MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ecshafer | 2025-10-07 17:50:17+00:00
After mulling it over a bit, plus seeing a few other response (Php, Ruby, etc) I think the internet is the reason.

C, C++, Ada, Basic, Fortran. Those were written assuming they were going to be writing systems code and numerical code. There is then some inertia keeping the most successful ones of from those periods going in their spaces.

Then these new languages with new ideas (GCs, Dynamic Typing, etc) they came out and became successful in the newer Web and Application spaces. Now why they won out and not LISP or SmallTalk or what have you, I am not sure. But my hypothesis is that the web is a big part of it.
by dpoloncsak | 2025-10-07 17:50:19+00:00
Isnt this DLSS and Frame Gen in a nutshell?

DLSS - Render at low resolution, use an ML model to upscale

Frame Gen - Render a frame, use an ML model to generate the next frame. Render the next, gen the next....so on

(I think in practice, Frame Gen is more complicated due to fluctuation between FPS but that's another can of worms)
by farias0 | 2025-10-07 17:50:42+00:00
It only "take jobs" because it's useful. It's useful for making transcription at scale, text revision, marketing material, VFX, all those things. It also does other things that don't "take jobs", like computer voice control. It's just a tool, useful for everyone, and not harmful at all at its purpose. Comparing it to guns is just ridiculous.
by hackingonempty | 2025-10-07 17:50:46+00:00
I visited my cousin in NYC and said I wanted a "real NYC bagel" and he told me to go to H&H to get a bagel then go next door to Zabars to get lox and cream cheese.

Zabars is a huge deli and grocery store. They have refrigerated cases full of deli stuff and the staff behind them packs it for you. They have a case full of nothing but smoked fish but I didn't see any salmon. The guy said it was the next case over. A huge case of nothing but smoked salmon: dozens of different kinds of salmon from different places, different woods, different parts of the fish. I was stunned.
by k3nx | 2025-10-07 17:50:56+00:00
I did consider that. I've had more than one experience of screwing things up. The $300 investment was an insurance policy against me doing that again :) . With how happy I am with a cheap box it might be something to consider when I have a free weekend to mess with it... Or when a Windows Update installs more stuff that I don't want.

I really like stuff to work. My tinkering days are limited.
by ferguess_k | 2025-10-07 17:50:56+00:00
"With the money they earn, they can buy more police and political power. Then they come after us. We have the unions and gambling, and they're the best things to have, but narcotics is the thing of the future. If we don't get a piece of that action, we risk everything we have. Not now, but in ten years".

-- Tom Hagen
by ergocoder | 2025-10-07 17:51:03+00:00
The headline is "Israel's not a dictatorship, but it's headed toward becoming one"

So, currently not a dictatorship and wasn't one. They may or may not be in the future based on the headline which is still an opinion. If you may become a thief, should we put you in jail right now? No because you are not a thief.

Meanwhile Hamas' leaders are dictator. There hasn't been any fair election for a very long time, and everyone including you would say a lot of Palestinians don't agree with Hamas' actions toward Israel (e.g. Oct 7) but are afraid to speak up. That's a dictatorship.
by noboostforyou | 2025-10-07 17:51:39+00:00
Sins of the father...

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38480953/
by rendaw | 2025-10-07 17:51:42+00:00
That title is wild to parse... "Google Japan designs a keyboard that uses dials instead of keys"

> Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware

> ...

> In that context, the Gboard Dial Edition doesn’t seem so outlandish.

It's clearly a joke, but nothing in the article seems to indicate that the author realized this.

I love how the people in the video are rotating, it's like a perfect misapplication of PR videography.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-07 17:51:45+00:00
I'm not talking private.

Think of it this way. The government pays somebody to collect data about how many bicyclists use an intersection to decided if they should add a dedicated bike light. Why would the government need to use a warrant to get that information?

That's the same situation here. Flock is placing the cameras because the government has paid them to.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-07 17:52:16+00:00
In this specific case it seems a particularly poor implementation of a classic ordered and/or nested Checklist. If the order matters, remind people checking later steps that they missed a previous step. If nesting matters and there's some if->then logic in the checklist based on the answer, add more checklist steps as necessary. If neither the order or the nesting matters, then why is it a modal step?
by randycupertino | 2025-10-07 17:52:20+00:00
> all companies and products that interrupt a tense scene reply

Like the PEPSI vending machine, brightly lit up and just happened to be there PERFECTLY working order in the middle of an apocalypse to provide a refreshing Pepsi to Brad Pitt at the tense zombie cat-and-mouse moment in World War Z?

https://youtu.be/XzMhRnpTrL0?si=8FqSm_42Cx9sZE4R&t=93
by kragen | 2025-10-07 17:52:42+00:00
I was rebutting your incorrect assertion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487471 about what hypothetical microinverters were or were not "utterly incapable" of. The comment you have just posted is irrelevant to that.

The design features of currently existing microinverters are irrelevant to hedora's point about what microinverters could be designed to do, except insofar as they constitute an existence proof. (Obviously something is possible if it's already being done, but the inverse is not true.)

Furthermore, unsafely plugging your house wiring into a cheap generator or car inverter isn't a "wildly imaginative corner case", it's a common enough practice that there are YouTube videos warning people against doing it, because it's unsafe and in most places illegal, and also explaining how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kjpS1vfGio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiicSQZqGd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIhzy6hfvyM as well as safer approaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRveyXkf4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmmhOXsIRjw
by robenkleene | 2025-10-07 17:52:58+00:00
> DAW is designed for production, mixing, mastering, and when applied towards editing you can find yourself with a full hard drive in surprisingly little time because every edit means the DAW creates another audio file.

This isn't how the vast majority of operations work in the two DAWs I'm the most familiar with (Ableton Live and Logic Pro) work, most actions are non-destructive and don't result in extra files on your computer (e.g., the original file is referenced, and edits are applied on top of that without modifying the underlying audio file [a la Lightroom for photos]). There are certainly situations where new audio files are written, but it's usually crystal clear when you're doing so.

For the record, I agree with your overall point. DAWs abstract away a lot of the details of the underlying audio files, and there's definitely space for tools like Audacity that are designed to edit audio files staying closer to their export formats. So just clarifying that I wouldn't phrase the downside of DAWs (or at least not all DAWs) around creating a bunch of extra files (although I'd be curious to hear which DAWs actually do work that way [i.e., create new audio files based on edits], just for my own learning).
by j45 | 2025-10-07 17:53:18+00:00
It's not about whether it's hard for you.

Lots of people don't program.

More people don't know how to program than do know how to program.

In that way, just because I can't imagine it being hard, doesn't mean I understand everything there is to understand.

This creates a gap and opportunity for products to make technology more approachable for the majority, instead of the minority (programmers).

Making things accessible to more people instead of less people seems to increasingly be the way.
by anigbrowl | 2025-10-07 17:53:24+00:00
It's all downside. I've seen cases where this is used to 'give murder victims a voice' recently, both on CNN where they 'interview' an AI representation of the victim and in court, where one was used for a victim impact statement as part of the sentencing. Those people would laugh you out of the room if you suggested providing testimony via spirit medium, but as soon as it comes out of a complicated machine their brains sieze up and they uncritically accept it.
by bguthrie | 2025-10-07 17:53:25+00:00
I've been writing Rails code since 2007. There's a reason the stack has gotten more complicated with time, and virtually no team has ever done it right by this definition.

The trouble with an omakase framework is not just that you have to agree to the initial set of choices but that you have to agree with every subsequent choice that's made, and you have to pull your entire dev team along for the ride. It's a very powerful framework, but the maintainers are generally well-meaning humans who do not possess a crystal ball, and many choices were made that were subsequently discarded. Consequently, my sense is that there are very few vanilla Rails apps in the wild anywhere.

(I'm old enough to remember what it was like to deploy a Rails application pre-Docker: rsyncing or dropping a tarball into a fleet of instances and then `touch`ing the requisite file to get the app server to reset. Docker and k8s bring a lot of pain. It's not worse than that was.)
by Telaneo | 2025-10-07 17:53:36+00:00
The risk of that happening, while real and problematic, is not a real concern for most people, as the liklyhood of anything happening is really low. Same goes for the OS being more closed of. The normies, to out it that way, are happy with the normal app store experience and won't notice the difference before and after a complete lockdown, since they've never gone outside the normal bounds to begin with.
by danhor | 2025-10-07 17:53:38+00:00
> There's still relevance in making it stupidly easy to make an LED blink and make basic apps on circuit boards. Education + weekend hardware hackers might look for something different in a framework than a professional.

This group is has been moving to circuitpython, which is much less performant, but even easier to use. The more serious cross-platform development environments, like Zephyr, have also become much better.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-07 17:53:47+00:00
Windows 7 was the first version that gave me stability that made Linux feel like less of a must-have / only option.

Windows 11 largely gives me no problems and has worked perfectly fine with the hardware I've thrown at it, with no effort on my part. WSL is definitely a bonus.

The same just has not been true of Linux for me during the same time period with the same pieces of hardware.

I still happen to run NixOS on my laptop (the most recent of 6 distros, and Windows, I've tried over the past couple of years). It's not been entirely trouble-free but (thanks to the Arch wiki, mostly), it's in a decent state now.

And you are right about the hostile anti-features, though, and that promises to only get worse.

My windows PC has been relegated to games and will likely get whatever first stable, headache free SteamOS+NVIDIA incarnation turns up.

I've got no more affection for Windows than for Linux. There are just cases where the former has given me fewer headaches than the latter.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-10-07 17:53:54+00:00
OK, really hot take here:

-ChatControl, as it is currently defined, is not going to happen, because it's absolutely stupid and would make impossible, amongst other things, online banking

-Yet, there is a growing and legitimate demand for lawful interception of 'chat' services. I mean, "sure, your bank account got emptied, but we can't look into that because it happened via Signal" just isn't a good look

-So, something has got to give. Either 'chat' services need to become 'providers of telecoms services' and therefore implement lawful interception laws, or the malware industry will continue to flourish, or something even more stupid will happen

Pick your poison.
by kokanee | 2025-10-07 17:54:01+00:00
You might not like the tone, but I don't see what makes the words false. "Paramilitary" describes a non-military group behaving similarly to a military group, and we're talking about armed masked men sweeping homes, taking prisoners, and engaging in violent conflicts. "Operating illegally" means that federal, state, or local laws have been broken, and that seems to be the case, e.g. Gonzalez v. ICE.
by jayess | 2025-10-07 17:54:10+00:00
Unfortunately, there are two things keeping me on Windows:

1) Office (libreoffice is a steaming pile) 2) Fortnite

If those can be solved, I'm done with Windows. I've been a windows fanboi since 3.11. But I'm finally ready to move to Debian desktop (even Ubuntu has gotten crappy lately).
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-07 17:54:15+00:00
> but if that happens the state is entirely dependent on the growing the wealth of the mega rich and will act in their interest in effect cementing their power even further.

This is a laughable premise.

A huge amount of government revenue has always come from the wealthy, yet there is consistent pressure to reduce their taxes in the US government. Why? Because the IRS doesn't run the US government, politicians do. Why would a wealth tax based government be any less likely to try and reduce their tax burden?

A rich person's power comes from being rich: From controlling significant resources, things like communication channels, important industry, bribes/kickbacks/whatever you call them

It has nothing to do with government revenue.
by nunobrito | 2025-10-07 17:54:58+00:00
I'm a java developer coming from a world where the IDE is tightly integrated with the language.

For me, VS code always felt like a "jack of all trades and master of none". C/C++ are strongly typed languages, they aren't different from Java in that regard and yet it is so time consuming to navigate code, see if the syntax is correct and so forth. Really annoying to only know if the code is compiling correctly after pressing the compile button and wait about 30 seconds.

These are things that in the Java world nobody really thinks about because the IDE does a lot of the heavy effort in the background, yet in VS code or C++ it really feels like going back to 2005. For Javascript gets even worse on VS code whenever one is not using NPM. Needs reload the browser to check the console and see if things are working as expected. Good luck trying to find functions somewhere in the codebase without manual text search.

It is not my intention to shade any of those languages nor IDE, I just honestly wish that the IDE for those languages was as powerful as the ones in Java and C#. Arduino had the opportunity to do that since they are tightly committed to C/C++ and control everything on the build process but their goal was always more focused on education level than a more professional development. Let's see if with Qualcomm this is now changing into a tighter IDE+language integration.
by languagehacker | 2025-10-07 17:55:28+00:00
Any project that doesn't need 30 or more devs with various specialties working on it all at the same time doesn't need the complexity that frontend/backend separation introduces. I learned this the hard way through years of over-architecting 1-2 person projects as a freelancer. Nowadays, it's just Django with a little bit of Tailwind on top.
by Lumoscore | 2025-10-07 17:55:58+00:00
Seriously, how is this still a conversation in 2025? It's completely absurd that an entire legislature had to pass a bill (shoutout to California for SB 576, the rest of you take notes) to fix something that is purely an intentional design decision by streaming companies.

The sheer audacity of the industry arguing that it's "technologically too difficult" to match the loudness of an ad to the loudness of the program is an insult to the people who wrote the original CALM Act code ten years ago. They can serve up geo-specific, personalized, real-time ads based on what I ate for dinner last night, but ensuring the audio standard is consistent is where the technology apparently hits a brick wall? Please.

Every time one of those blast-furnace commercials kicks in, it's a perfect encapsulation of how little the streaming platforms respect their paying customers. It’s a deliberate strategy—a final, desperate attempt to shock your brainstem into attention after you've spent an hour in the quiet dynamic range of cinematic dialogue.

I'm not in California, so for now, I'm still relying on my TV's ancient "Night Mode" compressor just to survive the commercial breaks. Hopefully, the rest of the world stops pretending this isn't fixable and applies the same basic standard of decency. Our home theater systems deserve better.
by sublinear | 2025-10-07 17:55:58+00:00
I think it's even less important for startups.

At some point, the business cannot be just one app or one tech stack. More devs will come aboard that disagree with the chosen tools and for very good reasons. You must work with the devs you have and the expertise they bring. Only the most out of touch CTO would avoid sunsetting legacy apps. There's the business side concerned with functionality, and then there's the hiring side concerned with implementation details. Both are key to getting the best devs and the best results.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-07 17:56:22+00:00
What's ridiculous is that second paragraph:

"There isn’t enough bandwidth to transmit video to all devices from the servers and there won’t always be good connectivity, so there still needs to be significant client-side AI compute."

So no real operating system, except an AI which operates the whole computer including all inputs and outputs? I feel like there's a word for that.
by xwowsersx | 2025-10-07 17:57:06+00:00
This is great. I really appreciate visual explanations and the way you build up the motivation. I'm using a few resources to learn linear algebra right now, including "The No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra", which has been pretty decent so far. Does anyone have other recommendations? I've found a lot of books to be too dense or academic for what I need. My goal is to develop a practical, working understanding I can apply directly.
by mhamann | 2025-10-07 17:57:18+00:00
Right...there are lots of ways you could do that. Most of the ways we've seen enabling that sort of thing tend to be programmatic in nature. That's great for some people, but you have to deal with shifting dependencies, sorting out bugs, making sure everything connects properly, etc. Some people will want that for sure, because you do get control over every little piece.

LlamaFarm provides an abstraction over most (eventually all) of those pieces. Something that should work out of the box wherever you deploy it but with various knobs to customize as needed (we're working on an agent to help you with this as well).

In your example (alarm monitoring), I think right now you'd still need to write the agent, but you could use LlamaFarm to deploy an LLM that relied on increasingly accurate examples in RAG and very easily adjust your system prompt.
by anonEbWZRLG | 2025-10-07 17:58:07+00:00
Thank you for writing this, Simon. I'm using an anonymous account not tied to my main one, so if the mods want to delete it, go ahead, but I really need to rant. My company has been taking this same approach for the past two months. While the rest of the world is warning about the effects of vibe coding and AI-slop, we're fully embracing it, calling it "working smart" and "automate all things!"

It's utterly ridiculous. It feels like the PMs and higher-ups have no idea how much tech debt we're creating right now. For the past few weeks, going to work has felt like going back to school, everyone's showing off their "homework", and whoever has the coolest vibecoded instructions.md or pipeline gets promoted.

I'm slowly burning out, and I was one of the people who actually liked the technology behind all this.
by rgthelen | 2025-10-07 17:58:16+00:00
Good question — that’s actually the sweet spot for LlamaFarm.

You can wire things together yourself (LangChain, bash, Ollama, etc.), but LlamaFarm tries to make that repeatable and portable. It’s declarative orchestration for AI systems — you describe what you want (models, RAG, agents, vector DBs) in YAML, and it runs the same way anywhere: laptop, cloud, or fully air-gapped edge.

So instead of gluing frameworks and breaking them every update, you can do something like:

name: home_guarde runtimes: - detect_motion: {model: "phi-3", provider: "lemonade"} - alert: {model: "gpt-5", fallback: "llama3:8b"} rag: embedder: "nomic-embed-text" database: chromaDB

…and it just runs — same config, same behavior, whether you’re doing local RAG or home monitoring. The goal isn’t to replace the DIY route, just to make it composable and reproducible.
by pram | 2025-10-07 17:58:35+00:00
No joke: I worked at an MSP and we onboarded a huge client, we were supposed to handle their network provisioning/problems through a dedicated service desk ticketing system.

After the B team set everything up, they didn't even get the Z team. A few months in, it turned out NO ONE was logging into their ticketing system at all, so there were hundreds of tickets their engineers had created with no acknowledgement. Just lol.
by bongodongobob | 2025-10-07 17:59:43+00:00
As someone who manages 1000s of windows devices.... Do the damn upgrades. That is why your device has issues. You can have all the moral complaints you want, I get it, but you're just making things more difficult for yourself. Either follow their patching cadence or switch to Linux. You're putting yourself into a purgatory zone that is only making things more janky.
by jzb | 2025-10-07 18:00:00+00:00
It's real hard for me to conjure up "good" uses for, say, mustard gas or bioweapons or nuclear warheads.

"Technology is neutral" is a cop-out and should be seen as such. People should, at the very least, try to ask how people / society will make use of a technology and ask whether it should be developed/promoted.

We are all-too-often over-optimistic about how things will be used or position them being used in the best possible light rather than being realistic in how things will be used.

In a perfect world, people might only use AI responsibly and in ways that largely benefit mankind. We don't live in that perfect world, and it is/was predictable that AI would be used in the worst ways more than it's used in beneficial ones.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-10-07 18:00:38+00:00
Yeah, it feels like deja vu. The speed of this bubble inflating, though, is much faster. It's feeling very dangerous and the longer this goes on the more dangerous it gets. I saw something yesterday that said AI spending is propping up 40% of US GDP right now. That would mean that this bubble popping would probably have a bigger effect over a bigger part of the economy than the dotcom bust.

It feels like the dotcom bubble was recent to those of us who lived through it, but 25 years is about a generation. But a lot of the people in the markets now (and running companies) were kids back then and thus weren't really aware of what was going on.
by rgthelen | 2025-10-07 18:00:59+00:00
Yeah, that’s a fair framing — it is kind of an “application layer” for AI orchestration, but focused on ownership and portability instead of just convenience.

Yeah, the beachead will be our biggest issue - where to find first hard-core users. I was thinking legal (they have a need for AI, but data cannot leave their servers), healthcare (same as legal, but more regualtions), and government (not right now, but normally have deep pockets).

What do you think is a good starting place?