MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jukkan | 2025-10-05 07:05:27+00:00
The crazy thing is how the premium M365 Copilot has only gotten worse as the free Copilot Chat has been rolled out. When the AI assistant from Microsoft can't create a calendar entry in Outlook, what are they even doing with this tech at MS?

You either get A) hallucinations of "I created the calendar entry now" (it didn't) or B) an .ics file you need to download, then import to Outlook manually.

More tests about this scenario in here: https://www.perspectives.plus/p/assistants-without-hands
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-10-05 07:05:35+00:00
The entire business model depends on most people losing, and those losses often come from people who can't afford it, the industry is structured to aggressively market, addict, and exploit psychological weaknesses, it's engineered dependence

> Because _other_ people make poor decisions, we need to take that decision away from everyone.

Sports betting is to entertainment what ultra-processed food is to nutrition, engineered to be addictive, marketed as "pleasure" and technically a personal choice, but built on exploiting human psychology

You can enjoy a burger or a bet responsibly, sure, but the problem is the systemic design, it's optimized for overconsumption and dependency, not well being, you end up creating problems whole society have to pay for it, it's systemic harm
by troupo | 2025-10-05 07:06:06+00:00
> Do we?

> https://htmx.org/essays/when-to-use-hypermedia/

Yea, yes you do. Hypermedia is a great example. Your conclusion is "HTML is the only true hypermedia". So all the facts that don't fit your narrative get ignored or twisted: https://dmitriid.com/hypermedia-is-a-property-of-the-client

Edit Even the links to "When you should use hypermedia" and "Alternatives" you provided literally work backwards from that predefined conclusion, and there's no time in the world to go through each of them to dissect them, but the post I linked to should provide enough context
by jiggawatts | 2025-10-05 07:06:09+00:00
Most of those are scalability / security improvements that are only relevant to fortune 500 sized megacorps.

These are the kind of release notes you'd expect to see for a dying product on life support, used only by those few remaining customers that are too big and too invested in it to migrate away.

Also, the Server 2025 release is the first one to change anything in Active Directory, the 2022 and 2019 versions had essentially nothing in the release notes for AD.

A few performance tweaks and a long-overdue security catch-up or two in a decade is not a vibrant, living and breathing product. It's a shambling zombie.
by metalman | 2025-10-05 07:08:21+00:00
my dad,97, retired forensic pathologists, banned me from having a motorcycle as a youth and talked of how in areas without helmet laws how common it was to have people end up dead, from a hit on the head, but not quite dead,yet,as they were young, strong, and healthy, and end up in hospital, so would be perfect candidates for organ doners. hence donorcycles, childhood storys from the morge.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-05 07:08:27+00:00
> you're free to read the mailing list archives and observe that every issue Dan raised was discussed at the time

As was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG which was ratified over similar objections.

That made it no less of a backdoor.

> it's not their job

As I said about excuses.
by m8s | 2025-10-05 07:08:45+00:00
The two feel very different. Elixir is introducing gradual set-theoretic typing (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.18.4/gradual-set-theoretic-types...) while Gleam has a static Hindley-Milner style type system.

To me, Gleam feels like if Elm’s type system met Rust’s syntax. I really like it. But I also really liked Elixir too, I just can’t live without Gleam’s type system anymore.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-05 07:09:08+00:00
Having worked in professional kitchens, my experience is that nothing predictable happens.

It depends not just on management, but also on the personal relationship between management and the person, and on how bad the current market for staff is.

That said, the kitchens I've worked in were filled with people who worked as hard, or harder than the FAANG teams I was a part of.
by ares623 | 2025-10-05 07:09:34+00:00
Tbh it just sounds like you don’t value others and others’ work that isn’t a “hard” field.

Sure people can learn hotel management outside of university. But outside of nepotism who will trust random strangers with no qualifications to get their foot in the door?

And you make it sound like socializing the cost of improving outcomes for the next generations as a negative. What is the point if society if not that? Even from a purely selfish perspective, The next generation will take care of me when I am too old to do it myself. I’d want them to be in a good state by then

Do you think you got to wherever you are now without some part of socialized cost of society getting you there?
by jukkan | 2025-10-05 07:11:36+00:00
The recent Copilot search that was rolled out to replace the traditional M365 search is actually pretty good. When you use that search UI specifically.

If only asking from Copilot in a chat, the results are less spectacular or reliable. That just shows how a chat UI isn't the best solution for everything. Yet taking the M365 Search terms as input for the LLM to translate into a query that doesn't require the user to know the exact keyword to search - yes, that's a clear step forward.

And Graph grounding remains one of the features behind the premium license. So, only ~2% of M365 users will currently see this benefit. Unless the pay-as-you-go pricing option has huge adoption that we don't have any leaked figures on yet.
by mrandish | 2025-10-05 07:12:19+00:00
It doesn't work like it did before and will fail in some contexts. For example, if you try to use it with other modifier keys (as I do), you cannot because they are ALL already pressed and those presses cannot be masked. A real modifier key can be combined with any or all of the other modifiers. There is now no way to use that key in combination with the other modifiers.
by 9dev | 2025-10-05 07:12:32+00:00
If you stop learning the basics, you will never know when the sycophantic AI happily lures you down a dark alley because it was the only way you discovered on your own. You’ll forever be limited to a rehashing of the bland code slop the majority of the training material contained. Like a carpenter who’s limited to drilling Torx screws.

If that’s your goal in life, don’t let me bother you.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-10-05 07:13:17+00:00
I know a number of people who claim how bad MSG is for them, and humanity. The effect vanishes or reverses when you do a proper double-blind test. In other words, the effect seems to depend on the suggestion. Source: Wikipedia.

The MSG-scam, the alleged link between autism and vaccination and the seed oil craze each go back to single persons who published claims that for some reason went viral.

In my limited experience, claims like these (flat Earth, Moon Hoax, chemtrails...) went viral because they were outlandish, unsupportable claims not backed by science and sometimes even contradicting personal observation. Some people (and I'd say it's more likely to be scientifically not very literate persons) have a predisposition to latch onto bull crap. Let's call people with this trait '(social(ly)) influenceables' because they're frequently the audience to whatever social influencers choose to spew out.

You could present an influenceable with a multiple choice test where possible or plausible theories are presented as answers next to a highly improbable or impossible one, and they sure as hell will agree with the improbable one.

So this (if my impression is not skewed, which is very possible) would suggest that while not very scientifically literate, influenceable persons still have an acute sense for what counts as generally accepted and what counts as fringe theory. They don't have to, and they wouldn't (apart from the ongoing background activity of rumors that always float through the hearsay space). But we're not living in ordinary times, our society is in deep crisis, and for some reason, as in the 1930s, fringe theories and mysticism seem to have become attractive again.

Well, apparently attractive enough for the U.S. government to peddle outlandish health-related theories.
by haebom | 2025-10-05 07:13:41+00:00
I also grew up in a home filled with books when I was young. Reading was my parents' favorite thing about me, and I benefited greatly from it.

I think the recent difficulty people have with reading books stems less from dopamine addiction and more from the sheer abundance of content more appealing than books.

Even when books were mainstream, there were always people who preferred television or comic books. Nowadays, it's even common for people to buy books based solely on the title and author, then take a photo of their purchase and upload it to social media as their goal.

I heard from a friend who works at a publishing company that these days, books written by influencers sell better than those written by professors or experts.
by krelian | 2025-10-05 07:14:33+00:00
Enshittification captures a specific type of degradation - the inevitable deterioration of a product or service under an economic system that is obligated to secure ever larger profits. I like the fact that it is slightly vulgar because there is an element in this process that is revolting - the idea and acceptance that its fulfillment is guaranteed.

The vulgarity also carries with it higher odds of the term detaching from the intellectual sphere and into the common man, increasing awareness and hope of consumer pushback.
by tomsel | 2025-10-05 07:15:04+00:00
I've been using ProtonMail for a few years and it's been an average experience so far, since they force the use of their apps. I've recently tried to setup kmail with my protonmail account and discovered how their business model works for imap access: you pay a subscription after which they give you access (usual deal, nothing bad about it), but then they force you to install a piece of software which supposedly handles all the communications and encryption. I've tried it, it works fine, but I'm not interested in having to run their software just to connect to their imap servers. Also, while you can use a custom email client o n pc, you are stuck with their app on android.

I'd suggest you avoid protonmail. Maybe look into mailbox.org, they actually have a pretty good service.
by keiferski | 2025-10-05 07:19:07+00:00
The legalization and popularity of gambling is more than just an immoral activity that has negative societal effects. It’s reflective of people losing hope in the system’s ability to make their lives better.

Gambling thrives in contexts where a ladder to success doesn’t exist or is perceived as not existing. If hard work or time doesn’t make your life better, then fate is just chance, and you might as well throw your money at something that has the possibility of making your rich, no matter how tiny that likelihood.
by jukkan | 2025-10-05 07:19:09+00:00
Could have been leveraging the new Agen Mode in Excel preview released as a Labs feature. Built on Claude and not GPT-5, this is what the MS teams behind apps like Excel, PowerPoint etc. are now doubling down on.

Possibly the Office Agent can become a V2 of what M365 Copilot was originally sold as. It's not at all surprising that it takes a few years to figure out what LLMs can really be used for in Office tools. Whereas asking for businesses to fund all these experiments with a $30pupm license is not the best move to create early adoption and fans...
by Maxion | 2025-10-05 07:19:44+00:00
You don't really need blood tests.

Just eat a varied diet, low in ultra processed foods (preferrably none). Limit refined carbs/sugars, excercise regularly, spend time in nature, and don't live in built-up areas with lots of polution. Avoid fragrances, PFAS/PFOA, pftalates and the like.
by madaxe_again | 2025-10-05 07:19:45+00:00
Yeah - I think they’ve put a big focus on reducing returns over the last year. I bought a Quest 3 last year. One of the controllers totally packed in within half an hour - thumb stick permanently locked to full. Wanted to do an RMA.

Amazon told me to go hang, said I couldn’t return used goods, it would have to be unused in the box, and that I should contact meta.

I contacted meta, who told me to go hang, as they don’t officially support Portugal, which is where Amazon Spain happily shipped it.

So it’s just sat in a box gathering dust since, and I now avoid using Amazon whenever possible. I had already ditched meta so frankly I should have known that I was going to step on a rake.
by weinzierl | 2025-10-05 07:20:08+00:00
This is good advice but it has one flaw that makes it unrealistic for most software engineers.

"Scheming takes practice and power, and neither of those things are available to software engineers."

Most of us are terrible at scheming not only, not even primarily, because of a lack of practice. It is a lack a of information.

All the advice from the article assumes you know what the people above you really want. Reliable information about this is the precondition for blatant scheming as well as the subtle influencing the article promotes, yet is the hardest part to achieve. Make a mistake their and you'll actively hurt your career.

Hiding your real motives is a main part of politics and you should expect that anyone above you will do it to some degree. Navigating that well is simply not in the skill set of most technical peope who generally appreciate openness.
by mjg59 | 2025-10-05 07:20:33+00:00
They're adhering to their charter. If you show up to my manager demanding to know why I made a specific engineering decision, he's not going to tell you - that's not the process, that's not his job, he's going to trust me to make good decisions unless presented with evidence I've misbehaved.

But as has been pointed out elsewhere, the distinction between the Dual EC DRBG objections and here are massive. The former had an obvious technical weakness that provided a clear mechanism for a back door, and no technical justification for this was ever meaningfully presented, and also it wasn't an IETF discussion. The counterpoints to Dan's engineering complaints (such as they are) are easily accessible to everyone, Dan just chose not to mention them.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-10-05 07:21:45+00:00
They can keep driving until they switch the car off. Some systems switch off gradually after a longer way.

There are two main reasons for that. Over use that if your key dies, you do not want your car to stop immediately, this is not safe. The second one is carjacking: you want the thieves to have a useless car further from you (that one is I belive just a collateral or a secon thought)
by ljf | 2025-10-05 07:22:16+00:00
This is very true for me. If I wanted to throw myself into a weird or surreal story - grabbing a book was often the only place I could get that hit as a teenager in the 90s - we didn't even have a vcr for ages, so the only other places were live TV or radio (or the theatre too I guess).

now there are so many places to scratch the exact itch of today's interest. Books are still great, but as an adult with less free time - I find myself falling for the quick hits more readily.
by moffkalast | 2025-10-05 07:22:22+00:00
Well yes the corporate accelerationists are certainly pushing for it the most, shoehorning the tech into things it doesn't belong in to see if they can somehow come up on top, which that in turn makes lots of people resentful towards it in a reactionary way.

You have artists who've lost work due to diffusion models, teachers who can't assign homework essays anymore, people who hate Microsoft Copilot, just anyone not wanting to be replaced by a bot or being forced to use the tech to avoid being outcompeted, people set in their ways who don't want change or imagine it being destructive, etc. It's a large crowd that one can appeal to for personal gain, politics 101. Anyone with half believable credentials can go on a talk show and say the things people want to hear, maybe sell a book or two afterwards.

Are today's models on the brink of some exponential self perpetuating shot towards superintelligence? Obviously not. Are they overhyped glorified lookup tables? Also no. Are there problems? Definitely. But I don't think it's entirely fair to dismiss a tech based on someone misappropriating it in monopolistic endeavours instead of directing dismissal towards those people themselves.

Like, similar to how Elon's douchebaggery has tainted EVs for lots of people for no practical reason, the same has Altman's done for LLMs.
by mleonhard | 2025-10-05 07:22:51+00:00
I think that async in Rust has a significant devex/velocity cost. Unfortunately, nearly all of the effort in Rust libraries has gone into async code, so the async libraries have outpaced the threaded libraries.

There was only one threaded web server, https://lib.rs/crates/rouille . It has 1.1M lines of code (including deps). Its hello-world example reaches only 26Krps on my machine (Apple M4 Pro). It also has a bug that makes it problematic to use in production: https://github.com/tiny-http/tiny-http/issues/221 .

I wrote https://lib.rs/crates/servlin threaded web server. It uses async internally. It has 221K lines of code. Its hello-world example reaches 102Krps on my machine.

https://lib.rs/crates/ehttpd is another one but it has no tests and it seems abandoned. It does an impressive 113Krps without async, using only 8K lines of code.

For comparison, the popular Axum async web server has 4.3M lines of code and its hello-world example reaches 190Krps on my machine.

The popular threaded Postgres client uses Tokio internally and has 1M lines of code: http://lib.rs/postgres .

Recently a threaded Postgres client was released. It has 500K lines of code: https://lib.rs/crates/postgres_sync .

There was no ergonomic way to signal cancellation to threads, so I wrote one: https://crates.io/crates/permit .

Rust's threaded libraries are starting to catch up to the async libraries!

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I measured lines of code with `rm -rf deps.filtered && cargo vendor-filterer --platform=aarch64-apple-darwin --exclude-crate-path='*#tests' deps.filtered && tokei deps.filtered`.

I ran web servers with `cargo run --release --example hello-world` and measured throughput with `rewrk -c 1000 -d 10s -h http://127.0.0.1:3000/`.
by Foorack | 2025-10-05 07:22:56+00:00
I haven't read the article, but as a Swede I am stunned by the title.

I shop from Amazon a couple of times per month, with Prime subscription.

Delivery is always insanely fast (within 1-2 days), I always get exactly what I ordered, prices are always lowest compared to all competition, returns are convenient and human-free, and the additional Prime Videos is a nice bonus. I am honeslty worried of local Swedish business, becase they are getting the floor wiped. I haven't had a single issue some other people are mentioning.
by matrixswarm | 2025-10-05 07:23:54+00:00
WordPress still powers 40 % of the web, and its weakest link has always been third-party plugins. I built a MatrixSwarm agent that watches that directory in real time and quarantines anything that doesn’t belong.

It snapshots SHA-256 hashes for every approved plugin, scans every 15 seconds, and enforces policy automatically. If something changes, it either quarantines or deletes the folder and sends a signed alert through MatrixSwarm’s `hive.alert`.

Directive and code: https://matrixswarm.com/agents/wordpress-plugin-guard_p46.ht...
by spike021 | 2025-10-05 07:24:41+00:00
It's become very toxic in baseball. just google "baseball player", "threats", and "gambling" and you'll see what I mean.

edit for examples:

* https://www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/red-sox-pitcher-confront...

* https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/mlb-threat...
by the_other | 2025-10-05 07:25:51+00:00
Costs (time/money) are metrics to help analyse your situation/progress. They are not quality of life.

If you had a huge pile of money but still lived in a shack in a slum, you’d still have a terrible quality of life.

If you argument were true, and people are saving time (or money) due to these new systems, why is the wealth gap widening?
by furyofantares | 2025-10-05 07:26:53+00:00
I like gambling too, I was very much for legalizing it until it happened and I saw how many lives it's devastated, and how vulnerable young people are to it.

Now I don't give a fuck that banning it would deprive me (or you) of something we happen to enjoy.

Here‘s the article that started me toward changing my mind: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-online-sports-gambling-exp...
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-05 07:28:16+00:00
I am in the USA and order lots of stuff from there too and have never once had any of these issues really. I return tons of stuff to them also. Anything you don’t like or need you can just return, as Amazon has the best return policy on Earth. I’m not happy that the world is moving to monoliths like Amazon, but I use what makes life easiest for me and saves me money.
by timschmidt | 2025-10-05 07:28:44+00:00
> unless presented with evidence

The complaint seems well referenced with evidence of poor engineering decisions to me.

> Dual EC DRBG ... had an obvious technical weakness that provided a clear mechanism for a back door

Removing an entire layer of well tested encryption qualifies as an obvious technical weakness to me. And as I've mentioned elsewhere in these comments, opens users up to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downgrade_attack should flaws in the new cipher be found. There is a long history of such flaws being discovered, even after deployment. Several examples of which DJB references.

I see no cogent reason for such recklessness, and many reasons to avoid it.

Continued pointing toward "procedure" seems to cede the case.
by ljf | 2025-10-05 07:29:22+00:00
While I agree it isn't right or moral, I'd argue that this behaviour has been 'normal' for a long time now - but for most of the last 100 years the main funding and actors behind the undeclared wars were the global West.

We are now in a place where it is cheaper than ever and even easier to set up attacks from afar https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/23/russian-sp...
by psychoslave | 2025-10-05 07:31:10+00:00
Those who already took 99% of the pie can safely bet on every possible outcome.

Most can avoid to lose completely while alive, but they have no path to a winning position, and others are trapped in a situation where it's so hard to go down to a net lost that they lose ability to understand that individual hard work and wiseness is not going to defeat societal asymetries.
by lbschenkel | 2025-10-05 07:31:23+00:00
I'm not an huge fan of BankID either, but a few corrections/clarifications:

1. BankID always allowed to have different settings for login and for signature. I have done that since forever. For example, I configured login to allow biometrics but not signature. If it's forcing me to enter the security code I know it is a signature, which forces me to pause. I cannot sign anything by mistake (like a transfer) because I'm forced to enter my long security code to complete it. And for the much more frequent scenario of pure logins, I can just use my finger.

2. I believe it does use the hardware-backed keychain if the device has one. I cannot prove it as the source code is not available, but I remember being curious and checking this on a rooted device.
by razoorka | 2025-10-05 07:32:46+00:00
Exactly. It's an industry shift, and one person can't reverse it alone. But I disagree with "better something than nothing" when it comes to quality. That's how we normalized catastrophes in the first place. The lemon market problem you described is real—users can't evaluate quality, so price becomes the only signal. But engineers can evaluate quality. We're the ones who should refuse to ship garbage, even if management pushes back. Being grumpy works locally. It won't fix the industry, but it fixes your team. And when enough teams refuse to normalize this, the pattern shifts.