MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kodomonocch1 | 2025-10-17 15:37:51+00:00
Happy to answer design details (page layout, Bloom tuning, codec selection, failure modes). Minimal Python examples for exists(key) and positions(key) are in the repo. If anyone needs deeper materials (reproducible FULL benches, wheel artifacts, and design notes) we have an NDA-gated VDR; I can share the form on request.
by chipsrafferty | 2025-10-17 15:37:58+00:00
1. It's bad prose. If you think it reads fine, you don't read good prose.

2. It's immediately recognized as AI Slop which makes people question its veracity, or intent

3. If the author can't take the time and effort to create a well-crafhed article, it's insulting to ask us to take the time and effort to read it.

4. Allowing this style of writing to become accepted and commonplace leads to a death of variety of styles over time and is not good for anyone. For multiple reasons.

5. A lot of people are cranking out shit just for money, so maybe they wrote this just for money and maybe it's not even true (related to point 3)
by CursedSilicon | 2025-10-17 15:37:59+00:00
>I've found that it's almost impossible to even hire people who aren't terrified of the idea of self-hosting

Are y'all hiring? [1]

I did 15 months at AWS and consider it the worst career move of my life. I much prefer working with self-hosting where I can actually optimize the entire hardware stack I'm working with. Infrastructure is fun to tinker with. Cloud hosting feels like a miserable black box that you dump your software into and "hope"

[1] https://cursedsilicon.net/resume.pdf
by Incipient | 2025-10-17 15:38:01+00:00
> 1. AI coding makes it absolutely trivial to add new features later on if you do need it.

I have to refute this. It may make it easier or faster...but definitely not trivial. I had it add a new feature to my simple app, and the way it did it worked, it just fetched the entire list of entities for each entity in a list. Why it didn't create a new endpoint for "get entity" or just cache the whole list then do lisp) local lookup, I don't know...but it absolutely wrecked performance.
by mirabilis | 2025-10-17 15:39:05+00:00
If I might be more optimistic, I think people may actually care about a statement being rooted in reality, but people may not be likely to slow down and engage in suspicion of something they would not expect to be false. (Though the size of that window may be its own problem!) If I see someone claiming they have the cure for cancer, then I consider it a bit fantastical and want to investigate further. If a supposed quote from an older actress talks about her time doing Shakespeare, then it doesn’t really proc any doubt in me; I’m offering a baseline of trust to the publisher that forwarded that information along to me that this information is factual and not someone’s strange fanfiction about her life. I can appreciate that the author doubted it because a quick scroll of the blog shows that he’s got an interest in stagecraft and so it bumped up against his expertise, but I don’t think that I would have seen the quote myself and done the same… maybe I am one of those sub-median ignoramuses you mention. I agree that people uncritically eating up sensational news is a problem, but this is like, pretty straightforward in-memoriam news that I’d hope to not have to doubt.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-17 15:39:55+00:00
This stupid article is being pushed by multiple channels today. There's an easier explanation other than the self-serving "Our interpretation is that people who responded positively to these statements would feel they 'win' by endorsing misinformation – doing so can show 'the enemy' that it will not gain any ground over people’s views." Which incidentally, is a conclusion based on no science, it's just a WaPo editorial.

People believed a bunch of nonsense because people in authority were knowingly lying to them and intentionally confusing the facts at every turn. Normal people have no expertise, so they need to trust someone, and the people who were appointed to those positions of trust showed themselves willing to lie to help their own finances and careers, and to push transient political agendas.

They were left to trust other random people, like their religious leaders, or their family members - anybody who seemed like they had any moral grounding or conscience at all. They also trusted people who also pointed out that official institutional figures were lying - which is a mistake. It's easy for a scammer to point out another scammer, that doesn't mean you should trust him.

All the 5G conspiracy theories are just a reaction to how aggressively and undemocratically 5G was pushed. People intelligently and reasonably assume that if you are willing to run over everybody to do something from which there are enormous amounts of money to be made, you might not give two shits about any health consequences. This is also true, and they are right, but it doesn't mean that there are health consequences, which is the mistake.

But you know everything would have happened the same way if 5G were going to end up doubling the cancer rate or autism, or whatever other bad thing. We just wouldn't hear about it for 50 years, the people who got rich from it would have died of old age surrounded by their fat happy grandchildren, and their silver-spoon kids (your bosses) would be the ones in charge of the investigations and the remedies.
by saghm | 2025-10-17 15:40:07+00:00
> As the nonprofit steward of this infrastructure, Ruby Central has a fiduciary duty to safeguard the supply chain and protect the long-term stability of the ecosystem. In consultation with legal counsel and following a recent security audit, we are strengthening our governance processes, formalizing operator agreements, and tightening access to production systems.

It took less than two weeks from this statement for them to put out an incident report from them forgetting to change the password on the infrastructure they took from the previous maintainers. I can't say I'm shocked that this didn't actually result in people's confidence in their ability as steward to provide long-term stability for the ecosystem.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-17 15:40:10+00:00
Your comment seems much more in the vain "I already learned how to do it this way, and I would have to learn something to do it the other way"

Which is of course true, but it is true for all things. Provisioning a cluster in AWS takes a bit of research and learning, but so did learning how to set it up locally. I think most people who know how to do both will agree it is simpler to learn how to use the AWS version than learning how to self host it.
by mmooss | 2025-10-17 15:40:11+00:00
Some excerpts:

> When people think symbolically this way, the literal issue – here, fighting COVID-19 – is secondary to a psychological war over people’s minds. In the minds of those who think they’re engaged in them, psychological wars are waged over opinions and attitudes, and are won via control of belief and messaging.

> people who responded positively to these statements would feel they “win” by endorsing misinformation – doing so can show “the enemy” that it will not gain any ground over people’s views.

> vaccination, masking or other COVID-19 prevention efforts could be seen as a symbolic risk that could “weaken” one psychologically even if they provide literal physical benefits.

> The more outlandish or easily disproved something is, the more powerful one might seem when standing by it. Being an edgelord – a contrarian online provocateur – or outright lying can, in their own odd way, appear “authentic.”

> this mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes, including beliefs that some groups should dominate others and support for autocratic government. These links help explain why strongman leaders often use misinformation symbolically to impress and control a population.

> they want those far-fetched claims acted on anyway. The deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, for example, can be the desired end goal, even if the offered justification is a transparent farce.

> debunkers merely demonstrate that they’re the ones reacting, and are therefore weak.

Another way to describe it, I think, is that some people use words as weapons, not as a means of transmitting knowledge.

So many people - even sophisticated leaders - opposed to disinformation don't understand that, and keep debunking and arguing, demonstrating with everything they say that they are losing a fight they don't even understand.
by antonellof | 2025-10-17 15:40:31+00:00
I tried it and created a full RAG application very easily. I followed the examples in the online documentation and it was really a piece of cake. My previous implementation of RAG (without Datapizza) used direct libraries such as OpenAI, Sentence Transformers, etc. Instead, I find it very useful to have a “framework” where you already have everything. In the past, I played around with Langchain, but I find it really immense, as complete and large as it is complex and distracting.
by darkwater | 2025-10-17 15:40:48+00:00
> What is old is new again.

I think there is a generational part as well. The ones of us that are now deep in our 40s or 50s grew up professionally in a self-hosted world, and some of us are now in decision-making positions, so we don't necessarily have to take the cloud pill anymore :)

Half-joking, half-serious.
ChatGPT Android app still lags after a year of issues – open-source it?
by sergeivolodin | 2025-10-17 15:41:01+00:00
The ChatGPT Android app still sometimes locks one CPU core at 100% even when idle. It often lags even with no chat loaded; projects temporarily disappear; voice messages vanish; and message history occasionally breaks after edits (only “Clear storage + relogin” helps).

These issues have been reported for more than a year across multiple threads and platforms (CPU drain, message loss, sync failures, voice bugs) — yet no clear fix ever lands.

This isn't only about a buggy app. It shows what happens when a company optimizes entirely for model research and growth, while the interface — the literal body through which people experience AI — decays in silence. Most Android feedback channels are closed, community threads get archived, and developers can't even inspect the client to help.

If the app were open-source, engineers outside OpenAI could trace the leaks, profile CPU behavior, and contribute patches — the kind of cooperative debugging that open ecosystems are built on.

It would free OpenAI’s core team to focus on new LLMs and the impact of AGI on society instead of endless patches, and users would finally get a reliable interface.

Everyone wins.

If this discussion gains enough visibility, someone at OpenAI will potentially decide to let the community help.
by zitterbewegung | 2025-10-17 15:43:03+00:00
I question where it's a good idea to give police / solider a big reflective helmet that can cause headaches, eye strain, and nausea (the previous system from Microsoft before Anduril took over). There were constant complaints by the users that it wasn't useful. I see Anduril using less lenses but the reflective ness of this helmet makes it a huge threat to the user of the product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Visual_Augmentation... https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/anduril-to-take-over-microso...
by ABCLAW | 2025-10-17 15:43:44+00:00
There were a lot of pre-internet 2.0 groups that were phenomenal in terms of competence density.

The first point I worry a bit less about but it does have moments when it's suboptimal - for certain specific discussions there's often a need for a more durable thread-space to continue discussion. Some of the heartbleed and cloudflare discussions, wherein there were ongoing developments day by day needed to be cut up into many threads and people discussing had to refer back to now dead-threads from earlier days.

As someone with a hard science background doing law, I agree with the second point. I agree and notice it fairly consistently where discussion moves into my areas of expertise. I feel like there's a lot of Bayesian overconfidence that bleeds into off-competence discussions on here. I think this fairly normal, where high-competence people are put into areas where they can't identify their own knowledge gaps.

I think Nobel disease is more of an apt moniker than the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe what happens here. People who are highly competent in some areas probably learn to have lower Bayesian uncertainty, so they speak in more confident terms and sanity check their own conclusions less.
by tremon | 2025-10-17 15:44:51+00:00
Can you expand on the other things that the article says? I don't see many new angles, all I see is reformulations of the exact same premise. Claims of strength vs weakness are directly analogous to professing in-group allegiance. Replacing tribalism with symbolism doesn't change the underlying mechanism, especially when a few paragraphs later they directly link symbolic thinking with "authoritarian attitudes", completing the circle back to tribalism.
by saghm | 2025-10-17 15:44:56+00:00
As best I've been able to understand it, a dislike of DHH led to the opportunity for those with a dislike of André to do all the stuff under discussion. I doubt we'll ever know the whole story, but in the absence of any of the additional context that some people claim exists (but haven't made public), this seems to be the most coherent explanation for what happened.
by Wingman4l7 | 2025-10-17 15:45:04+00:00
Zipline's platform 2 is VTOL and is essentially a quad rotor + 1 rear swivel motor, during delivery. A fixed wing won't help you much if you have a failure while hovering. Google's Wing is a very similar design (6 hover motors on a boom, two booms, one along each wing). The key is flight system redundancies, something consumer drones simply don't have, and Zipline also has a ballistic parachute in case of severe failures since their aircraft is fairly large.

Maybe they won't ever become a "big thing", but Zipline is already delivering food directly to consumers in TX and elsewhere.
by lolpython | 2025-10-17 15:45:26+00:00
If you buy the book on Amazon, then the author gets some money, but if you don’t buy it, then they don’t. And it’s not like you have zero alternatives, you could also just buy the physical copy in most cases. So when you say you’re unable to buy the book that’s not truthful. No one is forcing you to steal their work, you have the option to just not read their work if your distribution preferences are so specific. And the distribution terms of the book are likely set by the publisher for many authors, especially smaller ones. I doubt most authors even know what DRM is.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-10-17 15:45:26+00:00
A good article, although I question why the author is talking about Iran and its organ market, if she's never been there and doesn't talk to anyone about it. Probably more complicated - and obviously exploitive, I mean, it's Iran - than she leads us to believe. Since it's Hacker News, cue the:

- "I'm outraged that death is brain death [or something else from the medical establishment] and not [some other crank folk definition]"

- "We should be able to pay for livers!" has never considered that he or his extended family could have been poor enough to be exploited by such a world

- "There's no organ exploitation in Asia" despite donation rates being so low and transplants being so high, the organs must be coming from somewhere

- "All transplant is exploitative" he says, until he or a family member needs a life-saving organ donation
by Mystery-Machine | 2025-10-17 15:45:37+00:00
Oh, I didn't know that André wants to sell gem.coop and/or rv. Can you please point me to more info about where this intention to sell gem.coop and/or rv was mentioned?

They want to sell some RubyGems logs about corporations (not individuals) using RubyGems API, to...Ruby Central?

As André explained on his site, he was on-call at the time when they were removing him. He acted to protect the service by limiting access. No harmful actions done by him were ever discovered by Ruby Central. It's two entities fighting to remove the other. You can say Ruby Central was right, I can say André was right. But we do know that Ruby Central fired the first shot when they (could've been an actual hacker) removed literally everyone from RubyGems and Bundler projects.
by krapp | 2025-10-17 15:46:42+00:00
I think that's a question you can only answer for yourself, but if you're talking about skills relative to employment, you probably have no choice but to learn to use AI. I don't think "software engineering" as a skill will even exist in ten years, and not knowing how to use AI will be like not knowing how to use email or the internet, it will just be one of those constants in technological society you have to understand.

That shouldn't stop you from learning or writing your own stuff, though, if only for personal enjoyment and education. Just understand those skills might not be worth what you expect to the marketplace.
by ameliaquining | 2025-10-17 15:46:42+00:00
That's not accurate; the monetization proposal happened before the revocation of permissions. The controversy about various accesses that may or may not have been unauthorized (depending on whose story you believe) came later.

Perfect neutrality is unachievable but that doesn't mean that every possible way of presenting the facts is equally valid, or even that it's impossible to distinguish presentations that are or aren't missing important context (see, e.g., the surprising success of Twitter's Community Notes).
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-17 15:46:44+00:00
American salaries are typically wildly higher, both on the low end and on the high end. It's often remote work. There are more jobs and more variety of jobs, on an absolute scale, than any particular locality. There may be more of a job ladder, and less stigma to wanting to climb it. There are some other cultural aspects as well.

I would love to see such options become available in Europe (insofar as additional options existing, not taking away the ones that already exist). But that would require some extremely successful European companies working to change it.
by ABCLAW | 2025-10-17 15:46:50+00:00
>Everyone here wants to look like the next Steve Jobs in front of YC, no one wants to look like Steve Wozniak.

I think it's interesting that this wasn't the vibe that was here around the time of the first few YC cohorts. Everyone posting here was chatting as if they wanted to embody the Richard Stallman/Wozniak prototypical hackerman. I think once YC grew and this became a place to network with successful industry insiders rather than tech savvy ultra-geeks doing it for the love of the game that the tone changed hard.
by benjiro | 2025-10-17 15:46:56+00:00
> I've never set up a highly available Postgres and Redis cluster on dedicated hardware, but I can not imagine it's easier than doing it in AWS which is only a few clicks

I haven ever setup a AWS postgres and redis, and know its more then a few clicks. there is simply basic information that you need to link between services, where it does not matter if its cloud or hardware, you still need to do the same steps, be it from CLI or WebInterface.

And frankly, these days with LLMs, its no excuse anymore. You can literally ask a LLM to do the steps, explain them to you, and your off to the races.

> I don't have to worry about OS upgrades and patches

Single command and reboot...

> Or a highly available load balancer with infinite scale.

Unless your google, overrated ...

You literally rent from places like Hetzner for 10 bucks a load balancer, and if your old fascion, you can even do a DNS balancing.

Or you simply rent a server 10x the performance what Amazon gives (for the same price or less), and you do not need a load balancer. I mean, for 200 bucks, you rent a 48 core 96 thread server at Hetzner... Who needs a load balancer again... You will do millions or requests on a single machine.
by vintermann | 2025-10-17 15:47:18+00:00
Especially the actor one, understanding why someone would take the trouble to check that is almost as hard as understanding why someone would take the trouble to lie about it. Should we expect it of media? Probably.

The "payload" in this article, the thing he wants to spread debunking of, is the indeed false claim that Euan Blair's son Multiverse's company got a government ID card contract.

But looking into it, that company seems very odd. Can you really get a billion pound valuation and investments from tons of powerful people from placing school leavers into apprenticeships?

Sometimes I wonder if PR companies spread false stories about companies to pre-emptively discredit the true stories that have yet to be told.
by neutronicus | 2025-10-17 15:47:37+00:00
Yes, elsewhere in this thread someone is complaining about lousy C# language server performance relative to IDEs. These swiss-army-knife programmer's editors will always be at a semantic language tooling disadvantage relative to IDEs.

I know that days of yak-shaving with LSP and emacs only gets me to a janky imitation of Visual Studio/XCode semantic search on my C++ work codebase. "Fuck it, let an LLM auto-complete based on vibes" has some appeal when you just get sick of trying to arm-wrestle clangd into ... whatever XCode or Visual Studio are doing to have functional semantic search across the project.

Although I have to say LLMs were a disaster at vibe-auto-completing in VSCode. So I mostly stick with semantic search in the IDE and editing in emacs like I always have.
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-17 15:47:46+00:00
however interesting this is i am sorry to say the moon _is_ made of cheese. otherwise very interesting and thorough read. thanks for the share / writeup. i hope this censorship stuff doesnt get more out of hand. its crazy to think a foreign government could put you out of business in such a way if your own laws or constitution protect you specifically on the same point.
by analog8374 | 2025-10-17 15:47:52+00:00
The secret to getting good overall organization and symmetry might be the approach taken by these two guys:

http://fleen.org

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/282037995384211853/

(For that second guy, see his earlier stuff. His butterfly origami. It's stronger

Which is to say, rather than building a large system from cells, they start with a large simple system and then differentiate it. Recursively.

Now how that might be applied to your vision is a question
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-17 15:48:49+00:00
Great points. I have several people close to me who are firemen. They see shit you’re not really intended to see, and often don’t have a way to work through it. My mom was a nurse, mostly in CCU and ICU. She was an incredible advocate for her patients and profession, but she witnessed a lot of death and her way of intellectually processing that made her seem harsh about certain things, but it’s really perspective — most of us see death as a concept not reality.

It’s part of the reason why an observant person can usually spot a cop or firefighter in plain clothes. They put on a facade as a coping mechanism that leaks into life.

Most problems at their root are a result of people not treating people like people. Many “advocates” for police are really just attracted to the perception of power, and see failures of accountability as a sign of strength. It’s the opposite.
by mmooss | 2025-10-17 15:49:07+00:00
I posted a bunch here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618020

> Claims of strength vs weakness are directly analogous to professing in-group allegiance.

They are mostly orthogonal imho. I can be strong without being in-group, and vice versa. In a group whose ideology is worship of power, then I can see a relationship but they aren't at all the same. For example, there are those who take the role of the weak who are worshipping power (and sometimes wanting it) and a defined power structure, like people who identify with being 'betas' and incels.