MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by freakynit | 2025-10-27 16:28:00+00:00
Bro is angry about using llm to write code instead of being happy about a working code that makes it extremely easy for anyone to build their own nano gpt's.

LLM's are just the next evolution that assist you with coding tasks... similar to w3schools => blogs => stackoverflow, and now => llm's.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with using them. The problem is people who use them without reviewing their outputs.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-27 16:28:04+00:00
His issue is that saying "assault" to mean "sex with someone" is dishonest, even if that person is 17. Which is obviously is.

Any sane person hears "assault" and thinks that means "assault" instead it means something else.

What is happening is that the meaning of words are being changed for the purpose of using pre-existing laws. Example, you think that Bla is very bad and isn't punished enough by the law. There's law that severaly punishes Fleem. So, whenever you see Bla you call it Fleem and argue that the anti-Fleem law applies. That way you can effectively re-purpose a law. Specific example: "catcalling" is now "sexual assault" in the UK. It's easier to do it this way, than to argue that people should be punished for catcalling.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-27 16:28:11+00:00
>thousands of middle-class "bullshit jobs" are disappearing, but rather than being replaced by a wave of productive jobs [...] we're just seeing unemployment, underemployment.

Jobs are neither fungible nor mutually exclusive; there is no reason to assume that someone working in a bullshit job would thrive in a non-bullshit job that contributes to society in more productive ways, nor does the existence of bullshit jobs prevent people from working non-bullshit jobs. I hate to say it, but perhaps many people are employed in bullshit jobs because they are not capable of anything more challenging.
by etchalon | 2025-10-27 16:28:17+00:00
We don't have to pretend it's not racist when it's factually not racist.

And there's not really a debate about whether it rights historic wrong. There is a debate about whether righting historic wrongs is even possible.

The debate is whether we can/should counterbalance existing wrongs in society.

And I have hard time taking anyone seriously who says we shouldn't.
by donmcronald | 2025-10-27 16:28:23+00:00
I think passkeys will be used against users. They’ll be used to attest to a user’s trustworthiness by tying authentication back to a real identity. Like another comment mentioned, you’ll end up needing something like a phone that’s locked down. Part of that will be authenticating with a verified ID IMO.

It’ll be incredibly easy to lock dissenters out of modern society. It’s too bad the vast majority of users will happily concede autonomy for a tiny bit of short term convenience.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-10-27 16:28:36+00:00
I’m going to try and find a good source on it but the short version is that Bungie was in deep financial trouble and approached Apple for an acquisition. Jobs didn’t want a video game company as part of their core business as it was not the future he saw for the company, but Microsoft was willing to make that deal, so Bungie went with that for the security. Jobs was pissed but ultimately he passed on an acquisition they felt was necessary for survival.
by tooltalk | 2025-10-27 16:28:48+00:00
> people are just stuck in the 2000s and think that China can't beat the West technologically and therefore must be cheating.

We are talking since early 2010 and on. And it's pretty much what everyone says they are: China has been breaking every trade/IP laws/agreements -- forced IP transfer/IP theft, ban foreign competition, illegal state subsidies to overcapacity, etc to get to where they are in the EV battery market.
by diath | 2025-10-27 16:28:53+00:00
There are two primary issues. In game development, for developing game features, iteration speed is the most important factor, you usually want a higher level scripting language in your game engine, so that a developer's workflow looks like this: make a simple change, hit a reload button, issue a few inputs, go back to the editor, make a simple change, repeat. Other popular game engines, more or less, solve this problem by providing a way to make gameplay features in a higher level language (GDScript in Godot, C# in Unity, BluePrints in Unreal Engine, often Lua with custom game engines), with Bevy, you make a change, and you rebuild the code, and often times, making a simple gameplay logic change (for a spell, an item, or some NPC interaction), will also change the ownership rules in case of Rust, because you may want to now access the same item mutably in two places or other things, and that requires you to restructure your simple script to appease the borrow checker, which also brings us to the second issue, in game development, a lot of bad practices, become good practices, take cyclic references for example, which are a common pattern in video games, in other lower level languages, or languages that allow embedding a higher level language, it's not that big of a deal, in Rust you have to do some shenenigans with things like RefCell<Vec<Rc<RefCell<Item>>>> which is simply not very ergonomic and adds a lot of development friction. A lot of people don't realize that game engine and gameplay programming are two vastly different things that have different requirements, and Rust is a poor fit for the latter.
by codingdave | 2025-10-27 16:29:05+00:00
We have a couple in our yard every year, too. They know us at this point and while they aren't exactly friendly, they don't run away when we are near or drive by, either.

We also have another pair in our wetlands who are definitely unfriendly. Just step foot within their sight and they yell at you until you leave.

We get a ton of them around us every year... we live in one of the areas where they gather before they migrate, so each spring and fall, they will all converge together for a day or two before taking off, and we'll see anywhere from a few dozen to a couple hundred together in a field.

If anyone is curious, this map shows where they are at different times of year: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sandhill_Crane/maps-rang...
by scuff3d | 2025-10-27 16:29:16+00:00
Yeah I don't recall reflection either.

I do remember him using the visitor pattern to implement part of the parser I think. I thought that was kind of an odd choice, especially since it seemed like he was really just trying to avoid Java boilerplate.

Regardless, the book is incredible, and the choice of Java to start with makes sense. Its probably going to be the most universally approachable for everyone, even if they aren't super familiar. C can be pretty overwhelming if you aren't familiar it.
by feloww | 2025-10-27 16:29:35+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm building Feloww – a platform to match airport travellers heading the same direction so they can share rides instead of paying £70-80 for solo taxis. The problem: You land at Heathrow, 50+ people from your flight all go to central London, everyone pays £80 for separate taxis. That's £4k leaving the terminal for the same journey. The solution: Real-time matching based on flight + destination. Everyone's ID-verified via Stripe Identity. You coordinate in groups (up to 40 people per route), decide how to travel, split costs. Pay £20-25 instead of £80. We're NOT a ride service – just a platform to find verified people on your flight. What you do after that is up to you (share taxi, rent car together, etc.). Tech stack: React Native (mobile), React + Vite (web), Supabase (backend), Stripe (verification + payments). Launching UK-only in December 2025. First 100 beta members get lifetime free access. Challenges I'm thinking about: - Cold start problem (need critical mass per route) - Safety perception (especially for solo women travellers) - Legal grey area (not a transport provider, but facilitating it) I'd love feedback on: 1. Is the value prop clear enough? 2. What would make you trust this vs just taking a taxi? 3. Any regulatory landmines I should watch for? Happy to answer questions about the tech, business model, or anything else.
by dundercoder | 2025-10-27 16:29:52+00:00
Radiation isn’t contained in the water as photons, but the coolant itself becomes radioactive through neutron activation. Even with intact fuel rods, oxygen in the water turns into N-16 with a half-life of about seven seconds, and trace metals like nickel and cobalt form isotopes such as Co-58 and Co-60. These emit strong gamma radiation while the reactor operates.

The primary coolant is not simply pure water; it contains boric acid, lithium hydroxide, dissolved hydrogen, and trace corrosion products like iron, nickel, cobalt, and chromium. Under power level neutron flux, some of these elements become short- or medium-lived radionuclides. Once removed from the core, most of the activity decays within minutes, but during operation the water is measurably radioactive.

An eight-ounce sample taken from the loop at power would carry roughly the dose of a chest X-ray before it decayed away, due to these activated isotopes rather than residual photons [EPRI PWR Primary Water Chemistry Guidelines; NUREG-1437][0].

I was on site for the mid cycle outage of three mile island unit 1 around 2005. I did the data sync and transfer for the steam generator inspection, but got tutored by some old PHDs during the down time.

[0] https://downloads.regulations.gov/NRC-2020-0101-0142/content...
by coffeeaddict1 | 2025-10-27 16:29:57+00:00
> Hardware vendors recognized the long-term benefits of a unified software ecosystem, but in the short term, they were fierce competitors. This led to subtle but significant problems: instead of telling the committee about the hardware features you’re working on (giving a competitor a head start), participants would keep innovations secret until after the hardware shipped, and only discuss it after these features became commoditized (using vendor-specific extensions instead).

I wonder whether this same point is what's holding Vulkan back, which always seems to be trailing behind DX12 when it comes to innovation.
by stevesimmons | 2025-10-27 16:30:24+00:00
I am in the UK.

I got Microsoft's emails, did not want Microsoft's forced imposition of Copilot in my Office subscription (regardless of price), found the classic option mentioned in online forums, and managed to switch to it just before my renewal.

My 89 year old aunt on the other hand got stung for the unwanted forced upgrade. I had to call Microsoft, complained about them unfairly exploiting vulnerable customers, and eventually got a downgrade and the difference refunded.

What really annoys me about this - quite apart from the initial deception/misrepresentation - is I now expect Microsoft to pull similar tricks in future. A real disincentive to sign up to any other 'value-added' services.

Why make subscriptions so full of traps that consumers end up hating you? (Yes, I know, so some GM can hit this quarter's bonus)

That reminds me, having just cancelled Spotify (due to their price rise), Disney+ is next on the list. Maybe Netflix too.
by foxglacier | 2025-10-27 16:30:25+00:00
It's not ironic that separate people (jiggawatts and US/UK nationalists) hold separate beliefs. But here's a thought. Are you ironic for being one person holding contradictory beliefs? I doubt you have the same contempt for all people who want to maintain their own culture. For example, I'm sure you don't think that New Zealand Maori who want to popularize the Maori language in New Zealand are whinging about it and you wouldn't describe Maori culture in quotes as "their culture", implying it's not really theirs or not really a culture.
by its-summertime | 2025-10-27 16:30:28+00:00
> In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI.

> It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding.

It doesn't seem to be a renewal, and they seem to have applied before the clauses were added.

- - -

Additionally, on September 29, 2025, the NSF posted

> The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the first-ever Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (NSF Safe-OSE) investment in an inaugural cohort of 8 teams

Implying that until that point, there was no distribution of funds as part of Safe-OSE, so no prior years of funding existed
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-27 16:30:35+00:00
> Nobody makes games in Bevy though

Obviously not true, latest Bevy Jam has ~100 submissions! They might not be the games you were thinking about, but they're games nonetheless.

Beyond the game jams there are definitively people making games with Bevy too, but I don't think anyone of them gone mainstream (yet?) but it's a bit harsh to say no one is making games with Bevy when that's clearly not true.

It takes a long time for a game engine to be ready to create the kind of experiences you're probably thinking about, and even if everything goes great with Bevy in the future, it's still probably years rather than months until any big studio will think of start using it for something important.

With that said, people are for sure making games in Bevy even if the experience is non-optimal. Search on GitHub for "bevy" and sort by latest update and you get a snapshot of the projects that are on GitHub, then imagine there is a magnitude more people working privately.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-27 16:31:02+00:00
> We've really foolishly built the technology necessary for authoritarianism just a few years head of a general global trend towards authoritarianism.

Hum... It was foolish, but it was decades after the trend started.

Looks to me that the real trend was started mostly by the wide distribution of TV and the subsequent media consolidation (that happened everywhere).

Also, who is "we" here? Because it was exactly the authoritarian-wannabes that created most of it.
by hedgehog | 2025-10-27 16:31:10+00:00
Is it actually necessary to run transcontinental consensus? Apps in a given location are not movable so it would seem for a given app it's known which part of the network writes can come from. That would require partitioning the namespace but, given that apps are not movable, does that matter? It feel like there are other areas like docs and tooling that would benefit from relatively higher prioritization.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-27 16:31:15+00:00
We seem to be misaligned on what "serious" is in this context. Perhaps "inefficient" is a better way to phrase it. They are not concenred with effective immigration reform. But they are dead serious about being as bigoted as possible before consequences hit down down the line.

But their message isn't directly saying "spend 1 trillion dollars to be bigoted"
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-27 16:31:23+00:00
You did invoke that the act was a prank in your original reasoning ("The original poster performed a prank..."). That actually hurts the posters case, since it points towards intention, and a reasonably foreseeable outcome.

In any event, you can absolutely be charged for a crime that you did not participate in, but that you incited in a huge number of jurisdictions.

Under many legal systems, when multiple parties contribute to a single harm, they can be held jointly liable. The poster created the initial false information, and the people who took the potatoes acted on that information. Both contributed to the farmer's loss.

Additionally, incitement is frequently a separate crime that can be charged in some jurisdictions.

to take it to the logical ends, if you posted a bounty on someone's life as "a prank", and it led to that person being murdered, you would absolutely be charged with murder in most jurisdictions.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-27 16:31:30+00:00
If someone came into my home, told me they hate me, my way of life, want me dead and starts setting fires in my living room, I'm going to kick them out. It's different if their name is on the lease.

It also depends on the severity of what someone is doing... there's a difference between speech and action. Saying you disagree with the administration, vs taking hostages and seizing part of a school are different things. Saying you would like to see amnesty for those who entered illegally is different than defrauding the govt, flaunting it on social media and trying to ram a car into a federal agent.
by burnerRhodov2 | 2025-10-27 16:31:39+00:00
Yes, that is way to simplistic.

You have to look at the elasticity of demand across every component to determine the correct ratio.

What i can tell you, as a GSM, from a CapEx perspective, sensors, motors, cables, and batterys made in the US just got significantly more competitive. It was already trending that way due to JIT demands and rapid factory buildouts, but the tarrifs were a huge marketing boon for american supply chains.

And i can tell you for the first time as someone in the supply chain business i can confidently ask the question "Should we be buying this bolt from Insert country here?".

It's almost like i've been given the authority to source products from the United States even if we are paying some percent higher.
by GJim | 2025-10-27 16:32:04+00:00
> But then you turn around and describe tracking as "scummy," "parasites," and "invading privacy."

I assume reading comprehension isn't your strong point!

I described the ad-tech industry in those terms. Not genuine services who need to use my personal data and to whom I grant informed opt-in permission!

I'm genuinely puzzled why this (and the GDPR principles in general) appears to be an alien concept to many who should know better.
by snozolli | 2025-10-27 16:32:14+00:00
I never said that the original poster cannot be charged

You literally wrote:

The original poster performed a prank, and could be found guilty of it.

"He could be found guilty of a prank" is functionally identical to "he could not be charged".

I am not

That's exactly what you did, and I quoted it at the top of this comment, in case you don't recall.
by moebrowne | 2025-10-27 16:32:15+00:00
You're correct, it should read

User-agent: Googlebot User-agent: PetalBot User-agent: Bingbot User-agent: YandexBot User-agent: Kagibot Disallow: /bomb/* Disallow: /bomb Disallow: /babble/* Sitemap: https://maurycyz.com/sitemap.xml
by the_af | 2025-10-27 16:32:42+00:00
What amazes me is that some people think I want to read AI slop in their blog that I could have generated by asking ChatGPT directly.

Anyone can access ChatGPT, why do we need an intermediary?

Someone a while back shared, here on HN, almost an entire blog generated by (barely touched up) AI text. It even had Claude-isms like "excellent question!", em-dashes, the works. Why would anyone want to read that?
by jermaustin1 | 2025-10-27 16:32:43+00:00
For me it is everyone that has lost the ability to respond to a work email without first having it rewritten by some LLM somewhere. Or my sister who will have ChatGPT give a response to a text message if she doesn't feel like reading the 4-5 sentences from someone.

I think the rates of ADHD are going to go through the roof soon, and I'm not sure if there is anything that can be done about it.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-27 16:32:51+00:00
I'd be curious to do a general study to see what percentage of humans can spot AI written content vs human written content on the same subject.

Specifically is there any correlation between people who have always read a lot as I do and people who don't.

My observation (anecdota) is that the people I know who read heavily are much better at and much more against AI slop vs people who don't read at all.

Even when I've played with the current latest LLM's and asked them questions, I simply don't like the way they answer, it feels off somehow.
by nzach | 2025-10-27 16:32:56+00:00
I find it really odd this recent push for discussions around the development of new datacenters.

There is a plan for constructing a new high-capacity datacenter [edit: near my city]. And a lot of discussions in the media are done through an emotional tone around water and electricity usage.

The media generally frames it as if installing a new datacenter would put the neighbors in risk of not having water or electricity. I'm not arguing that a datacenter doesn't bring any problems, everything has pros and cons.

Both sides seems to be using bad faith/misleading arguments, and I thinks that's really bad because we end up with solutions and agreements that don't improve the lives of the people affected by these new developments.
by latexr | 2025-10-27 16:33:01+00:00
This assumes the person using LLMs to put out a blog post gives a single shit about their readers, pride, or “being human”. They don’t. They care about the view so you load the ad which makes them a fraction of a cent, or the share so they get popular so they can eventually extract money or reputation from it.

I agree with you that AI slop blog posts are a bad thing, but there are about zero people who use LLMs to spit out blog posts which will change their mind after reading your arguments. You’re not speaking their language, they don’t care about anything you do. They are selfish. The point is themselves, not the reader.

> Everyone wants to help each other.

No, they very much do not. There are a lot of scammers and shitty entitled people out there, and LLMs make it easier than ever to become one of them or increase the reach of those who already are.
by sxp | 2025-10-27 16:33:02+00:00
Note that their paper includes p-hacking so this is proto-science rather than science. They didn't find data to match their hypothesis, but they were able to find a hypothesis to match their data.

> Follow-up secondary analyses were then conducted to examine in more granular fashion the timing of the association between nuclear testing and occurrence of transients. Table 2 summarizes the association between occurrence of transients and different time windows relative to nuclear testing, ranging from 2 days before a test until 2 days after a test. The only association that reached statistical significance was for the association in which transients occur 1 day after nuclear testing.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-10-27 16:33:19+00:00
> you can turn on the app from anywhere you happen to be and expect the video feed to work

if i'm understanding "anywhere you happen to be" right: Real question -- I'm not a parent. What is your use case for wanting to monitor your baby remotely from a different location than your baby? Obviously someone is with them at the house or location with the baby! You don't trust em? Or just like seeing/hearing your baby when you are out?

I see why a baby monitor in general is helpful so you can be in another room in the house and still keep an eye/ear on baby, but obv someone has to actually be in the location with the baby! (and the monitor at least needs to be on the wifi, right? So the monitor is in a place you have network access to, yes?)
by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-27 16:33:21+00:00
Because the same kind of guys have one global ssh key they use for all server & all environments... they don't realise they can (and should) have multiple keys on one machine / one user. Different keys for different purposes.

Same issues with git: they don't realise they can have multiple configs, multiple remotes, etc. Never mind knowing how to sign commits.........

They claim to be linux boffins but cannot initialise a git repo. This has nothing to do with elitism. This is basic stuff.

What's next, they don't know what a bootloader or a partition is? Or run database engine with default settings? Or install a server OS and never bother to look at firewall config?

I'm truly not trying to be cruel.