MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by piva00 | 2025-10-05 16:38:27+00:00
We both lived through an era where there was a sense of community, even online, I would also spend boatloads of time learning how to program in my youth some 20+ years ago but that was around the same IRC channels, the same forums, with people who were in those spaces for years.

I would bond with them through this shared hobby, make acquaintances, even friends, people who you could recognise even if it was just a nickname.

My first real software development job was through friends I met on IRC and forums, they knew me for years, and offered me an internship after we had worked on a hobby project for a Ultima Online game server.

Fast-forward to now, it is really hard for young people to find shared spaces with a sense of community, in the real world or online. Everything they experience online is through mass platforms where everyone is basically anonymous even though it became much more common to share your real name. How can you bond with someone in the comments section of a YouTube video about your hobby? Or in the comments of some TikTok/Instagram post that was quite interesting? You simply can't, that post or video will disappear from others' feeds, there's no sense of permanence of the members of a community.

I think the closest to this experience might be some Discord servers, it's one of the ways I found to try to meet people on my current hobbies but the experience is still very different than the tight-knitted groups of IRC channels from the past. Forums, for the most part, were eaten by reddit, for some hobbies there are still quite a few active ones but the discoverability is much worse, you will have to jump through some hoops (usually starting on a subreddit) to find one of those.

My feeling is just that community in general is in decline, I'm lucky to have managed to keep finding these bubbles and sticking with them, online or in the real world, but when I talk to my colleagues in the 20-24 age bracket I sense they simply don't have communities. They have a few friends who they might meet for a shared activity but they generally don't know a place where they can go and meet other similarly-minded folks.

The screens end up as a bad refuge to try to find these connections that were much more natural when we were young.
by thankyoufriend | 2025-10-05 16:38:28+00:00
It's crazy to me that many of the people who are so proud to be American don't seem to realize that they are actually at odds with the spirit of America. They latch onto superficial anti-gubbermint thinking while surrendering their rights to billionaires. Being an American is supposed to be about telling powerful people to go fuck themselves, standing up for inclusive equality and reckoning with our slights against what we claim to believe. It's supposed to be about modeling democratic ideals to show the world there's a better way. It's supposed to be about being so morally righteous that others come to their own conclusion that we're worthy of emulation, and not because we regime changed them. Somehow we let all of that get away from us.
by drob518 | 2025-10-05 16:38:29+00:00
I’m talking about a VAX-like system with large instructions, microcode-based, etc. In the same way that CISC adapted since 1990, RISC has also adapted to add “complex” instructions where they are justified (e.g. SIMD/vector, crypto, hashing, more fancy addressing modes, acceleration for tensor processing, etc.). Nothing is a pure play anymore, but I’d still argue that new designs are better off starting on the RISC side of the (now very muddled) line, rather than the CISC side.
by fluidcruft | 2025-10-05 16:38:30+00:00
Ah I see what you mean. I interpret "depending on it" to have shifted. I want to depend on a particular project for my work, and if it happened to exist on github, I would have just used that. But it doesn't exist so I have created a fake github "community" to develop the part that I will depend on and I don't want to think about a lot of the API design for things I haven't thought about yet, I just want it to work and be ergonomic.

But my point remains specifically about the crappy code AI writes. In my experience, it will clean it up if you tell it to. There's the simple angle of complexity and it does an okay job with that. But there's the API design side also and that's what the second part is about. LLM will just add dumb ass hacks all over the place when a new feature is needed and that leads to a huge confusing integration mess. Whereas with this setup when I want to build an extension the API has been mostly worked out and when I want to build an application the API has mostly been worked out. That's the way it would work if I ran into a project on github I wanted to depend on.
by ednite | 2025-10-05 16:38:40+00:00
You’re right, and that’s fantastic advice for anyone serious about the craft of writing. For me, it’s always been more about the message and story than the craft itself. I’m not aiming to be the next Hemingway, I just want to share experiences in whatever format I can.

That said, I do love writing. I still have boxes of old fiction drafts from before the internet was even a thing. For me, it’s the story that matters most. If dependingly heavily on AI early on came across as the wrong approach, I apologize. I’ve learned from it, and I’m working to improve. You’re absolutely right that time and words should be cherished.
by wongarsu | 2025-10-05 16:38:53+00:00
I assume the version without recline feature and back support is lighter and takes up less space. If they can shave off an inch from the backrest they can fit in another row, and if they can shave off a pound by removing all adjustability that's 180 pound less per plane, saving fuel.

Also makes people more likely to upgrade. Basically all the same reasons why economy doesn't get business class seats
Show HN: A Vectorless LLM-Native Document Index Method
by mingtianzhang | 2025-10-05 16:39:04+00:00
The word "index" originally came from how humans retrieve info: book indexes and tables of contents that guide us to the right place in documents.

Computers later borrowed the term for data structures: e.g., B-trees, hash tables, and more recently, vector indexes. They are highly efficient for machines; but abstract and unnatural: not something a human, or an LLM, can understand and directly use as a reasoning aid. This creates a gap between how indexes work for computers and how they should work for models that reason like humans.

PageIndex is a new step that "looks back to move forward". It revives the original, human-oriented idea of an index and adapts it for LLMs. Now the index itself (PageIndex) lives inside the LLM's context window: the model sees a hierarchical table-of-contents tree and reasons its way down to the right span, much like a person would retrieve information using a book's index.

PageIndex MCP shows how this works in practice: it runs as a MCP server, exposing a document's structure directly to LLMs/Agents. This means platforms like Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-enabled agent or LLM can navigate the index themselves and reason their way through documents, not with vectors/chunking, but in a human-like, reasoning-based way.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-05 16:39:09+00:00
> what economists and policymakers often can't or won't understand is that slight pricing inefficiency are a load-bearing parts of a happy and productive society

It’s called friction and it’s amply modelled in economics. (Luxury is in many cases exemption from transactional friction.)

> Letting people feel a shred of dignity while flying is worth perhaps reducing total trips taken by some infinitesimal percentage

In aggregate, you reduce trips flown minimally. On the individual level, you’re pricing certain families out of flying.
by al_borland | 2025-10-05 16:39:17+00:00
I typically have my MacBook plugged into a 43” 4K display for work. I love having the space.

Recently, I had to work from elsewhere while taking care of someone and only had my laptop. I ended up using Stage Manager. While I had always found it kind of a joke on a larger screen, when I just had the laptop and needed to multitask more, it was actually pretty helpful. Similar to using virtual desktops, but easier to switch without having to remember what apps are bound to which desktops as much. I do have the larger MacBook Pro. Giving up some screen real estate to a bunch of thumbnails on a 13” might be a harder sell.

If you are big into tiling window managers, it might be more about linking everything to a key binding so you can easily jump around quickly. Kind of how the Primeagen has his desktop setup, if you’ve ever seen his stuff.

I have a hard time with setups that are too rigid, as a single IM can make my day take a left turn and order turns to chaos pretty quick. There isn’t a lot of space for that in systems that are too rigid.
by risyachka | 2025-10-05 16:39:24+00:00
Nope, you don't pair senior dev with llm. You allow them use llm, but not an agent.

IF agent starts generating code - nobody will have time and stamina to rewrite all the slop, it will just get approved.

Copy/paste from chat is the only way to ensure proper quality so that developer can write high quality code and just outsource to AI tasks that are boring or generic.
by adventured | 2025-10-05 16:39:32+00:00
They're substantially tied down by demand/usage right now.

How much more compute would they need to allow all of their paying users unlimited access to their best model? And to enable that setup in such a way that it's actually very fast.

The answer: they need resources far beyond what they have now. That's just to solve an existing problem.

Then throw in Sora 4 and whatever else will exist in a few years, and the need to feed that monster. They couldn't come close to allowing Sora 2 unlimited for all of their paying customers - I'd hate to see what that would require.

Then let the AI begin world building for every user (which is where this is going). It'll be decades before the resource demands actually flatten globally (at least 20-30 years, to get to global population saturation on usage; assuming the global population will begin to rapidly slow and then shrink).

Hint: the solution to Fermi's Paradox is that we go into the box and we never come back out, because it's a lot more interesting for 99.9%+ of humanity than a bunch of repeating rocks in space that take a zillion years to reach. The core purpose of AI will be to world build for us, mentally (relaxation, stimulation, entertainment, social) in we go: the end. The same thing happens to any advanced beings that get to our level, there's little to nothing out there that we can reach of interest (and no, it doesn't matter if the HN crowd disagrees, what matters for this outcome are the masses), we'll definitely figure that out, and there's infinite stimulation/experience in the machine world by contrast.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-05 16:39:37+00:00
>The AI handles the translation between the precise underlying code and the various language interfaces, ensuring that the semantics remain consistent across all views

This is not something AI will ever be good at. Simply, because it is also hard for humans to do.

Translating between programming languages is a very hard problem, because someone needs to fully understand both languages. Both humans and AI have trouble with it for the same reason and only monumental AI progress, which would have other implications, could change this.

Something as basic as addition varies wildly between languages, if you look at the details. And when it comes to understanding the details are exactly what matters.
by materialpoint | 2025-10-05 16:39:41+00:00
No, but the choice of name exudes a certain arrogance that aligns with the authors of MuJoCo. It's a very capable and robust engine, but the authors have been very condescending of other technologies and confusing the terms gaming with game. It certainly won't replace PhysX as they are designed for comparatively small scale simulations, however with instancing. For instance, MuJoCo doesn't have real broadphase that scales with large environments, but sticks with the old tried-and-true SAP. Neither does it have separate friction coefficients for slip, tying it into robotics, except maybe for the VDB solver.
by devjab | 2025-10-05 16:39:54+00:00
I notice that none of the examples in your blog entry on functional C# deals with error handling. I know that is not the point of your article, but that is actually one of my key issues with C# and its reliance on implicit, because like so many other parts of C# you'd probably hand it over to an exeception handler. I'd much rather prefer you to deal with it explicitly right where it happens, and I would prefer if you were actually forced to do it for examples like yours. This is because implicit error handling is hard. I have no doubt you do it well, but it is frankly rare to meet a C# developer who has as much of an understanding on the language that you clearly have.

I think this is an excellent blog post by the way. My issues with C# (and this applies to a lot of other GC languages) is that most developers would learn a lot from your article. Because none of it is an intuitive part of the language philosophy.

I don't think you should never use OOP or abstractions. I don't think there is a golden rule for when you should use either. I do think you need to understand why you are doing it though, and C# sort of makes people go to abstractions first, not last in my experience. I don't think these changes to the GC is going to help people who write C# without understanding C#, which is frankly most C# developers around here. Because Go is opinionated and explicit it's simply an issue I have to deal with less in Go teams. It's not an issue I have to deal with less in Python teams, but then, everyone who loves Python knows it sucks.
by mmcallister | 2025-10-05 16:40:10+00:00
> Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable

That's his choice, it's _his_ cancer after all

> I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human

I think this is a bit of a leap. He's done some bad things sure, but the only ones you mentioned were...working on a yacht, using alternative medicine and getting a liver transplant
by satisfice | 2025-10-05 16:40:47+00:00
Your discomfort is not, in any way, her problem. Suck it up, dude. I’m sorry you are too tall for your budget.

I need to recline or else I have terrible back pain.

However, if someone asks me nicely I will switch seats with them or otherwise try to consider their happiness. So, ask nicely. Don’t thrash like a trapped chicken and hope to annoy people into submission.
by visarga | 2025-10-05 16:40:50+00:00
Time goes forward, in the future when will you be in a situation you can't access a LLM? Better use LLM as much as possible to learn the skills of controlling agents, scaffolding constrains, docs, breaking problems in such a way that AI can solve them. These are the skills that matter now.

We don't practice much using the assembler either, or the slide ruler. I also lost the skill to start an old Renault 12 which I owned 30 years ago, it is a complex process believe me, there were some owners reaching artist level at it.
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by jmward01 | 2025-10-05 16:40:59+00:00
There is some discussion here, but the counterargument was never raised: We are transitioning to new things to learn and focus on so the old tests and measures aren't valid.

Think of it like this: If 3d printing (finally) gets good enough, is it an issue that most people aren't good at traditional manufacturing? I think we have discussion to be had here but articles like this always strike me as shallow since they keep judging now based on the past. This is a common problem. We see it in politics (make X great again anyone?) and it is a very hard problem to solve since understanding 'better' is a very hard thing to do even with hindsight much less when you are in the middle of change. I do think AI has serious harms, but if all we do is look for the harms we won't find and capture the benefits. Articles should balance these things better.
by touisteur | 2025-10-05 16:41:08+00:00
I think the remark is more about Tensor Cores (or Matrix Cores in AMD lingo) are distributed by SM (and not aside on an interconnect and individually programmable) so on the same SM you have your classical warps (cuda cores) AND the Tensor units and switching between one and the other might be confusing.

My vision of SMs has always been "assume AVX512 is the default ISA" and "tensor cores are another layer aside of this" (kind-of like AMX) and you have this heterogeneous "thing" to program. Don't know if it helps. The CUDA programming model hides a lot and looking at PTX code in nsight-compute is most enlightening.
by blincoln | 2025-10-05 16:41:33+00:00
In my experience, the Amazon search feature is very unpredictable and confusing.

E.g. if I search for "<film or television series> blu ray" (no quotes), I will usually get only listings for foreign imports of the title sold by third parties, even when Amazon carries the item. If I want to get the US release in my search results, I have to leave out the "blu ray" string, which makes the search results less useful if Amazon carries a lot of non-BD versions of the title and I am looking for it specifically in that format.

Some items will be hidden when searching from Amazon itself, but can be ordered by doing the same search on DuckDuckGo or Google and finding a direct link to the product page.

TLDR: it's difficult to do a fair comparison between users' experiences, because their search feature (like so many sites - I'm looking at you, Etsy!) is completely broken.
by etangent | 2025-10-05 16:41:42+00:00
> A complex society or a natural disaster (a la dinosaurs) wiping out megafauna sounds much more plausible than the equivalent of the primitive societies we see today.

The problem with your argument is best illustrated with that famous picture of airplane with bullet holes; the only primitive societies you see today are those that are more or less sustainable; any unsustainable primitive society would have gone into a conflict with a major industrial power and ended up being wiped out. That of course does not prove that unsustainable primitive societies never existed; in fact I would say they were the norm as humans were expanding (when the frontier is constantly expanding, there is no need to sustain anything!).
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-10-05 16:42:00+00:00
No. Because again, I want water to come out of the tap, not spend hours playing plumber.

My ISP provides native IPv6, when it works, and it worked until it didn't, and because I wanted to use the Internet rather than debug the Internet, I took the easy way out. IDGAF whether it was something I could have configured differently that only becomes relevant in some cases, a bug in my router, an issue with my ISPs network, or someone else's misconfiguration: There is a setting in my router, and with the toggle on the left, my Internet works reliably without me having to touch things, with the toggle on the right, it occasionally demands attention at inopportune moments.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-05 16:42:07+00:00
If their plan was to go toe to toe with Google as a foundation model/inference provider they would 100% be getting ground to dust, that's not a winnable fight. There's a reason they've pivoted to product and retained Jony Ive.

Anthropic gets a TON of hate on social media, their models are fragile, their infra is poorly managed, they're 100% going to end up in Jeff's pocket. OpenAI is a survivor.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-05 16:42:11+00:00
If you read through postings of people who are under so-called “ChatGPT psychosis” there are some common themes to the LLM output they use as their proof that ChatGPT is producing epiphanies from their ideas.

For some reason, calling things “recursive” and talking about “protocols” are common. The second post I clicked on in this blog has a section called “recursive protocol” with similar content to all of the other ChatGPT style writing. The subheading talking about “UFO markets” and all of the flowcharts purporting to describe reality are also similar to other ChatGPT fake profound output.
by sandreas | 2025-10-05 16:42:27+00:00
I'd rather go with an old Dell T30 and 2x10TB Seagate Exos in ZFS RAID1 mode (Mirror). This thing would make me nervous every day, even with a daily backup in place... While the Dell T30 would also make me nervous, you could at least plug the disks into any other device and are not wiring up everything with some easy to pull out cables ;)

However, garage sounds nice :-) Thanks for posting.
by tptacek | 2025-10-05 16:42:43+00:00
It's not like we're going to have to argue about this in the abstract for long. Check in with me in a year and we'll see: are there more ALPRs or less ALPRs in the near west suburbs of Chicago? I would put money on a lot more. Dozens more were getting rolled out in our neighboring munis right as we announced we were canceling our contract.
by Towaway69 | 2025-10-05 16:43:08+00:00
Great stuff :) That's exactly what I meant :thumbsup:

I actually found www.pipes.digital in my mind map with a comment to the effect that it's a Yahoo! pipes replacement - so I come across it a year ago in fact.

I'm sticking to Node-RED simply because that's what I know - also its open source and very extendable, so that's why its my cup of tea.

EDIT: Pipes is also open source --> https://github.com/pipes-digital/pipes --> sorry didn't see that.