MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-02 14:57:20+00:00
My daily driver is a desktop computer that still runs triple-A video games but can't be upgraded because the motherboard doesn't have a TPM. Combined with the unbelievable hostility MS seems to have for customers and the fact that any .NET development you need to do these days no longer requires windows this will push me out of their ecosystem. It's wild to think that in less than 20 years I've gone from MS everything to MS nothing.
by ermir | 2025-10-02 14:58:09+00:00
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by constantcrying | 2025-10-02 14:58:29+00:00
It is ridiculous to have American workers and Chinese workers doing essentially the same job, at the same quality, while their salaries differ enormously.

American (and European) automotive companies will never be able to compete long term in any market which allows competition between Chinese and American (or European) cars.

The labor of an auto worker is not worth that much and only by banning competition can American auto manufacturing survive short term.
by tamimio | 2025-10-02 14:58:32+00:00
> If you won't take an average person with no knowledge of your industry and train them to be an expert while on the job, the problem is you, not everybody else.

Exactly this, I have seen the issue too in mid or senior levels, not just fresh, because even if you're senior, most likely your expertise is on a very specific topic, not necessarily the job specific one, could be something very close to it. It's like learning on the job either through training or self-taught is an alien topic to them. I remember one time I had an interview for a job that needed some knowledge on navigating a Linux environment, and I have personally been using Linux at work or personally since ~2004 or so, only to find out during the interview the expectations were Linus Torvalds rock star level in developing kernels, for a pay of ~90k, and the job itself isn't even about Linux, it was some automation/robotics so the OS is just your environment, haha!
by torginus | 2025-10-02 14:58:56+00:00
This might be just a crappy conspiracy theory, but as I started watching financial news in recent times, I feel like there's a concerted effort on the part of media to manipulate retail investors into investing/divesting into stuff, like 'the NASDAQ is overvalued, buy gold now!' being the most recent example.

I feel like the fact that AI was constantly shilled while it didn't work, now everybody talking about being bearish on A(G)I, while the AI we as consumers do have, becoming actually pretty useful and with the crazy amounts of compute already onlined to run it, I think we might be in for a real surprise jump, and might even start to feel the AI's 'bite'

Or maybe I'm overthinking stuff and stuff is as it seems, or maybe nobody knows and the AI people are just throwing more compute at training and inference and hoping for the best.

On the previous points, I can't tell if I'm being gaslit accidentally by algorithms (Google and Reddit showing me stuff that support my preconcieved notions), intentionally (which would be quite sinister if algorithms decided to target me), or everyone else is being shown the same thing.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-02 14:58:59+00:00
If you've got a notebook with you, make a note that you need to find out, and who you have to tell, so that you actually do what you say you will.

But as others have said, I think you're overthinking this. I would far rather you tell me that you don't know but will find out, than have you make something up.
by cornholio | 2025-10-02 14:59:19+00:00
No, that's not the claim. The claim is that we will create a hypothetical LLM that, when tasked with a problem at the scientific frontier of molecular biology will, about 10% of the time, correctly reason about existing literature and reach conclusions that are valid or plausible to similar experts in the field.

Let's say you run that LLM one million times and get 100.000 valid reasoning chains. Let's say among them are variations on 1000 fundamentally new approaches and ideas, and out of those, you can actually synthesize in the laboratory 200 new candidate compounds, and out of those, 10 substance show strong in-vitro response, and then one of those completely cures some cancerous mice.

There you go, you have substantially automated the intellectual work of cancer research and you have one very promising compound you can start phase 1 trials that you didn't have before AI, and all without any AGI.
by 0xCMP | 2025-10-02 14:59:36+00:00
Look at the latest changes in iPhone hardware for security. Some are saying the iphone is unhackable now.

There are no reasons such improvements couldn't work for Windows and I am guessing this is their best idea for raising the floor of hardware protection they can assume is available.

I agree the push, which is quite disruptive, must be influenced by someone higher up. But I think its as simple as "Windows is insecure" is something they want to make untrue.
by simianparrot | 2025-10-02 14:59:47+00:00
Ok let me restate the point more clearly: Of course there's _some_ genetics in play; if I was born without arms, a handstand would be very hard -- depending on factors, _maybe_ possible with robotic limbs but doubtful.

My point was, there's nothing genetic about my ability to teach myself the skills. In fact in many cases -- including being born with asthma -- I had to work around weaknesses many of my peers didn't have. I've always had weak balance, so it took me much longer to get used to acrobatics to build up to handstands than my friends. I have innate low blood pressure which means I more easily get dizzy when I handstand if I'm not very particular about how I breathe. In most things, I'm slower to learn them, but I'm generally better at perseverance and structured learning.
by m-hodges | 2025-10-02 14:59:48+00:00
A bit below the fold:

> This year’s job cut announcements were driven by federal government layoffs, businesses’ responses to economic uncertainty caused by tariffs and inflation, and store closings, among other factors. AI was less of a driver, though 17,375 cuts were “explicitly attributed to artificial intelligence,” the report said.

The report: https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Ch...
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 14:59:48+00:00
What's the structural solution to this? Offer golden handcuffs to stay for x years?

- "We'll train you, and if you stay the full 8 years you get a $500,000 bonus"?

- "Here's a $200,000 signing bonus, which you have to pay back if you leave before 8 years"

I'd be hesitant to rely on these as a candidate, because I'd have to assume I'd get fired at year 6-7 or something so that the company could save money.
by paulddraper | 2025-10-02 14:59:56+00:00
To be honest, a lot of what you're saying doesn't make sense.

But yes you can have "bonkers" devicePixelRatio. Namely, when the browser is zoomed.

Logical pixels measure UI "size." And Physical pixels (logical pixels * devicePixelRatio) is the number of dots.

Your game layout should target logical pixels. And rasterization, textures, etc should target physical pixels.

If weird devicePixelRatio causes problems with a lot of pixel-exact UI, you may choose to use your own logical pixels that has a rounded devicePixelRatio.

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I have a MacBook with a retina display. Versus a non-retina display, I would not expect that everything is 2x smaller, but rather 2x more detailed (or, if not that, the same level of detail but same size). That important distinction is reason for two different constants.
by criddell | 2025-10-02 14:59:57+00:00
In the Brumadinho case, five engineers were arrested and charged and jailed. They are out of jail and a criminal case is ongoing.

In the Bhopal disaster, seven engineers and executives were convicted of causing death by negligence and give the maximum penalty (which was pretty weak).

The Chernobyl incident led to Anatoly Dyatlov to be jailed and getting a 10-year sentence.

For Fukushima, some people were charged with professional negligence causing death but they beat the charges in court.

Licensing will not make anybody competent. But it can help keep incompetent people out of our field. When Engineers screw up, their malpractice insurance may get too expensive for them to continue to work in the field. When management asks for something unethical, it gives a pretty good reason for pushing back.
by 9rx | 2025-10-02 15:00:09+00:00
> Waymo showed it's not a bubble.

Waymo showed that under tightly controlled conditions humans can successfully operate cars remotely. Which is still really useful, but a far cry from the promise of everyone being able to buy a personal pod on wheels that takes you to and fro, no matter where you want to go, while you sleep that the bubble was premised on. In other words, Waymo has proven the bubble. It has been 20 years since Stanley, and I still have never seen a self-driving car in person. And I reside in an area that was officially designated by the government for self-driving car testing!

> I think the realistic answer is we don't actually know if it's a bubble.

While that is technically true, has there ever not been a bubble when people start dreaming about what could be? Even if AI heads towards being everything we hope it can become, it still seems highly likely that people have dreamed up uses for the potential of AI that aren't actually useful. The PetsGPT.com-types can still create a bubble even if the underlying technology is all that and more.
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Show HN: Very Good Metronome – Minimal iOS metronome, resurrected after 13 years
by tom2948329494 | 2025-10-02 15:00:47+00:00
Story time: 13 years ago (gasp, I'm old), I had a nice and minimal (and skeuomorphic!) metronome app on the App Store. I'm a designer with limited coding skills, so it was design exercise first, until I hired a brilliant developer to build and eventually release it. Huge milestone for 24-year-old me.

Well, I could not maintain the app in the long run and it faded.

Every 3-5 days I thought about how to resurrect it myself. I started Swift tutorials, gave up, started again, gave up again. Just couldn't do it. But also couldn't shake it.

Today, I'm reading every discussion about the pros and cons of vibe coding. I watch the hype and am somewhat going through the AI disillusionment phase myself.

But then, AI coding now enabled me to actually rebuild the app exactly as I imagined it in a whole new design, but with the same minimalistic principles. This use of AI is still a wonder to me.

I honestly built this for myself, like a bespoke app for my guitar practice.

There are some good apps out there, but they weren't exactly as I needed. I'm sure some of you know this particular form of suffering where an app is perfectly fine for everyone else but you notice every tiny thing that could be better. Classic designer/developer curse.

Most importantly I wanted an app that has: - no ads, no popups or nags - no signup or trials - just works almost like a hardware tool that sits there and plays when you press the button

Happy to share it now for free with everybody who might find it useful. I went for an optional in-app purchase to a.) find out how that works and learn, and b.) maybe earn money, come on let me dream.

Bonus experiment: There's an ad- and tracking-free web version I'm thinking could be a nice gateway to the iOS app: https://www.verygoodmetronome.com

Landing Page: https://www.verygoodmetronome.com/app/

And the app itself: https://apple.co/3WllSby

Any feedback or thoughts are welcome!

My first HN post and I'm not even a hacker... please be kind?
by mindslight | 2025-10-02 15:00:50+00:00
Yes, this is a kind of insidious framings that Economics makes. By choosing which is the X vs the Y axis, it creates an implied causality [0]. An alternative way of looking at the same situation is that employers are not willing to pay enough for labor.

By framing it as a shortage of labor rather than a shorting of those looking to pay for labor, the employers hope to encourage more labor to flood the market [1] and lower prices further. This is a continuation of how we've gotten to the current predicament with most jobs being de-skilled commodities that don't pay enough to support their workers.

[0] another insidious framing is that by assuming instantaneous response, this downplays the importance of causality. But in the real world markets are not supercomputational.

[1] both private individuals choosing an educational path, and by government policy
by throw__away7391 | 2025-10-02 15:01:04+00:00
Every junior I've brought in over the past 7 years or so with the expectation of training them has immediately left after I've invested not only money but also significant amounts of more experienced developers time to bring them up to speed before I managed to recoup anything useful for that investment. I can already hear people say pay more, but that isn't up to me and besides that if we're going that route why not just hire the experienced person in the first place?

Of course increasingly it's hard even to train at all, I'm getting absolute garbage AI slop from our most junior developers and they don't seem to be learning any more. I sit and try to explain why their solution to some task won't work and they are not engaged with the actual solution they are implementing at all. I've tried to get them to engage more with the AI as a learning and exploration tool, but I'm not having much luck, they're completely focused on inputing the task, really at the mercy of the direction of the tools.

I really hope AI comes through for us in the end because it seems we're at the end-game for human learning.
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by freedomben | 2025-10-02 15:01:34+00:00
Can you clarify what you mean by "given compensation", because:

> is totally represented by a shortage of qualified people for the given compensation.

Sounds like "I want to pay X, there's not enough willing to work for X, therefore there is a labor shortage." I know plenty of people who only want to pay $30 an hour for web development work. It might feel like a labor shortage to these people since they can't find many people willing to work for that wage, but in reality where the price they've chosen lands on the supply/demand curve there is almost no supply, but if they increased the wage, amazingly supply goes up too. If 30 seems high enough, imagine $5 an hour instead of $30. The actual number doesn't matter, it's where it falls on the spectrum that is relevant for this example.

If by "given compensation" you meant "market rate" then I think we're largely in agreement.
by jnovek | 2025-10-02 15:01:58+00:00
“I’m sure there are some number of people out there who only use Facebook Messenger, do not check their email, refuse to use any other messenger”

I don’t know how old you are or where you live, but I’m in my mid 40s and don’t live in a tech city. A good quarter of everyone I know in my age range uses Facebook Messenger as their primary form of texting. Most of them don’t even use Facebook itself anymore, they just have a lot of momentum on Messenger.
by doodlebugging | 2025-10-02 15:02:43+00:00
Samantha Power wrote an excellent book: "A Problem From Hell" - America and the Age of Genocide [0], [1]

She had seen war and genocide first-hand in Bosnia and that provided the impetus for her to study how America had responded to various genocides.

I will repeat the last paragraph of her Preface for some context.

>Before I began exploring America's relationship with genocide, I used to refer to U.S. policy towards Bosnia as a "failure." I have changed my mind. It is daunting to acknowledge, but this country's consistent policy of nonintervention in the face of genocide offers sad testimony not to a broken American political system but to one that is ruthlessly effective. The system, as it stands now, is working. No U.S. president has ever made genocide prevention a priority, and no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on.

[0] https://samanthapower.com/books/a-problem-from-hell-america-...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Hell-America-Age-Genocide/dp/...
by floatrock | 2025-10-02 15:02:49+00:00
domestic sedans and hatches sold poorly and were discontinued.

Quality might have some small piece there, but there's other factors like:

- large trucks & SUVs are more profitable

- there's import restrictions on that category so it has a certain insulation from foreign competition

- US car companies are really just banks that happen to make cars -- "cash is king" was for our dads, now if you want a deal it's "take our corporate 20-year financing on an asset that will be fully depreciated in 8"
by warpspin | 2025-10-02 15:02:53+00:00
Hmm, not really a cruder version of this. ESCOS is simply a wholy other trick, which also happens to be incompatible with this technique. As far as I know, it's not possible to open the side border while also performing FLI.

Not trying to downplay ESCOS - it was an important effect and release, foundational even. Just has nothing to do at all with FLI, NUFLI or now this NUFLIX variant, except that it was another nice and important timing-based VIC chip hack.
by samuellavoie90 | 2025-10-02 15:02:59+00:00
Microsoft isn't ending Windows 10 support, it's all just marketing to encourage people to move over. They already partially backed out by saying they will provide updates for (At least) 1 more year if certain conditions are met, but they will probably end up giving everyone the critical security updates anyway. The quantity of windows 10 machines still being used is just too large to allow some vulnerability to permanently smear microsoft because 40% of all windows PCs got hacked or something.
by lelandbatey | 2025-10-02 15:03:07+00:00
What you have mentioned is hypothetically true, but not usually relevant. Folks bring up "there is a labor shortage" for vast swaths of lower skill jobs, famously so: e.g. waitstaff, dishwashers, drywallers. These are jobs that huuuuuge portions of your population can do, if you give them the minimal training the job requires. So it is with many of the entry-level factory jobs discussed in the parent article. Folks in hiring positions for entry level factory jobs, or waitstaff, or dishwashers, those folks say things like "there's a labor shortage" when what they typically should be saying is "wages for the positions I am hiring for need to increase to match market rates."
by simonw | 2025-10-02 15:03:12+00:00
Suggestion: run a regex to remove those FIXME comments first, then try the experiment again.

I often use Claude/GPT-5/etc to analyze existing repositories while deliberately omitting the tests and documentation folders because I don't want them to influence the answers I'm getting about the code - because if I'm asking a question it's likely the documentation has failed to answer it already!
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-02 15:03:13+00:00
That's a weird set of anecdotes you've chosen. The first half of those incidents are in fact the opposite of what you seem to be complaining about: finding the Professional Engineers that signed off on the mistakes in the project is hard to do because they happened in countries that failed to regulate Professional Engineering licenses.

The Chernobyl disaster is an operation mistake, which a Professional Engineer may have signed the process for operation, but an operational failure to follow process is not the Professional Engineer's fault. Sure, a professional will try to narrow processes to be as fool-proof as possible, but you can't entirely blame a professional that the planet is capable of generating far more fools than you can plan for.

The Fukushima disaster actually shows Professional Engineering consequences with multiple engineering groups doing analysis and investigations of what went wrong and whether or not to indict Professional Engineers involved in the construction. None of those moved to such indictments, but it was investigated at length. Three of the executives of the company were indicted as a part of those investigations (and then were judged "not guilty" in a Japanese court of law).

"Licensed professionals" is not a myth. A license isn't about making anyone competent, it is about applying consequence when they aren't. It's also about having your back when you are worried about possible consequences. "I can't do that because I would lose my license" is a threat companies have to take seriously. If your company wants to force you to pursue it anyway, you can take the issue to the Ethics Committee at your licensing board/professional organization and they can help you examine the legal, ethical, and moral implications in a way that could result in consequences to your company. If all of that is documented and the company still does it anyway it is easier to get legal consequences applied to company executives, such as real, deserved jail time.
by tdeck | 2025-10-02 15:03:19+00:00
World leaders know this, they're pretending not to see it. For example, the Biden administration set specific aid targets for Israel to meet and even acknowledged that they weren't being met by the "deadline" but neglected to impose any consequences.

https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-depar...

Israelis (including those who use this platform to repeat the same warmed-over genocide denials for the umpteenth time) know it's happening too. That's why the argument is usually 50% "it's not happening" and 50% "but they deserve it".