MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kulahan | 2025-10-27 17:15:11+00:00
AI, to me, seems perfectly positioned to replace a lot of middle managers. Maybe not "every manager at X level", but if you've got some central tool that flows information up and down the chain, and can dig into data on your local network for backup/proof, you could make most middle managers much more efficient. Suddenly, one scrum master covering 4 teams is very feasible. They already know what they need to know, and their status has been reported long before they even started the meeting.
by eggy | 2025-10-27 17:15:15+00:00
There's more than just memory safety for high assurance apps. Personally, I think Rust is heading in the right direction, but I am not sure it's complexity will ever be smooth or enjoyable for some. I feel you get most, if not all, that Rust is trying to achieve with Ada/SPARK right now for high-integrity, mission-critical apps along with a proven legacy: jet fighter software, railway controls, avionics, embedded, space, etc...

Take a look at the Adacore site, especially the free books (PDF):

https://www.adacore.com/books

Ada for the Embedded C Developer

Embedded Spark & Ada Use Cases
by stevenwoo | 2025-10-27 17:15:17+00:00
There are some clever tests described in The Language Puzzle on primates that (paraphrasing 14 hour long audiobook so forgive any mistakes.) indicate no primate other than humans and a couple of immediate predecessors (based on archaeological evidence) have much in the realm of abstract thinking abilities using their own communications, a few primates raised and taught forms of human language cannot progress very far without any of the facilities of language present in normal two-three year old development. The book is focused on how humans evolved language so other species are not covered, there is obvious verbal and gesture based communication in primates but it concludes not enough of the components of physiology that enable human language are present(both brain and vocal anatomy).
by danudey | 2025-10-27 17:15:25+00:00
Yeah, the entire point of this seems to be "we'll watch your baby monitor and provide alerts if something happens". That requires either processing on a server (as they do), processing on the uploading client (the camera), or having a receiving client which is constantly receiving that data and analyzing it to provide alerts.

The third option is unreliable because if that "client" (a desktop app, a phone app, etc.) dies, then the process stops working completely. The second option is unreliable because if you increase the cost of the camera then most users will buy the other camera because everyone is financially constrained these days.

That basically just leaves the first option as the only practical one at an appealing price point.
by 303uru | 2025-10-27 17:15:40+00:00
Let’s use a little logic. What are the “both sides” here? Megacorps with billions vs “local media”? Citizens?

Yes, that’s a balanced equation.

Now, do we have any evidence to back complaints?

Lack of water, unclean water due to data centers:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

Data centers causing energy prices to increase:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-elec...

Data center natural gas generators flooding communities with pollution:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...

Yes, “both sides”.
by bicolao | 2025-10-27 17:15:44+00:00
> I get your point, but reviewing your own PRs is a very good idea.

Yes. You just have to be in a different mindset. I look for cases that I haven't handled (and corner cases in general). I can try to summarize what the code does and see if it actually meets the goal, if there's any downsides. If the solution in the end turns out too complicated to describe, it may be time to step back and think again. If the code can run in many different configurations (or platforms), review time is when I start to see if I accidentally break anything.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-10-27 17:15:54+00:00
Interest rates only go down to stimulate growth

If growth is happening with high interest rates then that means capital can remain out of the hands of the public but debt replaces it

If I’m a billionaire my goal is to own everything and have everyone in debt to me based on my personal currency I issue - like points or miles or a corporate debt vehicle for example.

Surely we aren’t seeing a increase in debt also right? /s
by KvanteKat | 2025-10-27 17:16:21+00:00
Sure, but the alternative is not really any better: if the choice is between being the guy who got it wrong vs. being the guy who got it wrong _and_ being the guy who persisted in throwing good money after bad, surely the former is prefereable. As far as I see, the fact that they keep going indicates that they genuinely still believe Copilot could pan out and become profittable in the long run.
by ramesh31 | 2025-10-27 17:16:21+00:00
>Also, when you're 35, you will likely have a much better understanding of what really matters to you, and what kind of partner you really want for the long haul.

Indeed you will, and she'll be married with kids at that point.

>It's often said that "60 is the new 50" — and it is, if you do it right — the corollary is something like, "25 is the new 19". That's a gift! Take advantage.

Again, it certainly can be for men if you're willing to date younger. But human biology has not changed. Women are well aware of the fact that their fertility drops off a cliff starting at 30. Plan accordingly.
by golem14 | 2025-10-27 17:16:28+00:00
But the AI vote will be used as a fig leaf so they don't even have to pretend to mete out justice. "AI said it, it must be true" will soon become a mantra (even though most people here know how wrong it can be and how often it actually is).

I hear that lazy LEOs now use AI to write police reports. Noice. And the AI can trivially show up for hearings.
by latexr | 2025-10-27 17:16:38+00:00
Isolated instances do not a period define. We can always find some example of someone who did something, but the point is it didn’t start like that.

For example, there was never a period when movies were made by creating frames as oil paintings and photographing them. A couple of movies were made like that, but that was never the norm or a necessity or the intended process.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-27 17:16:42+00:00
This is what Hulu started out as... before ABC/Disney bought everyone else out as they shifted to their own separate services, and now Disney is burying Hulu under Disney+. When Hulu started, it seemed like the solution, but everyone was greedy and wanted a bigger piece of the pie. The same goes for TV/Cable and even streaming "live tv" options. YouTube TV option even tried, originally like $35/mo, but now is just as much as any of the other "Live TV" services (in the US at least), north of $80/mo.

Piracy is the answer... though, it's aa couple extra hoops to jump through... using a seedbox over self-hosting that is. I should probably just have a script that does an rsync to my local NAS every few minutes to make it slightly easier... already have a watch script to upload .torrent files to the seedbox.
by ianbicking | 2025-10-27 17:16:53+00:00
It does however work just fine if you ask it for grammar help or whatever, then apply those edits. And for pretty much the rest of the content too: if you have the AI generate feedback, ideas, edits, etc., and then apply them yourself to the text, the result avoids these pitfalls and the author is doing the work that the reader expects and deserves.
by rbanffy | 2025-10-27 17:17:15+00:00
> building for reliability has largely died out.

A real shame, but offloading reliability to software engineers makes the hardware cheaper, something IBM mainframes aren't known for.

> doubt many people today are running workloads which "require" a mainframe...

It seems to me mainframes are built with profoundly different requirements than the ordinary hyperscaler server, with a lot more connectivity and specialized IO processors than CPU power. The CPUs are really fast, but it's the IO capacity that really set them apart from the top-of-the-line Dell or HPE.

If IBM really wanted to make the case for companies to host their Linux workloads on LinuxONE hardware, they'd make Linux on s390x significantly cheaper than x86 on their own cloud. I am sure they could, but they don't seem willing to do so.
by graypegg | 2025-10-27 17:17:32+00:00
For the body copy, I think it's a version of Rockwell. [0] It fits the time, as well as the lower case "g" always looks quirky to me in rockwell-flavours. Stubby tail + serif on top. The heft on the headings also matches Rockwell Extra Bold with a couple tiny variations. Plus, just simply... slab serifs.

Things working against that are:

- % is wrong. That really looks like a different typeface all together. Not unheard of, might be worth seeing if it matches any other monotype fonts.

- Bolded headings have some differences. Rockwell Extra Bold should still have circular tittles, but unless it's a scanning artifact, the few lowercase "i" examples I can find in those headings seem to be square.

- The Rockwell favour in the tables is tweaked, with no descenders and uses tabular digits. This is pretty common, but the digital copies of Rockwell I have laying around don't have those exact forms... doesn't really say much when we're talking about what specific hot-metal type casts did monotype sell them 90-odd years ago.

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On the title pages (like page 13), my best guess is Memphis. [1] The R is wrong for Rockwell, but also the lower a in "Brand" is totally wrong for Memphis, and the quote is totally different. Going to take lunch, and possibly come back to this in a bit because now I'm intrigued haha.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_(typeface) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_(typeface)
by philipallstar | 2025-10-27 17:17:38+00:00
> The people in the present administration have been blowing white supremacist and pro-violence dog whistles for over a decade now.

I think this is in itself a huge problem. You've been told this, repeatedly, for 10 years, which explains why so much of the political violence (and celebration thereof) is on the left in the US. Why do you still believe dogwhistles to be a bigger problem than actual violence?
by soared | 2025-10-27 17:17:39+00:00
IMO that is exactly what people want. At my work everyone uses LLMs constantly and the trade off of not perfect information is known. People double check it, etc, but the information search is so much faster even if it finds the right confluence but misquotes it, it still sends me the link.

For easy spreadsheet stuff (which 80% of average white collars workers are doing when using excel) I’d imagine the same approach. Try to do what I want, and even if you’re half wrong the good 50% is still worth it and a better starting point.

Vibe coding an app is like vibe coding a “model in excel”. Sure you could try, but most people just need to vibe code a pivot table
by CamperBob2 | 2025-10-27 17:17:45+00:00
To be charitable, I'm assuming that their English skills aren't good. If LLMs allow us to hear from potentially billions of people who may have something worthwhile to say but who fall into that category, I wouldn't want to discourage their use in articles like this one.

But if that's not the case, then yeah, it's a crappy practice and I'd hate to see it spread any further than it already has.
Show HN: Standup.net – All your Stand Up Comedy needs or wants
by nadermx | 2025-10-27 17:18:41+00:00
Hey HN, This project has been a few years in the making. I've been doing standup for a bit and felt there where some things that I wanted to have a place for.

You can upload clips, post links, post jokes, create events, schedule events, ask to be a comedian on events, follow people, etc.

Let me know what other features are missing or think or wish you could add.

Nadermx
by iamnothere | 2025-10-27 17:19:01+00:00
Even if things get that locked down, I suspect that leaked attestation keys and fake/stolen ID verification will always be a problem. There’s a lot of money to be made in this, and someone will inevitably decide not to leave that money on the table, legality be damned. This risk only goes up with manufacturing that crosses borders, and despite the push to renationalize production, it’s going to be a long time before that is feasible at a mass scale.

A small, hardly exclusive list of things we have been unable to protect through technology:

- DVD/Blu Ray/HDMI copy protection

- Windows product registration

- Device jailbreaking (manufacturers are constantly running to keep ahead of this but old versions are frequently unlocked even with iOS)

- Classified diplomatic documents

- Classified details of warfighting equipment

- Identities of federal employees (and even covert agents)

- Nuclear secrets

Technical measures aren’t always the weak point—bribery works just as well. As the US tech stack continues to decouple from China, they will also have the motivation to break our systems.
by epistasis | 2025-10-27 17:19:17+00:00
> Note that requirements had nothing against diversity or fairness. It was fairly specific: "discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws."

Are we reading the same thing? You are quoting something that says that the PSF's standard DEI policies are a violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws, which the PSF does not agree with, and likely no court would ever agree with.

Compliance with law is always mandatory, but by signing a contract that misstates the law and in fact endorses a particular and incorrect interperation of the law, means that actually litigating the law correctly lately in the courts is harder.

Further, by carrying out the PSF's existing policies, the PSF is carrying ou their principles, rather than your derisive and inaccurate characterization of that as mere "optics."

> I am all for diversity, I am all for fairness,

If you were actually for those things, you'd be for what the PSF does! That's what they do! Instead you are supporting the oppression of those things with your comment.
by imgabe | 2025-10-27 17:19:19+00:00
A power company builds a generation plant of a certain size. That plant is going to run whether there is a data center or not. Maybe there is some incremental additional water usage if it is running at 85% capacity instead of 75% capacity but this is probably marginal compared to the plant running or not running at all.

Depending on the method of power generation, it might also need a certain consistent base load to run most efficiently, so adding in a data center that will be a consistent load running 24/7 could actually increase the efficiency.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-27 17:19:28+00:00
> At quick glance, it looks like they're still using the same CSS that was made public ~13 years ago:

It has been changed since then for sure though. A couple of years ago the mobile experience was way worse than what it is today, so something has clearly changed. I think also some infamous "non-wrapping inline code" bug in the CSS was fixed, but can't remember if that was months, years or decades ago.

On another note, they're very receptive to emails, and if you have specific things you want fixed, and maybe even ideas on how to do in a good and proper way, you can email them (hn@ycombinator.com) and they'll respond relatively fast, either with a "thanks, good idea" or "probably not, here's why". That has been my experience at least.
by ori_b | 2025-10-27 17:19:40+00:00
Which, with store forwarding, can be shockingly cheap. You may not actually be hitting L1, and if you are, you're probably not hitting it synchronously.

https://easyperf.net/blog/2018/03/09/Store-forwarding

and, section 15.10 of https://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-10-27 17:19:44+00:00
*valued higher than the counterfactual where there was money printing.

A less competitive domestic industry does not imply an overvalued currency. It could mean that domestic industry is economically less productive compared to foreign industries. Since Argentine domestic industry has enjoyed vast protectionist barriers for a long time, there is good reason to think this is why they are uncompetitive. At any rate, inflating the peso to make industry nominally productive in terms of foreign exchange, as past administrations have done, would also not make domestic argentinian industries more productive; it would simply trade a boost to domestic industry with a drain on the argentine government, hiding the less productive nature of domestic industry until hyperinflation catches up.

Removing protectionist barriers is also quite libertarian, and not even uniquely libertarian - free trade is universally supported by well-trained economists. In Argentina's case, this means domestic industry has to catch up for all the lost productivity that trade barriers have caused over the years.
by stuffn | 2025-10-27 17:19:52+00:00
> A rumor on Facebook said a farmer was giving away his potatoes. By sunrise, 150 tons of his hard-earned work had disappeared.

I don't know if you can blame the viral post itself. This has been my experience with humans in general. Take halloween. Leave a candy bowl out and ask people to take one or two 10-20% will comply and the rest will try to take the entire bowl.

The article itself said the farmer wanted people to "help themselves". It was his responsibility to set the rules and enforce them. Perhaps polish law is different but I doubt the police would do anything in the states (or any other western country). It's not theft when you say take what you want. I don't believe it's blaming the victim here to say that the farmer should've done a lot more work to meter out his potatoes.

This is just another example of the tragedy of the commons. You can't have truly shared resources because a minority will take the majority and ruin it for everyone. Every single time. This is also why food pantries and homeless shelters meter out food carefully. You even see this with super sales at the grocery store. I remember during COVID people were filling truck beds with discounted meat/fish/vegetables completely disregarding other people will need to eat too.
by 827a | 2025-10-27 17:20:32+00:00
Sure, but:

1. Farmers oftentimes make zero effort to reduce their water usage. There's water reduction strategies they could employ, if they cared, but instead the vast multi-farm conglomerates invest their efforts in securing below-market, oftentimes monopolistic, control over water rights in their area, so they can use use an excess amount. Meanwhile, data center operators are (rightly) expected to engineer extremely sophisticated multi-millions of dollar systems to reduce their usage by even single digit percentages; an amount that some farms might consume in just one day.

2. Not all crops are built the same. Some, we rightly question "why are we growing this". Almonds are the canonical example; they consume utterly insane amounts of water, and the end result is: Almonds. A non-critical food that sits in some back corner of your grocery store. But, farmers like them because they sell for magnitudes more per pound than the more staple crops; its niche produce like almonds that can be the difference between a farm being profitable and unprofitable each year.

3. Many regions in the US have a climate that is just close enough to being able to grow things, like Alfala and Rice, year-round, so long as you utterly drench them in artifically-sourced water during the dry season when we shouldn't otherwise be able to grow them. There's a massive difference in natural sustainability of the seasonal farms in, say, the American midwest, versus the year-round industrial mega-farms of California.

Having grown up around farms my whole life: More people need to realize that the aw shucks poor farmer routine is just a play these usually extremely wealthy people use to justify any greedy, shitty behavior they can. Monopoly on water rights? Oh, so you want to starve? Yeah that's what I thought, as they sip a $400 bottle of wine in Nappa. Farms are quite possibly the most subsidized industry in all of America; while near-universally all farmers will fight tooth and nail for the elimination of subsidies and handouts for everyone else, if you even insinuate you'll take away their handouts, its war and "you're all going to starve" because you "don't appreciate farmers". They complain about America outsourcing all of its labor to other countries, while farming itself has become one of the most automated, labor-eliminating industries in the country, massive mega-conglomerate farms are now ran by three people piloting remote tractors and drones from their barn.
by vetrom | 2025-10-27 17:20:51+00:00
The early MacOS era as well as pretty much the entire classic Mac OS era was infamous for being a more-or-less do it yourself environment for adding bits the OS didn't have or did sub-optimally for given use cases.

The wisdom of such a freewheeling ecosystem in today's era is maybe debatable, but given how user-hostile the mainline OS and software vendors can be, I say there's still plenty of room for that ecosystem and it should be preserved.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-27 17:20:52+00:00
I really wish we had a write up from an anthropologist on this to show what a failing culture looks like.

We've got to have a more formalized corpus on communication and information flow that indicates failed culture.

A catalog of stupid memos, bad incentives programs, communications from these failing boards and executive teams, the way funding is allocated, the initiatives led, there must be clear patterns.
by saint_fiasco | 2025-10-27 17:21:22+00:00
I sometimes share interesting AI conversations with my friends using the "share" button on the AI websites. Often the back-and-forth is more interesting than the final output anyway.

I think some people turn AI conversations into blog posts that they pass off as their own because of SEO considerations. If Twitter didn't discourage people sharing links, perhaps we would see a lot more tweet threads that start with https://chatgpt.com/share/... and https://claude.ai/share/... instead of people trying to pass off AI generated content as their own.
by childintime | 2025-10-27 17:22:17+00:00
It's time for an "en-INTL" (or similar) for international english, that is mostly "en-US", but implies a US-International keyboard and removes americanisms, like Logical Punctuation in quotes [1]. Then AI can start writing for a wider and much larger public (and can also default to regular ISO units instead of imperial baby food).

Additionally, it's kind of crazy we are not able to write any language with any keyboard, as nowadays we just don't know the idiom the person who sits behind the keyboard needs.

[1] https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/05/logical-punctuation...
by darrenf | 2025-10-27 17:22:29+00:00
I haven't taken a strong enough position on AI coding to express any opinions about it, but I vehemently disagree with this part:

> This is like reviewing your own PRs, it completely defeats the purpose.

I've been the first reviewer for all PRs I've raised, before notifying any other reviewers, for so many years that I couldn't even tell you when I started doing it. Going through the change set in the Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket interface, for me, seems to activate an different part of my brain than I was using when locked in vim. I'm quick to spot typos, bugs, flawed assumptions, edge cases, missing tests, to add comments to pre-empt questions ... you name it. The "reading code" and "writing code" parts of my brain often feel disconnected!

Obviously I don't approve my own PRs. But I always, always review them. Hell, I've also long recommended the practice to those around me too for the same reasons.