MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by latchkey | 2025-10-27 17:30:49+00:00
As a test, I used AI to rewrite their blog post, keeping the same tone and context but fewer words. It got the point across, and I enjoyed it more because I didn't have to read as much. I did edit it slightly to make it a bit less obviously AI'ish...

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Honestly, it feels rude to hand me something churned out by a lexical bingo machine when you could’ve written it yourself. I'm a person with thoughts, humor, contradictions, and experience not a content bin.

Don't you like the pride of making something that's yours? You should.

Don't use AI to patch grammar or dodge effort. Make the mistake. Feel awkward. Learn. That's being human.

People are kinder than you think. By letting a bot speak for you, you cut off the chance for connection.

Here's the secret: most people want to help you. You just don't ask. You think smart people never need help. Wrong. The smartest ones know when to ask and when to give.

So, human to human, save the AI for the boring stuff. Lead with your own thoughts. The best ideas are the ones you've actually felt.
by smith7018 | 2025-10-27 17:30:52+00:00
Meditation is also extremely useful for this. In breath-based meditation, you focus your mind on your breathing and try to eliminate thoughts. Obviously your mind gets bored and you begin to think of other things. Once you recognize that you're losing focus, you simply return to your breath. Over and over. Over time, you gain the ability to view your thoughts and emotions as easily disposable. It takes time but you can actually recognize that you're being affected by emotion, able to let go of thoughts, and be more present in the moment.

It's not hard; you just have to commit to it :)
by phatskat | 2025-10-27 17:30:53+00:00
The day Apollo died is the day I stopped logging in to Reddit, or going there regularly. I use old when I have to go there for more than a top-level reply from a Google search. I want to say they really goofed up, but tbh Reddit seems fine without me. I’m mostly fine without it, but I do miss a few of my communities.
by bwfan123 | 2025-10-27 17:31:12+00:00
I am surprised and glad that journalists are reporting on this. OpenAI is the hinge in the whole AI bubble, and it has every incentive to keep its financials private if it is not very flattering. So, thats the place to look for funny business - specially given their outlandish and provocative announcements of 16GW of datacenter buildouts which defies economic sense and demands more scrutiny.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-27 17:31:12+00:00
I think many people would gladly pay somewhere between $60-100/mo for access to everything either ad free or very minimal ads... nobody offers that. And trying to mix-match always leaves a gaping hole. For that matter, I'd probably do somewhere between $25-50 a season of a show, depending on the show, episodes, run-length etc. As it is, you can get close to this where Blu-ray box sets are an option, and that includes media. Easy enough to rip yourself, though time consuming.

The breaking point is generally around 3-4 of the paid streaming services... many people are going to have Amazon as a baseline for shipping... then you get shoved D+ with every kind of bundling (Verizon, etc) under the sum, then Hulu may or may not be attached... People pay for Netflix out of legacy... that doesn't leave much room for Peacock, Paramount+, AppleTV, etc, etc. It's just easier to say f*ck it and pirate.

Hulu was great for the first couple years... minimal ads, new tv shows same or next day. Then the partners all dropped out with greed as primary motivators.
by johntb86 | 2025-10-27 17:31:21+00:00
But LLMs have been measured to have some theory of mind abilities at least as strong as humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01882-z . At this point you either need to accept that either LLMs are already conscious, or that it's easy enough to fake being conscious that it's practically impossible to test for - philosophical zombies are possible. It doesn't seem to me that LLMs are conscious, so consciousness isn't really observable to others.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-27 17:31:31+00:00
"so much of the political violence (and celebration thereof) is on the left in the US"

Biiiiiiiig citation needed. By every available metric, right-wing terror attacks dominate the political violence numbers in the US. I don't know what fantasy world you've been living in, but frankly it sounds pretty sweet to me.

And mass violence is a worse problem than targeted violence. Whether or not you think they deserved it, the notable cases of left-wing violence in the last year have been individual targets. When the right commits violence, they roll up to a synagogue and gun down everyone inside. Or a gay nightclub. Or they slam a couple planes into buildings (yeah, if you're going to lump the left together, then you can't complain when the right gets lumped together).
by burkaman | 2025-10-27 17:31:35+00:00
Why was the clause included if it's completely redundant? PSF's decision is based on the government's demonstrated track record of what they consider to be "illegal DEI", not what the law actually says. Grant cancellations have been primarily based on a list of banned words (https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/nsf-has-canceled-more-1500-...), and of course nobody involved with any of the thousands of cancelled grants has been charged with breaking a law, because they haven't broken any.

Here's a list of math grants identified by the Senate to be DEI-related because they contained strings like "homo" and "inequality": https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1ioo2x9/database_of_w...

Here's the actual list of NSF cancelled grants: https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities#termination-list. You can also explore the data at https://grant-witness.us/nsf-data.html. There are 1667 in there, so I'll just highlight a couple and note the "illegal DEI":

- Center for Integrated Quantum Materials

- CAREER: From Equivariant Chromatic Homotopy Theory to Phases of Matter: Voyage to the Edge

- Remote homology detection with evolutionary profile HMMs

- SBIR Phase II: Real-time Community-in-the-Loop Platform for Improved Urban Flood Forecasting and Management

- RCN: Augmenting Intelligence Through Collective Learning

- Mechanisms for the establishment of polarity during whole-body regeneration

- CAREER: Ecological turnover at the dawn of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event - quantifying the Cambro-Ordovician transition through the lens of exceptional preservation

When the federal government cancels your grant and claws back money you've already spent because they claim something innocuous is illegal, knowing in your heart that they're wrong is not very helpful.
by proteal | 2025-10-27 17:32:03+00:00
I understand the sentiment about a skilled user not needing this, but I think having a little buddy that I can use to offload some menial tasks would be helpful for me to iterate through my models more efficiently; even if the AI is not perfect. As a highly skilled excel user, I admit the software has terrible ergonomics. It would be a productivity boon for me if an AI can help me stay focused on model design vs model implementation.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-27 17:32:08+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 Smartphone, Android 14 Operating System, Termux, And cryptsetup: Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Encryption/Decryption And The ext4 Filesystem Without Using root Access, Without Using proot-distro, And Without Using QEMU": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1jkl0f8/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_android_14/)
by sipofwater | 2025-10-27 17:32:23+00:00
"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-10-27 17:32:45+00:00
> I'm thrilled to have people digging into this, because I think it's a super interesting problem

Yes, somehow this is a problem all the big companies have, but it seems like there is no standard solution and nobody has open sourced their stuff (except you)!

Taking a step back, and thinking about the AWS outage last week which was caused by a buggy bespoke system built on top of DNS, it seems like we need an IETF standard for service discovery. DNS++ if you will. I have seen lots of (ab)use of DNS for dynamic service discovery and it seems like we need a better solution which is either push based or gossip based to more quickly disseminate service discovery updates.
by yashasolutions | 2025-10-27 17:33:08+00:00
Yeah, same here. I’ve got to the stage where what I write is mostly just for myself as a reminder, or to share one-to-one with people I work with. It’s usually easier to put it in a blog post than spend an hour explaining it in a meeting anyway. Given the state of the internet these days, that’s probably all you can really expect from blogging.
by graypegg | 2025-10-27 17:33:16+00:00
Comment got deleted, but Gallatin isn't the title page font. That was a digital font released in 2019, which is meant to look like Memphis with a two storey a. https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/128627/gallatin

That does mention that Linotype had a Memphis flavour with a two-storey "a" though... so maaaaaybe it is Memphis! Most likely their Rockwell typeface was also supplied from Linotype in that case, probably under a different name.
by tcdent | 2025-10-27 17:33:37+00:00
Doesn't the command-line utility `jq` already define a protocol for this? How do the syntaxes compare?

(LLMs are already very adept at using `jq` so I would think it was preferable to be able to prompt a system that implements querying inside of source code as "this command uses the same format as `jq`")
by freedomben | 2025-10-27 17:33:39+00:00
I'm at a point where I'm hesitant to do any business with tech startups because I've been burned so many times by the "fake it til you make it" approach of saying their product did things it doesn't do. In one particular vendor's case, I found out about the fakery when the product I shipped on top of their platform keeps getting hacked.

I've probably swung the pendulum the other way too far, but I've gotten very direct and frank with what we have today, what we can deliver tomorrow, and whether it's something we won't add to our product.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-27 17:33:44+00:00
The fact that the government is the arbitrating party in a civil suit is incidental to the nature of the dispute.

It may very well get settled out of court in as a result of mediation.

Regardless, it's quite possible that the parties in the wrong here make it right or right-ish somehow before this even lands in court.

I think the fact that everyone thinks the .gov needs to dogpile on with civil or criminal enforcement before that has had a chance to play out or not speaks volumes about the typical moral character around here.
by cyrialize | 2025-10-27 17:33:45+00:00
I'm reading a blog because I'm interested in the voice a writer has.

If I'm finding that voice boring, I'll stop reading - whether or not AI was used.

The generic AI voice, and by that I mean very little prompting to add any "flavor", is boring.

Of course I've used AI to summarize things and give me information, like when I'm looking for a specific answer.

In the case of blogs though, I'm not always trying to find an "answer", I'm just interested in what you have to say and I'm reading for pleasure.
by mutiny1907 | 2025-10-27 17:33:46+00:00
I made PostIdentity to solve my own problem: managing multiple content voices across different platforms was mentally exhausting.

The core idea: create distinct "identities" (personas) by providing writing examples. Each identity learns tone, rhythm, punctuation style, and personality traits. Then generate posts through whichever identity fits the moment.

On the "sounds like AI" problem: I know this is everyone's concern. My approach: detailed identity profiles based on actual writing samples, then strict prompting that enforces those specific traits rather than generic "professional" or "casual" modes. The AI maintains consistency with the learned style rather than falling back to its default voice.

It's pay-per-use (no subscription), starts with 5 free credits.

Would appreciate feedback, especially on whether the identity profiles actually capture distinct voices or if it still feels generic.

Here's also a video of the post generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9GeT0b4XFE
by the_af | 2025-10-27 17:34:09+00:00
> It's clearly ridiculous, yet at the point where papers or PRs are written by robots, reviewed by robots, for eventual usage/consumption/summary by yet more robots, it becomes very relevant. At some point one must ask, what is it all for, and should we maybe just skip some of these steps or revisit some assumptions about what we're trying to accomplish

I've been thinking this for a while, despairing, and amazed that not everyone is worried/surprised about this like me.

Who are we building all this stuff for, exactly?

Some technophiles are arguing this will free us to... do what exactly? Art, work, leisure, sex, analysis, argument, etc will be done for us. So we can do what exactly? Go extinct?

"With AI I can finally write the book I always wanted, but lacked the time and talent to write!". Ok, and who will read it? Everybody will be busy AI-writing other books in their favorite fantasy world, tailored specifically to them, and it's not like a human wrote it anyway so nobody's feelings should be hurt if nobody reads your stuff.
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-10-27 17:34:12+00:00
You can say anything to an LLM, but it’s not going to actually write in your voice. When I was writing a very long blog post about “creative writing” from AIs, I researched Sudowrite briefly, which purports to be able to do exactly this; not only could it not write convincingly in my voice (and the novel I gave it has a pretty strong narrative voice), following Sudowrite’s own tutorial in which they have you get their app to write a few paragraphs in Dan Brown’s voice demonstrated it could not convincingly do that.

I don’t think having a ML-backed proofreading system is an intrinsically bad idea; the oft-maligned “Apple Intelligence” suite has a proofreading function which is actually pretty good (although it has a UI so abysmal it’s virtually useless in most circumstances). But unless you truly, deeply believe your own writing isn’t as good as a precocious eighth-grader trying to impress their teacher with a book report, don’t ask an LLM to rewrite your stuff.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-10-27 17:34:15+00:00
> I wanted my builds to work with Nix, and the existing cross-compilation infrastructure for OpenBSD didn't seem to work properly on OpenBSD 7.7.

As the main author of that, please talk to me! I just did a hello world build of whatever version we have in there today (7.5). I would be happy to assist with getting 7.7 and 7.8 in.

Also #nix-openbsd:tapenet.org is matrix channel that can be good for this stuff.
by matu3ba | 2025-10-27 17:34:51+00:00
Scheduling means to generate enumerations/combinations of possible ui events. If interleaving events are possible and to what degree, then providing a notion of that and/or at least documentation would be helpful.

Yeah, although I would define "reversible computing" as how to deterministically undo some computation(s)/effect(s) etc without recording the control-flow and I do not like the notation of "time-reversibility", because distinguishing between "reversible computing with known timings" and "reversible computing with unknown timings" becomes very confusing. So I'd phrase it somewhat differently, but did not come up with better naming yet. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_reversibility.
by hxtk | 2025-10-27 17:34:59+00:00
There’s some real research into relevant topics and evidence-based models of how and why people change.

Generally, a period of ambivalence precedes change (most of the time, though there are documented cases of “quantum change” where a person undergoes a difficult change in a single moment without the usual intermediate stages and never relapses).

Ambivalence exists when a person knows in their mind reasons both for and against a change, and gives both more or less an equal mind share.

When that person begins to give an outsized share of their attention to engaging with thoughts aligned with the change, it predicts growing commitment and ultimately follow-through on the change.

The best resource I know of on this topic is “Motivational Interviewing” in its 3rd or 4th edition. It has a very extensive bibliography and the model of change it presents has proven itself an effective predictor of change in clinical practice.

Based on my understanding of that research, I’m inclined to agree with GP.
by IAmBroom | 2025-10-27 17:35:07+00:00
Free isn't even free to them. If a company is paying their HR staff, the minutes to hours that they spend learning a new interface, and setting it up, and using it, are a real cost.

Compare that to an existing service, where they only have to do the last part, and are dividing that cost by the millions of jobseekers that the existing solutions already reach.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-27 17:35:20+00:00
I think I became depressed because of this. I used to be so enthusiastic about computers. We had the freedom to do anything we wanted. Now they're locking everything down, destroying everything the word "hacker" ever stood for. I'm watching it happen in real time. It's heart breaking.

Computers are world changing technology. They are so powerful they could defeat police, judges, governments, militaries. Left unchecked, they could wipe out entire segments of the global economy. They could literally reshape the world. The powers that be cannot tolerate it.
by jquaint | 2025-10-27 17:35:28+00:00
> Do you not enjoy the pride that comes with attaching your name to something you made on your own? It's great!

This is like saying a photographer shouldn't find the sunset they photographed pretty or be proud of the work, because they didn't personally labor to paint the image of it.

A lot more goes into a blog post than the actual act of typing the context out.

Lazy work is always lazy work, but its possible to make work you are proud of with AI, in the same way you can create work you are proud of with a camera
by latchkey | 2025-10-27 17:35:43+00:00
At Marin Software, they ran each customer on their own set of servers and set the servers to the customers defined TZ. It was an endless cronjob nightmare. Now they are also bankrupt.

Just found out some guy decided to try to restart the company. Good luck. https://x.com/Austen/status/1981904435539280324
by hereme888 | 2025-10-27 17:36:58+00:00
Uncontrolled influx of millions - mostly with poor finances and very different cultural backgrounds and values - strain a nation's resources, infrastructure, and social cohesion. It exacerbates housing shortages, burdens public services like healthcare, and contributes to economic friction amid existing downturns. It also poses risks to national identity and security, as we are now experiences in many countries who allowed this to happen, as opposed to countries that enforced legal immigration. It complicates integration and social stability. It's unfair to legal immigrants. This is why sovereign states implement rigorous and dynamic immigration controls and capacity limits based on the nation's ability at the time. There has to be sustainable absorption. Countries are not homeless shelters or free handouts; they are the result of blood and tears of the patriots who fought and died to create, defend, and build that nation. Every nation has its values, and it's not the right choice for everyone. China is definitely not a country for me, nor are the CCP's values acceptable to American culture. In short, vet whoever comes into your house, and don't let people sneak in through the backdoor.
by stuffn | 2025-10-27 17:37:04+00:00
I think the author nailed it in the second paragraph. All of the rest is just speculative navel gazing.

I'll speak for myself as that part really resonated with my experience the first time through college. It was a compounding of a lot things:

1. Material gets crammed down your throat much faster than your digestion rate. It wasn't uncommon that we'd get "behind" only to get loaded on the backend near the final with all missed material. It felt more like a crucible than a learning environment. One, especially, where you are left to largely teach yourself everything (including the tips and tricks you'd expect from an "expert") and are paying for a test.

2. I needed a job. Period. I couldn't "have fun".

3. The cost of school (even 20 years ago) was absurd. This by it's very nature enforces transactionality. I will, if necessary, lie, cheat, and steal in order to get a passing grade in a class. Who can blame students for this? You need a job and school is the expensive gate keeper. It isn't about "learning" when you want to dig a little deeper but you've got a gun to your head.

4. Graduate school is financially untenable for most people. Even achieving a master's degree is extremely difficult with the normal pressures of life on a 20-something.

It was only after getting my first degree and then finding out how much I enjoy learning did I go back to school again with the mindset of "I don't care, I want to learn". Yes, it's expensive, and I'm fortunate to afford it. But I have a job and a house, money isn't a "real" issue, and so the enjoyment of learning can actually be had. The entire education model in America is broken. It will only get worse until administration gets completely gutted and student loans become dischargable via bankruptcy.
by mynameisvlad | 2025-10-27 17:37:16+00:00
Looking at the product itself, it looks like it barely squeezes the mini-HDMI externally as is, let alone then PCB/internal available space.

I don't think there is, in fact, room for a full HDMI port. Mini HDMI is a compromise, and everyone knows it. It wouldn't have been included if full size HDMI was feasible.
by WillNickols | 2025-10-27 17:37:37+00:00
A bunch of specific things below, but the main point is that it integrates a bunch of features that data scientists use that don't come with Cursor.

Specifics (mostly reproduced from above):

1. R/Python/Julia consoles accessible by the user and AI

2. Optimized jupytext system for editing notebooks efficiently

3. Plots pane for viewing and tracking plots

4. Databases pane for managing SQL/FTP connections

5. Environment pane for managing Python/R/Julia packages and environments

6. Help pane for documentation

7. An AI that interacts with all of that.

8. Open source AGPLv3

For me, the biggest difference in the AI usage is that the AI doesn't need to write one-off python scripts for everything and run them from the terminal because it can just use the console directly.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-10-27 17:37:41+00:00
> you still need reliable realtime update of instances going down

The way I have seen this implemented is through a cluster of service watcher that ping all services once every X seconds and deregister the service when the pings fail.

Additionally you can use grpc with keepalives which will detect on the client side when a service goes down and automatically remove it from the subset. Grpc also has client side outlier detection so the clients can also automatically remove slow servers from the subset as well. This only works for grpc though, so not generally useful if you are creating a cloud for HTTP servers…