MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw-10-8 | 2025-10-09 13:03:03+00:00
I was pretty involved in their stack back in the day, it was a good alternative to Django at the time for simple plug and play admin apps, and to this day i think they had the simplest OAuth setup of any framework I've used.

The real issues were the super tight coupling with MongoDB and their decision to roll their own package ecosystem instead of just using npm from day one.
by sebstefan | 2025-10-09 13:03:36+00:00
>Relatedly, in the majority of pedestrian deaths, the pedestrian is blamed for the accident. In 66% of cases, pedestrians are described as “failing to yield right of way,” “jaywalking,” or “in roadway improperly.” In 87% of cases, the driver is not charged with anything following the accident

It's insane that society has come to accept that some parts of the public space are deadly, and it's your fault if you're not cautious and get killed on them. Just to have more cars.

Now kids can't go to school by themselves
by foobar10000 | 2025-10-09 13:03:59+00:00
In fairness, assuming 4/8 ports in, 4 ports out, operating at some ungodly GHz using a custom GaAs or SiGe chip, and working in gearboxed scrambled space with very clever input mac prefix mapping and output scrambled/gearboxed precomputation, one _could_ do around 8ns optimistically from the start of the first 64b/66b block (the 0x55... preamble) for 10GB. There's some stuff about preamble shrink that makes it wonky, but that is doable. And interestingly enough, for 25G-R, one can comfortably do this in about 4ns. I am not in fact aware of such a beastie existing for 25G, but I have seen 1 or 2 for 10G though.

Surprisingly, if ChatGPT is prompted _juust_ right, it will even give you a good way to do this.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-10-09 13:04:36+00:00
every country have a dozen start ups rushing to patent the same thing globally.

it's mostly a game or passing trials for something that's obviously good and the alternative so far have 100% death* (burns over 80%). it just shows how ineffective is the whole system.

* but the investors are way more interested in permanent wound cases and they will price those like they usually price things with low mortality but high quality is life.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-10-09 13:04:54+00:00
And then comes the point, where you get a scenario, which is actually, you'd think, at least, something simple, but then gets really tough to express in strongly, statically typed languages, and you might take a step back and consider for a moment, how simple it would be to express this in a language like Python, while still being memory safe.

Statically typing things is great, and I enjoy it too, when it is practical, but I don't enjoy it, when it becomes more complicated than the actual thing I want to express, due to how the type system of that particular language or third party tool (in Python) works.
by nerdjon | 2025-10-09 13:04:55+00:00
I have no doubt that most of the blame here is on drivers. Way too often I see cars running red lights, barely paying attention, turning the wrong way on a one way, etc etc.

That being said, (and to be clear I say this as someone that does not own a car). I also have been seeing more and more people not paying attention and just walking while staring at their phone. No walk symbol or anything. I have frustratingly had to grab my partner multiple times doing exactly this and almost walking into a car that was following the rules.

Seriously if your walking (especially in a car centric area) you don't need to be doom scrolling through Instagram or whatever other crap your looking at. Quickly changing music, sending a text, whatever is one thing but I don't understand needing to look at Instagram while walking.

And not just so you don't get killed by cars, the number of times these people almost walk into other people is insane...
by 36Ndm | 2025-10-09 13:05:09+00:00
I think it is more common to have larger cars in the US versus europe, I saw a dodge ram for the first time in my life yesterday and me and my colleagues were shocked at how big it was - it did not fit in a regular parking space and took a whole handicap spot. I don't think us sedan design is different from european, but just the car culture as a whole.
by Lerc | 2025-10-09 13:05:20+00:00
I think the issue with them making assumptions and failing to properly diagnose issues comes more from fine-tuning than any particular limitation in LLMs themselves. When fine tuned on a set of problem->solution data it kind of carries the assumption that the problem contains enough data for the solution.

What is really needed is a tree of problems which appear identical at first glance, but the issue and the solution is something that is one of many possibilities which can only be revealed by finding what information is lacking, acquiring that information, testing the hypothesis then, if the hypothesis is shown to be correct, then finally implementing the solution.

That's a much more difficult training set to construct.

The editing issue, I feel needs something more radical. Instead of the current methods of text manipulation, I think there is scope to have a kind of output position encoding for a model to emit data in a non-sequential order. Again this presents another training data problem, there are limited natural sources to work from showing programming in the order a programmer types it. On the other hand I think it should be possible to do synthetic training examples by translating existing model outputs that emit patches, search/replaces, regex mods etc. and translate those to a format that directly encodes the final position of the desired text.

At some stage I'd like to see if it's possible to construct the models current idea of what the code is purely by scanning a list of cached head_embeddings of any tokens that turned into code. I feel like there should be enough information given the order of emission and the embeddings themselves to reconstruct a piecemeal generated program.
by ageitgey | 2025-10-09 13:06:02+00:00
This is exactly why this turn is illegal in nearly every country in the world except the US and Canada. [1]

If you are in the UK, this turn is illegal always and everywhere, so it basically never happens.

I grew up in the US with right turn on red, so I was used to it and accepted it as normal. But after living the UK for 6 years, I'm now physically shocked when visiting the US at how dangerous it is to walk around even very dense urban US areas like Chicago's north loop. Cars are constantly trying to run you over by turning across active crosswalks. It's totally absurd to experience once you've lived somewhere else where that would result in you immediately losing your license. US culture in general has no respect for pedestrians (although of course some individuals do).

This isn't some utopian dream of ultimate walkability achieved through pro-pedestrian urban redesign. This is the most basic laws that govern cities actively making it dangerous to walk around because it saved a bit of gas during the 1970s oil crisis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red
by ceejayoz | 2025-10-09 13:06:13+00:00
> And the US isn't under Sharia Law.

We have our moments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_county

> Saying that The Simpsons in syndication is the reason why two cultures behaves the same is the sillier of the two statements.

American culture is influential. Americans and Afghans aren't the same, but they've absolutely picked up on bits of it. And Afghanistan is an extreme example; you'll find even more American cultural influx in, say, England.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-09 13:06:14+00:00
It's because it's being peddled by the same "oh, I know how we'll use government to fix this problem that isn't top 10 on anyone's list" types who's in previous generations gave us unwalkable cities, unaffordable housing, and the modern urban-suburban hellscape.

While individual points are supported or resisted individually and by individuals, when you sum it up on a population level it's like a gut reaction against listening to someone who's lead you astray before.

Basically the people pushing changes lack the political and cultural capital to see them through because the capital was wasted for naught in decades past.
by lxgr | 2025-10-09 13:06:22+00:00
> QUIC’s design intentionally separates the wire protocol from the congestion control algorithm

Is that not the case for TCP as well? Most congestion control algorithms just assign new meanings to existing wire-level flags (e.g. duplicate ACKs), or even only change sender-side behavior.

> QUIC gives* control back to application developers to tailor congestion control to their use case*

That's what it actually does: It moves the congestion control implementation from the OS to user space.

In that sense, it's the same tradeoff as containers vs. regular binaries linking to shared libraries: Great if your applications are updated more often than your OS; not so great if it's the other way around.
by _fat_santa | 2025-10-09 13:06:42+00:00
I find it all quite strange:

- AI companies of course will try and sell you that you can reduce headcount with AI

- CEO's will parrot this talking point without ever talking a closer look.

- Everyone lower down on the org chart minus the engineers are wondering why the change hasn't started yet.

- Meanwhile engineers are ripping their hair out cause they know that AI in it's current state will likely not replace any workers.

Pretty soon we will have articles like "That time that CEO's thought that AI could replace workers".
by squirrel | 2025-10-09 13:06:45+00:00
A friendly reminder that "refactor" means "make and commit a tiny change in less than a few minutes" (see links below). The OP and many comments here use "refactor" when they actually mean "rewrite".

I hear from my clients (but have not verified myself!) that LLMs perform much better with a series of tiny, atomic changes like Replace Magic Literal, Pull Up Field, and Combine Functions Into Transform.

[1] https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html [2] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OpportunisticRefactoring.html [3] https://refactoring.com/catalog/
by dav43 | 2025-10-09 13:06:55+00:00
started with overland (was great, but hurt the battery a lot) - there was an iOS app for it. I then just moved on to PSObserver as it was self contained, I could export off my phone. I also augmented with running google maps background for a few years as well. Think I have over 5m data points now. I user Kepler.gl originally + with iPhone photos as well overlayed.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-09 13:07:03+00:00
Cars (or more precisely, drivers in cars - that false equivalence is part of the problem) look for other cars. They do not look for pedestrians, cyclists, or motorcycles, they assume that if there's not another 5000 lbs shiny steel box in the lane that they're clear to go.

Last weekend after my son's elementary school soccer game, someone wasn't interested in trying to join the line of cars exiting the parking lot, and tried to pull forward over a grass patch that separated the parking area from the driveway by the field. Except there was a 2000 lbs boulder, 3' tall, just in front of their car... which they entirely forgot about after walking past it. Their head was on a swivel looking for a gap in the line of cars on the driveway, but not for anything else. They destroyed their bumper, probably damaged their radiator or suspension, and got the left front tire partially up on the rock.

I was just glad it wasn't one of the multitude of 3' tall kids at the game.
by thrance | 2025-10-09 13:07:06+00:00
I live in France, we have Universal Healthcare here. We individually spend less than you Americans on healthcare, as the costs are distributed across the entire population. The state also acts as a single buyer, giving them more leverage against labs, and we don't have to pay our tithe to parasitic insurance companies either. Finally, we live longer than you, so clearly our system is superior in every way. Stop rehashing the same old republican soup about "no free lunch" or "magical thinking".

> canceling a late night TV show is

What are you talking about exactly? I remember Jimmy Kimmel being fired over a direct order of the White House, but that was from the right. Meanwhile: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/immigrants-c...

15K+ people with no criminal records detained for no other reasons than because they displeased the racist masked thugs made armed force by the Trump admin. But oh no, someone somewhere might get "cancelled" and never be able to speak ever again in public because of left meanies complaining about them online (something that actually never happened).
by wy1981 | 2025-10-09 13:07:15+00:00
Great find and writeup.

As an aside, this is the type of a problem that I think model checkers can't help with. You can write perfect and complicated TLA+/Lean/FizzBee models and even if somehow these models can generate code for you from your correct models you can still run into bugs like these due to platform/compiler/language issues. But, thankfully, such bugs are rare.
by jollyllama | 2025-10-09 13:07:29+00:00
> If you use them regularly you wouldn't see a set of urls without thinking...

Sure, but conceivably, you could also be informed of this second hand, through any publication about LLMs, so it is very odd to say "you don't use them enough" rather than "you're ignorant" or "you're uninformed". It is very similar to these very bizarre AI-maximalist positions that so many of us are tired of seeing.
by mojuba | 2025-10-09 13:07:30+00:00
AI in its present form is probably the strangest and the most paradoxical tech ever invented.

These things are clearly useful once you know where they excel and where they will likely complicate things for you. And even then, there's a lot of trial and error involved and that's due to the non-deterministic nature of these systems.

On the one hand it's impressive that I can spawn a task in Claude's app "what are my options for a flight from X to Y [+ a bunch of additional requirements]" while doing groceries, then receive a pretty good answer.

Isn't it magic? (if you forget about the necessity of adding "keep it short" all the time). Pretty much a personal assistant without the ability of performing actions on my behalf, like booking tickets - a bit too early for that.

Then there's coding. My Copilot has helped me dive into a gigantic pre-existing project in an unfamiliar programming language pretty fast and yet I have to correct and babysit it all the time by intuition. Did it save me time? Probably, but I'm not 100% sure!

The paradoxicality is in that there's probably no going back from AI where it already kind of works for us individually or at org levels, but most of us don't seem to be fully satisfied with it.

The article here pretty much confirms the paradox of AI: yes, orgs implement it, can't go back from it and yet can't reduce the headcount either.

My prediction at the moment is that AI is indeed a bubble but we will probably go through a series of micro-bursts instead of one gigantic burst. AI is here to stay almost like a drug that we will be willing to pay for without seeing clear quantifiable benefits.
by lm28469 | 2025-10-09 13:07:42+00:00
> I think it's a bit insane to think that Russia couldn't completely and totally obliterate civilian central infrastructure in Ukraine if it wanted to.

What's your take then ? They're pretending to suck at war for 3 years for fun ? They're pretending to use 50 years old equipment as a decoy for ww3 ? They're pretending to get all their refineries shut down for reasons ?
by hansmayer | 2025-10-09 13:08:03+00:00
The URLs being wrong in that specific case is one where they were using the "wrong tool". I can name you at least a dozen other cases from own experience, where too, they appear to be the wrong tool, for example for working with Terraform or for not exposing secrets by hardcoding them in the frontend. Et cetera. Many other people will have contributed thousands if not more similar but different cases. So what good are these tools then for really? Are we all really that stupid? Many of us mastered the hard problem of navigating various abstraction layers of computer over the years, only to be told, we now effing dont know how to write a few sentences in English? Come on. I'd be happy to use them in whatever specific domain they supposedly excel at. But no-one seems to be able to identify one for sure. The problem is, the folks pushing or better said, shoving down these bullshit generators down our throats are trying to sell us the promise of an "everything oracle". What did old man Altman tell us about ChatGPT 5? PhD level tool for code generation or some similar nonsense? But it turns out it only gets one metric right each time - generating a lot of text. So, essentially, great for bullshit jobs (i count some of the IT jobs as such too), but not much more.
by stevev | 2025-10-09 13:08:12+00:00
It’s natural for Vercel to have a strong influence on the project. That’s what happens when a framework grows large and fragmented without a defined board, group, or leadership focused on both short- and long-term goals. At least now, with the foundation in place, there are additional voices to help guide the project rather than letting it move entirely in line with Vercel’s direction.
by Telemakhos | 2025-10-09 13:08:12+00:00
It might give momentum to age-verification schemes like Apple Wallet [0]. Apple gets the state ID in wallet and exposes an age verification API to apps like Discord; Discord queries the API and relies on Apple's age verification without ever getting access to the personally-identifying information.

[0] https://medium.com/@drewsmith_6943/apple-wallet-id-is-the-so...
by jibal | 2025-10-09 13:08:29+00:00
> I compared the statement 'do this because it changed my life and the life of many others' to the type of language used in cult documentaries on HBO. I stand by that opinion.

This is ludicrous ... it's also the type of language used by all sorts of people in all sorts of situations. Mentioning a cult is the least charitable thing that can be said.
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-09 13:08:39+00:00
Anecdata - But I feel confident in it. If you join the Omarchy discord, people regularly cite buying either a Framework or a Beelink, with a lean towards the former, to put Omarchy on.

I tend to presume that the creator/consumer rule applies, and that for every one person that says it out loud, there are 9 others who are doing the same thing silently.
by celticninja | 2025-10-09 13:08:56+00:00
996 is bullshit used to exploit people.

Work life balance is key to being happy and healthy long-term.

You can eat all the steak and eggs you want, lift weights 7 days a week too, but 996 will burn you out regardless of whatever other activities you do to de-stress.

You want a new idea? Psilocybin Mondays. Everyone stays home, does some mushrooms and thinks a bit about their work for the week. I guarantee we see productivity increases, new ideas and less stress.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-09 13:09:12+00:00
It's funny because when I see people who really, really like something their faces are filled with joy. They talk about what they love and it's always positive.

When I see car people I see anger, frustration, furrowed brows everywhere, oh and did you hear about that asshole on the road yesterday?

From the outside this "love" looks more like an abusive relationship or Stockholm syndrome or something.
by contificate | 2025-10-09 13:09:16+00:00
There's a neat paper where they implement basic blocks (in a control flow graph) as zippers (https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/zipcfg.pdf). The neat part is that - due to how the host language works (mutation having the cost of invoking the write barrier) - their measurements show that the zipper version is more performant than the mutable version.
by iamleppert | 2025-10-09 13:09:53+00:00
How does it make sense to trade one group of labor (human) who are generally loosely connected, having little collective power for another (AI)? What you're really doing isn't making work more "efficient", you're just outsourcing work to another party -- one who you have very little control over. A party that is very well capitalized, who is probably interested in taking more and more of your margin once they figure out how your business works (and that's going to be really easy because you help them train AI models to do your business).
by carlesfe | 2025-10-09 13:09:53+00:00
An actual explanation of what the software does, from their Github repo

> WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run Windows apps on Linux using a containerized approach. Windows runs as a VM inside a Docker container, we communicate with it using the WinBoat Guest Server to retrieve data we need from Windows. For compositing applications as native OS-level windows, we use FreeRDP together with Windows's RemoteApp protocol.
by gorbachev | 2025-10-09 13:09:55+00:00
I can't wait until the AI vendors start charging according to the true costs of their tools (+ profit margin). Let's see what the cost savings are then.

Additionally once the AI vendors have locked these companies to their ecosystem, the enshittification will start and the companies who reduced their headcount to bare minimum will start to see why that was a really, really bad idea.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-09 13:10:11+00:00
>I like how your comment is downvoted even though this hypothesis is directly supported by the data from the article.

I like (by which I mean I think it indicates a lack of moral character) that you say this despite the articles conclusion basically being "the data is all over the place, I see no strong trends <sigh> I guess it's the SUVs, ugh, maybe"

Like yeah, it probably is the SUVs to an extent but the data only indirectly supports this at best and there's probably confounding factors (in particular road design which has been discussed at length and people all over these commands are bringing up).
by melenaboija | 2025-10-09 13:10:31+00:00
I’m from Spain and have lived in the U.S. for 11 years. I 100 percent feel less punished here than in Spain while driving.

Just yesterday while taking my daughter to school, I was looking at my phone, the light turned green, and the car behind me had to wait a few seconds, it was a police car. He clearly saw me, and absolutely nothing happened. The police back home in Catalonia would have roasted me for that.

And I have seen wild things here in US besides tons of people using phones like brushing teeth or eating with a plate and a fork.
by tlb | 2025-10-09 13:10:43+00:00
To be pedantic, an aircraft's MTOW is a function of the structural strength of the airframe and landing gear and doesn't depend on conditions. The Regulated Takeoff Weight is what depends on temperature, air density, headwinds, runway length, etc, and is driven by whether the plane can get airborne before running out of runway (with a lot of margin for contingencies.)

For many planes under good conditions (high density, high headwind) acceleration to takeoff speed isn't the limit, but only airframe strength. Under those conditions, you could tow significant extra weight. The existing fleet of older planes includes many that have had engine upgrades, so they can pull a lot more weight than their MTOW.

Runway length has to include room for a rejected takeoff, for when the engine loses power just before you get to rotation speed. I don't think it'd be fun to try to reject a takeoff with a heavily loaded cargo trailer behind you. The trailer must have its own brakes, but it sounds scary.