MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dcminter | 2025-10-12 21:06:10+00:00
Well frankly your lack of concrete arguments makes it seem a lot like you don't actually understand what's going on here.

I'm enjoying the new LLM based tooling a lot, but nothing about it suggests that we're in any way near to AGI because it's very much a one trick pony so far.

When we see generative AI that updates its weights in real time (currently an intractible problem) as part of the feedback loop then things might get very interesting. Until then it's just another tool in the box. CS interns learn.
by troupo | 2025-10-12 21:06:12+00:00
Let's try this again:

Chrome ships dozens of APIs that it then advertises as fait accompli standards. Often when there's even no consensus on the shape of an API. Or worse (see WebHID which Chrome shipped literally without an actionable spec).

Did Safari ship requestStorageAccess in the same manner? If yes, yes it was wrong. It's not a trick question though you somehow think it is.

Again, and it's insane that I have to explain it to you, of all people: once something is shipped in the browser, it stays there forever because people end up using and depending on that feature. And for the past decade that is exponentially "whatever Chrome ships".

It's funny how you lament that Safari is somehow sabotaging standards processes when your former employer literally shits on the whole standards processes and just ships whatever it desires. Oh wait, in your mind it's good because "Blink has a rigorous process" (aka ship whatever our internal company turf wars need right now) and "Blink is a democratic process" (aka whatever Google decides ends up in the browser).

> In the world you want, how should leadership in designs manifest when there isn't consensus?

Ah yes. "Leadership". Justin Fangnani said it was "courage" when they shipped Constructible Stylesheets with no consensus on APIs and a trivially reproducible race condition in the spec just because Google-developed lit needed it. And then tried to gaslight everyone who didn't agree.

It's not leadership. It's a monopoly (or near-monopoly) browser doing whatever the hell it wants with utter disregard to anything or anyone.

Edit

> Should nothing ship? And who does that help?

Literally everyone. Many, many, many people have pointed it out on many occasions that just adding hundreds of new APIs per year to the platform doesn't much benefit the platform. Often you end up with badly designed badly specced APIs that need dozens of workarounds to fix while making the platform itself incomprehensibly complex.

Quirks Blog said it better than me: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushin... and https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...

In your world "leadership" somehow means "ship whatever whenever at neck breaking pace ä, who cares about consequences".

To quote Steve Jobs (whom you probably hate): "It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully... Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.".

Chrome's mottos seems to be "we don't take no for an answer, ship it"
by fragmede | 2025-10-12 21:06:22+00:00
It depends on the therapist and the patient. Therapists, like every other profession has practitioners that are really really good, some that are mediocre, and everything in between. Patients, too, come in all shapes and all sizes.

When therapy works, it works really really well, and relatively quickly too. From casual observation of friends and other people around me (ie, as a regular person; I'm not a health care professional.) I've seen people manage to make sustained healthy changes in just a handful of sessions. I've also seen people not improve, or take far longer.

If you've been going to therapy for more than a few months and haven't been improving, it's time to change something up. Therapy should be "something like that".
by patcon | 2025-10-12 21:06:51+00:00
It's just a simpler primitive I assume. Blurs and colors and angles are simpler than 3D geometries, so it's probably more aligned with working/thinking with other very low-level primitives with minimal dimensions (like the math of neural networks). I dunno, I'm kinda vibing a response here -- maybe someone else can give you a more authoritative answer
by sothatsit | 2025-10-12 21:07:07+00:00
Yeah, I definitely see this as well. These are the people with seven MCP servers, 5000-line AGENTS.md files, their own "memory systems" for the agents, and who try to hit their rate-limits on all their agents every 5 hours (regardless of whether or not they are actually getting useful work done). Having tried some of this stuff when I was trying to learn about agents, it almost always made their performance worse...

In web development, where I get the most out of agents, I am still only using them for implementing basic things. I will write anything even moderately complex, as agents often make the wrong assumptions somewhere. And then there's also manual work required to review and tidy up agent output. But there's just so much grunt work in web development from adding to a DB schema, writing a migration, adding the data to your model, exposing it in an API endpoint, and finally showing it on a page. None of that is complicated, so agents are pretty good at it.
by hansvm | 2025-10-12 21:07:14+00:00
Bazel solves a ton of problems other systems don't, but it introduces a ton of its own. If you can afford (or are currently accidentally affording) 2-3 FTEs managing builds, that's all you need to scale Bazel indefinitely and solve basically all of the rest of your build problems. If you can't afford a dedicated Bazel team then it's absolutely not worth using on anything more than a single "team" (people talking to each other every day, a dedicated Bazel xoogler, probably 5-13 people).

As to the actual "why", even little things like BUILD files requiring you to enumerate dependency graphs gives you a leg up that you _can_ implement in other build systems, but likely won't. Whether you're a "monorepo" or not, you still have all your code living _somewhere_ as a monorepo, and the only question is how good your tooling is. How easy is it in your system to "run all tests properly depending on the set of changed files"? That's easy in Bazel and hard in every other solution I've seen (possible of course, but those sorts of constraints aren't the happy path for other build systems, so teams don't tend to build that way without a very solid lead imposing that strategy).
by mikert89 | 2025-10-12 21:07:25+00:00
symbols and concepts are just collections of neurons that fire with the correct activation. its all about the bitter lesson, human beings cannot design ai, they can only find the most general equations, most general loss function, and push data in. and thats what we have, and thats why its a big deal. The LLM is just a manifestation of a much broader discovery, a generalized learning algorithm. it worked on language because of the information density, but with more compute, we may be able to push in more general sensory data...
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-12 21:07:34+00:00
> they didnt have the compute or the data to make use of NNs

The compute and data are both limitations of NNs.

We've already gotten really close to the data limit (we aren't generating enough useful content as a species and the existing stuff has all been slurped up).

Standard laws of physics restrict the compute side, just like how we know we will hit it with CPUs. Eventually, you just cannot put things closer together that generate more heat because they interfere with each other because we hit the physical laws re miniaturization.

No, GAI will require new architectures no one has thought of in nearly a century.
by klardotsh | 2025-10-12 21:07:50+00:00
Yep, 2-4x onsites together a year to develop human relationships, and otherwise 100% remote, is by far the most effective team arrangement IME. It is especially the most accessible format for people who do not necessarily perform their best work within the typical office hours (9-5, +/-1), who do not want to live in your metro area, or who are distracted by disturbances in their surroundings - or just aren’t hardcore extroverts.

Or simply put: if you truly want the best, most focused, highly performing team, an office requirement shrinks your talent pool tremendously for extremely little gain. Do quarterly meetups somewhere and move on, IMO.
by Veserv | 2025-10-12 21:08:09+00:00
Huh? Given their valuation, their business is barely worth more than their zero-days which are just not very expensive.

People have the mistaken belief that total security compromises are challenging or expensive leading them to the mistaken belief that these companies must be valuable with valuable assets and high revenue.

Hacking-for-hire is barely more than a commodity, like aluminum smelting. There are capital costs, you need technology and expertise, but it is highly fungible leading to lots of suppliers competing on cost and quality of service (turn key, white-glove, etc.) Hell, it is even cheaper to get into and stay on top than aluminum smelting since the capital costs are so much lower.
by Gigachad | 2025-10-12 21:08:15+00:00
No, you pay Spotify, and then Spotify pays artists per stream they received. “Your” money goes in to a pool at Spotify where it can’t really be traced further.

If you listen to more music than the average listener, those artists get paid out more than what you put in, and if you listen to less, they get less. But on average it all levels out anyway.

Unless people who listen to a particular artist on average stream less music entirely. Which doesn’t seem to be the case.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-12 21:09:37+00:00
I think people are seriously tired of that argument, though with Putin I'll admit it has more validity than in most cases.

You see, Venezuela had a "socalist revolution" followed by a slight misinterpretation of Marxism, and ... let's just call it "dictatorship of billionnaires", and ignore that for more than a decade this was enormously supported and pushed by leftists worldwide:

https://marxist.com/a-tribute-to-hugo-chavez.htm

Now Venezuela is a state run through criminal gangs with a billionaire dictator on top. You know, doesn't quite satisfy the definition of socialism or communism. Yet socialism is what got them there.

Therefore ... can you call Chavez a socialist? Why? He certainly had the chance to implement socialism, even communism ... and did the exact opposite. Kim Jong Il or his father? Xi Jingping? Khomeini or Khamenei of Iran? All gathered power as communists, none can be said to be even remotely communist once they got to power.

So same can be said of Iran, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Soviet Union and many others. It'd be very inaccurate to call any of these places communist (except the Soviet Union), or even socialist. Most of them never even tried (in fact it surprised me quite a bit that the mullahs actually really tried to be communist)

Even many leaders in the west started their careers as communists, only to betray every communist and socialist principle once they got any amount of power, for example, the best paid politician in the world, Antonio Guterrez. Can you call them communists? They're about as communist as I am canine.

And in a roundabout way, the same goes for Putin. He came into power as an extreme version of Guterrez: they both climbed the ladder to power using violence to push communism. They both totally betrayed communism once they had even a small amount of power, and frankly Putin's the more honorable of the two: the choice to betray communism was made for him, whereas Guterrez betrayed communism out of free will in trade for power. And there's so many of these guys. Jose Manuel Barrosso, violent communist, non-executive chairman and senior adviser of Goldman Sachs International, after ... let's say "helping" that firm in 2007. Yes, really.

So is Putin a communist? You can be cynical and simply state the truth: Putin is an incredibly successful communist. The most successful communist in the world today, except perhaps for Xi Jinping. And, like all successful communists, he isn't the least bit communist.
by asacrowflies | 2025-10-12 21:10:07+00:00
Yeah I'm am usually very politically inactive and even physically disabled... But I went to the last one and been planning on this for weeks. I don't like the traditional Dems or "libs" but at this point any enemy of the current treasonous admin is our friend...

Great to organize locally and network with ppl in my city/county/state so we can even organize to primary some of the shitty dem with younger blood that will deman a moral stand.
by overgard | 2025-10-12 21:10:56+00:00
I don't know about his conclusion of "spend 2 weeks on architecture". If these people don't realize they need to index a database table, 2 weeks of talking about what they're going to do isn't going to help. This is 100% lack-of-experience, and it's why startups should hire more experienced people (and ideally, listen to them).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-12 21:12:19+00:00
> This is 100% lack-of-experience, and it's why startups should hire more experienced people

But that’s fine. They demonstrated product-market fit. They’re now positioned to be able to afford experience.

Hiring an experienced scaling engineer before you have a hundred users might be about as dumb as spending two weeks architecting an MVP.
by grues-dinner | 2025-10-12 21:12:54+00:00
That's the thing, though. Gigantic spaceships, alien panspermia, stasis pods, human-passing androids, underground alien bases, convenient maps in caves. All that disbelief can be suspended.

A handpicked team of professional astronauts on an interstellar mission being a bunch of complete incompetents over and over again for plot convenience is the real headscratcher that eventually makes it feel like the plot is an afterthought and makes you disengage from the film as a story rather then just pretty pictures.

It's a pattern you see a lot especially in sci-fi and action, and it's annoying because it's not like you couldn't have the glossy visuals or set-pieces if you also had coherent plots.
by zettabomb | 2025-10-12 21:13:20+00:00
I have always wondered why Turkey chose to Latinize in this way. I understand that the issue is having two similar vowels in Turkish, but not why they decided to invent the dotless I, when other diacritics already existed. Ĭ Î Ï Í Ì Į Ĩ and almost certainly a dozen other would've worked, unless there was already some significance to the dot in Turkish that's not obvious.
by kevin_b_er | 2025-10-12 21:13:28+00:00
By "class action" I presume you're referring to the US. If so, no, the courts of law are forbidden to you. You will instead go to a secret tribunal where the laws do not matter. The arbiter will only continue to be paid if they continue to rule for corporations.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement#15_binding...
by VerifiedReports | 2025-10-12 21:13:41+00:00
"Apple’s attention to detail"

Such cringe-inducing, delusional fawning. You can find counterpoints to this oft-regurgitated claim all over Apple's products, with a cornucopia of them in the rightfully-scorned Tahoe release alone.

But back to the topic at hand: "knobs" in GUIs. They suck, for the very reasons demonstrated here. Audio software in particular is replete with this skeuomorphic failure, and why? Because people who work in music or audio can't understand more-effective GUI affordances? Because they'd be lost without something that looks like the physical knobs on a mixer or stompbox? What an insulting assumption, not to mention nonsensical in modern times.

"Apple employees work really hard to make products that are deceptively simple and just feel right."

This grand declaration is based on what, exactly? In a decade as a software engineer at Apple, I saw a wide range of dedication and aptitude in UI design and implementation. This varies within teams and between teams, with no set standards for research or testing of UI effectiveness. I saw the same amateur-hour mistakes made repeatedly, despite their being pointed out incontrovertibly... and some have come back to bite (and cripple) new generations of Apple products.

Design isn't getting better, folks. It's one thing to give bad design a free pass; but to LAUD it hurts all users.
by anon84873628 | 2025-10-12 21:15:28+00:00
The modern version of this is called Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) or Plasmapheresis and it is used to treat a variety of conditions including cancer and autoimmune:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/24197-plasm...

There are also claims that it improves dementia / Alzheimer's symptoms and popular "longevity biomarkers".
by londons_explore | 2025-10-12 21:15:32+00:00
I disagree with this approach.

In the first few months your product will change direction so fast any semblance of a sensible design you had will be long gone by the end of the first year.

Instead, whilst the team is small (ie. 3 devs or fewer), just kludge together everything. No good coding standards, no tests, just demo-day quality.

Then, when you get above 4 developers and the product direction is clear, rebuild everything from scratch.

Sounds like a waste, but rebuilding is far faster than doing it the first time, and you'll be able to have a sensible design rather than something that has already changed direction countless times. Now is also a good time to change programming languages away from something good for prototypes into something production ready and easy to hire developers for.
by teunispeters | 2025-10-12 21:15:42+00:00
... Visit first. When I left (2018-ish) Vancouver was one of the most expensive cities on the planet. (put it this way : the only places more expensive were in China ...). It's a beautiful city, close (ish) to skiing - especially Whistler (2 hours drive, or various other transportation methods) but there are a lot of closer ski sites too. Warmer and wetter than Seattle (slightly) due to being surrounded by mountains. I have to admit I miss Vancouver badly.

Toronto's a much better "hub" for tech work. (I work remotely out of Winnipeg now, and am liking that too).

Mind, Vancouver does have a lot of tech, and if you want to work more with tech world that speaks other world languages, Vancouver is very good, too. Or music, or film, or really media of any kind. Also better diversity and cheaper food than almost anywhere I've visited.

Just not - unless you really figure out where and how to look, or if you have good connections - a particularly affordable city, at least as far as rent goes. Everything else though is good.
by zyklonix | 2025-10-12 21:15:45+00:00
I’m working on https://unrav.io

Building a new layer of hyper-personalization over the web. Instead of generating more content, it helps you reformat and interact with what already exists, turning any page, paper, or YouTube video into a summary, mind-map, podcast, infographic or chat.

The broader idea is to make the web adaptive to how each person thinks and learns.
by rexreed | 2025-10-12 21:16:07+00:00
One of the top comments (https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1o4jup6/i_aud...):

"Step 1: Don't listen to anything OP said.

OP lies about going to Harvard. He thinks he can put it on his linkedin just because he did an 8 hour online course from HarvardX on basics of leadership.

So assuming OP didn't lie about his experiences in start-ups (he 100% did lie), his diagnosis of the issues make no sense.

Unindexed db is just pure incompetence so if this is your problem then you have many more things to worry about, like learning the basics of programming.

Automatic testing is not required in start-ups and often comes at much later stages.

Auth vulnerabilities by themselves would never fail a start-up. Only data leakages caused by them would. So it's a very weird point.

There is rarely such a thing as bad code, all the code written by other people is bad while all the code written by me is either perfect or I have an excuse. It's always like that. Saying you should "improve" your code so that the devs spend less time wrestling with it is an insane statement, beyond basic quality controls. Bad code is almost always code that does something in a way that unexpected new reqs were not accounted for. And you can't expect the unexpected.

Autoscaling servers is hard. It's always better to just get what you need and then some. Within reason of course. And then leave the actual deployment optimization to dev ops engineers that you can hire later.

The post is really nonsensical. If there is one thing you should learn, it's to recognize obvious slop and outright lies.

EDIT: Also OP most likely bought upvotes. Weekend numbers like this make no sense. Especially on such a low quality post. And his linkedin is a trove of obvious lies and misrepresentations, even sneakily claiming he founded a company with 80k customers, while in reality he worked for an already established company with 80k customers as a low level employee, and then wording his claim in such a way where he has plausible deniability.

"

Perhaps this post was a way to gain customers?
by ogogmad | 2025-10-12 21:18:00+00:00
Not sure this is a good counterpoint in defence of LLMs, but I'm reminded of how Unix people explain why (in their experience) data should be encoded, stored and transmitted as text instead of something more seemingly natural like binary. It's because text provides more ways to read and transform it, IN SPITE of its obvious inefficiency. LLMs are the ultimate Unix text transformation filter. They are extremely flexible out-of-the-box, and friendly towards experimentation.
by slightlyoff | 2025-10-12 21:18:03+00:00
It's not insane that you have to explain it to me, because your premise is _wrong_. Go look at the founding documents for web SDOs. Voluntary adoption is foundational to the entire effort, and as I keep pointing out, Apple is the only party that has undermined it:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-i...
by tyleo | 2025-10-12 21:18:28+00:00
I have an M4 MBP and I also think Apple is set up quite nicely to take real advantage of local models.

They already work on the most expensive Apple hardware. I expect that price to come down in the next few years.

It’s really just the UX that’s bad but that’s solvable.

Apple isn’t having to pay for each users power and use either. They sell hardware once and folks pay with their own electricity to run it.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-12 21:18:34+00:00
The commute doesn’t help you, but working in an office next to your team mates will accelerate your work.

Software development is a team sport and individual productivity is not the same as team productivity. Communication bandwidth in person is much higher when colocated. Startups move fast and higher bandwidth increases velocity, reduces errors, improves quality and team cohesion.

For other situations remote can be “good enough”, and has advantages eg bigger recruitment pool or cheaper labour, but in general in person is just going to be a lot faster with higher quality results.

A lot of engineers don’t wish this to be true, because wfh is often better for them as individuals, but it is what it is.
by asacrowflies | 2025-10-12 21:18:42+00:00
Have you looked outside or read the news? Never in my lifetime (33) have we seen such government violence against the mass public... only thing I can see similarity was the fight for 14th amendment and civil rights act before I was born.

Also an evolution of 9/11 patriot act and ndaa expansions... People have been conspiracy theorizing for YEARS about ice expanding authority within 100 miles of the border and doing what they are doing now....even the ACLU ranted about it.... And now that it's all happening for real... The camps and everything.... We are just supposed to ignore it because it bothers your partisan sensibility???

YOU sir. Are a traitor and a coward, who confuses the path of ease and least resistance as the moral choice.that confuses peace with passive submission and slavery.

Give me liberty or give me death. I have full confidence the American people will resolve this. But it is very tragic how much blood and pain itwill cost at this point .