MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scrubs | 2025-10-11 01:23:24+00:00
Everytime political idealism which is a component of culture warfare here involving American Christian evangelicals trying to get a foothold into larger society occurs it never works.

There is a powerful undercurrent of pathetic weakness in American Christianity for those who espouse or entertain issues theil discusses. It's needy, and cloying. If you can't get the public to buy your spiel with the freedoms america already offers under the law there's something wrong with your message or how you represent it. Like Luther nailing his declarations up on the church's door -- not the local atheist club or porn star -- look at yourself first.

I was raised in a household of pentacostal evangelical christians. Co-joining secular developments (like aids on the 1980s) into God's judgement or as suggestive of the second coming blew through that community every 3-7 years. And of course it was all 100% BS.

Its almost like without this co-joing into the larger political sphere those Christians see themselves as having no value, relevance, or purchase. It's pathetic.

Catholics don't usually get caught up in this nonsense, by way of contrast.

Now, I remain firm here in my criticism while holding warm regards for Christians who take themselves and faith seriously. Rusty Browers is one such individual in the trump-theil-christain intersection.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-11 01:23:38+00:00
Tangled very nicely gets rid of the having to run a server problem, yet still gives you a sovereign platform for doing git from. Truly divine.

The barrier is largely that Tangled is so new. People don't know about it. People don't know what Bsky & the Personal Data Server offer or they haven't been enticed out of the zero energy local minima.

There's some need for more features. For more tangled dev. Ideally for alternate clients, just because. But it's already enormously solid, the early adopters are living the better life, the future is already here and we are just waiting for devs to redistribute themselves appropriately.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-10-11 01:25:44+00:00
@skydhash posted a great response here[0], which is why I am focusing on the question below.

> Is there something about the AI workflow that fundamentally changes the learning process in a way that delegation to humans doesn't?

Yes.

Using LLM document generators to produce source artifacts "short-circuits" the learning process people must undertake in order to formulate a working mental model (as expounded upon by the referenced @skydhash comment). An implication of this is engineers using this approach primarily learn the LLM tool and secondarily the system being modified.

While this may be acceptable for senior engineers steeped in a system's design and implementation choices, such as being involved in same from inception, this does not transfer to others regardless of skill level and can easily result in a "pull the ladder up behind you" type of situation.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537628
by rezmason | 2025-10-11 01:25:49+00:00
hundredrabbits' game Verreciel uses a reimplementation of webgl-lines, to pretty good effect, if I may say so:

https://github.com/mattdesl/webgl-lines

https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/verreciel

PS— I still play Retro, and dream of resuscitating it :)
by baubino | 2025-10-11 01:25:56+00:00
Government grants are competitive, not gifts. MIT competes (along with private companies and individuals) for grants and if the grant is won, a very lengthy and detailed contract is signed that outlines the terms of the grant. This isn’t free money that’s being handed out willy nilly. If MIT (or anyone else) violates the terms of a contract, the government should seek to nullify that specific contract. That would be the normal (and legal) thing to do.
by ramses0 | 2025-10-11 01:25:58+00:00
It was as good as it needed to be. It's not high art, there were a few "pasted in" references about the exponential rise of AI (a "newsreel" blurb at the beginning, and a scene or two in the middle).

The original was panned as off-putting and janky to "normies", there's no reason to expect anything different here. Some of the effects were cool, but I think the original had a bit more of a plot and characters compared to Ares.

In the original, it flirts a bit with avatars, power dynamics, and sacrifice... and how humans and computers (programs) were going to be relating together as the importance of computers would continue to rise.

This new one is more like: computers and people... they can be both good and bad? (shrug?) There were lessons and morals at times, but there were also some boring facepalm moments. With some slight tweaks and nudges (eg: a "directors cut") maybe it could be 30% better or make 30% more sense, but it would still be off-putting if you weren't really into a movie about red LED's in the first place.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-11 01:26:02+00:00
Tiktok has long been extremely heavy handed with censorship. A slightly negative comment will get deleted and warnings meted out. Content that angers anyone gets flagged and often removed. And while there were some ephemeral movements where a bunch of young people trend-lambasted Trump, generally I find the platform seems to actually magnify pro-Trump content, even long before he was elected.

It's actually a shocking experience seeing Instagram Reels in comparison. The latter seems to remove extraordinarily little. If you enjoy darker if not offensive humour, it is a much more rewarding experience, though sometimes I just marvel that Meta not only allows this, they seem to encourage it.
by cheema33 | 2025-10-11 01:26:41+00:00
On my iphone 13 pro max when I pull down the notification drawers, the list stutters heavily, every single time. I am assuming this is because the phone is trying to animate things while keeping the notifications semi-transparent. Why do I need to see what is behind the notifications? Transparency on such commonly used functions are not just unnecessary, they add negative value. Add to that the stutters that did not exist before and you have the making of a frustrating experience.

Why would anybody want this?
by oneplane | 2025-10-11 01:27:06+00:00
The problem was that the user's credentials were revoked but because the root account was a shared credential it wasn't revoked. Was the break-glass account also a user-specific account, it would have fit in with any 'revoke anything for user XYZ' workflow instead of being a root account edge-case.

So, in short, this would likely have prevented this, as the normal off boarding for user-bound credentials worked out fine already.
by roughly | 2025-10-11 01:28:15+00:00
This is an absolutely unhinged take. We're facing civilizational collapse because we couldn't be arsed to stop burning fossil fuels, not because we didn't have other options. We've known how to do solar, wind, and nuclear for decades, we've known about anthropogenic climate change for decades, we've known the risks, and we've done absolutely nothing about it. This is a problem of will, not capacity.

Edit, because I'm guessing the "civilizational collapse" line's going to catch the response, instead of the "will, not capacity" part:

Pick any one of:

* Sea levels rise by 2-3ft

* The jet stream breaks down

* The north atlantic current breaks down

* Large swaths of the globe between, say, +/-33deg off the equator experience heat waves sufficient to make being outside more than ~30 or so minutes unprotected a life threatening event for normally healthy individuals multiple times per year (note these areas of the planet contain several billion people, and not the rich ones).

* Climates change sufficient to move productive agricultural zones substantially outside of where they've been for roughly the entire industrial area, causing regular crop failures and unpredictable food prices

* Large scale droughts and flooding become a regular event

* Category 5 becomes the low side of what we'd expect a hurricane to hit

And walk through the political, economic, and social ramifications of it, and then realize we're looking at all of them - and we're already seeing the beginnings of them _today_.
by rekttrader | 2025-10-11 01:28:55+00:00
Have you tried doing an ACH to a friend or paid rent that way recently? Banks force you to Zelle (there are daily/weekly limits) they’re not enough to cover modern rents so you breakup payments. Meanwhile any stable coin transfer can be done in minutes and works better than any payment rail ever.

Edit: I got my landlord to open a Coinbase account because stablecoin payments are way easier (also got a signup bonus for referring a new account)
by resters | 2025-10-11 01:29:27+00:00
The administration's theft of TikTok is absolutely unacceptable and we should all be horrified. Entrepreneurs built a great business with an algorithm that is still -- years after it launched -- head and shoulders more entertaining and engagement-generating than anything domestic firms could come up with, even with years to figure it out.

TikTok is also significantly better for content creators and has more useful tooling. TikTok lets videos be downloaded by default which is why most Instagram Reels (tm) and YouTube Shorts (tm) are actually TikToks someone uploaded.

TikTok was a problem for the US Government both because it outshone US firms -- ironically by making the algorithm show more interesting and appealing content to users, rather than the "viral" rubbish that overtakes the incumbents feeds... and also because it started becoming a source of highly informative citizen journalism, spreading awareness about many social issues, from police brutality to the treatment of the people of Gaza by Israel and the US.

It's the politically sensitive citizen journalism that Bebe considers a "weapon" that needed to be stolen from its creators.

Now, per Larry Ellison's recent comments, everyone's TikTok history is being mined by Oracle to help suppress dissent against Trump's policies and keep people in line.

I've already started noticing a few obviously fake disinformation campaigns that support pro-Trump goals starting to gain ground on TikTok and other social media in the past week or so.

There is absolutely no reason that any country that values freedom of speech and press freedom should confiscate someone else's company to weaponize it against the American people. This is an utterly shameful episode motivated by the worst and darkest human motivations -- controlling others and suppressing the speech of the downtrodden.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-11 01:29:30+00:00
Almost everything with this administration is just lawless uncertainty so it's hard to tell, but has that actually happened yet? The last info I could find is that some sort of rough deal was solidifying, but that even things like the investor makeup or components was still up in the air. That was just two weeks ago.

I don't think it has moved to the new structure yet, or the "all the servers in the US with Oracle control of the algo". Maybe they're just getting ready in advance.

Alternately, a motivated subgroup can often coerce platforms. A lot of platforms will engage such moderation simply because enough people brigaded to flag/report something.
by SanjayMehta | 2025-10-11 01:29:45+00:00
Patel won the Congress presidency in 1946 and was made to step aside by Gandhi. Nehru, if memory serves me right, won only one vote.

"House arrest" was reserved for compliant natives. Aga Khan's palace was another favoured location for the likes of Nehru and Gandhi.

Real freedom fighters, were sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans.
by jeffbee | 2025-10-11 01:29:58+00:00
This is the most ridiculous lie in the thread. An ethernet link that can barely keep up with a $150 SSD costs $1250 per switch port, and needs a $1200 NIC and can go only 3m over copper before you need a $1000+ optic assembly. There is nobody with an ethernet setup in their home that outruns consumer-grade SSDs. "Ethernet is limited by SSDs" is a Charlie's Hoes level of wrong.
by eek2121 | 2025-10-11 01:30:24+00:00
To OP: This is not a crypto issue, and many of us not obsessed with the subject like me will get annoyed to see it being brought up.

You speak true of the subject matter, however. Except for Klarna, I had good credit (the last time I applied, score FICO was 720 with strong payment history (no negatives, a decade of history of good credit, near and/or zero balances, and a quarter million of personal income) and they wouldn't lend me a dime (I asked for like $100 or something...literally could not be bothered to find my wallet, get my card out, and find the 3 digit number on the back...I also figured it'd be neat to have a new line of credit). I suspect they have some other odd model for tracking you, and if they can't, they reject, so it is likely not as bad as you think.

It's probably much worse. ;)
by CarbonBasedUnit | 2025-10-11 01:31:13+00:00
From the article: "If I ask you to think through a problem you don’t think in symbols, numbers, or any other representation. You think in words, and therefore your ability to think relies on your ability to deploy words. "

Author hasn't done his homework. The belief thoughts = words has been well-debunked. The first hit from a lazy Google search is a Scientific American article all about it, helpfully titled 'You Don't Need Words to Think".

https://archive.ph/KjJ1R

Or, if you like scientific papers better, see "Language and thought are not the same thing: evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4874898/
by westurner | 2025-10-11 01:31:52+00:00
NewsArticle: "The World’s Food Supply Is at Risk: Modern Agriculture Is Destroying the Soil Beneath Our Feet" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00098-6 :

> According to the study, published in NPJ Sustainable Agriculture, the most severe danger to soil resilience is erosion driven by over-plowing, overgrazing, and deforestation. This process can strip away fertile layers that take centuries to develop. Other significant threats include the build-up of salts in irrigated soils (salinization), pollution from pesticides and plastic residues, and soil compaction caused by intensive livestock operations.

ScholarlyArticle: "Agricultural practices can threaten soil resilience through changing feedback loops" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-025-00098-6 :

> Abstract: Soil has supported terrestrial food production for millennia; however, agricultural intensification may affect its resilience. Using a systems-thinking approach, we reviewed the impacts of conventional-agriculture practices on soil resilience and identified alternative practices that could mitigate these effects. We found that many practices only affect soil resilience with their long-term repeated use. Lastly, we ranked the impacts that pose the greatest threats to soil resilience and, consequently, food and feed security.

> [...] Resilience theory describes a spectrum of system responses to drivers or perturbations from gradual, near-linear and reversible, to abrupt, non-linear and strongly hysteretic
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-11 01:31:53+00:00
..Ukrainian drone strikes are doing so much damage to Russian oil infrastructure and refineries that the country is having to import emergency fuel supplies from China, Korea and Belarus. The Moscow agency Neftegaz says 38pc of the country’s primary refining capacity is out of action, though Russia has ways to plug holes. The latest attack this week hit the Antipinsky oil refinery in western Siberia, 2,000 kilometres into Russian territory. It was the deepest strike of the war so far. “They have huge areas they can’t defend with air-defence systems. Russia cannot do anything substantial to protect those assets,” said Zagorodnyuk. ..The refinery crisis is causing a build-up of crude that cannot be stored. Goldman Sachs said drillers are reeling from 17pc interest rates and a rising “tax wedge”.

Wow. Russia importing fuel.

I am failing to find it, but there was an analysis of WW2 bombing and how the Brits did a terrible job of prioritizing fuel refineries for bombing runs. Apparently only ~5 locations were responsible for a lot of the German war effort, with one plant in particular the only one in the country that could supply their airforce. Taking out that one location could have crippled German fighter craft in one blow.

Must be a lot easier to assess strategic importance in the modern age when the entire planet is getting photographed daily.
by al_borland | 2025-10-11 01:32:34+00:00
It seemed like there were a lot of cherry picked examples.

He showed Spider-Man to prove we don’t have strong action heroes anymore. Why not The Rock? The Mountain? Thor?

Arnold largely created the market for strong action heroes, and it’s been more and more the trend ever since. Look and old Superman and Batman vs modern versions. Starting out, people thought Arnold’s size would hold him back from getting roles. Now it’s the bigger the better. Most actors looking to play a super hero need to get a trainer and hit the gym hard.

He also talked about them not being as violent, and then showed John Wick. Keanu Reeves might not be huge, but those movies are extremely violent, and he’s 61. He’s not going to pack on 40lbs of muscle for a role, and that also can look a bit awkward in a suit.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-11 01:33:27+00:00
Chat GPT likes to make up things.

It told me the other day that on a multiple hard drive/SSD system I could set secure boot on each drive independently.

Of course this is nonsense, since secure boot is set in the BIOS.

Whatever, Chat GPT got it's engagement metrics.

I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM.

It's still at the level of an energetic junior engineer, sure it wants to crank out a lot of code to look good, but you need to verify everything it does.

I was game jamming with a friend last weekend and I realized he can manually write better code, lighter code, more effective code than I was having co-pilot write.

Which sounds safer, an elegant 50 line function, or 300 lines of a spaghetti code that appears to work right.

The manager( and above)level is all about AI though, let's cut staff and have AI fill in the gaps!
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-10-11 01:33:44+00:00
The problem is the US government very publicly and explicitly forced TikTok to sell their website so they could change the content on it.

If you cannot have a particular type of content on your website and it get very popular without the government demanding you sell it to them, then there's a problem. TikTok was the first website to reach social media scale viewership in the US with such anti-American sentiments broadcast on it
by wongarsu | 2025-10-11 01:33:48+00:00
SATA 3 can move 500MB/s, but high-capacity drives typically can't. They are all below 300MB/s sustained even when shiny new. Look for example at the performance numbers quoted in these data sheets [1][2][3][4], all between 248 MiB/s and 272 MiB/s.

Now that's still a lot faster than 100MB/s. But I have a lot of recertified drives, and while some of them make the advertised numbers some of them have settled at 100MB/s. You could argue that is something wrong with them, but they are in a raid and I don't need them to be fast. That's what the SSD cache is for.

1: Page 3 https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/en/content-fragm...

2: Page 2 https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/en/content-fragm...

3: Page 2 https://www.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us...

4: Page 7 https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/assets/products/...
by irjustin | 2025-10-11 01:33:57+00:00
> 99.9% of species are already extinct, the fossil record is huge. I get that people don't like change, but species going extinct doesn't really move the needle much. That is what they do.

Ehhhhh this argument is hopeful at best. The problem is we're changing the temp faster than base keystone species' evolution can adapt.

Without them it's super super unpredictable what'll actually happen.

The worry being mass extinction because we lost plankton or similar. Huge amounts of oxygen production and co2 capacity disappears rapidly with that.
by Hobadee | 2025-10-11 01:34:19+00:00
OS 26 (Both i and Mac variants) are prime examples of designers trying desperately to justify their ongoing jobs by redesigning everything for the sake of a redesign.

This scicophantic obsession with constantly redesigning the look of everything because the old design has been in use for over a year (gasp) is really starting to grate on me. Just give me the ability to skin my apps, and let me skin them however I want.
by mikrotikker | 2025-10-11 01:34:43+00:00
My wife has chronic pain from Endo, even after hysterectomy. We think it's in the lining of the abdomen now and the pain looks intense. Cannabis being one of the only things that can take the edge off. I think that many women suffer with this condition but due to the lack of research into it there isn't really anything doctors can do for her, or prescribe her (they've tried many drugs).
by gruez | 2025-10-11 01:35:06+00:00
At the same time letting politics go unchecked turns it into a cesspool like reddit, where politics is shoehorned into most of the default subreddits and "Epstien" is brought up in any thread vaguely political. You might think these issues deserve attention, and they might even drive engagement for some, but not everyone wants their cat video app to be like a 24/7 cable TV news channel.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-11 01:35:25+00:00
> By unwinding I mean performing registered clean-ups

I understand now. By unwinding I meant simply moving the stack pointer backwards. I never considered that the word could carry more meaning than that.

> If we are following a control flow that leaves a context in such a way that there is a possibility to resume there, we should simply. not touch anything.

Agreed. The dynamic-wind situation seems somewhat insane. I hope to avoid it altogether.

This weekend I'm planning to work on more control flow primitives, including a lightweight exception mechanism which doesn't capture the continuation. I think a finally/ensure function will be useful for cleanup in the case of non-resumable exceptions.

> dynamically scoped variables

My language doesn't have them. It's very much like Scheme with its nested environments.
by dathery | 2025-10-11 01:35:50+00:00
An interesting thing to understand about Klarna and other buy-now-pay-later products is that a major part of their profit is the very high merchant fees they charge; retailers have to pay ~2-4x what they do for credit cards if they want to offer Klarna. 57% of Klarna's profit comes from these merchant fees compared to just 24% from loan interest [1].

It turns out it's worth it to merchants because when you're not paying now, you end up buying more than you would otherwise. Order sizes are ~15% higher [2]. Probably similar to how it hurts more to pay with cash than debit because it's so tangible.

I view it kinda similar to gambling apps with their endlessly optimized special offers designed to exploit the human monkey brain.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/stocks/how-does... [2] https://www.uschamber.com/co/good-company/the-leap/klarna-se...
by alsetmusic | 2025-10-11 01:36:41+00:00
This article gave me hope that when I finally have to upgrade my Mac to keep up with system requirements for software updates on third-party apps, maybe I won't hate it as much as I expected to. It's a mess, but the screenshots in this article give me hope that it doesn't have to be a complete and total disaster.

[0] How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface:

0: https://tidbits.com/2025/10/09/how-to-turn-liquid-glass-into...