MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codingdave | 2025-10-02 12:00:44+00:00
There is a middle ground where LLMs are used as a tool for specific use cases, but not applied universally to all problems. The high adoption of ChatGPT is the proof of this. General info, low accuracy requirements - perfect use case, and it shows.

The problem comes in when people then set expectations that a chat solution can solve non-chat problems. When people assume that generated content is the answer but haven't defined the problem.

We're not headed for AGI. We're also not going to just say, "oh, well, that was hype" and stop using LLMs. We are going to mature into an industry that understands when and where to apply the correct tools.
by HelloNurse | 2025-10-02 12:00:45+00:00
If names must be unique, shouldn't there be a way to resolve conflicts by renaming the modules?

For example, if we use libraries A and B and both want to define module "foo", straightforward compiler options passed when compiling their sources could make the undisciplined libraries produce instead, in the context of our project, modules fooA and fooB and accordingly consume fooA or fooB (found in our project's module stash) where they reference their own module "foo", as if the replacement names had been used in export and import clauses.

Are module names completely erased from actually compiled libraries and executables? What complications am I missing?
by incomingpain | 2025-10-02 12:00:54+00:00
GPTzero says 99% AI generated. But I want to comment, this is something I learnt early on in my career.

Early in my career our boss let us drink at work. He knew most work was done in the morning and so he allowed us to drink in the afternoon. Worked fine up until someone was having a bad home life and got smashed at work. Then drunk drove to a client and the client realized he was drunk. I wasnt privy to what happened with that, but then we lost the ability to drink.

Not a problem for me... I rarely drank. Everyone else went on a quiet strike. The boss was a huge prick micromanager, the guys wanted to quit because it changed things; but they simply stopped doing work. Every ticket was created and then sent to the queue. Bare minimum got worked on. Months go by and the strike quietly lifted. The drunk guy found a new job.

Months later at lunch they were trying to convince me to get drinking back; but they were trying to manipulate me. They were playing a power game to do it.

So I "fall" into their trap and go talk to the boss. argue about the 5 monkeys, that leave the rule of no drinking in place but turn a blind eye to it. The boss was like 'why do you even care, you dont drink with them." he didnt even let me answer before he realized what was happening.

>Now I think the opposite: politics isn’t the problem; bad politics is. And pretending politics doesn’t exist? That’s how bad politics wins.

Backstabbing, power structures that arent immediately obvious. But negativity is easier and especially effective when you just let bad politics win.

Trying to stay positive or out of politics is the right way.

>It just means decisions get made without you.

Yep. I'm finding myself in one of these right now. Im just staying out of it. Decisions are being made to punish me.

>Good politics is just being strategic about relationships and influence in the service of good outcomes.

This is what this AI article gets wrong. The 'bad politics' people think they are getting 'good outcomes' and if you play politics, you also think you're getting 'good outcomes' but how do you measure 'good'?

>They want a world where technical merit alone determines outcomes. That world doesn’t exist and never has.

Sure it does. This exists in the successful. Politics is what kills companies.
by AR-sh1n0b1 | 2025-10-02 12:01:23+00:00
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by grendelt | 2025-10-02 12:01:26+00:00
> Also no one is talking about how exposed we are to Taiwan.

We aren't? It's one of the reasons the CHIPS Act et al get pushed through, to try to mitigate those risks. COVID showed how fragile supply chains are to shocks to the status quo and has forced a rethink. Check out the book 'World On The Brink' for more on that geopolitical situation.
by fabian2k | 2025-10-02 12:03:33+00:00
AI can be quite impressive if the conditions are right for it. But it still fails at so many common things for me that I'm not sure if it's actually saving me time overall.

I just tried earlier today to get Copilot to make a simple refactor across ~30-40 files. Essentially changing one constructor parameter in all derived classes from a common base class and adding an import statement. In the end it managed ~80% of the job, but only after messing it up entirely first (waiting a few minutes), then asking again after 5 minutes of waiting if it really should do the thing and then missing a bunch of classes and randomly removing about 5 parenthesis from the files it edited.

Just one anecdote, but my experiences so far have been that the results vary dramatically and that AI is mostly useless in many of the situations I've tried to use it.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 12:03:43+00:00
For many cases, I'd have to build the tooling first. For many more, the vendor would have to build the tooling into their products first.

Cars have the somewhat standardized OBD ports that you could pry the necessary data out from, but industrial robots or vending machines or smartphones? They sure don't.

But what inspires this line of inquiry is exactly the kind of success I had just feeding random error logs to AI and letting it sift through them for clues. It doesn't always work, but it works just often enough to make me wonder about the broader use cases.
by user3939382 | 2025-10-02 12:03:45+00:00
The type of people you’re replying to would wait until their experiment was done to agree to ban things that are obviously bad even if by the time they said “ok guys I agree to ban it I have the data now!” all of humanity is next to them in a dead pile. Prior to that they would argue ad infinitum that there’s no proof x y and z are bad. People do that on this very forum with ingestion of microplastics. I don’t have patience for people like this anymore.
by woodruffw | 2025-10-02 12:03:50+00:00
I didn’t say it relies only on compile time checks. Where are you getting that from?

The point about expressive semantics is that you can foreclose on vulnerabilities statically, not that everything becomes a static check. That’s why I mentioned UAFs and type confusions in the adjacent response below.

> Taking standard C code and achieving the above would be amazing and much more useful than rewriting something in Rust.

As others have pointed out, you can’t do this without biting one of two bullets: you either change the language semantics to resemble something like Rust, or you add instrumentation that turns C into a managed language. Either of these forks is great, but neither is something you can do transparently: the former means breaking existing C code, and the latter means excluding a large percentage fraction of the world’s C code (where the absence of a managed runtime is a hard requirement).

Fil-C bites the second bullet, under the theory that there’s a lot of userspace code that isn’t extremely performance sensitive. And that’s probably true, but I also think it misses the larger trend: that a lot of userspace code is abandonware, and that there’s sufficiently more interest in rewriting it than maintaining it. For that reason alone, I think we’re going to see more userspaces in safe compiled languages, not unsafe ones that have been instrumented into safety.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-02 12:05:09+00:00
Very easy to pop shit when you aren't risking your life and your family's future to protect the honor of JP Morgan. If everything goes perfectly, you've just lost your job and can't get hired because people don't want to hire a snitch; and if everything goes badly, it could go really badly. You might end up killed in a botched robbery, or thinking suicide will be the only way to save your family.

I'm pretty sure the truth wasn't even a defense in UK libel law before 2013. It was entirely about whether you had the intent to harm someone. If you want to disrupt a thief's business, that's intent to harm someone, as a lot of people who wrote about quack doctors found out.
by asdf1280 | 2025-10-02 12:05:56+00:00
The problem is that it’s already commodified; there’s no moat. The general tech practice has been capture the market by burning vc money, then jack up prices to profit. All these companies are burning billions to generate a new model and users have already proven there is no brand loyalty. They just hop to the new one when it comes out. So no one can corner the market and when the VC money runs out they’ll have to jack up prices so much that they’ll kill their market
by jennyholzer | 2025-10-02 12:06:02+00:00
You seem to be making an implicit claim that LLMs can create an effective cancer drug "10% of the time".

Smells like complete and total bullshit to me.

Edit: @eucyclos: I don't assume that Chat GPT and LLM tools have saved cancer researchers any time at all.

On the contrary, I assume that these tools have only made these critical researchers less productive, and made their internal communications more verbose and less effective.
by markburns | 2025-10-02 12:06:04+00:00
I love the irony in the pitting of the US vs China, Iran & Russia, whilst talking about stoking division.

Don't corollaries to your comments also apply at a higher level globally, or is there something special about considering countries as a grouping vs political parties?

Surely they're all just games we play in our minds and people kind of arbitrarily just agree that countries most definitely exist and this is my in-group, whereas others are enemies.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-02 12:06:12+00:00
Mostly agreed, but AI overviews are a very bad example. Google can just force feed its massive search user base whatever bullshit it damn pleases. Even if it has negative value to the users.

I don't actually think that AI overviews have "negative value" - they have their utility. There are cases where I stop my search right after reading the "AI overview". But "organic" adoption of ChatGPT or Claude or even Gemini and "forced" adoption of AI overviews are two different beasts.
by jongjong | 2025-10-02 12:06:29+00:00
I've been talking about the limited bandwidth of investors as a major problem with capital allocation for some time so it's good to see this idea acknowledged in this context. This problem will only get bigger and more obvious with increasing inequality. It is massive scale capital misallocation whereby the misallocation yields more nominal ROI than optimal allocation (if you were to consider real economic value and not numbers in dollars). Facilitated by the design of the monetary system as the value of dollars is kept decoupled from real economic value due to filter bubbles and dollar centralization.
by justupvoting | 2025-10-02 12:06:50+00:00
I can't think of a single character in the book for whom nihilism is their defining trait, and certainly not the primary characters. The effort to preserve goodness in the world only really matters when it's hard, when it comes at cost. The book turns that up to 11, but that is why it is hopeful.

If you want to read McCarthy doing nihilism, maybe try the sunset limited.

"You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left."
by jennyholzer | 2025-10-02 12:07:27+00:00
If I'm not mistaken he's working with Ezra Klein to push the Democrats to embrace racism instead of popular economic measures.

Edit: I expect that these guys will try to make a J.D. Vance style Republican pivot in the next 4-8 years.

Second Edit:

Ezra Klein's recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates is very specifically why I expect he will pivot to being a Republican in the near future.

Listen closely. Ezra Klein will not under any circumstances utter the words "Black People".

Again and again, Coates brings up issues that Black People face in America, and Klein diverts by pretending that Coates is talking about Marginalized Groups in general or Trans People in particular.

Klein's political movement is about eradicating discussion of racial discrimination from the Democratic party.

Third Edit:

@calmoo: I think you're not listening to the nuances of my opinion, and instead having an intense emotional reaction to my well-justified claims of racism.
by Borealid | 2025-10-02 12:07:38+00:00
I think that's how it's intended to be read.

If you allow yourself to make money from the code, you're accepting liability for it. If you choose not to accept money in exchange for it, you don't have to accept liability.

This seems fair to me - the law doesn't let you both "sell" it (however low the minimum price is) and refuse to give any rights to the people who gave you money.
by fundatus | 2025-10-02 12:08:02+00:00
> I like fusion, really. I’ve talked to some of luminaries that work in the field, they’re great people. I love the technology and the physics behind it.

> But fusion as a power source is never going to happen. Not because it can’t, because it won’t. Because no matter how hard you try, it’s always going to cost more than the solutions we already have.

https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/why-fusion-wi...
by willgogo | 2025-10-02 12:08:10+00:00
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by jstummbillig | 2025-10-02 12:08:31+00:00
People are always so fidegty about this stuff — for super understandable reason, to be clear. People not much smarter than anyone else try to reason about numbers that are hard to reason about.

But unless you have the actual numbers, I always find it a bit strange to assume that all people involved, who deal with large amounts of money all the time, lost all ability to reason about this thing. Because right now that would mean at minimum: All the important people at FAANG, all the people at OpenAI/Anthropic, all the investors.

Of course, there is a lot of uncertainty — which, again, is nothing new for these people. It's just a weird thing to assume that.
by dhx | 2025-10-02 12:09:07+00:00
The overloaded "software engineering" label can also refer to formal software engineering centered around examples of DO-178C for aviation software, IEC 61508 for railway software, ISO 26262 for road vehicle software, EAL5+ for cybersecurity related software, etc. It's somewhat unfortunate the label is also applied to CRUD websites and mobile applications, even there there is a world of difference in the various levels of formal engineering applied.
by npteljes | 2025-10-02 12:10:16+00:00
It's called "singular they". It's used like: "We have a new joiner in our team! They became the talk of the town very fast". I love this feature of the English language, while a bit confusing at first, I think it works much better than "he/she" or "s/he" when talking about someone with an unspecified, unknown or unrelated gender.
by Bender | 2025-10-02 12:10:26+00:00
Small ones anyway. W80 [1] W54 [2]. Most of them are over 500 lbs.

High altitude weather balloons on the other hand can carry up to 8000 lbs like the one from China the US let meander coast to coast over several military installations which could carry a B53 nuke after small modifications. Detonated at a high altitude could shut down the power grid coast to coast.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W80_(nuclear_warhead)

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W54

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B53_nuclear_bomb
by WillAdams | 2025-10-02 12:11:00+00:00
A broad overview, and kid-friendly, there is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6314442-robert-crowther-... which is just what it says on the cover --- a tour through a house showing when things were invented.

A lot more focused there is: https://goodreads.com/book/show/35068671-the-perfectionists (but it's a rather dry text and quite periodic and focused on specific technologies)

Perhaps:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48815394-1-000-invention...

There's a site which has come up here a couple of times along these lines which I'm not finding, but Britannica has:

https://www.britannica.com/story/history-of-technology-timel...
by mountain-hawk | 2025-10-02 12:11:04+00:00
thanks for your feedback, glad you like the landingpage, i will try to fix this, currently we have german as the default language and most of the time the language will be determined for other language inputs, but sometimes the input seems to short to switch the language.

I am changing the language to be default to the language you have selected in your browser Then it should work later today. If you want to try again, just type english, should work too
by thrance | 2025-10-02 12:11:21+00:00
JK Rowling accused Nigel Farage of being too "woke", which suggests multiple interesting facts about her political views:

* She thinks "woke" is a bad word, which would put her on the right.

* She thinks Reform UK is woke, which puts her on the far right.

* She's a very confused person, which I would expect from someone claiming to be a feminist while making her prejudice against an already persecuted minority her whole personality.
by anonyfox | 2025-10-02 12:11:34+00:00
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by kcplate | 2025-10-02 12:11:52+00:00
I am just following Schumer’s own words from last year about passing a clean CR. There is zero way the democrats can defend this action in light of their past opinions and comments on the subject of shutdowns. Either they were wrong then, or they are wrong now. I believe they are wrong now.

From link below: “Passing a clean CR this week is important for two main reasons: First, passing the CR, of course, will avert a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown. No reasonable member on either side – Democrat or Republican – wants a government shutdown”

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/maj...
Show HN: Treyspace – A canvas that gives your LLM spatial awareness
by lforster | 2025-10-02 12:12:05+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Louis. I did ML research (SOTA on lowlight video denoising) and now I'm solo building Treyspace.

I built this because I was sick of copy-pasting scattered notes from Obsidian, Mural, and text files into ChatGPT, and having to re-explain the project context each time. The relationships between information were lost, resulting in generic / hallucinated responses.

Treyspace is an AI-native canvas that turns your brainstorming, diagramming, and note-taking builds a knowledge graph for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Unlike most canvases that just store the raw data, Treyspace has a graph-based storage engine that stores the spatial relationships, connections, and groups. It can traverse this graph to get the relevant elements and context. For example, "Using our brand principles, draft an apology tweet", and get relevant answers with the referenced sources highlighted. The idea is to provide the LLM with the most precise and accurate context.

Use cases:

- Get AI answers grounded in your own notes instead of the LLM training data.

- Ideate and plan future product features with your whole startup in the context window.

- Onboard teammates by letting them query the canvas instead of interrupting you.

It's free to use during our open beta. The canvas is a fork of Excalidraw, extended with this knowledge-graph layer.

Roadmap: I am currently rebuilding the core RAG engine to cut response time to ~10s and improve retrieval accuracy.

Try it out: https://app.treyspace.app/

Would love feedback. Does this resonate with how you work? What's the hardest part of getting LLMs to understand your projects?
by incomingpain | 2025-10-02 12:12:12+00:00
>Others insist that it is an obvious economic bubble.

The definition is that the assets are valuated above an intrinsic value.

The first graph is Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle. Lets check their PE ratio.

Amazon (AMZN) ~ 33.6

Meta (META) ~ 27.5

Google (GOOGL) ~ 25.7

Microsoft (MSFT) ~ 37.9

Oracle (ORCL) ~ 65

These are highish pe ratios, but certainly very far from bubble numbers. OpenAI and others are all private.

Objectively there is no bubble. Economic bubble territory is 100-200+ PE ratios.

Not to mention, who are you to think the top tech companies arent fully aware of the risks they are taking with AI?
by stockresearcher | 2025-10-02 12:12:26+00:00
> This reads like someone who is quite out of touch

No, it’s Indiana. They practice self-sabotage across many industries in the belief that the big-city folks just across the border will take all the jobs. Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville. All of them just across the state line. Of course, very little thought about why large metros are just across the state line…