MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jonathanstrange | 2025-10-09 08:21:09+00:00
The reason why Reddit is being "investigated" in this way is clearly and without any doubt political and has nothing to do with Reddit's moderation. There are strong anti-free-speech forces in the USA currently, and Reddit is #1 on their target list.

Anyone who can't see that is blind on the right eye, which is unfortunately a common phenomenon in certain circles nowadays.
by d--b | 2025-10-09 08:22:39+00:00
I definitely have the same problem (I just sent a work email, and have to go back to a task that's a bit difficult, so I'm just giving advice that I don't follow to a total stranger instead).

One thing I noticed about the "hard stuff" that I procrastinate away from is that I am a very slow thinker, and usually, the reason why I don't get into it straight away is that the first idea I have is not the right one, and I kind of know that in the back of my brain, and so letting the ideas flow freely in the brain while doing something else helps the good solution cristallize in a slow way. So when that's the case, I just need to embrace that and work on something else that's simpler like small frontend stuff that gives you good satisfaction for very little thinking.

Anyways, other things that sort of works for me are : lifting small weights while waiting, or doing grip training (I am climbing, so these are things that help for that), or doing dead hangs (I work from home...). Take a short walk. Like I literally used to walk back and forth to the bathroom when I was a kid.

I think that something like a underdesk bike, that's connected to a game on your screen would be kind of nice, you'd pause it while you work, and when you build something, you'd add an extra mile to that game... I don't know, I'm just making stuff up now.

Back to work ffs.
by piker | 2025-10-09 08:22:40+00:00
Thanks for the kind words, and I have given it serious thought.

It's definitely not impossible in the future.

I just don't think there is enough interest right now in contributing to the underlying tech without generalizing it so much that it basically becomes an inferior LibreOffice.

Instead, the business model for Tritium is to give away the niche legal product for free to the community, but charge commercial users who need more granular control over its network activity, etc. This gives smaller start-ups, law offices and in-house shops a chance to benefit from the niche features while reserving for more demanding organizations to express an interest in and benefit from advanced features.
by mcintyre1994 | 2025-10-09 08:22:45+00:00
This breach is them being irresponsible with customer support software. In the case of automated age verification, the providers say that nothing identifiable gets stored and they might be lying but it’s feasible that you could run that service the way they say they do.

This breach is about the manual alternative to that, where you can appeal to Discord customer support if the automated thing says you’re not the right age. They seem to do that in part by having you send a picture of your ID.

I’m sure in their database they’re then just storing the date of birth etc, but then they obviously just don’t bother deleting the private image from the customer service software.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-09 08:22:51+00:00
> Your car manufacturer leases your car back from you? And you use that revenue to raise debt to buy more cars from them?

Honestly, if this was possible people would be doing it (not that they are not - fleet services and rental fleet services do some pretty funky accounting sometimes, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if this sort of thing happened).

If this was possible, I'd be doing it.

> What manufacturer are you doing this with?

Good question. The minute an answer gets posted I'm going to have a really good side-hustle.

> What do you end up driving?

I presume, at the point that this is being done, there is no actual car involved, so nobody involved will be driving because there is no car to drive.
by themafia | 2025-10-09 08:23:00+00:00
> The powerful are too detached from reality and consider this "not a dialog".

It's 2025. That the citizens don't have a government run website which allows them to register their sentiment, if not outright direct democratic vote, on every issue put before them is baffling to me.

Representatives made sense when horses were the fastest way to send news. They're a vestige on an otherwise powerful ideal.
by Razengan | 2025-10-09 08:24:26+00:00
If I have a condition that is resolved by standing upside down on my head, and I invent a 100 ways to balance my body on my head and explain the reasons for each of them, it doesn't mean that standing on my head is a good or sensible thing to do. And none of them address the core problem that is the condition that requires me to stand on my head.

Look at why shares and the stock market were created in the place, and how many layers we laid on top of them and made the means the end and the purpose. If it takes you more than 2-3 sentences to explain something that's purely invented by humans it was probably silly to begin with.

Like the other day I was just watching a video about UTF-8. It spent a good chunk explaining all its various quirks and rules and workaround that all went back to how ASCII was dumb in some of its choices in the first place and now we're stuck with that forever.
by piker | 2025-10-09 08:24:37+00:00
I thought about that as well, but it's really just so core to every aspect of the product that Tritium needs to own it 100%. We just don't have the capacity to take a tradeoff that is favorable to the broader use case. I highlighted this issue in particular but there were other places where Tritium's needs diverged from the docx_rs approach. (e.g., dealing with references)
by trilogic | 2025-10-09 08:24:40+00:00
What do you mean the facts are not very hard. If you understand just a bit of LLM you will clearly identify a Distill LLM. All the point is to delete the user because he had created some incredible models beating The best proprietary models out there. The pretext was that he was a fraud and his models were not a distill but a copy. Therefor I show clearly that he was framed and his work deserves credit. I still have the models and scripts for all the procedure. I am not interested to argue further, but it is clearly visible to me. The post in HN also is well voted and most importantly commented, meaning that users have a lot to say about it.
by Jean-Philipe | 2025-10-09 08:24:40+00:00
Yeah I was also considering that...but the most recent iOS app that I worked on was actually featured by Apple a few times, so it seemed they really liked it.

I ended up creating a new account, and got verified there, but only after a few tries and calls to support. Turns out that their AI couldn't read my European (German) ID card and some human actual had to look at it and verify me manually.
by monerozcash | 2025-10-09 08:25:17+00:00
This seems like a distinction without a difference. If you used a paid service offering Mumble servers that used some custom software that allowed them to offer multiple ... "servers" on different ports/IP addresses from a single daemon, would you really care?

Focusing on the fact that it's not really a "server" because they aren't running as separate processes seems like utterly silly pedantry, and we probably don't even know if that's actually true regarding Discord or not.
by jjav | 2025-10-09 08:25:36+00:00
Mainly so I don't need to run any source control server, it's all just files.

Same for mercurial. Most of my internal use repositories are mercurial since it's so much more pleasant to use than git and for my hobby time I want pleasant tools that don't hate me. But I digress..

It's the model I've used since the 90s in the days of teamware at Sun.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 08:25:40+00:00
> Personally I believe I've seen more people in the past few years wish a politically motivated death on somebody else via Reddit, than I have anywhere else in my life.

What you'll also see is a lot of accounts banned just for saying that they can't wait for say Vladimir Putin to die. I'm sure there are ways in which you could construe that to be 'politically motivated death' but that's just a weak excuse to ban an account ignoring the deeper subtext. Wanting mass murderers to shuffle off their mortal coil is a net positive for the world.
by lerno | 2025-10-09 08:26:08+00:00
While LLVM certainly is a problem, consuming over 90% of compile times both for C3 and Odin, it should be noted that both languages compile MUCH faster than Zig, achieving in general sub second compile times while using LLVM and without incremental compilation. So the question could be asked: ”what is making Zig so slow to compile” as both languages have similar feature sets compared to that of Zig.
by thiago_fm | 2025-10-09 08:26:16+00:00
Agree, people became extremely pedantic with words and it's incorrect to assume they only mean what is described in a dictionary, as if we are in a court.

Language is fluid, and many of words got their very known & popular meanings later, when people used for things that it didn't exactly mean what it was initially intended to, and it got popular.

People are ever less empathetic and sociable, this being the reason for such comments.
by self_awareness | 2025-10-09 08:27:29+00:00
I don't agree to this, but even if we assume I do, then all abstractions are still leaky, so in practice it's often simply impossible to not care about lower details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction

Not caring about lower details in the expert domain is simply carelessness. We also need to consider how the abstraction layers are merged and what is the outcome. Abstraction layers are a tool, they are not the immutable environment we are operating in.

Clients can have the luxury of not knowing what is in the details, but not programmers.
by mike_hearn | 2025-10-09 08:27:29+00:00
You missed maybe the biggest one, /r/bitcoin, which around 2015 started banning anyone who wanted Bitcoin to actually follow the original design and continue scaling up on-chain transactions. The moderator, some anonymous student (possibly named Michael Marquardt), literally declared anyone who wanted Bitcoin to be used for regular transactions offtopic and banned them on a massive scale.

When explaining his actions he said something like, "I've moderated forums before so I know how sustained censorship can change a community". And then he set out to do it.

Reddit has been garbage for a long time and people's reliance on it is a huge problem. Abuse of it redirected Bitcoin onto a fundamentally different path (one nobody had agreed to), simply because of the sustained gaslighting and psychological manipulation its format allows.

That said, user-driven content moderation sucks everywhere. Wikipedia has the same problem. So does HN to some extent. The future is moderation driven entirely by LLMs with openly published prompts.
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by herapherigoods | 2025-10-09 08:28:38+00:00
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by themafia | 2025-10-09 08:29:03+00:00
Representatives work for us. If they don't like the terms they can quit. The terms are that they enact the public demands. This does not require any form of "dialog." Their point of view in the role is irrelevant.

They have the additional duty of convening meetings to discover facts and information useful to the public and to the creation of new laws. In this they consult experts with specific questions relevant to current national interests. The experts are also not there to engage in "dialog" but to provide data.

In my entire life I've not seen "dialog" between a politician and a citizen produce anything useful other than tragic comedy.
by afiori | 2025-10-09 08:29:21+00:00
> I'm not sure I can follow your logic of having smaller communities not being decentralized "at user level" whatever you mean by that.

I am making a parallel to how email works. With my own domain I can configure my DNS to use various different email providers and move however I like.

This is both decentralized and federated.

I can also use someone else's domain like gmail.com but then I lose portability for ease of use.

This is federated but not centralized.

Or I can host my own email server on my own domain and deal with spam fileters, bots, etc. directly

This is decentralized but less federated.

Mastodon is federated between instances but each instance is entirely centralized. Even account portability requires admin consent IIRC.

Bluesky is trying to create a space where users can own their own data like you can own your email AND aiming for widespread adoption.

I am not particularly focused on Mastodon, it is just the only part of the fediverse with a modicum of adoption.
by cimi_ | 2025-10-09 08:29:40+00:00
Your point to not rely on good intentions and have systems in place to ensure quality is good - but your comparison to humans didn't go well with me.

Very few humans fill in their task with made up crap then lie about it - I haven't met any in person. And if I did, I wouldn't want to work with them, even if they work 24/7.

Obligatory disclaimer for future employers: I believe in AI, I use it, yada yada. The reason I'm commenting here is I don't believe we should normalise this standard of quality for production work.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-09 08:29:45+00:00
Likely, yes. Sadly, most restaurants (in the US at least) are shit, and most restaurants are using shortcuts like the "Applebee" model of glorified frozen TV dinners. Especially in wholesale supplier food deserts in the middle of nowhere where the options are fewer.

By contrast, I know of a Turkish-American-owned fast casual restaurant on University Ave in Palo Alto that spends hours every day making almost everything, including hummus and baklava, from scratch. There are only a few complicated things that aren't made from scratch ordered from Turkey from specialty Mediterranean food suppliers. The generic stuff is sourced from Sysco, local butchers, and various other suppliers. It's a lot of time and work to do things right, and it takes pride and cost to make excellent food.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-09 08:31:11+00:00
> Instead of using profits to build up long term savings or fund R&D, they basically choose to do as little as possible.

Isn't buying stock a form of long term savings? After all, they can always sell that stock when they want to "withdraw".

Sure, they may not get the same return as simply stashing it into a bank account, but it's also a statement of confidence in their future: "We are sure that our stock will outperform every other option there is for storing our money, because our long-term plans include extracting more profit from the market."
by lmm | 2025-10-09 08:32:01+00:00
> Is it worse than the dot-com bubble? I remember everyone and their mom who knew HTML could get hired, and there were way more companies that went IPO during the dot-com bubble, like theglobe.com.

IDK, the number of companies and employees might be smaller, but the valuations and comp packages are so much bigger that I suspect there's more money in the bubble this time around, just a bit less spread out.
by blahblah12334 | 2025-10-09 08:32:03+00:00
Regardless of Michael's issues with Codesmith, I will say as someone who looked into bootcamps before, Codesmith is infamous for having people misrepresent their job experience to get swe jobs (even getting hired as seniors!). This is also why they used to have some of the highest job salary outcomes. I'm not going to link anything but this can be confirmed by just searching "Codesmith" in Linkedin and seeing how many Codesmith bootcampers are "senior" software engineers on "open source" codesmith "companies"
by disillusioned | 2025-10-09 08:32:46+00:00
Is it me, or does $600,000 a year (presuming that $3M is over the 5 year period) seem a bit of a weak contribution from a company with a $1.8 trillion market cap that's regularly making $100M-$250M TC pay packages for AI scientists?

Like, I get that nothing is _owed_ here, but this feels like more of the same tragedy of the commons open source problem we see: tools that millions of apps depend on, barely propped up, and in this case, the child of a megacorporation that could easily create a proper evergreen endowment rather than a milquetoast token contribution to save face.

Or should we just be grateful?
by degamad | 2025-10-09 08:33:34+00:00
> ngirx and granian are my favorite technologies to work with!

I had the same initial thought, but I was skimming the page and came across this line:

> Then, see how to deploy a Flask+HTMX app via Granian, wire it into NGINX, and ensure automatic startups with systemd.

So I've just discovered that https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian exists...
by diimdeep | 2025-10-09 08:33:48+00:00
> The archive will contain your profile data, plan, and any email addresses connected with your account in addition to the issues, pull requests, comments, reviews, releases, projects, events, attachments, milestones, and settings for each of your repositories—along with basic information about the users who have interacted with them.

> Now you can better understand what information we store, so you can make informed choices about how you use GitHub.

> Download all of your data

Lies, there is no search query or visit logs in exported data, I do not believe that you aren't storing it, so compared to GDPR request this is useless.
by Leynos | 2025-10-09 08:34:12+00:00
I wonder if a large context model could be employed here via tool call. One of the great things Gemini chat can do is ingest a whole GitHub repo.

Perhaps "before implementing a new utility or helper function, ask the not-invented-here tool if it's been done already in the codebase"

Of course, now I have to check if someone has done this already.
by lelanthran | 2025-10-09 08:35:36+00:00
I sense a business opportunity here: betting on stocks! Maybe we can have a central market where people can exchange their money for bets. Maybe even sell their bet off before the due date.

We can call it a "stock market", or maybe even a "stock exchange". I expect I'll be able to get a patent on it if I prefix the name with "online", or suffix it with "on the internet".
by lerno | 2025-10-09 08:35:41+00:00
I should add that there are a few candidates:

1. Zig uses three(!) frontend IRs, Odin and C3 only one.

2. Zig relies heavily on comptime to provide most of its language features. C3, which has a similar set of features, doesn’t encourage excessive use of compile time and offers more features built into the language (for example format checking is a builtin, whereas in Zig it’s userland, even if C3 has the capability to do it like Zig). Although note that Zig only checks code directly traced, whereas C3 will check all code, and so will - esp for simple code - check much more code than Zig does.

3. Zig generates A LOT of code for even just a ”safe” Hello World.

On top of that, maybe there are just some other inefficiencies that hasn’t been addressed yet by the Zig team?

Even though I have stakes in the game I hope Zig gets faster. We need to move away from the illusion that Swift, C++ and Rust compilation speeds are anywhere near acceptable.
by piqufoh | 2025-10-09 08:35:42+00:00
Hijacked? no. For me this demonstrates the temporal differences between the web and the real world.

Books are solid things that will be here for a long time. Websites are transitory, ethereal and likely to change. It's clearly ok to reference a book from a website, but books that reference websites - yeuch. It reminds me of those stacks of hard-copy programming manuals targeting specific versions of a language now obsolete.

When you don't understand this you end up in this kind of situation. If you don't renew your domain, you might lose it (as the author and publisher are now finding out). I expect legal proceedings will fail miserably, and that a nice fat bung will probably solve the problem immediately.
by eichin | 2025-10-09 08:35:56+00:00
The MDN links in the first section are failing for me - for example, Start URL takes me to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/html/manifest/s... which says "Sorry, the page ⁨/en-US/docs/Web/html/manifest/start_url⁩ could not be found."

(One of the search options on the 404 page goes to a possible PWA-related page, but it's also marked as "Limited" there.)
by talideon | 2025-10-09 08:36:16+00:00
You're conflating a few things here. V8 and Spidermonkey aren't the only interpreters out there. There are a number of them explicitly designed to be small, easy to compile and to embed, such MuJS, Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS, and more still. I can't speak to their FFI interfaces, but you can't judge JS's ability to call C functions based off that of Node/V8. I'm not sure how FFI runs against its execution model given JS is generally used as an embedded language, necessitating foreign function calls.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-09 08:36:30+00:00
> If the manufacturers are not held accountable

How does a customer of a retailer hold a manufacturer accountable when they have no relationship with said manufacturer?

> But most of the time, retailers are just selling products they think customers will want to buy.

I don't think retailers are nearly as helpless or unwitting as that. Amazon definitely know they have unsafe products on the shelves no matter how dumb they may play.

> The retailers are the front line for returns as that's the point of contact for the customer

They're also the front line for consumer safety reporting, by law. All companies (not only retailers, actually) have a statutory duty to report unsafe consumer goods, even in the US, and not only for CPC/GCC certified goods. When a customer reports an unsafe product to their retailer, the retailer should forward this information, along with batch codes, origins, sourcing information etc (which the customer obviously will not know). This is the early-warning system that leads to things like recalls, withdrawals and so on, before something causes widespread harm.
by thiago_fm | 2025-10-09 08:36:35+00:00
The MI450 is the pets.com from the 90s of AI hardware. It's bad.

The bubble now isn't even about LLMs, but has affected the entire stack. Even hardware companies are offering rubbish for the sake of prop'ing up their own valuation.

CUDA had decades of improvements, we may have AGI (tm) earlier than what it will take AMD to fix their broken software.

MI450 doesn't work well at all, OpenAI would rather take the deal and overspend in a project to try to use it for their software stack, which is incompatible with it.

Just for the sake of proping up valuations, with no "market competitiveness" guidance. Just for moving money.

Funnily enough, Google is ahead of all of this, as they can make their on TPUs and have their integrated stack. They don't need to generate fake economic activityu.
by BoredPositron | 2025-10-09 08:36:39+00:00
Stop gaslighting yourself via llms. You are pretty close to a delusion. I looked at the history of those supposed super models. It's literally all made up vibe llm bullshit and the people that told you so on reddit and huggingface took the time to actual proof it to you. You might be the first example of AI psychosis that I've seen in the wild. Wild.