MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjmlp | 2025-10-28 17:18:31+00:00
As someone that was an employee at the time, I am also fed up with the anti-Microsoft narrative.

Also there are some errors there, Windows Phone only became an alternative after the burning platform memo, that wasn't at all well received neither internally, nor by the 3rd party devs that had just started to migrate their Symbian tooling yet again, this time to Qt + PIPS + Carbide.

The biggest blame with the board, as revealed on the Finish press, was the bonus clause on Elop contract to sell Nokia Mobile business.
by ForHackernews | 2025-10-28 17:18:46+00:00
Yes: "What makes the current situation distinctive is that AI appears to be propping up something like the entire U.S. economy. More than half of the growth of the S&P 500 since 2023 has come from just seven companies: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla."

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubbl...
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 17:19:04+00:00
Many animals can. There are a gene for it, humans don't have it. There is a lot of speculation as to why, but nothing really stands out (possibly just random chance - if you eat enough there is no advantage to keeping the gene and in turn no loss from losing it. However I'm unable to rule out other possibilities) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3145266/ is a really interesting survey of the issue across many different species.
by maqnius | 2025-10-28 17:19:14+00:00
> Do you think this goal during training cannot be changed to impersonate someone normal such that you cannot detect you are chatting with an LLM?

I don't think so, because LLMs hallucinate by design, which will always produce oddities.

> Before flight was understood some thought "magic" was involved. Do you think minds operate using "magic"? Are minds not machines? Their operation can not be duplicated?

Might involve something we don't grasp, but despite that: only because something moves through air it's not flying and will never be, just like a thrown stone.
by martythemaniak | 2025-10-28 17:19:53+00:00
In November of 2024, I thought Americans voted to turn their country into Russia, and I still think that's largely right (the oligarchy, the arbitrarily repressive legal system, the endless media sycophancy, the masked paramilitary thugs, etc), but it's also not the complete story. Authoritarian governments like Russia also tend to invest in state capacity and science, so MAHA and DOGE's work is kind of an outlier and a unique American innovation in the space of creating authoritarian hellscapes. Let's see how it works out for them.
by benregenspan | 2025-10-28 17:20:02+00:00
It's expensive in the US because one company has exclusive sales here (patent protection?), but you could try calcefidiol, weekly dose and is supposed to get levels up rapidly. Apparently it's the common form to take in Spain, and it's further down the metabolic pathway vs cholecalciferol. (I take but still have to get levels checked)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-28 17:20:05+00:00
> Wide gulf between "far right" and Nazis

Not really, and I say this with genuine surprise.

The folks who support January 6th are also incredibly quick to support ignoring courts, suspending habeus, concentration camps (sorry, extrajudicial domestic detention explicitly based on probable cause that begins and ends with race, followed by attempted exfiltration from protection from the law), and, like, straight up admitting to revering Nazis [1][2].

Democracy works with left- and right-wing elements because there is a lot of heterogeneity in those sets. That makes compromise possible. Far left and far right groups across history are remarkably similar in their policies, messaging and even colour schemes for reasons I don’t get. (There is autocorrelation due to the heavy lifting homage does in their branding, of course, but why do the far right and left always embrace tariffs and trade wars? Like, going back to the Roman Republic.) This uniformity and quasi-religious zeal basically makes them poisons to democracy.

The moment someone is arguing why their far right position is actually quite different from being Nazi (or far left from its worst elements), you’ve already lost.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y94xe397o

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-...
by sofixa | 2025-10-28 17:20:08+00:00
For such sums, you're probably better off calling the best private hospitals in France, UK, Germany, whatever, taking the trip, doing whatever treatment there and paying out of pocket, having some holiday, and you're still ahead.

Of course that would only work if you can take the time off from work, have the same treatment available elsewhere, and being able to actually travel with whatever illness you have.
by m_fayer | 2025-10-28 17:20:21+00:00
One of my most successful uses of ai is dealing with various obtuse German bureaucracies, private and public.

I don’t think the ai is being particularly smart in my case, and its occasionally flat wrong.

What it does give me is persistence and motivation. I have a nice workflow cobbled together that lets me dump OCRd scans and digital comms into “workspaces” organized by topic. With that workflow, I can basically dump a letter in, say “wtf is it now?”, and have the llm spit out a response. I do basic due diligence and send. Done. They don’t have to be that accurate, and neither do I.

I feel like I have a new superpower now: outlasting it, whatever it is this time.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-28 17:21:08+00:00
> I'm well aware that there are parts of the world where intervening will get you into trouble (and have been in situations where I have held back)

You clearly have more street smarts than the average person. The average person doesn't know when to hold back. They will say and do dumb things, and they will be killed.

There are examples right there in your comment.

> the worst of it in reality was criminals cussing at me as they retreated

You allowed them to leave even though they were insulting you, thereby avoiding violence.

Plenty of people out there who would do the opposite of what you did: they'd go out of their way to insult and humiliate the criminals as they were leaving. "Teach them a lesson", as they say. This can easily escalate the situation into lethal force.

If you insult a man in front of his peers, tell him he's a pussy right in front of his friends, you almost leave him no choice but to come back and escalate just to prove you wrong. It seems obvious but there's plenty of people out there who have died over disrespect.

> something as simple as yelling "I already called the cops"

You were smart enough to back up your threat before confronting the criminals.

Plenty of people out there who threaten the criminal with the 911 call itself. "Stop or I'll call the cops". Not only is it a direct challenge to the criminal, it also provides them with the solution to their problem: kill the guy and he won't call the cops.

It all seems obvious when we're academically discussing this stuff here but in a rapidly escalating, potentially violent situation where emotions and adrenaline are running high, people will do and say all kinds of stupid shit. And they are going to die for it.
by hoherd | 2025-10-28 17:21:14+00:00
Reviewing test code is arguably harder than reviewing implementation code because tests are enumerated success and failure scenarios. Some times the LOC of the tests is an order of magnitude larger than the implementation code.

The biggest place I've seen AI created code with tests produce a false positive is when a specific feature is being tested, but the test case overwrites a global data structure. Fixing the test reveals the implementation to be flawed.

Now imagine you get rewarded for shipping new features a test code, but are derided for refactoring old code. The person who goes to fix the AI slop is frowned upon while the AI slop driver gets recognition for being a great coder. This dynamic caused by AI coding tools is creating perverse workplace incentives.
by hobs | 2025-10-28 17:21:24+00:00
Really we're all just interested in what your line for calling a person a fascist is, and what you would call the folks who did this?

"When the Pentagon announced that reporters would only be credentialed if they pledged not to report on documents not expressly released by official press handlers, free press advocates, including FAIR (9/23/25), denounced the directive as an assault on the First Amendment.

The impact of this rule cannot be understated—any reporter agreeing to such terms is essentially a deputized public relations lackey."

If you can't write with basic clarity because that makes your progressive, you might want to investigate your own bias.
by motorest | 2025-10-28 17:21:28+00:00
> The state of HTML parsing should convince you that if you follow postel's law in one browser then every other browser has to follow it in the same way.

No. Your claim expresses a critical misunderstanding of the principle. It's desirable that a browser should be robust to support broken but still perfectly parceable HTML. Otherwise, it fails to be even useable when dealing with anything but perfectly compliant documents, which mind you means absolutely none whatsoever.

But just because a browser supports broken documents, that doesn't make them less broken. It just means that the severity of the issue is downgraded, and users of said browser have one less reason to migrate.
by ryanrasti | 2025-10-28 17:21:33+00:00
The is exactly the way forward: encapsulation (the function), type safety, and dynamic/lazy query construction.

I'm building a new project, Typegres, on this same philosophy for the modern web stack (TypeScript/PostgreSQL).

We can take your example a step further and blur the lines between database columns and computed business logic, building the "functional core" right in the model:

// This method compiles directly to a SQL expression class User extends db.User { isExpired() { return this.expiresAt.lt(now()); } } const expired = await User.where((u) => u.isExpired());

Here's the playground if that looks interesting: https://typegres.com/play/
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-28 17:21:42+00:00
Great article, from an age where so much was new and exciting (in maybe good ways).

Robin Sloan a couple years latter with "home cooked software" comes to mind. It's very down scoped, individual, where as situated software can still be somewhat broad scale. https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32800518 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423

Then recently, Maggie Appleton's Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers has been very popular & recurring, which talks to how much more accessible it is to build your own home-cooked software, in this LLM age. https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/6/home-cooked-software/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45490737

To ramble off the beaten path a little, it'a a bit unfortunate to me that this all has to be its own class of software. Ideally I'd love to see existing systems and software be better able to be resculpted and shaped by the users, to be flexed into new forms. Accessibility people in particular have a huge edge up here, with much more enriched views of whats on the screen/page, but generally it feels like software wants to be left alone, wants to be what it is (an ego). And that's never felt very "soft". Malleable Software / Malleable Systems would let us better situated our software to the time places and forms of use it finds itself in, would make software better embody the soft. Hoping for more. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=malleable https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44237881 https://malleable.systems/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22857551

Situated software ought be less of its own distinct class, and more what we can do with the many many soft malleable bits of software about us. Perhaps scripted, plugin-ed, or cooked or glued together via LLM help.
by culebron21 | 2025-10-28 17:22:08+00:00
Yes. I thought of Wikipedia as a forum for annoying socially inept nerds, who'd have millions of pages for pokemons, but delete pages for thing that exist on Earth. Now I have to remember those days with nostalgia.

I'm not yet decided on StackOverflow. I won't bother posting there, since every question there nowadays is flagged as offtopic. But I will prefer a stackoverflow answer from a living being, direct and on topic, rather than anything from all those GPTs.
by dragontamer | 2025-10-28 17:22:17+00:00
I'm fairly certain that any simple MCU with static clock (ie: supports 0.01 Hz clock, or 100seconds per clock and slower) will suffice as a human level bootstrap.

ATmega8 happens to satisfy those requirements. It's also not too hard to program microcontrollers that would support human level inputs.

In practice, the bootstrap device will be like a Windows7 laptop we've got squirreled away somewhere. It's probably cheaper to buy up a ton of used / old laptops that are sufficient for bootstrapping rather than trying to build methodologies that bootstrap from scratch.
by mindslight | 2025-10-28 17:22:33+00:00
Police overreach that wantonly harms innocent people will continue to grow until police departments are made to routinely and predictably compensate their victims for the damages they cause - in this case, the costs of having to hire an attorney, time spent responding and collecting evidence, emotional distress, etc. These are all part of the cost of having law enforcement, but are currently being shirked by the municipalities deputizing the police departments and instead levied as externalities that fall onto unlucky victims.

Once the accounting is corrected, these issues mostly become cost-benefit tradeoffs. Should department policy allow officers to continue focusing solely on someone they believe is a perpetrator based on circumstantial evidence, but who insists innocence and immediately offers up their own evidence? Should a city adopt Flock even though it costs a bunch of money, both for the service and for the false positives it generates? Town/city government might decide they're willing to pay for these things. But at least it will be an honest decision, made by the people ultimately responsible for it.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-28 17:22:46+00:00
with or without AI you'd be shocked at how much of a medical bill can disappear if you just ask. Ask for an itemized bill, then ask what programs they have available to help. The real fact is that the hospital barely knows what they did to you, has no idea what it should cost overall, has a foggy idea of much you'll pay vs your insurance (but only a foggy idea because of all of the constantly-shifting backroom deals that insurers and providers make with one another), and then whatevertf price they arrive at with all of this gets an arbitrary number tacked onto it designed to mitigate the fact that a lot of people just don't pay their bill at all and it's not like the hospital can reach into them and claw back their $80 tylenol if they don't get paid, so they just bill it forward and hope that most people will look at their bill as the final word on the subject and pay it despite the fact that they're being badly overcharged. Combine this with the "reject all claims and hope they don't follow up" model of insurance and you can see where this all clearly needs to burn to the ground so that something that works can grow in its place, but also where a lot of people get really rich doing it this way and no one gets super rich when services are provided at a reasonable price so there's no real will to unruin this system. So what we end up with is a system where we pay a lot more than everyone else in the developed world and, for our money, we get to die earlier, which may or may not be preferable to dealing with the american healthcare system. When I was figuring out what I actually owed for my 4 days in the hospital for diverticultitis I strongly considered just dying next time.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-28 17:22:46+00:00
Wow you fly a lot! These things are out what, 2 months? :O

Doesn't that get exhausting? I used to have a job where I'd be on a plane every week and I couldn't hack it. It's supposed to be liberating to travel but basically just seeing the inside of a plane, taxi, meeting room and hotel room every day it was more like a moving prison. Sometimes I'd sneak out to walk through these strange places. But often I'd be forced to attend boring business dinners.

My last business flight was in 2018 and I don't miss it at all :) I even cancelled my corporate amex since I never use it anymore. And these guys keep asking for copies of ID and stuff for tax records or something (completely stupid because yes I'm still the same person duhhh) so in the end I just rolled my eyes and told them to stuff it where the sun don't shine :P
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-28 17:23:17+00:00
> I got an eye roll, a lengthy and exasperated lecture...

This is the part that is galling to me. Apparently no healthcare worker I've ever spoken with about billing has ever had the same considerations I do re: finances. My inquiries have almost always been met with zero empathy and contempt that I would even be so gauche as to ask.

(It's 1000x worse when you're talking to them about your child's medical care. My daughter, at 3 y/o, had a short fall and received a small cut on her face. It bled profusely so we took her to the ER. We ended up with x-rays because I couldn't successful "negotiate" that we didn't want that. The shaming was intense.)
by delusional | 2025-10-28 17:23:23+00:00
> But I think it’s a cultural shift that is much older and tracks better to the decline of traditional sources of values (community, cultural groups, religion, etc.) and their replacement by the easily understandable dollar.

I think about that in the complete opposite direction. I think the dollar displaced traditional values. The cause I'd attribute would be our increasing reliance on "reason", especially short term cause-and-effect "reason".

Most of my perspective on this comes from "Dialectic on enlightenment", which I can recommend if you can stomach an incredibly dense and boring book.
by rzerowan | 2025-10-28 17:23:25+00:00
Not a direct competitor, they are at a No3 slot behind Ericsson with a small global footprintmainly concentrated in NorthAmerica and some EU markets. However most of the 5G/5G+ patents are Huawei owned and FRAND so in any case the entiti in the drivers seat is H , thas why even the whole OpenRAN project didnt get far. Most likely like you surmiseits a geo-political hedge play.
by tekodu | 2025-10-28 17:23:32+00:00
Tested against GPT-5 and Claude 4.5 on 10 production specifications: - Bauform: 10/10 pass all validation gates - GPT-5: 0/10 (generates Streamlit UIs instead of REST APIs) - Claude 4.5: 0/10 (same failure)

The problem: Frontier models pattern-match "build a validator" → "create Streamlit demo" regardless of actual requirements asking for production APIs.

Try it yourself: - Live beta: https://bauform-beta.fly.dev/ - Benchmark with all results: https://github.com/tekodu/bauform-evals - Quick API test: curl -X POST https://bauform-beta.fly.dev/v1/engine/generate \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"spec": "CSV validator with REST API", "params": {}}' - Analysis paper (under peer review): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vtmztpdkm0ns86qapxp5p/bauform...

We use 5-gate validation: functional, security, limits, latency, stability. Binary pass/fail - production either works or doesn't.

The results are cryptographically signed (Ed25519) and fully reproducible.

Happy to answer questions about the methodology or system architecture.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-10-28 17:23:40+00:00
> To make your analogy work, the benefit would be for people who weren’t personally abused, but whose parents or grandparents were abused.

No, this is a consequence of your ideology, which assumes that racial discrimination ended with the Civil Rights Act and etc. (Hence “we could simply just enforce. . .”) Mine does not.

Note that the metaphor as stated by 0xDEAFBEAD, which you already said was good, did not include this additional generational gap.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 17:24:14+00:00
That's not really “AI propping up the entire US economy” so much as it is the AI bubble overlapping with and (very temporarily, likely) masking, in aggregate terms, a general recession. If AI was actually propping up the broader economy, then it would be supporting other industries and the gains wouldn’t be hyperconcentrated and isolated to a small number of AI firms and their main compute hardware supplier.
by superconduct123 | 2025-10-28 17:24:23+00:00
One thing I've noticed with the younger generation is they are much more analytical and "in their heads"

They over-analyze and overthink everything a lot more than past generations which can be good and bad

Probably due to the internet and more access to information

For example when I was a kid you would watch a movie or play a video game and not think about it that much.

Whereas now its all about RT scores, metacritic, review megathreads, unboxing, reaction videos, video essay breakdowns/explainers , tv show podcasts

Analyzing/reviewing/meta-content has never been bigger
by y0eswddl | 2025-10-28 17:24:55+00:00
I hear you on "imperfect to various degrees"... but I think that's being quite generous with respect to his leap into full blown fascism and eugenics.

And I say this as an OG fan-boy, myself. [Tho I started championing that there's no such thing as a benevolent billionaire well before everyone else started jumping off the Elon train]
by wbronitsky | 2025-10-28 17:25:16+00:00
Matt Stoller, a journalist who blogs about monopolies, just wrote all about the pricing issue this week: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-obamaca...

America has doubled down on middlemen controlling the prices of medical care and making sure that there is no set price for anything. With the ACA effectively falling apart in the new budget, we do have a chance to move to a different reality, one where medicare prices are the set prices for everything, but that is nearly a political impossibility given the amount that these middlemen spend in keeping politicians who support that from winning primaries. Instead, we are stuck in a situation where companies get to dictate prices and access to care while we get diminishing returns in health quality and longevity.
by dlcarrier | 2025-10-28 17:25:25+00:00
That's Doctor Roger Seheult, MD, who hosts videos for continuing education provider MedCram (https://www.medcram.com/). They post lots of free videos on their YouTUbe channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-iSMVtWbbwDDXgXXypARQ) and several of them cover the research behind heliotherapy.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 17:25:28+00:00
Something interesting occurs to me. Many of the anecdotes about the squealing on flights says the noise goes away when yawning. Yawning lifts the soft palate and equalizes ambient pressure behind the eardrum in the sinuses. Air pressure is lower in a pressurized airplane cabin than on the ground and is usually more dynamic as well. I wonder if an air pressure gradient forms in the ear canal when in the air that exacerbates the ANC feedback issues that users (myself included) are experiencing on the ground. I feel like there must be some interaction between the multiple microphones due to vibration transmitted through the body of the Airpods.

Since it seems to be an ANC issue it should be fixable in software.