MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rednafi | 2025-10-14 18:58:14+00:00
So far, the ROI has been much lower than expected. The hype certainly attracted a ton of investment, but aside from some code generation and summarization, I’ve yet to see any meaningful yield.

The narrative claims that AI will make everyone far more productive, but in reality, I see people working harder than ever and burning out while maintaining this slop in production.

AI search and summarization have been a flop, and most people I know hate them. LLMs are undoubtedly useful, but despite all the supposed productivity gains, I’m not seeing any measurable impact. I used to spend hours reviewing human-written PRs, and now I spend even more time because of lazy AI-generated garbage creeping into the codebase.

Some AI parrots will say, “Oh, I never push code I don’t understand,” but that doesn’t stop others from doing it, and now you have to be extra vigilant during PR reviews.

The gist is that everyone claims to be more productive, but the numbers say otherwise. Even so, LLMs are genuinely useful, just not nearly as much as the investment would suggest.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-14 18:58:59+00:00
That's a funny thing to say, assuming it is in jest. Of course, just spending 130 million on stuff that you don't need only to destroy it is perfectly normal in the course of running a business. Not. A hundred million here, a hundred there, before you know it it is real money.

What's with all the throwaway accounts on this thread anyway?
by nelscity | 2025-10-14 19:00:14+00:00
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by joseangel_sc | 2025-10-14 19:00:16+00:00
what kills me specially about the buybacks

is that i’m sure even the CEOs would rather live in a world with anesthesia, MRIs, wifi, gps, etc

yet they greedily prefer to personally gain money because they cannot see that they would be richer in a world with { what would be discovered if we had science }

it’s just that you cannot miss what you already don’t have, if they could only see what would be possible, what we could achieve, the would go nuts about how slow we are moving
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-14 19:00:59+00:00
> A company like NVDA forces shareholder returns to the whim of the market price, but dividends stabilize things because the stock is actually tangibly worth something.

All of the whims that go into the market price are still there. If you're a shareholder who doesn't care about the share price you're going to have a bad time.

> It also forces a certain discipline in the company, since shareholders don't like dividends getting cut.

Which usually leads to mismanagement more than anything because the company gets into a situation where they should lower the dividend but is under pressure not to and then starts eating their seed corn so they can still pay the dividend.

> It also limits empire-building, di-worsification, and "good ideas" that have questionable ROI.

Buybacks do the same thing.
by shagie | 2025-10-14 19:01:34+00:00
> in the other case the machine is designed to draw it out of you.

I take issue with the "is designed to" phrase. That implies an intentionality upon OpenAI (and others) to create something that acts as a therapist or confidant. It is designed to respond to you in a way that you ask it to. The agency for confiding deep secrets to a cloud service is entirely upon the human typing in the text.

If one doesn't try to make it your friend, it doesn't try to act like it.
by jfengel | 2025-10-14 19:01:52+00:00
Mostly: tourism. The royal family is widely thought to bring in a lot more than it costs.

Also, they provide a lot of face-time for the government. They show up at a lot of events, the kind of thing for which you might hire a celebrity to give it a sense of occasion. The actual dollar value of that is hard to estimate, and it's less valuable than the tourism, but the fact that people still want it suggests that it's providing something of value.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-14 19:02:26+00:00
No. Nothing is but is that what's happening?

Huge bets were made on the Internet technology in the US and it paid off even with the dot com bubble bursting.

If we don't stay on top of technology then we will simply be passed by China.

People also said the Internet was going revolutionize everything in the 90s and it did. AI is already pretty impressive and we are just in the infancy of the technology.
by daft_pink | 2025-10-14 19:03:07+00:00
I think this would be more useful if compared early death statistics to news reporting.

Everyone dies and everyone knows that everyone dies. I’m not really interested in how I’m going to die of old age, but what I have to worry about today to avoid an early death.

I think there’s probably still a difference in media reporting and probability but i’m guessing younger people 20-30 are most likely to die from vehicle accidents, accidents, suicide and drugs? I’m not sure though and I don’t have any evidence.
by Ray20 | 2025-10-14 19:03:15+00:00
> WW2 was so horrific that Europeans were willing to do anything to prevent it again

But this is total childish nonsense. We gained 75 years of peace in Europe not because the war was terrible, but because the entire world was divided between the USA and the USSR. And, as it happened, these two countries decided not to fight each other in a full-scale war.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-10-14 19:03:43+00:00
This doesn't make any sense, why do the Dutch think taking control of Nexperia will somehow force China to provide components to them?

The Dutch ASML is prohibited from providing EUV to China which is apparently what forced China to decouple. Little wonder the other day the Chinese said "We aren't afraid of trade war". Escalating this BS brings nothing good to ordinary people.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-14 19:03:51+00:00
> Even banks seem to be getting comfortable with making mobile optimized websites now

At the cost of making an actually useful website for those of us not on mobile. My bank insists on making their website/online banking platform work as if it was their mobile app. The flow of bank transfers, paying bills, writing to your banking adviser is now entirely confusing and feels unsafe. Even a 14" laptop has plenty of space to show you detailed overviews, but no, assume that the user is on a tiny ass screen and show them mostly white-space.
by adolph | 2025-10-14 19:04:30+00:00
Another strange hole over Havana

https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=10&lat=23.0304&lng...

And interesting spotted patterns around some air force training bases (Vance and Sheppard):

https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=7&lat=34.7605&lng=...
by shagie | 2025-10-14 19:04:40+00:00
For ChatGPT, they're under legal obligation not to delete chats for a period of time.

https://openai.com/index/response-to-nyt-data-demands/ (yes, that's written 100% from OpenAI's perspective)

In particular:

> The New York Times is demanding that we retain even deleted ChatGPT chats and API content that would typically be automatically removed from our systems within 30 days.

> ...

> This data is not automatically shared with The New York Times or anyone else. It’s locked under a separate legal hold, meaning it’s securely stored and can only be accessed under strict legal protocols.

> ...

> Right now, the court order forces us to retain consumer ChatGPT and API content going forward. That said, we are actively challenging the order, and if we are successful, we’ll resume our standard data retention practices.
by zevon | 2025-10-14 19:05:16+00:00
If you don't have a very good marketing department, I'll still kick you out of business if I can double or triple the amount of widgets I can make because I started with the same machines you did - but I upgraded them with better controls, attached a few robot arms and now run a lights-out widget factory tended by a fraction of the workforce you employ while you reminisce about the good old times...
by rolisz | 2025-10-14 19:05:23+00:00
Take a look at Michael Levin's work: he's been able to get animals to grow eyes on their legs (or something similar), without gene manipulation, but just by messing with bioelectrical fields. Paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3587383/?utm YouTube interview: https://youtu.be/Kpx5isuKD1c?si=RU6fztq_RexUvYif
by citrin_ru | 2025-10-14 19:05:36+00:00
I haven’t yet seen macOS 26 but iOS 26 is ugly and the least usable phone OS I’ve ever used - controls (theirs placement) and blurry areas waste too much space, animations are distracting and “reduce motion” option just reduces them with flickering which even worse. I was a happy iPhone users for 5+ years and was considering to buy a MacBook (as a replacement for an old Thinkpad) but iOS 26 is such abomination that I will wait and if the next version will not remove Liquid Glass I’ll buy an Android phone and a Linux-compatible notebook.
by grishka | 2025-10-14 19:05:55+00:00
> The ADS7953 is somewhat of a ferrari, whereas the MCP3208 feels like a Toyota, simple to use, unimpressive performance.

What about the AD9226? It only has a single channel but can do up to 65 MSa/s at 12 bits. I bought one as a module for around $12 on AliExpress to experiment with software decoding of analog video. I only run it at 20 MSa/s and only use 8 bits because, funnily enough, the limiting factor is the speed at which I could get the data into my laptop. I connected it to a Raspberry Pi Zero and use the SMI peripheral as described here: https://iosoft.blog/2020/07/16/raspberry-pi-smi/
by 0x457 | 2025-10-14 19:06:07+00:00
To be clear, that is not the way I'd recommend for someone with zero knowledge in software development. The assumption is that you understand something, just not this language/library. I don't think following a tutorial is a good way to learn anything besides doing this very specific thing in a tutorial. You won't learn things like how to consume documentation and evaluate libraries, which is IMO required to develop anything there isn't a tutorial for.

Maybe use libraries (and language) with better docs? I don't know much about Haskell beyond fixing other people outdated software, but I was able to do these fixes without watching any tutorials and reading books, just by reading docs.

If I were to build web service in rust, Google would lead me to axum, and https://docs.rs/axum/latest/axum/ pretty much gives me everything I need to know to get started.

Then I will want to add some sort of CLI to start that service, clap.rs docs are pretty clear. Then I will want some configuration management, I will search crates.io for crates providing such functionality and evaluate how they work (by reading the documentation), pick one and implement.

When I wanted to build an android tv app, I've read android docs and built it. If I were in tutorial hell, I'd google for "building android tv reddit client" and not found any.

Decided to build a small macOS tray app for myself? A few minutes reading the official docs, and I'm ready to start.
Show HN: dotfiles for your AI prompts
by cat-whisperer | 2025-10-14 19:06:12+00:00
Cool. Now I have 47 prompts scattered across Twitter bookmarks, Reddit saves, random text files, that one GitHub gist I can't find, and my chat history from 3 months ago. I got tired of this and built PMX. It's a portable prompt manager that lives in your dotfiles. All your prompts are just markdown files in ~/.config/pmx/repo/. You can version control them, sync them across machines, organize them in folders—whatever you do with your other config files.

```

pmx profile create code-reviewer

pmx profile edit code-reviewer

pmx profile list

pmx set-claude-profile code-reviewer

```

The real power: PMX runs as an MCP server. Every MCP-compatible tool (Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, etc.) can discover and use your entire prompt library automatically. No copy-pasting. No vendor lock-in. For MCP it's just `pmx mcp`

Your prompts travel with your dotfiles. One library, all your AI tools.

Built in Rust: https://github.com/NishantJoshi00/pmx
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-14 19:06:55+00:00
>So I think it's reasonable to say that, to paraphrase the earlier comment, putting an X in a box on a piece of paper is how it's done in most of the world.

>It's true that the ballots aren't always counted by hand.

I can't speak for other jurisdictions (although I understand that this is pretty common in the US), but where I live (NY) we do exactly that. Well, instead of marking an 'X', we fill in an oval for each item on the ballot and that paper ballot is then scanned and counted.

If there are issues or the vote is very close, as with most places, a recount is done, first by machine and, if necessary, by hand.

How is this different from the rest of the world?
by MegaDeKay | 2025-10-14 19:06:56+00:00
> Let’s face it, most quality Linux desktop apps use GTK.

As I wrote above, more than a few large applications have switched away from GTK to Qt including Wireshark, Openshot, and now Audacity. How many large apps have switched the other way?

Then there are the "quality" apps that have always been on the Qt / KDE side of the fence: Kdenlive, FreeCAD, Krita, Scribus, qBittorrent, Qt Creator, Dolphin... And that's free software. It is a slam dunk for Qt on the commercial side.
by mjd | 2025-10-14 19:07:07+00:00
Kissinger can take the blame for a great many things, but not for starting the US practice of overthrowing democratically elected regimes. He was still getting his Ph.D. when the CIA helped overthrow the Mossadegh government in Iran, primarily to help our buddies in England keep their hands on the Iranians' oil.

That piece of corrupt foreign policy has spoiled U.S.-Iran relations ever since, but Kissinger had nothing to do with it.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-14 19:07:14+00:00
I'd say the real advantage is that if you need to change it you don't have to deploy your monolith. Of course, the relative benefit of that is situationally dependent, but I was recently burned by a team that built a new replication handler we needed into their monolith, and every time it had a bug, and the monolith only got deployed once a week. I begged them to put it into a lambda but every week was "we'll get it right next week", for months. So it does happen.
by worldsayshi | 2025-10-14 19:07:18+00:00
I don't buy the idea that people mainly reach for microservices for scalability or "pleasure" reasons though.

I personally reach for it to outsource some problems by using off the shelf solutions. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. And if everyone else is doing it in a certain way I want to do it in the same way to try to stand on the shoulders of giants and not reinvent everything.

But that's probably the wrong approach then...
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-14 19:08:03+00:00
I understand the cruise control dance. I do it on both my Tesla and my Lightning. My solution, which works with both of my cars (notably, not a Genesis, therefore this may not work the same!) is just to accelerate slightly, deactivate cruise, drive as normal.

The Lightning would allow me to do it old school, it has a non-one-pedal-drive mode that has similar regen to normal engine braking on an ICE truck. But I prefer OPD so I just do the 'accelerate slightly and deactivate cruise' to get around the sudden slow down if I just turn it off abruptly.

> Perhaps I'm just getting old and now have bad reflexes!

Sounds like just a very aggressive throttle mapping. Not something I personally run into, but as with my earlier comment, this is very much going to be specific to the car. I also tend to drive with my toe at the bottom of the accelerator pedal which steadies my foot quite a bit and makes it less prone to bouncing on a bump.
by throwup238 | 2025-10-14 19:08:47+00:00
Yep people are mostly paying for the added inventory risk and labor when buying from distributors. Anyone with a big enough order to have their own wafer and the time to wait can get it a hell of a lot cheaper, especially for rarer parts that aren’t as popular.

One supplier I developed a relationship with showed us their internal numbers and it was $1,000-3,000 per wafer for 130nm-180nm nodes with a minimum order of 25 wafers. Once the part is designed and the mask is made, the cost is mostly just the setup plus whatever they want for the IP. The silicon itself is often cheaper than the packaging around it.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-14 19:09:35+00:00
I have to dive in a bit more to give good and specific guidance/context, but fundamentally, your system will require a shim to "speak" $UAT_SOURCE and the output this would expect, assuming the source was an sdr. Want help writing the code for this? Specs to build requirements RNO-G in -> SDR out are welcome.

https://airplanes.live/hardware/

https://sdr-enthusiasts.gitbook.io/ads-b/ might also be of value.
by frumplestlatz | 2025-10-14 19:09:39+00:00
I’m not in a rush to use a reimplementation of SQLite — particularly from startup bros that had a very public, one-sided, and unpleasant fight with SQLite over their contribution model.

D. Richard Hipp is a genuinely fantastic human being, and SQLite is a project developed at literally the level of planetary infrastructure given how broadly and everywhere it appears.

Forking his project while using the name to garner recognition and attention is poor form, and it is difficult to have faith in the results.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-14 19:09:56+00:00
I don't think anyone has a moral obligation to do the state's bidding, and if you think these tools will only be used morally against "bad guys", you have not been paying attention to recent events.

I also don't think the interests of the state are "in the best interests of humanity".

Sometimes the price of having nice things and them remaining nice means that people you don't like can use them, too.
by itsnowandnever | 2025-10-14 19:10:08+00:00
I think the other guy is talking about things like this: https://archive.ph/7IPxL

since 2022, there's been many times a recession has been declared but commentators have said it was all "vibecession" and the economy was strong. now that the same commentary is happening under a new administration, the messaging is that the sky is falling.
by parineum | 2025-10-14 19:10:37+00:00
Something that I hadn't considered before I heard it being discussed by someone who studied the phenomenon of factory off shoring is that a huge factor in the off shoring has nothing to do with labor, it has everything to do with ramp up time.

Compare the build time between Tesla's battery factories in the US and China and consider how many batteries they can sell during the time difference.

Building a factory loses money until the factory starts making products. Good or bad, regulations that cost _time_ are the biggest issue. Labor costs matter but they affect the margins that can be somewhat compensated for by products not needing overseas shipping. A company, especially a new one, can go out of business in the years it takes to build a factory in the US.
by nobody9999 | 2025-10-14 19:10:45+00:00
>Because American ballots are massive?

>They vote for everything including the president and local school district board members and everything in between at the same time.

What's more, elections are managed/run at the county level, not at the state or Federal levels. As such, there isn't just one election in the US on election day. Rather, there are 3500+ elections, each with different ballots, different folks managing the elections and different sets of interested parties monitoring each of those 3500+ elections.

While many offices are up for election every two or four or six years, not all of them fall on even-numbered years like the Federal elections.

My state has state elections that happen in concert with Federal elections, but my local government does not. In fact, we're voting for mayor, City Council and every other elective city office in a few weeks, even though the federal and state elections aren't this year.

Since elections are managed and run at the county level, there is little uniformity -- and less opportunity for widespread fraud.
by dayvster | 2025-10-14 19:10:56+00:00
Do you really wish to go into stuff that has very little to do with the article itself?

I'll gladly provide an answer but I don't think it's constructive.

I host the site on vercel with astro, I'm on the pro plan which usually costs me somewhere around 20€ per month +/- 5-10€ depending on my monthly traffic.

add to that the minuscule cost of my domain and other stuff I'm paying about 250-300€ per year

My adsense avg per day is just about 1.20€ roughly.

So at best I break even, at worst I lose a bit of money.

I still maintain my position that everyone is welcome and should use adblock or brave or pi-hole on my site if they so wish I won't mind.

But I do like the fact that I don't have to foot the bill :)

Basically if I had to lose money to write I'd probs stop writing if I'm honest.
by 8note | 2025-10-14 19:11:13+00:00
the swap from interface to network call is still non-trivial.

you get to have new problems that are qualitatively different from before like timeouts, which can break the adsumptions in the rest of your code about say, whether state was updated or not, and in what order. you also then get to deal with thundering herds and circuit breakers and so on.
by mannyv | 2025-10-14 19:11:44+00:00
No, it's because we changed the way we process our metrics.

Previously we processed our metrics by consolidating them into multidimensional entries on a minute basis.

We moved to single metric second-based collection, because it was getting too complicated to process and because we wanted second-by-second measurement to measure engagement more granularly. That increased our data retention tremendously. We're still under the cost for the other timestream products, but we'll be adjusting how we do that in a quarter or two.
by scosman | 2025-10-14 19:11:49+00:00
No that's exactly how open source works. They are under zero obligation to wake up tomorrow and continue to work on it. Everyone is lucky they open sourced it, and anyone else is welcome to pick it up where they left off. Contributing a impressive piece of work the community is an accomplishment.

Disparaging them and suggesting people should not trust them in the future for not providing ongoing maintenance, when that was never part of the OSS deal, shows a misunderstanding of what OSS is. Pay them for a maintenance contract, or don't expect maintenance. Stop complaining they didn't fulfill some social contract that existed only in your head.