MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drooby | 2025-10-19 13:36:37+00:00
I was spoiled at my first company out of college. My director cared deeply about product specs, acceptance criteria, and making sure engineers actually understood product and business decisions. It was so nice.

Oh, how sweet and naive I was to the world… hahah.

It still blows my mind that product isn’t treated like a soft engineering discipline in its own right. When product doesn’t do its own thinking, the cognitive load shifts to engineering. Suddenly, engineers are doing parts of product’s job. The result is predictable: engineering gets stretched thin, and both Product and Engineering fail to fully document or even understand what they’ve built.

The project falls apart because Product drops the ball, but Engineering is the team at the end of the funnel, so the blame naturally tends to land on them. Product’s output is often hidden, and it’s easy for them to say, “Well, we did our part. Engineering just didn’t deliver.”
by jaffathecake | 2025-10-19 13:38:31+00:00
Author of the app here. This was quickly thrown together, and something we'd like to improve on next year. Any & all feedback is welcome.

We've already been looking at the results, and it has influenced the direction of multiple vendors in the process, but of course it isn't the only thing we look at.

We're going to continue to look at this throughout the process, so it's still worth getting a list together.

Whether we can release the raw results of this (and to what degree), will involve discussion between browser vendors, so it isn't something we can commit to right now. I know that's not… great… but it's a delicate process (one that I'm still personally getting used to - it's my first year 'on the inside').
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-19 13:38:53+00:00
> The simplicity and efficiency of Visual Basic UI programming relied on several assumptions that became obsolete in 2000

This is a great point that extends beyond rebutting the rose-colored glasses for the gool ole days of programming. While yes, things were simpler. That simplicity came at a cost. For instance, how accessible were VB apps to people who had sight-related disabilities?
by youngtaff | 2025-10-19 13:39:18+00:00
> If you look at the actual data, which everyone should, it doesn't support claims like these and never has. There is no visible impact of Brexit on the economic figures.

That isn’t true… Goldman Sachs and others have stated Brexit has shrunk the UK economy by 5%

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/economi...

And there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence of many small producers suffering as they can no longer afford to export to Europe
by rsynnott | 2025-10-19 13:40:43+00:00
That was blown out of all proportion, tbh; the UK used to have a tax carveout for the upper-middle-class which allows unused pension funds to be inherited tax-free, and this was in practice used as a tax avoidance mechanism, and that's going away, but it really isn't a particularly big deal in the scheme of things.

(Or there was another change to the privileged treatment of farms and family businesses, but again, you're not talking about a huge change.)
by lukev | 2025-10-19 13:41:19+00:00
Framing this question as "AI good" OR "AI bad" is culture-war thinking.

The real problem here is that there's clearly a strong incentive for the big labs to deceive the public (and/or themselves) about the actual scientific and technical capabilities of LLMs. As Karpathy pointed out on the recent Dwarkesh podcast, LLMs are quite terrible at novel problems, but this has become sort of an "Emperor's new clothes" situation where nobody with a financial stake will actually admit that, even though it's common knowledge if you actually work with these things.

And this directly leads to the misallocation of billions of dollars and potentially trillions in economic damage as companies align their 5-year strategies towards capabilities that are (right now) still science fiction.

The truth is at stake.
by HK-NC | 2025-10-19 13:41:48+00:00
Ninja Gaiden was great, NG2 combat wise perfected that system. Only game Ive ever gone full nerd on and completed multiple playthroughs of, I usually get bored after the first run if I even get that far. Used to chill out on master ninja listening to music and slaughtering ninjas to stop me falling asleep after training.
by mrcjkb | 2025-10-19 13:42:08+00:00
> Lua was conceived as a configuration language

That alone is a pretty weak argument.

> Trying to abstract this away behind a CLI seems like it misses the ethos of Lua.

With `lx add <package>`, you can install the package and add it to und config file in one step. And do things like fail if the package or version doesn't exist or isn't compatible with your system.

You can provide editor plugins or use LSP to give users hints if there's an update available, and use code actions to update them, etc.

> It’s also a tad strange that a package manager designed for Lua isn’t written in Lua.

Again, the fact that Lux relates to Lua is a pretty weak argument for choosing Lua as a language to write or configure it in.

Lots of Lua libraries and packages aren't written in Lua, but are built with Lua bindings. Lua (which as you yourself just mentioned was conceived as a configuration language) is a pretty poor choice for something with the scope of Lux. In fact, luarocks was recently rewritten in Teal. Lux has a Lua API (lux-lua) which means it can be embedded or used as a Lua library.

> Presumably Lua developers already have Lua installed, know Lua, and would more likely contribute to a project written in Lua.

We're not worried about finding contributors. If anything, what we need are high quality contributions. Lua developers who only know Lua are not what we're looking for.
by nonameiguess | 2025-10-19 13:42:17+00:00
I'm not a fan of smart phones or social media. No accounts anywhere except here and my phone isn't even in the room with me with now. Didn't own a phone at all until I was 27.

But still, not liking something doesn't mean it needs to be the cause of all social ills. These graphs don't seem to show anything. You've got trends starting in 2018, 2012, 2022, and some seeming to start before your data even begins, which was 2006, not 2007. Clearly, the only reason you picked 2007 at all is the iPhone debuted that year. The data didn't lead you to that year. These data don't seem to lead to anything. With respect to college admissions tests, the most obvious reason they'd be declining seems to also be the most mundane. With college all but mandatory and skilled trades collapsing, more people than ever are taking these tests, including people who won't do well and wouldn't have bothered in the past.

I'm not generally against the idea that smart phones and social media do real harm. The rise of at least visible and outright hostile political polarization seems related and Jonathan Haidt's arguments about mental health effects are at least reasonably provocative if not conclusive. But there is very little there there with these particular arguments. You may not necessarily be wrong, but I'd caution against starting with a conclusion and working backwards to try and find data that supports what you already believes, bending it if you can't actually find any. That isn't intellectually honest inquiry.
by dathinab | 2025-10-19 13:42:22+00:00
> Lego bought brick link to keep it alive after the founders family tired of running it after he died.

that makes a nice story but was not at all Legos core motivation

taking control over the main secondary market is a grate way to

- gain positive sentiment through things like the creator program

- bolster you product prices by making sure the prices of 2nd hand sells stay high (which is both good and bed for the consumer, it's good as part of it is about consumer protection and reseller quality, but it's bad because there is a lot of insensitive to drive prices up beyond that)

- systematically exclude all brick competition from the most dominant 2nd hand market, a typical consumer hostile marked power abuse move which by the removal of competition allows artificial higher part resell prices which then can be used to reason for higher prices of new products and also allows better enforcement of other abuse strategies, like how they systematically abuse trade mark law wrt. mini figures

- by subtle support for one particular 2nd hand store and supple opposition(1) to others they can further enhance their monopoly position. (1: Or for anything reselling non Lego brick often not at all subtle legal harassment)

- some degree of influence on information flowing through the market place, they can't abuse it that much but it's still a factor

so they have a lot of money reasons which sadly most likely won't be good for the consumer to buy it, any story about "saving it" (weather real or not) is a bonus on top which by itself is unlikely to have made them buy it.
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by qzcanoe | 2025-10-19 13:43:07+00:00
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Thanks for reading — excited to hear your thoughts and feedback.
by mkovach | 2025-10-19 13:43:12+00:00
Ah, how wonderful, to stumble upon lost Kerouac like this, tucked away not in some Yale archive but in the collection of Paul Castellano of all people, as if the road had detoured briefly through the Five Families. That it reads like a missing chapter from On the Road makes the find all the more mythic, like a Polaroid from a dream you forgot you had.

But this, for some reason, reminds me that Kerouac was also a devoted baseball mind. Not just a fan, but a proto-fantasy league commissioner before the term existed, meticulously tracking invented teams and players in private box scores. Kerouac, a fantasy baseball writer.

And he wasn't alone: Corso batted lines like fastballs, Ferlinghetti cheered from the dugout of City Lights, and Ginsberg, ever the cosmic catcher, enjoyed the sport. Baseball wasn't a pastime but a parallel Beat narrative, complete with innings, errors, and the occasional poetic balk and haiku.
by ben_w | 2025-10-19 13:43:36+00:00
> Of course not! Because pigs are intrinsically and universally ugly and sex with a pig is universally disgusting.

Allegations regarding one of the recent British Prime Ministers aside:

If this was truly universal, nobody would have bothered writing laws to ban it because nobody would be offending their sensibilities by doing it. Aella's surveys suggest such interests are far more common than I would have guessed.

Which actually supports your statement that "beauty" is not intrinsic… or at the very least "sexy", which isn't the same thing at all, c.f. the other reply pointing out that they don't want to get off with the night sky.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-19 13:43:45+00:00
I think my theory into contagion would be that There’s been lots of talk about these companies starting to rack up debt, and I think AI is so tied into the US GDP that things like -

If the stock market crashes, there’s lots of talk about how wealth and debt are interlinked. Could the crash be general enough to start calls on debt backed by stocks.

My recollection in 2008 was that we didn’t learn about how bad it was until after. The tech companies have been so desperate for a win, I wonder if some of them are over their skis in some way, and if there are banks that are risking it all on AI. (We know for some tech bros think the bet on AI is a longtermist like bet; closer to religion than reason and that it’s worth risking everything because the payback could be in the hundreds of trillions)

Combine this with the fact that AI is like what - 30% of the US economy? Magnificent 7 are 60%?

What happens if sustainable PE ratios in tech collapse. Does it take out Tesla?

Maybe the contagion is just the impact on the US economy which, classically anyways has been intermingled with everything.

I would bet almost everything that there is some lie at the center of this thing that we aren’t really aware of yet.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-19 13:44:07+00:00
> It's obvious why the ultra-rich are building bunkers and hide-outs. Those are of course scams by the building companies, as they give a false sense of security, but the idea of what is REALLY going on is obviously out there.

The main problem being, you can’t operate the bunker yourself. How do you ensure the non-billionaires on your staff don’t murder you and use your bunker themselves? This is assuming a catastrophe that forces a move to a bunker and changes the rules of society.

It’s an intractable problem, billionaires are reliant on the rest of us to do their bidding. That does not change in a crisis/catastrophe.
by hopelite | 2025-10-19 13:44:09+00:00
Frankly, if you are driving around doing your job by simply being available, you are doing your job. If you are, e.g. not doing your job by picking up door dash and then an Uber that takes you out of the way and you deliver the food in an even colder state than if you drove to the DoorDash destination directly, then no, you are not doing your job and it should be apparent to DoorDash that you are not performing as is expected.

But what is your apparent assumption that Uber, dorodash, or any other employer owns your body or time. Frankly, that's both a holdover and also a bit of a crack that reveals that what we call slavery, is really just exploitation and abuse and it comes in many forms. Today it takes many other forms, but one of them is what you may unintentionally have internalized, that when you are "working for someone" you are effectively owned by them and you are not free to do anything but what you are told when you are "on the clock", like a part time slave, only with worse benefits.

It's an odd characteristic of seemingly all of humanity to varying degrees, but for whatever reason, one set of humans is not only exploited, but often even participates in their own exploitation (be it the "gig-economy" types or the corporate cheerleader types) while another set of humans enjoy the fruits of that exploitation and facilitate it with things like abusive, narcissistic manipulative language like "freedom of choice" and "democracy" and "gig-economy" and any other of the manipulative, word-smithed terms and buzzwords the PRopaganda people come up with.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-19 13:44:21+00:00
I get where you're coming from — the naively thought part. You may though just have to get a good deal more cynical. Perhaps you already are.

Tech fascinated me as a kid—and, because of my age, we're talking Apollo-era tech, promises of a moon base, the introduction of the Metric system is U.S. schools, elementary school libraries full of science books for kids on chemistry, electricity, model rocketry, etc.

I have come around to see, as I get older, that tech for tech's sake is often a hollow thing. Its biggest cheerleaders are (of course) the ones that stand to make a lot of money from it.

Change for change's sake follows in stride—is disruptive, unasked for, often benefits a few.

I dislike my modern cynicism on tech but it has also served me well.
by osigurdson | 2025-10-19 13:46:22+00:00
Oh ok. If you use podman instead there isn't as much friction. Just type "podman" instead of "docker" as the commands are the same.

winget install -e --id RedHat.Podman

podman run --it --rm -p 8000:8000 .. image

For gitbash, add a new profile in Windows Terminal and find "bash.exe" in Program Files\Git (sorry I can't remember the details and not on Windows right now). Once you have this you can use normal Linux commands, setup a .bashrc, ls, cd ~, vi, etc.

Anyway, food for thought in case you want to try a different workflow one day.
by joey_spaztard | 2025-10-19 13:46:36+00:00
Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413

I'v asked a couple of network engineers that used to work at cloudflare, they said that they have a compliance department that deals with lots of specific requests related to supoenas and law enforment but have not seen bulk feeds of plaintext traffic to other entities.
by rsynnott | 2025-10-19 13:47:47+00:00
There's a question of what 'homelessness' means, there. So to take an example, Dublin counts 11,000 people as homeless, with ~120 sleeping rough. SF, a somewhat bigger city, but in the same size range, counts 8,000 people homeless... but with over 4000 sleeping rough. This is both a difference in temporary/emergency accommodation available, and a difference in definition (for instance I don't think SF counts couch surfing as homeless).
by roryirvine | 2025-10-19 13:47:50+00:00
Threads were introduced in, what, late 2016? The start of 2017? Some time around then, anyway. They were even more badly integrated at the start; there was no way to be notified about new messages in a thread, for example. By 2019 things were a little better, but - as you noticed - still not great.

And since then... nothing. No more improvements. Development seems to have more or less halted since the Salesforce acquisition.

I used irc for a couple of decades before Slack, so was happy with purely linear chat (yeah, I'm also one of those weirdos who likes rebasing in git). Threads make everything more horrible, but at this point it feels like I just have to put up with it.
by funfunfunction | 2025-10-19 13:48:01+00:00
Creator of inference.net / schematron here.

There is growing emphasis on efficiency as more companies adopt and scale with LLMs in their products.

Developers might be fine paying GPT-5-Super-AGI-Thinking-Max prices to use the very best models in Cursors, but (despite what some may think about Silicon Valley), businesses do care about efficiency.

And if you can fine-tune an 8b-parameter Llama model on GPT-5 data in < 48 hours and save $100k/mo, you're going to take that opportunity.
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-19 13:48:34+00:00
Even more important than first order effects are any positive feedback loops we can identify. For example, a stressed person escapes into a screen to quiet their own thoughts, and the screen's contents stresses them out. This feedback loop is common to all forms of addiction, but screens are unique in at least three ways. First, they are legal for all ages. Second, they are personally customized to increase usage. Third, unlike drugs which distort reality, screens effectively replace it for the user. It is to be expected that this would have strong cognitive and even epistemic effects on users, and that these effects are self-reinforcing.

Neoliberal capitalism is not equipped to either identify or solve these problems. Some attempts are being made ("Calm" apps, self help books, etc) but these are sand castles trying to stem the tide. Society as a whole must recognize that screens exist in a superposition of "encyclopedia", "cigarette", "panopticon", and take steps to regulate their use. A bummer for libertarians, but life-saving for society.
by tetris11 | 2025-10-19 13:49:13+00:00
> James Franklin Hyneman (/ˈhaɪnəmən/; born September 25, 1956)[1] is an American special effects expert who was co-host of the television series MythBusters alongside Adam Savage, where he became known for his distinctive beret and walrus moustache. He is also the owner of M5 Industries, the special effects workshop where MythBusters was filmed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Hyneman
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-19 13:49:36+00:00
Someone should write a "Gig Striker" app (or web site) for mobile phones.

When you sign on you select the company you work for and have access to group chats, forums (by region?). If a thread gets going on striking, the word can be put out on the app and all Uber drivers, just to pick an arbitrary example, refuse to accept calls for one day (again, as an example).

It would be an interesting experiment and tell us a little more about the world and economy we live in today.
by exasperaited | 2025-10-19 13:50:19+00:00
It's social media. It's really obviously social media. We know it is social media.

But we no longer have any way to prove it, because the malign, anxiety-and-loneliness influence of social media cannot be avoided even if you are not on social media.

1) if you are not on social media, you will be more lonely, because nobody invites anyone to anything anymore except via social media (trust me on this) and people simply assume you've seen the news of their event and judge you if you don't turn up

2) if you are not on social media, you will find yourself excluded from friendship discussions that started on social media, you will find yourself negotiating family arguments wrongly etc.

3) not being on social media doesn't stop you being stuck with leaders who were elected off the back of a storm of social media **wit FUD posting; life's anxieties are real and in many ways worsening fast, and they are social-media-fuelled whether you are on Facebook or not.

4) You cannot properly advertise your product, find all your possible clients or respond to client feedback without engaging with social media; only a handful of tradespeople can really pull off just not being there at all.

There is no control group.
by alphazard | 2025-10-19 13:50:50+00:00
I've also heard this quite a lot. If they've never actually had to use the product or similar products in a professional setting, where their results mattered, then they aren't qualified to play the part of the user.

If the product has actual users, it's always better to talk to them directly, than to trust the opinions of someone who doesn't use the product to generate value every day.