MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Vipsy | 2025-10-09 06:15:36+00:00
One important problem that's mostly ignored is the lack of transparency about the third-party providers handling such sensitive ID documents. When a breach occurs, public statements rarely name the exact vendor responsible, making it difficult for affected users to understand who actually had access and who might still have their data. This opacity delays accountability and creates ongoing risks, since users have no meaningful way to audit or assess the practices of these shadow providers. Unless this layer of the data-handling ecosystem is discussed and regulated, future breaches will remain inevitable and largely untraceable.
by IanCal | 2025-10-09 06:16:42+00:00
Editing tools are easy to add it’s just you have to pick what things to give them because too many and they struggle as it uses up a lot of context. Still, as costs come down multiple steps to look for tools becomes cheaper too.

I’d like to see what happens with better refactoring tools, I’d make a bunch more mistakes copying and retyping or using awk. If they want to rename something they should be able to use the same tooling the rest of us get.

Asking questions is a good point but that’s both a bit of promoting and I think the move to having more parallel work makes it less relevant. One of the reasons clarifying things more upfront is useful is we take a lot of time and cost a lot of money to build things so the economics favours getting it right first time. As the time comes down and the cost drops to near zero, the balance changes.

There are also other approaches to clarify more what you want and how to do it first, breaking that down into tasks, then letting it run with those (spec kit). This is an interesting area.
by teiferer | 2025-10-09 06:16:44+00:00
Not so sad. I'm working in an area that is AI adjacent. We don't use AI for anything and the tech we build is not only useful for AI companies. So we'll live when that busts and we don't directly contribute to the hype. But the AI folks are crazy about our tech which shoots our business through the roof as well. So we ride it while it lasts while not having to really feel like being part of it all. Once it busts, our margins will go back to normal and that's it.
by paulmooreparks | 2025-10-09 06:17:05+00:00
The only killer app for me, when it comes to VR headsets, would be flight sim, and I have been too busy for the last year to even sim on my 4k monitor, so I haven't taken the headset plunge yet. Still, that's the only thing I can think of that would make sense for me. Maybe there are others.
by btilly | 2025-10-09 06:17:16+00:00
You cherrypicked one of my three examples to argue against. Then in order to argue against it, had to pretend that I said something that I did not.

My claim was that there were a few thousand string theorists. In fact I've seen estimates of 1-4 thousand physicists working in the field. Your claim is that this is a small niche. Given that there are something like a quarter million physicists, that is also true.

I wasn't picking on string theory because it is central to physics. I'm picking on it as a highly visible example. What is its actual importance? String theory's lack of experimental evidence means that it isn't that important to the broader field. And if its half-century of failure continues, it will eventually be just a footnote in history. So it stands as a good example of normal research being a waste of time, rather than meaningfully contributing to the progress of knowledge.

That said, your example of technology improving is a good one. As the book The Innovator's Dilemma points out, technology often improves on an exponential curve. With Moore's law just being the best-known example. And this technology improvement does take a lot of research effort.

But this kind of technological research mostly isn't basic science. In fact a lot of it takes place in secret, inside of companies. Rather than being published in Nature, it winds up as intellectual property. Hidden behind patents and trade secrets of various kinds. But even though most if it isn't basic science, it does drive a lot of basic science as well.

The question is what kind of science do most scientists do. My anecdotal experience is that most scientists work in relatively small cliques, focused on problems and paradigms that are local to their field. And when new ideas come along, most of that work is obsoleted. This anecdotal picture fits very well with the article that I pointed at about science progressing one funeral at a time.

But if you work in something more technology adjacent, I can see that your experience might be very different.

My impression remains what it was. But I admit to not having good data on which kind of experience is more common.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-10-09 06:17:33+00:00
> If what determines the value of a language libraries (which makes no sense to me at all, but let's play your game), then it is one more argument against Python

The fact that you can use those nice numerical and scientific libraries from the language that had also tremendous amount of nice libraries from other domains, wide and good IDE support, is very well documented and has countless tutorials and books available... is an argument against that language? Because you can easily use Fortran code in Fortran?

Nice.

> You don't need FFI to use a Fortran library from Fortran

Wow. Didn't know that.

> And no, many other scripting languages have wrappers,

Always less complete, less documented, with less teaching materials available etc.

But sure, many other languages have wrappers. Julia for example wraps Python API.

> and no, scientific computing is not restricted to ML

Never said it is. I don't do ML, by the way.

> You are making disparaging and hyperbolic claims about hyperbolic claims without proper attribution, and when asked for source, you cry foul

Yeah, yeah. My claims on marketing like "Julia writes like Python, runs like C" are hyperbolic and require explicit citation, even though everyone that had any exposure to this language knows such and similar catch-phrases.

Look, you like Julia, good for you. Have fun with it.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-09 06:18:33+00:00
I haven't verified the numbers, but I'll take them as correct for now. I can understand wanting to make such an analysis if you had skin in the game, and cautioning people, if you were a student who was disappointed or similar.

However by your own admission you're a co founder of a "interview prep mentorship platform" (which you claim is not a bootcamp) - fine, I can admit they are slightly different - though this does feel like splitting hairs semantically.

What I don't understand is, how is your position as a mod on such a subreddit not a massive conflict of interest? You have no reason to dissuade people from another company unless it hurts your business (I'm guessing you or someone in your family didn't lose time or money on codesmith).

Ergo, if you can, please do tell me why your activity isn't financially motivated, and therefore tortious interference. I see no other reason for a person to obsessively track another company in detail (baring a few health conditions I wouldn't want to wish on anyone.)
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-10-09 06:18:40+00:00
What country are you from? To "wish a politically motivated death" on someone is illegal there?

Reddit set itself up as a speakeasy, people speak their minds openly because it appears in some areas to be free of thought policing.

Do you think it is wrong to wish a dictator dead? Over the past decades USA has not only wished it, but made it happen, at the cost of many lives.
by teekert | 2025-10-09 06:18:43+00:00
I think it is nice that the GDPR forces companies to not keep too much data about people. And you can only have data that you need for the stated purpose (of course this leaves loopholes but it is good data hygiene to always consider).

For example, if you state you want to verify age, you only need the ID for a couple of seconds. So why didn't they think about the risk of a hack before? They could have done the age verification and then immediately deleted the document. The cynical take is af course they did think about it but would take the fine if it came to that...

Maybe it is good to make an example out of Discord? Don't keep stuff around if you don't need it should be common sense.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-09 06:18:49+00:00
FreshRSS supports CSS selectors and others to get the full content.

I've also built a bunch of RSS feed hydrators myself where the process of getting content to the feed isn't as simple as "grab that bit of the page".

Like my HN feed uses Opengraph information from the linked article to fill in a picture and preview as well as the Algolia HN api to get scores and comment counts.
by t0lo | 2025-10-09 06:18:50+00:00
This incest investing is pretty telling. The whole economy is about to get burned- doubly so with DJTs tariffs and bonds not looking like the safe haven they usually are during turbulent times.

“We’re now locked into a particular version of the market and the future where all roads lead to big tech,” says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI development and policy. Indeed, the success of major stock indexes—and perhaps your 401(k)—is resting on the continued growth of AI: Meta, Amazon, and the chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom have accounted for 60 percent of the S&P 500’s returns this year."
by txrx0000 | 2025-10-09 06:19:50+00:00
Allow me to make one important distinction I forgot to do in the previous reply: there is a difference between conflicts that arise from delusions vs conflicts that arise from preferences. The former is a subset of the latter. We can prevent escalation of the former with client-side filtering and ranking, but the latter is a force of nature. Two people that share an identical model of reality may decide to take different actions anyway. Minimizing echo chambers aligns people's reality models, but it doesn't align their preferences. So while people will want to do less ranking and filtering over time, they will still want to set a non-zero base level of ranking and filtering for themselves, and congregate into homogenous groups, not because they want to be delusional, but because they're fundamentally different.
by fragmede | 2025-10-09 06:19:55+00:00
But if using hello@example.com as the email, and using F10 and oobe or whateve command you pulled off Google stop working, and then you have to move to more exotic options, like downloading programs to modify disk images to prepare a USB drive to install an LTSP or IoT copy of windows 10 it's all just such a waste of time to do something that should be easy all because someone at Microsoft got on this kick that what they want is more important than what the customer wants. It's so frustrating!
by xpe | 2025-10-09 06:20:40+00:00
> Quite the contrary: it's a blatant and transparent continuation of the current administration's assault on those Western democratic values.

Generally speaking, I agree the Trump administration is assaulting Western democratic values.

Remember, this is conversation. You are convinced of one way of seeing the NIST report. I recognize your perspective; I see your intensity, but intensity alone does not translate into credibility. Repeating your claims ad nauseam doesn't help.

In my eyes, you have not made a case (much less a good one) for how this particular NIST report is somehow an assault on Western democratic values. Neither have you shown it is a blatant or transparent assault.

If you want to persuade, practice the art of persuasion. I suggest:

- Elaborate, clarify, use good reasoning.

- Explore multiple explanations. Don't put on blinders. Seek the truth wherever it lies.

- Don't oversimplify. Express appropriate uncertainty.

- Use conversation to move towards better understanding.

- Don't misrepresent what others say or believe.
by jonasdegendt | 2025-10-09 06:21:07+00:00
> places like Thailand that force you to give your biometrics

You're being returned the favor! Anyone that's ever entered the US has had to do the same, and our prints are being stored in a DHS database.

Out of curiosity, did you not need to provide prints to get a passport in the first place? I can't image a single developed country without biometric passports.
by hypfer | 2025-10-09 06:21:48+00:00
> Why don't project pages ever actually tell you what it is

If it's a good thing with substance, they do.

If they don't, don't use it. This usually hints at a broken culture/missing substance. It _can_ also be ineptitude, but that too is not your problem but theirs.

You woke up this morning not having the problem this sets out to solve. You can go to sleep and rest easily this night, knowing that you still don't have whatever problem this sets out to solve.

If you should one day wake up and notice that you have a problem this could solve, you will find yourself googling for a solution, again side-stepping this whole marketing nonsense.
by zpeti | 2025-10-09 06:21:53+00:00
Cruelty is your perceived behaviour of people on the other side sticking up for their values.

I can both argue that it’s cruel to not have housing for everyone,

while also arguing it’s cruel to tax away 40-50% of an entire country’s productivity (people’s actual work) to pay for houses for people who have never worked or paid taxes in their life.

Who’s right? Who’s cruel? Both sides and both. This is why I find this cruelty argument so bad.
by fuomag9 | 2025-10-09 06:22:09+00:00
Discord no, but my credit card from Advanzia bank actually changed their TOS to allow AI training with your submitted documents for their anti-fraud model.

I complained to the CNPD of Luxembourg and sent a GDPR request, as they defaulted to doing this WITHOUT asking for consent (super illegal as doing AI training with your data is definitely not the minimum required to offer the service)
by beeflet | 2025-10-09 06:24:59+00:00
this has nothing to do with kessler syndrome. If anything, it's the opposite: satellites that are low in orbit deorbiting naturally. The article fails to explain why deorbiting sattelites at this frequency is bad, it just loosely suggests it with nothing to back up the claim.

The earth's atmosphere is pretty big, and sattelites are just made out of aluminum and crap. I don't think it is a big deal.

I could search this topic on google scholar for hours, but I can already tell the result is that I would probably find nothing of substance.
by teiferer | 2025-10-09 06:25:43+00:00
> Yes, and??? How is that relevant

Because it describes exactly the point which GGP tried to make (source: that was me). The assumption is that AI growth is great because without it, look at how low the non-AI growth is! But that argument is flawed because the resources (manpower, materials, manufacturing, energy, ...) absent the AI hypr would not vanish but be used for something else, so the growth in those other areas would be bigger. Granted, perhaps not as big (marginal gains and all that), but the painted picture is still skewed.
by EGreg | 2025-10-09 06:26:26+00:00
I tried to warn people two years ago but back then it got mostly dismissed and the post later got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34564031

But this is going to be one of the biggest shifts in our lifetime. I may be focusing on it more because I lean libertarian, but most people on HN will be able to appreciate the scope of this. Unlike the video I shared in 2023, this one is quite more “balanced”. But the future can be very dystopian.

Things like this are why I originally launched Qbix and later Intercoin. People and small communities need to have an alternative ready before it’s too late.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-09 06:26:46+00:00
> SPARK_Mode => Off is the SPARK equivalent of unsafe in Rust

As I said before: structurally, yes - both mark an implementation as opaque to the verifier/compiler. Semantically, though, SPARK is proof-driven: the verified interface still generates obligations for all callers, and the off-proof body is modularized. Rust's `unsafe` lifts restrictions, but does not automatically enforce correctness across the boundary. That distinction is why SPARK can provide whole-program, machine-checked guarantees while `unsafe` only shifts responsibility to the programmer.

... but I have already said this.
by Galanwe | 2025-10-09 06:26:53+00:00
> This is becoming less and less true every day. 24/7 markets are coming whether you want them or not

This has still to exist for real. Every couple of years there is a resurgence of "we should have 24/7 equity markets", followed by milestone announcements of Nasdaq.

The reality is more... nuanced.

First, there has to be a wide enough window for corporate actions and news dissemination to happen. Not only is that a regulatory requirement, but anyway no sane investor would like to trade in such a window even if possible.

Second, there are already early sessions, pre opening sessions, and late sessions on most American markets. The liquidity there is almost inexistant, so I wouldn't say there is a huge demand for extended trading hours by non-retail participants.

And last, half the liquidity of US markets is not on lit books, and half the remaining lit liquidity is close to the auction. I don't think it would even be a net profit for lit exchanges to extend their hours in these conditions. As for dark pool, I think only 2 or 3 of the smaller ones are 24/7, like the one from IB.

> if you're not trading outside of US Equity hours you're leaving significant money on the table

HFTs need a lot of liquidity and tight spreads, that's pretty much only doable at scale in the US and Japan. Europe and EM are either not liquid enough, or only really able to sustain low capital ad-hoc strategies.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-09 06:27:02+00:00
I'm all for it but maybe with caution.

I bailed out of a FAANG job to cook in restaurants in the Bay Area and it was very double-edged. I gave up after a year for a variety of reasons.

The actual work was definitely more enjoyable.

"Paying the bills", on the other hand, actually took a lot of money (and I had a laughably small mortgage and two people sharing it at the time).

I also worked way more hours (30-40% of which were unpaid because yay fine dining), and it was physically way more brutal.

But then again, almost 10 years later, I'm back to the idea of opening a place of my own because the current tech landscape really doesn't attract me at all anymore and I can't get myself to last in it.
by viccis | 2025-10-09 06:27:04+00:00
PeopleSoft, especially before the mid-2010s and depending on how it was configured, was an exercise in terrible UX. You'd have to click through like 6 pages just to change one thing. At one point, I remember there being an encoding difference between Firefox and IE that meant that you could have longer self evaluations in IE. The way they'd configure SMART goals and such was insane and it would regularly error out and dump your written text, so people would write their stuff in notepad and paste it in to submit.

Lattice is not perfect but it legitimately seems to be designed by people who understand that it's not actually useful to anyone and that the best user experience is just to make it as easy as possible to phone it in, complete with built in LLM stuff to take your poorly written self eval and make it look better.
by the_other | 2025-10-09 06:27:09+00:00
I picked React over Angular in 2015 and havn’t looked back. I’ve never done, nor been asked to do a rewrite. I once interviewed for a role that would have involved a rewrite from Angular to React. My current employer has a design system and UI library to implemenet it. Some time before I joined, they decided to move from Stencil-driven support for React, Angular and one other framework, to pure React support. From 50-60 applications I made late 2024-2025 one used Lit one Svelt, maybe 10-15 Angular and the rest React. In previous rounds of job or contract hunting, I don’t recall seeing demand for anything other than the big two.

I live and work in London. I’ve basically not seen this culture of constant churn and rewrites that people on HN bemoan since about 2018.
by f1shy | 2025-10-09 06:27:49+00:00
This happens also with automotive companies. Peugeot has its own bank, which lends money to people buying peugeots. The big difference: is not circular. The bank is a bank, the OEM building cars build cars.

The bank makes money by lending and cashing interest.

The car maker by selling for profit.

The money goes from bank to OEM, and not the way around, no circle.

I do not know the specifics of Boeing though.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-10-09 06:28:01+00:00
I wonder if it would work a free speech site to allow mods to not include a story in a category/ subreddit, but then just place that story into, say, /r/changemyview/banned. You'd still need sitewide moderation, but you'd always be able to see the way your feed was being edited within that context.
by nikanj | 2025-10-09 06:28:04+00:00
4/5 times when Claude is looking for a file, it starts by running bash(dir c:\test /b)

First it gets an error because bash doesn’t understand \

Then it gets an error because /b doesn’t work

And as LLMs don’t learn from their mistakes, it always spends at least half a dozen tries (e.g. bash(cmd.exe /c dir c:\test /b )) before it figures out how to list files

If it was an actual coworker, we’d send it off to HR
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-09 06:28:23+00:00
"It almost sounds like you're implying X would be easier..." looks like a claim that they want to reach situation X. With some uncertainty thrown on top.

In the case of "cultural and ethnically homogeneous society", there are two ways to get there: Either slowly melting pot over hundreds of years minimum, or drastic bad actions that destroy people's lives and strip culture instead of sharing it.

And since anyone alive today will be long dead by the time the first one possibly happens, it looks like a claim that they would be in favor of the second one.

So yeah, that would cause strong disagreement. It's a revolting thing to be associated with.

But it's not because the literal thing you said is wrong. The literal thing you said is correct. It is easier to not have to worry about those differences.

And there's no contradiction in any of that. What specific opinions are you calling contradictory?
by davidatbu | 2025-10-09 06:29:07+00:00
Just want to say that as an AI engineer, you and the Latent Space folks are doing work that is extremely useful to me. Without y'all, I'd be forced to doom scroll on X to catch up on the latest developments.

I wanted to explicitly highlight the utility of what you do because of surrounding comments that suggest/imply otherwise.

Thank you Simon!