MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leakycap | 2025-10-09 12:54:10+00:00
> People were talking about making programming as basic as mathematics and English, but now vibing seems to be the norm.

I think there were similar upsets in mathematics when the calculator and graphing calculator became the norm. For English, I imagine everything from typewriters to automatic grammar tools have felt revolutionary compared to what was important in the past.

> vibing seems to be the norm

I know enough coding that "vibe coding" wasn't something I ever tried/spent time doing.

However, a friend recently stayed in my guest room and used the TV in my office as a monitor. He had time to kill between jobs/housing and using only free AI, he learned how to use Godot enough to get a grip on how the various elements worked and built a working game that would have passed as high-end shareware in the late 1990s.

I was shocked. The guy had nothing but an idea and no prior experience AT ALL in coding or graphics, he just had played a ton of games and had a detailed idea of what he wanted. Copilot ran him in circles now and then, but like any troubleshooting, he found a way to make it work (often copy/pasting between AIs to get one AI's bad code fixed by another).

I could never trust a codebase without reviewing it, but he didn't care. He just made it work.

And what was created in a week by a total newbie would have taken me a month or more if I'd tried to do it by hand. My decades of experience & tricks of the trade do not hold a candle to what AI can accomplish.

Time is the most valuable resource we must manage as humans. So what choice am I making if I keep on the slow/hand-made path?
by AllegedAlec | 2025-10-09 12:54:26+00:00
> >But currently it feels extremely borked from a UX perspective. It purports to be able to do this, but when you tell it to it breaks in unintuitive ways.

> Thankfully as programmers we know better and don't need to care what the UI pretends to be able to do :)

But we do though. You can't just say "yeah they left all the foot guns in but we ought to know not to use them", especially not when the industry shills tell you those footguns are actually rocket boosters to get you to the fucking moon and back.
by chneu | 2025-10-09 12:54:50+00:00
You're fixating on a singular definition.

A homemade cake is minimally processed. The flour and sugar are processed but nothing that heavily alters it.

A commercial cake on the other hand has stabilizers, ph balancers, etc.

You're over thinking it. Almost nothing made at home is ultra processed unless you're doing some weird sausage making. If you can name the ingredients easily, it probably isn't ultra processed.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-09 12:55:17+00:00
It has a lot to do with many Americans relationships to cities, and dare I say, wanting to be away from "those people" in the cities.

Some Americans can be hostile to increasing city density, arguing it will increase car traffic. Yet the whole point of dense cities is to help people avoid driving as you live next to everything.

Meanwhile development out in the hinterlands continues unabated, and the only way to get to the city if you live there is with a car.

When you ask the same Americans why they like visiting a resort or European city, they will talk about being able to walk around without a car to get everything they need.
by danbolt | 2025-10-09 12:55:25+00:00
I’ve lived in places where they’ll add the bike path during scheduled road work, as it’s cheaper to get it done while there’s a crew already onsite. It can be a bit stochastic at first like you mention, but over a while I’ve seen the corridor eventually fill out, making the most of a shoestring budget.

Perhaps something similar where you live?
by chronic74939 | 2025-10-09 12:55:48+00:00
> > Most HFT strategies are not only blatantly dishonest but also clearly illegal.

> What specific strategies are you referring to? Genuinely curious.

Any strategy that outperforms his 10-20% passive index fund VTI/QQQ ETF.

HFT is pulling 50-100% annual returns for decades.

HFT is capacity constrained, yes. But anyone would take 100% return every year on “only” $100 million on deployed capital.
by myth_drannon | 2025-10-09 12:55:58+00:00
There are no odd requests, just requests that will be fulfilled or not. Hamas could have asked Israel to disarm. The agreement is that Hamas will disarm.

Most likely scenario is similar to Hizbollah in Lebanon. They didn't disarm as per agreement, hence no international aid flowing to Lebanon. Israel still controls South Lebanon and kills a couple of hizbollocks fighters on a daily basis.
by blef | 2025-10-09 12:56:09+00:00
“888” is eight hours each of work, sleep and recreation, which is a great thing.

The ironic part of it is that most of the people doing 996 are building AI to replace humans work. And this is something that we don't talk about when speaking about 996. It's only a privilege, a lot of people would love to have normal job or a 996.

I come from Europe, I've had my high and lows when it comes to work hours, I was a consultant worked a lot, then a freelance and worked 2 day a week, now startup founder (YC) I don't count my hours but I'm close to working 6 days a week. To be honest the 4 years I worked 2 days a week were awesome and I'd wish everyone to reach that state where work is not the most important thing you do each week.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-09 12:56:16+00:00
What's even sadder is seeing how many pedestrians are killed _even as far fewer people_, especially kids, are actually walking. It's like watching drownings increase even as fewer people take up swimming.

I walked to school in the 90's and even then the curtain-twitchers scolded my mom for letting me. It has only worsened since, as every destination is ages away and involves crossing multiple 45MPH stroads with monster trucks with 5 foot high hoods roaring down them.
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-10-09 12:56:21+00:00
> For me, Vercels CEO statements made me realize I am ditching Deno Deploy for Vercel. Finally some tech ceo with good values

Hands down one of the cringiest things I've ever read on this site. And it's why people don't take HN seriously. It's filled with a bunch of 13 year-old "edgy" narcissists who can't code.
by tomasphan | 2025-10-09 12:56:23+00:00
Totally agree. When someone in my family got their license in the US they had to drive around a parking lot, parallel park and pull into a normal parking lot. That’s it. This was during COVID so the tester wasn’t allowed inside the car. It absolutely reflects in the quality of drivers today.

I often drive in Europe for business and cry a little on the inside when I’m back on New York streets.
by mnky9800n | 2025-10-09 12:56:33+00:00
I thnk of it like this. I am a computational scientist. I have a new idea, I have claude code churn on this idea for some days, making plots of data, doing random things with it, plotting it, modeling it, etc. This leads to some thoughts about the data as to whether it is worth pursuing or not. This reduces that initial idea exploration from weeks to days. Then when I come upon an idea about the data, I start over. This time I build the analysis myself, the analysis has less overall to do because of the claude exploration. Also, because I have had claude interacting with the data, I can ask it some questions like, which column out of 1000+ columns and tables is the one with X variable? Or I can say to claude, go download the PDFs of a bunch of papers I want to read on the topic, and it might even suggest others. I do think that if people think they will orchestrate AI to do complex scientific endeavors for them, it is not going to work unless it is really a specific thing to do. But the truth is, this is the point of the last iteration of new software, instead of writing software, you write neural networks to solve the problem. And so, if you want to detect some event in some data, the old way is to write a custom algorithm, the new way is to pull a trained neural network off the shelf to find it for you (or train one yourself), and the new new way is to convince an AI agent to do it for you. And so I think that ultimately, there are likely lots of tasks AI agents are going to be happy to do for you, but there are a great deal many, at least from a science point of view, that will be sort of meaningless if the AI does it, because the act of doing it is what builds the scientific meaning. It's a mixed bag. I am both very bullish on AI in the future and rather pessimistic about AI today.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-09 12:56:54+00:00
Nope.

That is just a software view provided by the CUDA compiler and the NVIDIA device driver, which take care of distributing the computation over SIMD lanes and real hardware threads (called warps in the NVIDIA obfuscating jargon).

The GPU processor is just a processor with SIMD and FGMT (fine-grained multi-threading). There is nothing special from this point of view.

For any CPU you can write a compiler that provides the "SIMT" software model and there are such compilers for the Intel/AMD CPUs.

SIMT is just one of many useless synonyms created by NVIDIA for traditional terms previously used for decades in computing publications, i.e. it is the same with what Hoare called "array of processes" (in 1978-08, later implemented in the language Occam) and actually the same with "parallel for" of OpenMP, just with a slightly different syntax (i.e. CUDA separates in the source file the header and the body of the parallel FOR).
by Tade0 | 2025-10-09 12:57:00+00:00
The language and associated tooling keep improving.

Over the course of the last decade I've made several attempts to learn Rust, but was always frustrated with having code that reasonably should compile, but didn't and I had to run the build to even find that out.

Now we have rust-analyzer and non-lexical lifetimes, both tremendously improving the overall experience.

I still don't enjoy the fact that borrows are at the struct level, so you can't just borrow one field (there's even a discussion on that somewhere in Rust's) repo, but I can work around that.

To drive the point home: I'm a frontend developer. This is a very different environment compared to what I'm used to, yet I can be productive in it, even if at a slower pace in comparison.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-10-09 12:57:07+00:00
> Software vendors keen to monetize AI should tread cautiously, since they risk inflating costs for their customers without delivering any promised benefits such as reducing employee head count.

That's easy. Reduce the headcount first, and then let the remaining team of poor and desperate, I mean, elite engineers and support teams <buzzword for use> AI for <more buzzwords for make dollars go up> /s.

When will boards replace executive leadership with AI? If Return to Office taught us anything, it was that we already need a couple, and the rest of them copy and paste. Well, AI can do that! Also /s, but maybe just 50%.
by chneu | 2025-10-09 12:57:53+00:00
Except a lot of evidence suggests that the foods we eat nowadays cause more weight gain than before industrialization.

Two people can eat the same number of calories, but if one of them is slamming UPFs they will gain more weight.

Additionally, UPFs do not satiate hunger like more natural foods. Meaning people can eat more UPFs than more natural foods before feeling full.

There are absolutely industrial ingredients we should be banning in the US that other countries have rightfully banned.
by its-summertime | 2025-10-09 12:58:09+00:00
One shouldn't sponsor because of how they see the world today. They should sponsor because of how they want the world to be tomorrow.

edit: And I'm pretty sure a minutely modified distro doesn't need this amount of donations at this point. It is not having a positive effect on the ecosystem to have so many donations to the most downstream project. All I can feel about this is, at its best, its buying attention through DHH's pre-existing influence. This does not seem to be a great thing to buy at this point.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-09 12:58:11+00:00
The reason drivers are able to drive like that is the design of the streets themselves. Things like raised crosswalks[1] and corner extensions[2] slow cars down and force them to pay attention. A lot of intersections in my area are the opposite, where they lower the whole curb to road level so cars can cut onto the curb to make the turn faster. There are lots of ways that the US builds infrastructure in ways that make it much more dangerous for pedestrians and bikers.

[0] https://highways.dot.gov/safety/speed-management/traffic-cal... [1] 3.14 Raised Crosswalk section of [0] [2] 3.16 Corner Extension/Bulbout section of [0]
by rafaeltorres | 2025-10-09 12:58:17+00:00
Wonder if it may have something to do with longer commute times, which is not discussed in the article, i.e. a trip that used to take n minutes a few years ago may now take double due to congestion, leading to more impatient drivers. At least in my city (Miami) all people talk about is how untenable the commute times have become.
by mamonster | 2025-10-09 12:58:35+00:00
One of the things that interests me is that, by all accounts, people used to drink ENORMOUS amounts of alcohol prior to the 20th century. The most common figure I saw is that Americans used to drink like 7 gallons of PURE alcohol per year. That's 26 liters of pure alcohol. I dunno what beer is like in the US, in Switzerland 4.5% alcohol content is standard. So they were drinking like 577 liters of beer a year, 1.6 l per day. 500kcal or so (so like 1/5 of reference for a "normal" man) coming from alcohol.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-09 12:58:41+00:00
This is a huge problem where I live too. The thing is, technically, everyone is equally connected, because people have a legal right of way on all roads using any means of transport (apart from motorways, but these are always redundant links). But practically, most routes are unsafe and just downright unpleasant to use in anything but a motorvehicle.

I don't know what metrics they are using to assess walking or cycling infrastructure, but it seems like it's just raw miles of pavement/tarmac. This is a useless metric. You can have 10 miles of pristine cycle path but if it goes nowhere it's not useful and nobody will use it.

The metrics need to be based on graph completeness. Important places are the nodes. You get to draw an edge if there's a reasonable route that is less than, say, 150% of the crow flies distance (or some more clever formula taking into account gradients etc., ie. it's allowed to be longer if it means not including a 25% gradient). Then your score is simply number of edges divided by number of edges in the complete graph (or 2E/(N^2*N) where E is number of edges and N number of places).
by kode95 | 2025-10-09 12:58:43+00:00
The tendency to compare the US to Europe in the comments here baffles me: Not only are there major differences with regards to roads and road safety between the countries of Europe, but there are also major differences within Europe when it comes to driving style, aggression, risk-taking, etc. If I, as a Dane, go to e.g. southern France, I'll see a completely different style of driving than in Denmark.

In the comments here you'll see people saying that European roads are much better suited for pedestrians. If you ask me that is definitely not the case in e.g. Spain.
by fschuett | 2025-10-09 12:59:42+00:00
Hmm, since Chromium is working on adding browser-local AI features, I wonder if this one day could be a security check (for links opened from the outside of the browser). E.g. the browser detected that you clicked on a new-tab link, and the page looks like a commonly known site, then the AI detects that the URL isn't "x.com" and gives a heads-up warning. At least for the top 1000 most common sites, this could prevent a lot of phishing attacks.
by ajuc | 2025-10-09 12:59:54+00:00
The algorithm (if followed) does not produce collisions. Pedestrians have the priority, and in many countries (inlcuding Poland where I live) cars have to stop even if nobody's on the pedestrian crossing yet - it's enough that pedestrians are approaching the crossing.

This has changed in the last 10 years in Poland, and there have been numerous angry debates. It was introduced anyway, and the safety improved.

It's only a problem if we let drivers get away with making it a problem. The inherent asymmetry in the driver-pedestrian relationship must be taken into account by the law and road design.
by anarticle | 2025-10-09 13:00:00+00:00
American drivers are terrible and rules are barely enforced. License is cheap/free/no training so that's what we get.

With people on their phones, roads will have to become obstacle courses with speed bumps and undulating curve to force people to pay attention.

Philadelphia's solution to speeding has been speed bumps. Sounds great until you realize there are no specs for this, and some of them are so high that nearly every 10th car going over now makes an extremely loud scraping sound. Now imagine living in front of that!

I ride a motorcycle most times and I am always at very high attention when riding. I see people scrolling TikTok not only at lights, but flying through town. I see they didn't find a cause there, but it seems so prevalent and dangerous that it has to have caused an uptick in accidents as well as deaths. That data feels very fishy for it to be so different between regions (there is not a different culture in different areas for phone use).

I also wonder if there are a few confounders, covid, number of cars on road, safety of cars, and local code rules on what constitutes a registered vehicle (this is more variable than you think). In some places, if it rolls, you can register it. NJ has mandatory 2y state inspection.

At least we have Roosevelt Boulevard, the most dangerous roadway in the entire US! We're #1! (It is literally called: The Corridor of DEATH) https://whyy.org/articles/philly-roosevelt-blvd-rising-traff... I think it goes up to 12 lanes wide at some point WITH a pedestrian crossing.
by alterom | 2025-10-09 13:01:00+00:00
The article that fails to consider that the sedans have changed in shape and size over the past 20 years?

The article that has all the cool plots, and no relevant information like the actual vehicles being discussed?

The article that doesn't even bother putting a 2000 Camry side-by-side with a 2025 Camry to make it blatantly obvious that it's not just SUVs?

That article?
by nativeit | 2025-10-09 13:01:28+00:00
I was just in Montpelier, VT yesterday, which has a population of just 8000 people, but as the state capital enjoys a busy downtown with a lot of activity. The moment a pedestrian approaches a non-signal crosswalk, traffic in both directions immediately stops to allow them to cross.

Not sure why the people in Vermont have all worked this out, but they do.
by sph | 2025-10-09 13:02:12+00:00
> It's common people who are in favor of more legislation

I know. I've always called myself a progressive left individual, then found out the modern progressive left is all about solving every issue with more rules, more centralisation, more bureaucracy and more prohibition. It's maddening to see how many people feel their government isn't legislating enough and is still too liberal.

Case in point: Online Safety Act has been heavily pushed by Labour (despite starting as a Tory thing). Chat Control is being pushed by the Danish Social Democrats.
by RHSeeger | 2025-10-09 13:02:21+00:00
> When you ask the same Americans why they like visiting a resort or European city, they will talk about being able to walk around without a car to get everything they need.

To be fair, you're looking for different things at a resort than you are at home. At a resort, you're not looking to do weekly food shopping, or buy supplies to do work around the house, or etc, etc. That's not to say things can't be organized to make doing so more reasonable, but living in an area where you drive to get everything and wanting to _visit_ (but not live in) an area where you can walk to everything (because you don't need major things) is not unreasonable.
by bbg2401 | 2025-10-09 13:02:29+00:00
I'm referring to the far right ramblings of DHH supporting political figures who are associated solely with violence and intolerance.

I'm referring to the far left activists who have developed a habit of coercing individuals, organizations and communities, sometimes with threats of physical escalation, for perceived connections to other political fringes.

I'm referring to those using language along the lines of "they have hitler particles in them".

I'm referring to tech journalists who do nothing except whine about left wing politics, however benign.

It's mind melting.

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Edit: To add colour to the final reference, the same journalist who attacked Framework for issuing Pride stickers is now coming to their defence. It's predictable, it's unproductive, and it should be filtered by anyone who values their time.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-10-09 13:02:29+00:00
I live in Chicagoland. Nothing is stifling it except state government itself. I don't want to get on my high horse, but I actually have a choice and it is bad enough now that I opt to drive on a highway. And that is the 'good' mass transit example.

FWIW, I originally came from an old EU country. Mass transit was the way to move around and let me assure you that the government is not better there. The issue is more cultural than anything else.
by kibwen | 2025-10-09 13:02:34+00:00
Something that seems to be absent here is a discussion of turn-right-on-red laws. In conjunction with the SUV hypothesis of increasingly deadly vehicles (in conjunction with the trend of modern cars having increasingly huge A-pillars which inhibit visibility), the existence of such laws could explain the US as an outlier, the urban/rural difference, and the anomaly of NYC, where right-on-red has been banned since 1977.
by JCM9 | 2025-10-09 13:02:42+00:00
What most companies and CEOs fail to grasp is that with all the talk of headcount cuts from AI customers are expecting that AI will LOWER pricing and costs, not raise it. Challenge is that the cost cutting story is mostly vaporware (as many other studies have shown) so CEOs are in a tough spot. They can’t both boast to shareholders at how much cost savings they got from rolling out AI and then charge customers more.

All this is pretty textbook setup for how this bubble finally implodes as companies fail to deliver on their AI investments and come under fire from shareholders for spending a ton with little return to show for it.
by cheema33 | 2025-10-09 13:02:45+00:00
A computer science degree in most US colleges takes about 4 years of work. Boot camps try to cram that into 6 months. All the while many students have other full-time jobs. This is simply not enough training for the students to start solving complex real world problem. Even 4 years is not enough.

Many companies were willing to hire fresh college grads in the hopes that they could solve relatively easy problems for a few years, gain experience and become successful senior devs at some point.

However, with the advent of AI dev tools, we are seeing very clear signs that junior dev hiring rates have fallen off a cliff. Our project manager, who has no dev experience, frequently assigns easy tasks/github issues to Github Copilot. Copilot generates a PR in a few minutes that other devs can review before merging. These PRs are far superior to what an average graduate of a code boot camp could ever create. Any need we had for a junior dev has completely disappeared.
by dspillett | 2025-10-09 13:03:02+00:00
> At least HTML retained <i> and <b> when it introduced <em> and <strong>.

That is not as practical with markdown though, as you are working with a limited set of practical character combinations.

> Styles, like words, can have several meanings

This is one of the reasons why there are many markdown alternatives that behave slightly differently: not everyone writes plain text mark-up with the same intentions.

This isn't something you can solve with a single markdown version, so we have to accept that each could, and probably will, work a little differently.