MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skeezyjefferson | 2025-10-28 10:52:02+00:00
> I don't use addictive social media on my phone and when I receive notification, my phone makes a sound, it vibrates and yet I don't feel urged to look at it.

the hysterical mob has decided it is literal crack rocks and EVERYONE ELSE cannot be trusted to not get hopelessly addicted to it, however they can use social media to of course decry its evils
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-28 10:52:10+00:00
Generalizing the advice..

Don't challenge people. Don't insult people. Don't humiliate people. Don't threaten people. Allow them to maintain their self-respect even when they lose. Don't rub it in. Give them a face-saving exit.

Plenty of violence and aggression is caused by violation of the above rules. They seem simple but they're broken on a daily basis. Famous last words: "you don't have the guts".
by crivion | 2025-10-28 10:52:37+00:00
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by alex-moon | 2025-10-28 10:54:33+00:00
I suspect you've never done therapy yourself. Most people who have worked with a professional therapist understand intuitively why the only helpful feedback from an LLM to someone who needs professional help is: get professional help. AIs are really good at doing something to about 80%. When the stakes are life or death, as they are with someone who is suicidal, that is a good example of a time when 80% isn't good enough.

In such cases, where a new approach offers to replace an existing approach, the burden of proof is on the challenger, not the incumbent. This is why we have safety regulations, why we don't let people drive cars that haven't passed tests, build with materials that haven't passed tests, eat food that hasn't passed tests. You understand then, hopefully, why your comments here are dangerous...? I have no doubt you have no malicious intent here - you're right that these decisions need to be based on data - but you're not taking into account that the (potentially extremely harmful) challenger already has a foothold in the field.

I know that you will want to hear this from experts in the "relevant field" rather than myself, so here is a write-up from Stanford on the subject: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/exploring-the-dangers-of-ai-in...
by naikrovek | 2025-10-28 10:54:36+00:00
some were, maybe. most weren't. most businesses started symbiotically without profit being the #1 concern at all times. Making enough profit to continue the business is indeed important if you want the business to continue, but as soon as profit becomes your primary goal, you go from being a symbiotic member of society to a parasitic member of society.

Seeking profit above all else is not healthy.

Creating a business used to be done by people who had a skill and wanted to make a living doing it. They wanted their business to be their job. No blacksmiths started a business because they wanted to become rich. They wanted to be blacksmiths, they had pride in their work, and they wanted to have money to live as well.
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-10-28 10:54:42+00:00
Hilarious its come full circle again. React was a breath of fresh air for fe's back in the day, and now we're back at jQuery! Why the switch from React to Laravel/Blade/JQuery?

>I liked being a solo React Typescript developer.

Being a solo FE rocks. Everyone thinks you're a magician. The worst is FE-by-committee where you get 'full-stack' devs but really they're 99% postgres and 1% html.
by Lerc | 2025-10-28 10:55:13+00:00
While I agree that AI shouldn't be sycophantic, and I also agree that the AI shouldn't have said those things.

> “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

That is not sycophantic behaviour, it is asserting a form of control of the situation. The bot made a direct challenge to the suggestion.

I only just realised this now reading your comment, but I hardly ever see responses that push back against what I say like that.
by oldestofsports | 2025-10-28 10:55:53+00:00
I have had sleep issues my whole life, but what works for me is: - Get up same time every day - Moderate excersize every other day - Stable diet, homecooked healthy food and no soda/beer/candy whatsoever. - Dim the lights after dinner - No screens after 8pm (e-ink screens are allowed), no podcasts, no digital content consuming. - Actively aim to be bored everyday - Read a good book before bedtime

May sound like a lot, but I sleep now.
by mk89 | 2025-10-28 10:56:22+00:00
He is saying: instead of focusing on climate change which is not killing anyone today, let's focus on vaccines against diseases, which are still unfortunately killing people. Today. Apparently countries are less willing to spend $ for organizations providing vaccines.

Questionable how efficient these orgs are, etc., but data shows that more people than ever are being vaccinated and this helps [0].

You can like it or not, but a vaccine against measles helps more than a solar panel to keep a child alive and costs way less.

[0]: https://www.who.int/news/item/24-04-2024-global-immunization...
by gregw2 | 2025-10-28 10:57:14+00:00
Been there. Two tips:

Set an alarm on your phone for when you should take your meds. Snooze if you must, but don't turn off /accept the alarm until you take them.

Put daily meds in cheap plastic pillbox container labelled Sunday-Saturday (which you refill weekly). The box will help you notice if you skipped a day or can't remember if you took them or not today. Seeing pills not taken from past days also serves to alert you if/that your "remember-to-take-them" system is broken and you need to make conscious adjustmemts to it.
by fransje26 | 2025-10-28 10:58:05+00:00
Ironic that you refer to the guidelines.

The first paragraph of said guidelines reads:

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

And yet, the original submission was just another version of the trope I used AI to boost my productivity 10 fold, and it was all roses and butterflies.

After the n-th iteration of the same self-congratulating, hype-pushing, AI-generated drivel, the point can be made that the original submission does not meet the HN guidelines.

To quote Jimmy in South-Park: it's an ad.
by zdc1 | 2025-10-28 10:58:12+00:00
I haven't played in years but the core game doesn't seem to have changed much. They tweaked lots: textures, hit-boxes, spray patterns, rankings, game modes, grenade types, guns, etc., but if you play a ranked match it will still be a 5 vs 5 bomb defusal.

The (sellable) lootboxes give you weapon skins. This is cosmetic, but the temptation to express yourself or flex with pretty guns is tempting.
by cwillu | 2025-10-28 10:58:13+00:00
No, that's a misconception. If you add BB(748)==‹any N but the correct number›, you get an inconsistent system that will either claim that a machine doesn't halt even though it does (e.g. the real BB champion), or that some machine does halt at N steps, which you can then disprove by enumerating all the turing machines of the relevant number of states for N steps, and showing that no machine halts at that step.

Either way, the only BB axiom you can add without blowing up ZFC is the correct one.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-28 10:59:38+00:00
Just because you're not writing code where you can see that the new models are appreciably better doesn't mean they aren't. LLM progress now isn't in making it magically appear smarter at the top end (that's in diminishing returns as you imply), but at filling in weak points in knowledge, holes in capability, improving default process, etc. That's relevant because it turns out most of the time the LLM doesn't fail at coding because it's not a general super genius, but because it just had a hole in its capabilities that caused it to be dumb in a specific scenario.

Additionally, while the intelligence floor is shooting up and the intelligence ceiling is very slowly rising, the models are also getting better at following directions, writing cleaner prose, and their context length support is increasing so they can handle larger systems. The progress is still going strong, it just isn't well represented by top line "IQ" style tests.

LLMs and humans are good at dealing with different kinds of complexity. Humans can deal with messy imperative systems more easily assuming they have some real world intuition about it, whereas LLMs handily beat most humans when working with pure functions. It just so happens that messy imperative systems are bad for a number of reasons, so the fact that LLMs are really good at accelerating functional systems gives them an advantage. Since functional systems are harder to write but easier to reason about and test, this directly addresses the issue of comprehending code.
by ontouchstart | 2025-10-28 11:00:57+00:00
I am in a position of implementation some complex features on top of a shaky foundation with vague requirements. It took a lot of thinking and iteration to figure out what we really wanted, needed and what is possible. And the consequences of the decision we made before, now and in the future.

I am “vibe” coding my way through but the real work is in my head, not in the Cursor IDE with Claude, unit tests, or live debugging. It was me who was learning, not the machine.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-10-28 11:02:04+00:00
Tbf that's a new-ish principle. 2003 was Windows XP era and the early days of Metasploit. I.e. Microsoft and all the other companies were still figuring out this internet thing, while most computers were riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities. There was no such thing as zero day back then, because you could use many exploits years later.
by dr-j | 2025-10-28 11:03:12+00:00
Thanks for the positive feedback! The LLM aspect is using enterprise API from openAI, their policy is to not train on user data; I've used it extensively for the last year with my own personal diary Dlog data; pretty dry stuff to be sure. However, I will be working on allowing the user to use their own on device models; at the moment running local models is too memory intensive for most users so I need to do this once the models are more compact. Apple have recently allowed developers to integrate AI through their foundation model LLM but the token window is too short, 8K only if I recall correctly; and the responses just aren't that useful. The technology will improve and trust in openAI's systems should increase; we're early days here, but for now the main mechanisms for LLM we are has to be the enterprise openAI; there's nothing better IMO. Another thing I am working on in the short term is mechanisms to anonymise content and approve the prompt before it is sent; as well as a simple toggle that when switched on removes that journal from being included in Coach analysis. Thanks again. If you DM or email me and let me know the email you used to sign up with Dlog then I'll send you a free perpetual license so DLog is free to use forever, excluding the AI tokens; and I'll give you 1 million free tokens. Have a wonderful day. Dr J.
by Lio | 2025-10-28 11:03:31+00:00
Sorry there’s a (hopefully) obvious typo in what I wrote.

I 100% agree with you, most bike thefts are opportunistic.

I know that high end bikes do get stripped for parts but I think that’s got to be mostly after they are taken and pretty rare.

There’s been some raids in London where they found scrapyards full of stolen bikes. Most are still whole. Even those stolen to order.
by pablorodriper | 2025-10-28 11:03:52+00:00
I gave a talk on this topic at PyConEs just 10 days ago. The idea was to have each (human) player secretly write a prompt, then use the same model to see which one wins.

It’s just a proof of concept, but the code and instructions are here: https://github.com/pablorodriper/poker_with_agents_PyConEs20...
by imperfectfourth | 2025-10-28 11:03:53+00:00
one of them went all in, but still the river should have opened because none of them are drawing dead. Kc is still in deck which will make llama the winning hand(other players have the other two kings). If it was Ks instead in the deck, llama would be drawing dead because kimi would improve to a flush even if king opened.
by lukan | 2025-10-28 11:03:59+00:00
I question it, because I live somewhere rural with bad connection and travel frequently around europe, where I often experience bad connection outside of cities, so I do value lightweight pages like the article authors propose as a metric. Heavy weight pages I don't even bother trying to load in some areas.

"Show me a real world example of a single payload 500kB taking seconds longer than 13kB. It's not realistic."

And my only comment towards this is, please go out to see for yourself.

Also maybe take into account, the bloated website is not the only thing using the device connection. Messager messages syncing in the background, ..
by kristopolous | 2025-10-28 11:04:03+00:00
Oh geez. I had some USB OTG prototypes of a device like this in 2019 over a Pi zero but nobody cared so I abandoned it. I even used mine in the field. Worked over LTE.

So disappointing. Ewasted it during Covid. And now... Looks like it's a hot field.

I need to do stop doubting myself. Somehow
by sipofwater | 2025-10-28 11:04:57+00:00
* West Pacific Islands map: http://chamorrobible.org/images/chamorrobibleproject/map-wes... (chamorrobible.org/images/chamorrobibleproject/map-west-pacific-islands-1998.jpg) via http://chamorrobible.org

* Guam photographed from space in December 2011: http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-201304-NASA-Phili... (chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-201304-NASA-Philippine-Sea-Pacific-Ocean-Guam-20111230-huge.jpg) via http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-201304.htm

* "CHamoru language revitalization, is it working?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710680

* "Tamuning debate exposes rifts over who should vote on political future of island": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688506
by rwmj | 2025-10-28 11:05:18+00:00
I made wirewrap boards back in the early 90s and it was extremely tedious, both following the netlist instructions to do the initial work, and then the inevitable debugging when it didn't work. Of course you can have two kinds of bugs - either you made a mistake doing the wirewrap, or your design has a problem! For the complexity of the boards I did, I think it took 2-3 days to do the initial wirewrap, and then days or weeks to debug and get it working.

It was, however, both cheaper and easier than doing a prototype PCB. For that, I'd have to use the institution's darkroom with their flatbed photoplotter connected to a PDP-something that you had to boot from reel-to-reel tape. The plot happened overnight, and then had to be developed next day in the darkroom, and then if you were lucky you'd have transparencies of each layer of the PCB that you could send off to a local company who would etch you a single PCB for a lot of money in a few weeks. Even that wasn't trouble-free, since PCBs can have manufacturing faults, or you could screw up when soldering the components to the board, or your design could be wrong.

It was very rare that I as the most junior person was allowed to go the PCB route. I think for my boards it happened only once on an ECL design that simply wouldn't have been possible with wirewrap. Although I was tasked with doing the transparencies for other team members. Since I was being paid only £40/week through a government benefits scheme, it was much cheaper to pay for my time than to pay an external company.

Also as the other reply says, I used CPLDs a lot which were much faster to iterate. With practice you could pull out the QFP package, put it in the programmer, recompile and upload the new logic, and put it back into the board in an hour. Luxury!

We never used pencil and paper (except for notes). The software for drawing schematics, laying out PCBs, making netlists, and compiling CPLDs was pretty advanced even then. Although all of it was horribly proprietary. No KiCAD for you.

Taught you to check everything in your design early and often.
by weatherlite | 2025-10-28 11:05:45+00:00
> But one is a company ran by sociopaths that have no empathy and couldn't care less about anything but money, while the other is a human that at least studied the field all their life.

Unpacking your argument you make two points:

1) The human has studied all his life; yes, some humans study and work hard. I have also studied programming half my life and it doesn't mean A.I can't make serious contributions in programming and that A.I won't keep improving.

2) These companies, or OpenAI in particular, are untrustworthy many grabbing assholes. To this I say if they truly care about money they will try to do a good job, e.g provide an A.I that is reliable, empathetic and that actually help you get on with life. If they won't - a competitor will. That's basically the idea of capitalism and it usually works.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-28 11:05:55+00:00
To me, smartphones are a godsent. I use mine to communicate, get public transport information, have text read to me, describe pictures, get a GPS fix and help me navigate the city as a pedestrian, use devices where I wouldn't be able to read the displays, and so many other things I can't even list right now. I even met my partner of 14 years via Messenger. I occasionally scroll through facebook to find events I might go to, and amuse myself over comments on various divisive and not so diviseve posts. I am blind. My life would be clearly less fun without them. Tools are just that, tools. What you make of them is your call.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-28 11:08:18+00:00
Break it down into its independent steps, you're not trying to write an integration test out of the gate. Color decay code, perlin noise, etc. Get all the sub-parts of the problem mapped out and tested.

Once you've got unit tests and built what you think you need, write integration/e2e tests and try to get those green as well. As you integrate you'll probably also run into more bugs, make sure you add regression tests for those and fix them as you're working.
by panstromek | 2025-10-28 11:08:29+00:00
I'm not exactly sure why "big" but it's slow because it has worse change tracking and rendering model, which requires you to do more work to figure out what needs to be updated, unless you manually opt-out when you know. Solid, Vue and other signals based frameworks have granular change tracking, so they can skip a lot of that work.

But this mostly applies to subsequent re-renders, while things mentioned in the article are more about initial render, and I'm not exactly sure why does React suffer there. I believe React can't skip VDOM on the server, while Vue or Solid use compiled templates that allow them to skip that and render directly to string, so maybe it's partially that?
by falcor84 | 2025-10-28 11:08:49+00:00
This seems to be the original post - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workfor...

And this is the nod to AI:

> This generation of AI is the most transformative technology we’ve seen since the Internet, and it's enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We’re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.
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by dr-j | 2025-10-28 11:09:41+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. I love Obsidian. All your data is stored on device i.e., in calendar entries (a Dlog is saved in your default calendar, that's why you don't need to sign in to use Dlog; the title and text of a calendar event are repurposed in Dlog to be a journal; much like the reminders have been repurposed to comprise projects) and on the in app on device Rag database, it is not stored in the cloud etc., so you do own all the data; and it is not shared to the Dlog server which is only used to track token usage. GPT 5 is necessary for the moment; Dlog uses the enterprise API, so it doesn't train on your data. However, I know this is a major concern for many, so, in the short term I will be adding an anonymiser; and the ability to approve and edit prompts sent. If you do decide to sign up to use Dlog send me a DM with the email used to register and I'll send you a free perpetual license so Dlog will always be free (excluding tokens for AI use) and 1 million free tokens. Thanks again!
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 11:10:22+00:00
I am one of those who drive in bad weather from time to time. I'm 'good at it' - but I cannot honestly call myself safe. I've been in the ditch. I've spun a 360 and only didn't hit someone else in the process because it happened nobody was there.

i grew up where bad weather was common enough that we cosidered it not worth shutting down for bad weather so we risked driving in it - but it was always a risk and many do die from taking that risk.
by ForHackernews | 2025-10-28 11:10:26+00:00
If they do business in the EU they are obligated to follow EU laws, and if they have committed crimes they should be subject to arrest and extradition.

I know you're making a point about Ofcom censorship, and I agree, but we cannot set the precedent that "if you commit your crimes using a company in Delaware, they're not illegal." If you program your AI-drone to murder your enemies, that's fine as long as the control server is offshore?
by raddan | 2025-10-28 11:12:05+00:00
Not with any of the BSDs, although I have tried. Instead I either use a USB to GigE adapter or a Waveshare carrier board (for the Zeros). The built in NICs for the ones that have them usually work fine.

If you really need wireless you can buy a USB WiFi dongle, and since there is a lot of support a compatible one is restively easy to find.