MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conradludgate | 2025-10-15 08:40:30+00:00
By some metrics (commit count, lines of code, latency to bug fix), I'm one of the most productive engineers in my org. My peers are constantly surprised that I still use zero LLMs in my development routine.

I'm holding on as much as I can. I love the thrill of programming and I'm definitely not holding the team back, although there have been idle threats about it being bad that seniors are not using AI enough.

My super power is that I've meticulously shaped the codebase I maintain to fit in my head at all times. It's only possible because I've been hands on with all of it. In my downtime I do idle refactors and often throw it away, just to explore more ideas to build even more implicit context.

I think we're going to have to have a generational shift in LLM context management before we get to something as capable. I certainly don't doubt we'll get there one day. But I will definitely feel depressed whenever that day comes. Solving architectural problems is my job, implementing the software is my reward - this is something that makes me happy to wake up every day. I accept that I'm a minority in the world of software development
by oblio | 2025-10-15 08:41:05+00:00
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https://www.dacia.ro/gama-dacia/sandero.html

https://www.dacia.ro/gama-dacia/sandero-stepway.html

https://www.whatcar.com/best/the-10-cheapest-new-cars-you-ca...

The Dacia Logan and Sandero Stepway, especially, are quite usable as family cars.
by yard2010 | 2025-10-15 08:41:06+00:00
> Zhi and a network of top executives in the Prince Group are accused of using political influence in multiple countries to protect their criminal enterprise and paid bribes to public officials to avoid actions by law enforcement authorities targeting the scheme, according to prosecutors.

Gentle reminder that the presence of a strong democratic regime with law and no bribes keeps the world a better place.

Once the US becomes corrupted at this scale we are doomed to this bullshit.
by socalgal2 | 2025-10-15 08:42:01+00:00
I think I'd prefer to see it broken down by neighborhood. Maybe crime all over is down but it's up in the tenderloin, compton, oakland.

I see what I consider, I guess spin, on reports on oakland. Like:

* Violent crime rose between 2018 and 2023, though it was lower than the peak in 1992.

What does it matter if it was worse in 1992? To the people leaving in Oakland say from 2010 to 2023, it's going up. They don't care if it was worse in 1992. That's irrelevant data to try to make you feel better about the fact that things are getting worse. They care that they are less safe than before.

There's a buncn more but the point is, it's possible crime all over is down and crime in places many people live is up.
by eusto | 2025-10-15 08:42:02+00:00
I think that if SQLite would suddenly have to add a bunch of new features, the discussion about rewriting it would be very relevant.

I think we like to fool ourselves that decisions like these are based on performance considerations or maintainability or whatever, but in reality they would be based on time to market and skill availability in the areas where the team is being built.

At the end of the day, SQLite is not being rewritten because the cost of doing so is not justifiable
by jeremyscanvic | 2025-10-15 08:44:31+00:00
The part about AI being very sensitive to small perturbations of their input is actually a very active research topic (and coincidentally the subject of my PhD). Most vision AIs suffer from poor spatial robustness [1], you can drastically lower their accuracy simply by translating the inputs by well-chosen (adversarial) translations of a few pixels! I don't know much about text processing AIs but I can imagine their semantic robustness is also studied.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02779

Edit: typo
by aeonfox | 2025-10-15 08:44:56+00:00
> This is not going to displace and biodiversity than a truck stop in the same location would.

You wildly underestimate what lives in an arid landscape. I don't blame you, because you can't really know unless you've spent time in these landscapes, and have the inclination to observe them.

> More to the point, if we can't build a solar plant here then we're never going to build one in this country

There's plenty of already disturbed land that can be used before decimating nature parks. Be it vacant agricultural land, decommissioned commercial real estate, etc. But like I said, roof-top solar and grid-scale batteries are still largely under-utilised and have the added benefit of not needing expensive transmission lines. This will become especially true as the cost of batteries continue to steeply decline.
by SerCe | 2025-10-15 08:45:32+00:00
> Let me save you fifteen minutes, or the rest of your life: They aren’t.

Knowing that all profilers aren't perfectly accurate isn't a very useful piece of information. However, knowing which types of profilers are inaccurate and in which cases is indeed very useful information, and this is exactly what this article is about. Well worth 15 minutes.

> And that often involves ignoring the fancy visualization and staring at the numbers.

Visualisations are incredibly important. I've debugged a large number [1] of performance issues and production incidents highlighted by the async profiler producing Brendan Gregg's flame graphs [2]. Sure, things could be presented as numbers, but what I really care about most of the time when I take a CPU profile from a production instance is – what part of the system was taking most of the CPU cycles.

[1]: https://x.com/SerCeMan/status/1305783089608548354

[2]: https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html
by mattmanser | 2025-10-15 08:46:47+00:00
Yes, but we can't inspect, reproduce or explain the emergent property independently. We can't pick out the "math reasoning" part or the "programming" part, or inspect how it's working, or selectively change any of it. You can't turn any dials or twiddle any knobs. You can't replace one part with another, or pick out components. You can't peek inside and say:

"hey it's got an irrational preference for naming its variables after famous viking warriors, lets change that!"

But worse, it's not that you can't change it, you just don't know! All you can do is test it and guess its biases.

Is it racist, is it homophobic, is it misogynistic? There was an article here the other day about AI in recruitment and the hidden biases. And there was a recruitment AI that only picked men for a role. The job spec was entirely gender neutral. And they hadn't noticed until a researcher looked at it.

It's a black box. So if it does something incorrectly, all they can do is retrain and hope.

Again, this is my present understanding of how it all works right now.
by actionfromafar | 2025-10-15 08:47:14+00:00
I don't think you can debunk this with a generic CCNP check. The concern is hacking, not normal network configurations.

The Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) provider is Palantir.

Tabulator Machine <- usb/serial -> UPS <- cell connection -> Internet.

Not uncommon to run SNMP on a UPS either. SNMP is an unloved pile of bugs:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/as-many-as-2-millio...

I'm not saying anything nefarious actually happened. But as soon as you connect devices to the net in any way you are in deep water, especially when one or more of your vendors may be one of your threat actors.

Complicated hacks are not common, but possible, especially when the stakes are high and competent people are on the task. Stuxnet development started 20 years ago - and the target was even airgapped, which didn't help the target in the end.
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-15 08:47:17+00:00
> Google Play Protect

Play Protect really is the root of all evil, Google certainly seems to be incentivized to write services like Play Protect that effectively act like malware/spyware in order to force users to see more ads by making it as difficult as possible to run effective system wide ad-blockers on mobile devices by crippling the ability of users to run non-Google sanctioned code on their devices at high enough privilege levels. They've deliberately designed Play Protect for maximum user hostility instead of trying to come up with ways to provide security while maintaining user freedom. For example they could have instead implemented much stronger sand-boxing of apps so that apps would have as little knowledge as possible regarding what type of environment they are running in, similar to webapps, yet they chose the exact opposite approach and went out of their to prevent users from restricting app permissions/system visibility deliberately.

Additionally the sideload blocking plan they published seems to be effectively Google deliberately using installation whitelisting in order to prevent users from removing ads from apps with tools like revanced(revanced is an APK patcher and relies on the ability to effectively self sign/install APK's without googles approval if running on bootloader locked devices).

These elaborate user hostile schemes of theirs even uses similar dubious technical justifications as manifest V3's ad-block crippling did for Chrome.

> GrapheneOS can not do anything about that.

I mean, they could help write exploits to help users bypass the Play Protect malware/spyware I suppose, although that probably doesn't align with their goals. I'm really not sure what other practical options there are in regards to fighting these malicious spyware services that Google wants to force on everyone.

Since Google doesn't have effective full control over the Android hardware supply chain like Apple does undermining the Play Protect spyware scheme should be much easier as one probably just needs to come up with some key extraction attacks against certified Android devices with terrible hardware security(lot of cheap Chinese SoC's used in Android phones that have rather poor cryptographic key protections). In theory one can then use extracted attestation keys to emulate a secure boot chain in software on other devices along with sufficient sandboxing to trick Play Protect into thinking it's running on a Google sanctioned bootloader locked device even when running with a custom OS.
by zevon | 2025-10-15 08:47:30+00:00
I did not say nor mean to imply that genetics do not have anything to do with IQ or intelligence. Also, context matters - this is a thread about how to structure educational environments and about certain specifics of the military. Genetics are a factor that is going to be of limited practical use in this domain, at least as far as I can fantasize OTOH.
by pols45 | 2025-10-15 08:47:58+00:00
Here's some good food for your brain - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/

tldr: people have been thinking about this stuff for a long long time and all their answers boil down to not trying to control everything that happens in the universe (cuz its a guaranteed path to suffering), but to find ways to live and flourish despite all the things we can not control. And there are many ways to do that.
by steeleduncan | 2025-10-15 08:48:17+00:00
> SQLite could be recoded in Go

Sqlite has been recoded (automatically) in Go a while ago [1], and it is widely deployed

> would probably introduce far more bugs than would be fixed

It runs against the same test suite with no issues

> and it may also result in slower code

It is quite a lot slower, but it is still widely used as it turns out that the convenience of a native port outweighs the performance penalty in most cases.

I don't think SQLite should be rewritten in Go, Rust, Zig, Nim, Swift ... but ANSI C is a subset of the feature set of most modern programming languages. Projects such as this could be written and maintained in C indefinitely, and be automatically translated to other languages for the convenience of users in those languages

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite
by kranke155 | 2025-10-15 08:48:45+00:00
Both issues can be true. A single scrubber is not a good counterpoint to entire industries having left.

However, yes, the US (and the West in general) were uniquely victims of elite betrayal, where the financial and business elites decided it was best for them to outsource manufacturing, while telling the urban mass and politicians that this was "everyone's best interest". The current political and now geopolitical disaster followed.

The financialization of America and the UK in the 1980s was a failure in all respects. Stock buybacks made legal, factories closed, Wall Street as an engine of growth. It was all fiction.
by Yizahi | 2025-10-15 08:48:54+00:00
Oh, I completely agree, home charging even today is significantly cheaper than gas price (adjusted). The problem is that charging at home can be done only by people owning a detached or semi-detached house. So it's basically only possible for luxury owners (at least in EU) because a vast majority of population is living in the apartment blocks. So the situation is doubly funny, first - the main advantage in costs is only possible by already rich people who don't really appreciate it, while poorer people pay through the nose for the same thing. And second - the whole international car market is now shaped by the application of this rich people motivation to whole population. The whole "let's move all car sales to EV by the year 2035" or whatever. And poorer people will again may for the luxury toys of the rich.

PS: this comment sounds a bit weird I admit, but I'm not against EVs and I'm not a climate change denier. I'm just severely disappointed in how EV integration in the society actually happened.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-15 08:49:00+00:00
You have omitted from the key part that the Chinese export control notice was a reaction to the rule announced on 29 September 2025 by the United States Bureau of Industry and Security, which has put Nexperia on the list of entities to which US export restrictions apply.

So like for all these kinds of actions, regardless whether they happen in the Netherlands or in China or in Taiwan, their origin is in USA.
by l5870uoo9y | 2025-10-15 08:49:06+00:00
The database is hosted on Railway. I have enabled Smart Placement that should, depending on request time, automatically use an endpoint closer to the database to speed it up. When requesting a route that includes a database request, the response time on the US east coast is around 200ms and closer to 1000ms in Denmark. I am hoping that the Smart Placement will work better when I go live with the app (still in beta) and that it mainly needs more traffic to calculate optimal endpoint placement.
by Bukhmanizer | 2025-10-15 08:49:18+00:00
A while back someone made a post or comment about how they managed to vibe code a huge PR (1000+ of lines) to an open source project. They said they didn’t have time to read through the code but instead used tests to ensure the code was doing the right thing. Then it came out that there was a very lengthy review period where the maintainers had gone through the PR and helped fix the (rather significant) issues with it. So while the authors “didn’t have time” to review their own work the burden was shifted onto the maintainers.
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-10-15 08:49:21+00:00
> It is time for Europe to develop a coherent tech strategy. Can we build digital sovereignty while simultaneously undermining the protocols that enable it?

We should. The problem is that politics is messy and with lots of opposing views. See the GDPR versus this Chat Control absurdity. But _principles_ are those that stick, and I think that the principle that communication should be private _always_ should become sort of constitutional within the EU. We are the ones that vote, we are the ones that need to signal that we don't want to give up privacy for whatever "security" some, completely uninformed, want to promise.
by inglor_cz | 2025-10-15 08:49:47+00:00
"absolutely nothing is sacred."

There is no shortage of taboos in modern society, only the concrete focus shifts as generations change. Some things lose their sacredness and others gain it.

It was probably completely safe to draw a Muhammad cartoon and sign it in the West of 1950. Doing this now is a recipe for spending the rest of your life under police protection.

The explosion of hate speech laws all over the West is another instance thereof, though much less sanguinary.
by miroljub | 2025-10-15 08:49:50+00:00
> I'm not going to watch random German videos to confirm your statement for you. Please share a timestamp in a particular video.

Then don't. I don't need your confirmation. If you are interested, it's easy to find. If not, why would I waste time providing you timestamped links for something you won't watch, won't understand, and would dismiss?

> How was there any brainwashing?

Watch and see :)

> What are your thoughts on climate change?

Everything changes, including climate. My thoughts about it are not relevant to the topic of mainstream media reporting and brainwashing.
by jlg23 | 2025-10-15 08:50:02+00:00
This is regular reporting using end-consumer market rates to inflate numbers.

Just as you could not sell 127,271 bitcoins all at once at market value, you could not just sell cocaine worth $1.4 billion but still confiscated drugs, even in large quantities, are reported with end consumer market rates. Nowadays, if a report mentions that is talking about "street value", that is already a big plus in my book.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-15 08:50:12+00:00
They force it on people because the U.S. is great at inventing new religions and selling them to people. It does not matter if it works. It does not matter if a company has a profit.

If company A buys $10 million non-working services from company B and B buys $10 million non-working services from A, both have $10 million revenue on paper.

They also have $10 million expenses, but revenue and hype is enough to warrant a P/E of 100.

Every company that sells the hot air or whose CEO has friends who sell the hot air needs to force "AI" on its employees in order to keep up appearances. In two years, when everything crashes, they will create a new religion and sell it.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-15 08:51:02+00:00
Already past that, I'm afraid. With the Presidential cryptocurrency and the lack of investigation into Supreme Court finances, it's going to be grift all the way down.

I'm not sure how you can pull out of it without jailing a significant fraction of the Republican party (and quite a few elderly Democrats). Plenty of people around Trump got jailed and that didn't make a difference.
by duyanhngac | 2025-10-15 08:52:01+00:00
No sign-ups, no clutter, no background tracking — just a minimal parking reminder that feels instant.

Key features: One-tap “Save Spot” Parking timer and reminders Private by default (no analytics, no tracking etc)

I made it because I got tired of opening Maps every time I parked and waiting for it to figure things out. Now I just tap once, lock my phone, and go.

Would love feedback — especially on the new feature you would like see (if you have the need for such utility app)

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/where-did-i-park-find-my-car/i...
by bluenose69 | 2025-10-15 08:52:07+00:00
Yup, that's pretty bad. But, as an old fart with old eyes, I now use Safari and click the 'reader' version on many sites. Frankly, the web in it's early years was preferable to much of what I see nowadays. But, like I say, I'm an old fart. Heck, I used punch cards throughout my undergraduate days.
by lnsru | 2025-10-15 08:52:14+00:00
I heard during two decades only single time about small company paying significantly more. The guy is specialist. There are handful of them worldwide. He was absolutely perfect fit and super desired candidate. Never ever heard more about small companies with serious salaries. It was always -20% or -30% from union tables be it in Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg. Special case might be small establishments of American companies with great salaries, but this is different topics. And some statistics at the end: https://karriere.de/mein-geld/gehaltsstudie-diese-20-unterne... So no, not unionized smaller companies pay less with possible exemptions for key employees.
by rednafi | 2025-10-15 08:52:36+00:00
I love this analogy of consultants parachuting into a project, doing the bare minimum, and passing the baton to the next person to maintain the mess.

Leadership is buying into the hype and busy turning everyone into overzealous slopmongers. Companies are pushing an “AI Fluency” framework where people are encouraged (read: forced) to use LLMs and agentic coding in every aspect of development.
by sanjayjc | 2025-10-15 08:52:48+00:00
> I think the aesthetic preference for terseness should give way to the preference for LLM accuracy, which may mean more verbose code

From what I understand, the terseness of array languages (Q builds on K) serves a practical purpose: all the code is visible at once, without the reader having to scroll or jump around. When reviewing an LLM's output, this is a quality I'd appreciate.
by tankenmate | 2025-10-15 08:53:28+00:00
All the voting down but not a single comment as to why. The "Sec-Fetch-Site" primarily protects the browser against Javascript hijacking, but does little to nothing to protect the server.

This is probably apocryphal, but Willie Sutton was asked why he kept robbing banks, he quipped "that's where the money is". Sure browser hacking occurs, but it's a means to an end because the server is where the juicy stuff is.

So headers that can't be accessed by Javascript are way down the food chain and only provide lesser defence in depth if you have proper CSRF tokens (which you should have anyway to protect the far more valuable server resources which are the primary target).
by pas | 2025-10-15 08:53:57+00:00
we ought to want that the users themselves should desire this freedom for themselves

right now we want it because we want the side-effect the the tinkerability, the data transfer, the cost-optimizaton (host it where it's cheap, or modify it if it's not cheap enough)

but users want their problem solved, they are extremely happy about an imperfect solution (deeply flawed delegation of the problem and responsibilities), they are willing to pay a lot for it, and their time-value discounting coefficients are atrocious. they want it now, and don't really care about tomorrow. (or next month when the free trial expires, when their credit card gets charged, when the price increases when their blessed business bamboozler becomes bankrupt - or worse a ruthless monopolist)

FOSS is an education problem, quite isomorphic to the problem of democracy (and climate change and other slow burn issues)

...

and of course it's a political problem too

but where's the coalition of friends of FOSS who pledge to spend/buy/support development of the missing components? where's my FOSS printer? where's my movement that encourages me to buy a shittier phone knowing it will help spin up the flywheel of FOSS?

... and where are the faithful pragmatists that don't get sidetracked by their own toenails?
by xenadu02 | 2025-10-15 08:54:21+00:00
> There's a history with the West where they have been manipulated and taken advantage of in a way that the US never has.

That's definitely possible but I think the cause is much simpler: initially they wanted to bootstrap their own industries and now nothing forces them to do anything different so they just continue with hyper-protectionist policies.

On the side of the west: Outsourcing to China is the new group-think. The new "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" for the MBAs. A box of Bandaids now says "made in china" on it. Bandaids are churned out entirely by machine. Packed entirely by machine. Boxed entirely by machine. By the millions per day. Human labor input is more or less irrelevant. Why outsource that to China? Because that's the only thing management knows how to do and the only thing so-called investors understand. It certainly isn't to save money or make the product better.

> However China wouldn't benefit if their customers are poor.

If I had a nickel for every time a government or leader adopts bad policies despite the obvious future negative consequences I'd be the world's richest person.