargeback and you can lose a lot.

> just trying to see if this pain’s real enough that people (like you) would drop around $49/mo for it

No: Invoicing/billing/client contact info is the most important data a small business should keep secure. Further, I would never let an automated system reach out to valued clients on my behalf--ever. I have high standards for apps I give access to my financials/P&L/client list and it would take years of trust and reviews before I'd ever consider something like this.

> i just need to know if this is a real pain

It sounds 100% self-inflicted and easy to solve. If you want to be paid the second work is over, use a system where the funds are escrowed and released upon client approval of the project.

Otherwise, all you need to solve your pain is to build a 90 day runway of funds (at least) so your clients can follow their standard processes for invoice payment.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-13 19:48:21+00:00
Hell no. I'm a full-time indie dev now, so maybe I would think differently if I were trading my time for a paycheck instead of working for results with 100% equity. But now I get to tackle features and ideas I've had for years but could never justify taking the time to investigate and attempt, in part because agents are slow enough that I must parallelize them which allows me to test ideas on the side while working on my primary objectives. I still review all code and provide close technical guidance.

I already learned to appreciate working with code from "others" by working in teams and leading teams in a past life. So I don't feel as personally attached to code that comes from my own fingertips anymore, or the need for the value of my work to be expressed that way.