MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zzzeek | 2025-10-19 15:00:54+00:00
how about reporting on Kristy Noem stealing $172M from every American so she can have *two* luxury private jets? Thats....28666 stolen-lego rings worth.

im sure NYT reported on that as well, couched in typical "questions arise...." format which they reserve for those criminals whose crimes are so massive and so completely blatant, they couldn't possibly call them what they are. Those would be facts that their readers wouldn't accept. But a Latino man running a shoplifting ring, they'll nod their heads and dream of more Alligator Alcatrazes for "the illegals".
by theptip | 2025-10-19 15:01:39+00:00
AGI as defined these days is typically “can perform at competent human level on all knowledge work tasks” so somewhat tautologically it does threaten to substitute for all these jobs.

It’s a good thing to keep in mind that plumbers are a thing, my personal take is if you automated all the knowledge work then physical/robot automation would swiftly follow for the blue-collar jobs: robots are software-limited right now, and as Baumol’s Cost Disease sets in, physical labor would become more expensive so there would be increased incentive to solve the remaining hardware limitations.
by gubicle | 2025-10-19 15:01:46+00:00
The (relatively big and successful) tech company I work at, has gradually seen ~all high level decision-making positions filled with PMs, while senior engineers who have been at the company for years are being pushed out and/or leaving. Most of these PMs have very little understanding of the tech, the market, or how software engineering works, yet they now make ~all of the product decisions at the company. I haven't worked on anything remotely useful, or bottom-line impactful in 2 years. I was originally very optimistic about the company and elected to get paid in as much stock (vs cash) as possible... which I now realize was a big mistake.
by vacuity | 2025-10-19 15:01:49+00:00
Rust isn't perfect, but it's basically the most viable language currently to be used in software such as Linux. It's definitely more of a C++ contender than anything else, but manages to be very usable in most other cases too. Rust 1.0 got a lot of things right with its compile-time features, and the utility of these features for "low-level" code has been demonstrated repeatedly. If a language is to replace Rust in the future, I expect it will take on many of the strengths of Rust. Moreover, Rust is impressive at becoming better. The work for Rust-for-Linux, alongside various other improvements (e.g. next trait solver, Polonius and place-based borrowing, parallel rustc frontend) show that Rust can evolve significantly without a huge addition in complexity. Actually, most changes should reduce its complexity. Yes, Rust has fumbled some areas, such as the async ecosystem, the macro ecosystem, and pointer-width integers, but its mistakes are also considered for improvement. The only unfortunate thing is the lack of manpower to drive some of these improvements, but I'm in it for the long run. Frankly, I'd say that if the industry had to use only one language tomorrow, Rust is the best extant choice. Really, I'm open to

And, it's really funny that GP criticizes Rust but doesn't acknowledge that of course blood, sweat, and tears have already gone into less drastic variants for C or C++. Rust itself is one of the outputs of the solution space! Sure, hype is always a thing, but Rust has quite demonstrated its utility in the free market of programming languages. If Rust was not as promising as it is, I don't see why all of these companies and Linus Torvalds would seriously consider it after all these years of experience. I can accept if C had a valid "worse is better" merit to it. I think C++, if anything, has the worst value-to-hype ratio of any programming language. But Rust has never been a one-trick pony for memory safety, or a bag of old tricks. Like any good language, it offers its own way of doing things, and for many people, its way is a net improvement.
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-19 15:01:49+00:00
Most people are not in a position to choose whether to embrace or reject. An individual is generally in a position to be harmed by or helped by the new thing, based on their role and the time they are alive.

Analogies are almost always an excuse to oversimplify. Just defend the thing on its own properties - not the properties of a conceptually similar thing that happened in the past.
by mrkeen | 2025-10-19 15:01:52+00:00
You're getting hung up on the "double" entries. That's mostly for reducing accidental and deliberate (fraud) calculation errors if you have humans crunching the numbers. The two entries can be in the same row if you like.

As for the inter-system transfers, It's not possible in the general case. You might not have a network cable between the two systems. And if you do, you run into CAP, two-generals, etc.

ACID is out of the question because the two parties don't share a DB. And if they did, some tech lead would turn down the acidity level for performance reasons.

The best you can do is intelligently interpret the information that has been given to you. That's all ledgers are: a list of things that some system knows. 'UPDATE CustomerBalance...' (CRUD) is not a fact, but 'Customer paid...' is a fact, and that's all event-sourcing is.
by yunwal | 2025-10-19 15:02:02+00:00
I mean, at the point where you’re writing tools to assist it, we are no longer comparing the performance of 2 LLMs. You’re taking a solution that requires a small amount of expertise, and replacing it with another solution that requires more expertise, and costs more. The question is not “can fine tuning alone do better than every other trick in the book plus a SOTA LLM plus infinite time and money?” The question is: “is fine tuning useful?”
by fcarraldo | 2025-10-19 15:02:12+00:00
I don’t think there are very many k8s clusters running 100s of pods per node. The default maximum is 110. You can, of course, scale beyond this, but you’ll run into etcd performance issues, IP space issues, max connection, IOPS and networking limitations for most use cases.

At 1M nodes I’d still expect an average of a dozen or so pods per node.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-19 15:02:37+00:00
Texas already has exorbitantly high property taxes, more than most, that's why perfectly good buildings are often torn down. Nice buildings where that would not happen in other states. Because it allows the appraisal value to plummet and the owner to continue to own the property when nothing other than a drastic reduction in this yearly siphoning (which never stops increasing) will do.

Remember the purpose of property tax to begin with is for the owner to lose the property in case they are not as wealthy as someone else who might be interested someday. Or in case the property itself can not provide more than enough income to pay the tax in a timely way.

Another problem is that taxes were always high but they didn't actually start skyrocketing until a few decades ago, after one of the key stabilizing anti-Carpetbagger laws which prevented home equity loans, was repealed.

And the sky's the limit whenever untapped wealth is unleashed, to be audited and appraised.

So it's been kind of a race between property appreciation, available equity to borrow against as values increase, versus tax rates and appraisals trying to capture more of that in ways that can only result in owners becoming less whole that it ever has been.

Revenue-neutral or not, anything that makes it worse makes it worse.
by Filligree | 2025-10-19 15:04:09+00:00
That’s false. It’s very easy to become confused about the point, when anti-AI folks in general don’t spend their time attacking companies…

What I typically see is:

- Open source programmers attacking other open source programmers, for any of half a dozen reasons. They rarely sound entirely honest.

- Artists attacking hobbyists who like to generate a couple pictures for memes, because it’s cool, or to illustrate stories. None of the hobbyists would have commissioned an artist for this purpose, even if AI didn’t exist.

- Worries about potential human extinction. That’s the one category I sympathise with.

Speaking for myself, I spent years discussing the potential economic drawbacks for once AI became useful. People generally ignored me.

The moment it started happening, they instead started attacking me for having the temerity to use it myself.

Meanwhile I’ve been instructed I need to start using AI at work. Unspoken: Or be fired. And, fair play: Our workload is only increasing, and I happen to know how to get value from the tools… because I spent years playing with them, since well before they had any.

My colleagues who are anti-AI, I suspect, won’t do so well.
by jszymborski | 2025-10-19 15:04:13+00:00
When I was in school in the early 2010s (maybe 17-18yo) our intro to biology course had us thermocycle by alternating between warm tubs of water with the use of an egg-timer. When I later used a thermocycler during my research career I really came to appreciate the little bugger (even though it caused a lot of headaches anyway)
by supportengineer | 2025-10-19 15:04:20+00:00
Another aspect of the sheer number of technologies that you have to use is that you can’t do very much as a solo developer. It introduces a social aspect. You must work as part of a team. Especially when you have a public facing website or large scale. So the field is less appealing for someone who is a typical introvert. The types of personalities are completely different compared to those from the mid-90s or before.
by nisten | 2025-10-19 15:05:46+00:00
I'm very much pro hyper-automation, especially for all government work... but can't help but think this type of branding is just in bad faith and that these are not good people.

It just screams fried serotonin-circuits to me. I don't like it. I looked at the site for 2-3 seconds and I want nothing to do with these guys.

Do I think we should stop this type of competitive behaviour fueled by kids and investors both microdosed on meth? No. I just wouldn't do business with them, they don't look like trustworthy brand to me.

Edit: They got me with the joke, being in this field there are people that do actually talk like that, both startups and established executives alike. I.e. Artisan ads in billboards saying STOP HIRING HUMANS and another new york company I think pushing newspaper ads for complete replacement. Also if you're up with the latest engineering in agentic scaffolding work this type of thing is no joke.
by mkovach | 2025-10-19 15:06:16+00:00
Very cool! You lived down the street! And yes, Kerouac's turn toward health mainly counteracted the booze.

Oh, and another fun fact:

Kerouac once befriended a former minor league baseball player who'd also played college football. He encouraged the guy to try acting. In a roundabout way, we have Jack Kerouac to thank for Paul Gleason, one of the '80s movies' most memorable villains. (An interesting man in his own right.)

(There are enough quotes and parentheses in this reply to resemble a LISP program, sorry about that.)
by zvmaz | 2025-10-19 15:06:38+00:00
That is why I use Qubes OS [1] in order to have a certain peace of mind.

[1] https://www.qubes-os.org/

EDIT: further comment below:

On second thought, Qubes OS does not prevent such types of malicious downloads; it can also happen to Qubes images. Verify your downloads with checksums and cryptographic signatures [2].

[2] https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/project-security/verifyin...
by glenstein | 2025-10-19 15:06:39+00:00
Right, and I would even go a step further and say the context from SebastienBubeck is stretching "solved" past its breaking point by equating literature research with self-bootsrapped problem solving. When it's later characterized as "previously unsolved" it's doubling down on the same equivocation.

Don't get me wrong, effectively surfacing unappreciated research is great and extremely valuable. So there's a real thing here but with the wrong headline attached to it.
by Rendello | 2025-10-19 15:06:59+00:00
> Casio watches never looked as cheap as this watch does.

Casio's a dedicated watch company. Even in their earliest iterations, they were less limited. From the site [1], this appears to be one person's project.

> Going with light grey plastic was a mistake, makes it look like a cheap prop of a metallic object.

I wonder if it's less the colour than the sheen of that specific type of plastic. Casio has some great looking fake-metal. In the end, cheap plastic will probably end up looking like what it is.

1. https://dotslashwatch.com/hardware/
by gs17 | 2025-10-19 15:07:01+00:00
In the article:

> Casserly said that tasks will not be related to any of Uber’s autonomous partnerships or the development of driverless vehicles.

But also it would be hard to provide them with tasks that are genuinely useful to training autonomous vehicles with only their phone.

Think about what data Waymo needs at this point. Where I am, they're driving street by street to get sensor maps of everywhere to prep for launching, which requires people to be driving a car with their specific sensors, not a phone.
by mmooss | 2025-10-19 15:07:19+00:00
> Sort of like illegal vs undocumented migrants. First time you hear, it may pass in different ways. But once you realize what’s the topic, people on both sides will read both words the same way. And both in their own ways. It just becomes a kind of virtue signaling after few uses.

People who study these things, including persuasive public communication, have a very different opinion. So do writers of every stripe, from technical writers to poets. The words we use matter.

For example, the sides in the abortion debate call themselves 'pro choice' and 'pro life', and call their opponents negative things. Goverments have long called targets who challenge the status quo, especially voilently, 'terrorists', even though their tactics may have nothing to do with terrorism. Political actors invest lots of money and work in finding the most effective words.

There's a difference between 'slaves' or 'colleteral damage', creatures or objects that play a role in someone else's actions, and 'enslaved people' or 'enslaved men and women' or 'people who were killed by the bomb', who are real humans caught up on something awful.

People use pejoritives for the same reason - for example, 'wetbacks' or 'illegals' for undocumented people, all sorts of names for enemies in warfare, etc.
by game_the0ry | 2025-10-19 15:07:25+00:00
> "Humans no longer necessary."

> "Stupid. Smelly. Squishy."

> "While working for 12 years as the Director of HR for a multinational, Faith realized that firing people gave her an almost-spiritual high."

I love the marketing here. Top notch shit posting.

But besides that, no idea what this company does and it just comes off like another wannabe Roy Lee styled "be controversial and build an audience before you even have a product" type company.

That being said, still a good case study of shock marketing. It made it to the top link on HN after all.

Edit: its satire, I got got :(
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-19 15:07:43+00:00
Welcome to real Northern Living :)

>On a scorching Texas afternoon,

Something I'm very familiar with, and the drone data speaks for itself as far as what it's like in the hot sun of southeast Texas.

Then how about at night?

Those buildings can then act like heat islands that can take more than one night for the heat to dissipate too.

Some cool off that much, some don't. Thermodynamics at work.

Based on heated mass is how long it takes to cool back off to ambient temp by morning. Good air circulation can help a lot too.

If everybody's roof is soaking up heat all day, the structures underneath that are being actively cooled at the same time are not expected to have nearly as much heated mass that needs to dissipate, and the only time for that might be at night.

But maybe that same amount of heat was actively dispersed into the surrounding air all day by the air conditioning units of the cooled structures, plus some of the night. And how efficient are A/C units anyway? That's got to make a difference too so it's not just abandoned buildings but any time people are not running A/C even while dwelling there. At least the windows are open then.

So the drone data on the buildings looks realistic so far, but everything else is just beginning to trickle in.

Regardless, I'm just fine without A/C in the summer in Houston if I'm in a proper place like a 100-year-old home that was built for it.

But I grew up in Florida when about the only places with A/C were supermarkets and banks, not even most college dorms or classrooms had it when I got there.

You just sweat more in Florida, because it may not reach 100 Fahrenheit all summer but the humidity makes Houston feel like a desert by comparison, and it sure doesn't cool off as much at night like it does in Houston with its milder type of "Northern Living" :)
by photonthug | 2025-10-19 15:07:46+00:00
If we fill those abandoned buildings with people, air-conditioning the inside of the building for them will obviously add even more heat to the outside? Parking lots that are full of cars aren't going to be that much cooler than empty ones?

Basically the real story is just that trees make shade (yes, we know already) and "vacant or abandoned" isn't much involved (yes, but we want to discuss zoning/taxes/urbanism things)
by imtringued | 2025-10-19 15:08:31+00:00
>A smarter approach is to cherry pick the best elements from every model and redesign the parts that don't serve us

There is a reason why Gesell only suggested the three core policies free money, free land and free trade. Once you have that you can cherry pick whatever you want, without any contradictions.

If you want austerity and low unemployment, high wages, low inequality and so on, the system is set up to support that.

How is that possible? Because most important thing realization of Gesell was that the system is not in equilibrium. You have to bring it into equilibrium through equilibrium encouraging policies.

The standard neoclassical framework treats the economy as if it was always in equilibrium and governments are the ones ruining equilibrium, which means you can abuse the economy and hack it and destroy it as much as you want and it will still work anyway. If anything, a neoclassical economist will even think that it will work better when it is in shambles.

So in a way, the policies that bring about equilibrium will appear as if they are a panacea. They do impossible things that people who are living in the old way of mandatory contradictions would never believe, when in reality all they did was reduce the obvious dysfunction staring down on them.
by chasd00 | 2025-10-19 15:08:40+00:00
The man in the mirror can be a real asshole. However, win his confidence and trust then everything else becomes much easier.

I work with a lot of young people starting marriages, families, and life. The advice I give is have as much love and patience for yourself as you do for your partner and others. You won’t always get it right so be forgive yourself, learn, and get better.

(I’m 49)
by overgard | 2025-10-19 15:10:09+00:00
I think this is clever satire, but slightly blunted by the fact that the tech CEO's haven't been that far off from actually saying this stuff.

I'm especially disgusted with Sam Altman and Darius Amodei, who for a long time were hyping up the "fear" they felt for their own creations. Of course, they weren't doing this to slow down or approach things in a more responsible way, they were talking like that because they knew creating fear would bring in more investment and more publicity. Even when they called for "regulation", it was generally misleading and mostly to help them create a barrier to entry in the industry.

I think now that the consensus among the experts is that AGI is probably a while off (like a decade), we have a new danger now. When we do start to get systems we should actually worry about, we're going to a have a major boy-who-cried-wolf problem. It's going to be hard to get these things under proper control when people start to have the feeling of "yeah we heard this all before"
by tym0 | 2025-10-19 15:10:28+00:00
Would have been nice to have this tool when I did a clean reinstall for Windows 11, I used OOBEFly which worked well enough to remove a bunch of things.

Personally I've switched back to using Linux as my main OS for my home gaming machine after 15 years. I've kept a tiny partition for Windows 11 for the odd multi-player game (BF 6) but I'm not logged in anything but game launchers on that OS.
by caioricciuti | 2025-10-19 15:10:32+00:00
I would love for this to be the case... I'm also not a fan of mother's duck ui... Also I created this project like 2 weeks before they launch it (that's why it's named duckui...) I would choose another name but well I had bought the domain already hahaha... But SURE, I would like this to be the best UI ever for all of us... Just need some ideas/help to implement all missing parts...
by constantcrying | 2025-10-19 15:11:24+00:00
I left it off because I did not know what you meant by "non-Uber". It is a category so wide that I have no idea what you were talking about, so I decided to focus on the part where the subject was clear. In the case of Uber I know that it is possible to replace it by employee labor.

You did not give any examples for "non-Uber" companies and we certainly were talking mainly about Uber, as was the article. I do not consider it at all bad faith to focus on the "Uber" part and ignore the totally unspecified and somewhat irrelevant "non-Uber" part.

To be honest you calling me dishonest because I focus on the topic, namely Uber, and leave out a category which I can say basically nothing about such as "non-Uber", seems to me like you are trying to dodge making any argument at all. Since you are ignoring what I said and focusing on what I did not say.
by glenstein | 2025-10-19 15:11:24+00:00
It's an interesting type of fumble too, because it's easy to (mistakenly!) read it as "LLM tries and fails to solve problem but thinks it solved it" when really it's being credited with originality for discovering or reiterating solutions already out there in the literature.

It sounds like the content of the solutions themselves are perfectly fine, so it's unfortunate that the headline will leave the impression that these are just more hallucinations. They're not hallucinations, they're not wrong, they're just wrongly assigned credit for existing work. Which, you know, where have we heard that one before? It's like the stylistic "borrowing" from artists, but in research form.
by noefingway | 2025-10-19 15:11:28+00:00
I've been re-reading Kerouac lately (LOA has a nice collection of novels in a single volume). His prose is jumps from bebop riffs (On the Road) to elegiac praise of hiking in the woods/mountains (Dharma Bums). The characters (like them or not) are well drawn and always interesting. My hitchhiking days are long gone and I don't suppose this mode of transportation obtains much in the US anymore, which I think is unfortunate as it is (or was) a great way to see the country and meet a lot of people.
by BartjeD | 2025-10-19 15:12:40+00:00
This is imaginary China.

In real China winners get picked by networks of ccp members, to profit from them.

You might more accurately call it an incentive for success of enterprises, so that the networks can get their spoils.

It's not the state driving it. It's the party networks.

And it's not pretty. They can expropriate via cancelled licenses if you don't play along. Etc..
by TechSquidTV | 2025-10-19 15:12:51+00:00
Personal belief, but robots coming for your jobs is not a valid argument against robots. If robots can do a job better and/or faster, they should be the ones doing the jobs. Specialization is how we got to the future.

So the problem isn't robots, it's the structure of how we humans rely on jobs for income. I don't necessarily feel like it's the AI company's problem to fix either.

This is what government is for, and not to stifle innovation by banning AI but by preparing society to move forward.