MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imiric | 2025-10-27 10:26:46+00:00
> Gen AI may indeed be different and kill off all programming careers overnight, but so far I'm not seeing it

Well, we're only ~5 years into the current hype cycle, so it's difficult to predict the long-term impact of the technology.

That said, I do think it is substantially different from the examples you mentioned.

For one, it is generally applicable. It's not an iterative or generational improvement over what came before—it is a paradigm shift in many ways: how software is produced, by whom, the quality of the product, the time, effort, and cost needed to produce it, etc.

Secondly, while it might not lead to the demise of all programming careers, and certainly not overnight, it will significantly impact the market value of traditional programming in the short-term, and, like any new technology, it will also open doors to new careers and specialization for humans. We're seeing this play out today.

But there are a few problems with this:

- Since software is turned into a commodity and the skills and resources required to produce it are much lower, there will be a flood of poorly made software, and the average quality will go down. Picture SEO scams and spam dialed up to 11, and encompassing every part of our existence, not just on the web.

- Those new careers for humans are highly specialized. All jobs will essentially involve being an assistant to the "AI", and specializing in related technologies. A "systems engineer", "frontend developer", "designer", "data analyst", etc., will all boil down to a role revolving around "AI" instead. People who don't like this type of work? Tough luck. Go sell your artisanally made programs to the niche group of people crazy enough to care about it, and good luck making a living out of it.

- Those new careers for humans are only temporary. Once "AI" gets capable enough to require less manual steering and intervention from humans, the market value for that type of work will collapse as well. The only human jobs then will be to actually create "AI". And once "AI" is self-sufficient to improve itself, we get the singularity, and then pick your favorite sci-fi scenario from there. It's debatable whether this will come to pass, and whether we're on the right track for it with the current tech, but that's certainly the goal we're aiming for.

So, yeah, I don't buy the argument that this is the same as any other tech. It's much, much, different, and it's frankly troubling that it's getting downplayed as just another step on the technological ladder. The long-term impact of this is something that should concern us all, and the worst thing we can do is to give free reign to companies to decide that future for us.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-27 10:27:46+00:00
I think people already just don't want their screen recorded "24/7" regardless of Microsoft, but then when you add Microsoft into the mix, and potentially sending stuff off-host for AI etc, it gets worse?

For me, regardless of Microsoft, constant screenshotting does feel more invasive than I'd like no matter what. It's already bad enough that websites do it on their own properties.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-27 10:28:25+00:00
> Israel is not at war with Lebanon

So why do all those rockets keep getting launched from Lebanon into Israel? Lebanon is either de-facto at war with Israel or is a failed state that has lost the ability to keep third party (Iranian Hezbollah) military from violating its ostensible neutrality.

We can and should condemn both Israel for indiscriminate violence against civilians, and Iran for escalating this conflict. It feels very weird to say "I don't think there's been enough international condemnation of Iran lately", given how much they've been condemned justly or unjustly my entire lifetime, but they really are both provoking a war whose consequences fall on Lebanese and Palestinians (and Israelis!), while also being a key supplier to Russia in their "illegal" war on Ukraine.
by sdoering | 2025-10-27 10:28:33+00:00
Meanwhile on the other side of that lovely little island:

> In 2025 when the tunnel (the Fehmarn Sound Tunnel) was still not approved by authorities it was revealed that it would not be opened in 2029 as it was then planned but in 2032, which would delay train traffic along the new connection until then. Road traffic can use the old bridge.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Sound_Tunnel

I would bet actual money that we (as in we Germans) don't get that tunnel done before 2035.
by gpderetta | 2025-10-27 10:28:58+00:00
And this is the rebuttal: https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2019/p08...

There are downsides to stackful coroutines (peak stack usage for example), but I feed that p1364 was attacking a strawman: first of all it is comparing a solution with builtin compiler support against a pure library implementation, second it is not even comparing against the reference implementation of the competing proposal.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-27 10:29:47+00:00
I would hope that data centre has multiple power supplies from multiple locations - as well as UPS and on site generators, certainly mine do.

However given AWS is so complex (which is required because they want to be a gatekeeping platform) leading the uptime to struggle to match a decent home setup, I'm not sure. I'm sure there's no 6 figure bonus for checking the generators are working, but a rounded corner on a button on an admin page?
by eqvinox | 2025-10-27 10:29:49+00:00
> All medical interventions carry a risk and there is always a threshold where that risk outweighs any potential benefit.

Neither Germany nor France nor the UK advise against vaccinating children against COVID. The Germans explicitly say that the absence of a recommendation to vaccinate is only because children have relatively mild cases and safety or risk concerns are no factor.

Go look up long term effects from COVID in children. Everything I find says children are at risk for long COVID just like adults, and the effects and risks are not understood yet. Then tell me you won't vaccinate your child. (Or yourself, for that matter.)
by spwa4 | 2025-10-27 10:29:53+00:00
Whilst I don't support any of ICE's efforts but ... CAIR and this journalist complain about this on the grounds of free speech? Are these people serious?

Has anyone thought about their position for 5 seconds? There is NO islamic country with a right to free speech. Zero. Not even countries like Morocco or Turkey have anything remotely like free speech, and they're the most open Islamic countries imaginable. There are dozens of islamic countries with death penalties for criticism of islam or government (and even Morocco and Turkey have prison sentences for that). CAIR is representing these countries' interests in the US, and they are arguing for free speech protection ... in the US. Not in the over 200 countries where muslims use state violence to control speech. In the US. They are making zero efforts to protect free speech anywhere else.

Obviously no sane person can reasonably consider these people to be either engaging in free speech or protecting free speech, can they?
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-27 10:30:09+00:00
It's particularly hard to swallow these justifications when advanced by Google considering how much malware there is on the Play Store. I have never once had an issue with malware installed via F-Droid but have had multiple issues with apps from the Play Store. But apparently it's F-Droid I need to be protected from. (Granted, the Play Store malware I experienced was in the nature of "pop up ads on your phone randomly", not stealing your bank credentials, but it shows how little actual vetting goes on.)

I do understand the broader point. I know a few elderly people in particular who are walking targets for cybercrime. But I wish we had more differentiation. Locked down, easy to use phones for those who want or need that, and more open phones that act similar to laptops for those who know what they're doing (or, in any case, are willing and able to bear the risk).
by frm88 | 2025-10-27 10:30:26+00:00
Well, measles, in a rich country with good healthcare and healthy children is mostly (mostly!) an inconvenience. You can expect to survive it without much consequence.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/measles-does-long-term-da...

After severe measles, children lost a median of 40% (range, 11% to 62%), and after mild measles they lost 33% (range, 12% to 73%), of their total preexisting pathogen-specific antibody repertoires. Paired, healthy controls retained approximately 90% of their repertoires over similar or longer durations.

You might want to rethink your above statement.
by kakacik | 2025-10-27 10:31:07+00:00
Good luck with million+ products from ie China going through tens of thousands of companies. Or Bangladesh, Pakistan, Morocco, Vietnam and so on and on.

I get you guys, its the ideal and good to strive for, but then go out and check ie kids stores or any supermarket. Out of touch with reality.

And why is that? Since majority simply doesn't care.
by goku12 | 2025-10-27 10:31:15+00:00
FOSS has been here for a long time, and it will be here for a long time. It's often driven by self-motivation. Let's instead focus on the AI bubble that's 17 times the size of the dotcom bubble[1], and kept inflated primarily by the Big 7 playing financial merry go round.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/18/business/ai-bubble-analys...
by IshKebab | 2025-10-27 10:31:29+00:00
Ah nice. I was hoping this was real - just yesterday someone was asking about something and I knew I had written up a description of it but couldn't remember where - Mattermost? GitHub Gist? Random text file? Confluence? Turned out to be Stackoverflow, but it took me quite a while to find it.

Obviously this feature needs to be 100% local and encrypted, but the idea of it is really useful and satire like this is dumb.
by nu11ptr | 2025-10-27 10:31:43+00:00
This looks to be one of the most complete Rust UI creates (in terms of available widgets/components), but unfortunately has almost no usage (yet). I do see their docs are coming along now. Another very complete one is fyrox-ui used by the fyrox game engine: https://crates.io/crates/fyrox-ui. Again, not really used/known outside of fyrox.

The Rust UI scene is maturing, but the most popular options (iced, egui, dioxus, slint, etc.) aren't even the most complete component-wise atm as far as I can tell.

UPDATE: This honestly looks incredible and makes huge strides in the Rust UI landscape. You can run an impressive widget gallery app here showing all their components:

https://github.com/longbridge/gpui-component/tree/main/crate...

Just "cargo run --release"
by pas | 2025-10-27 10:32:21+00:00
sources please!?

there's a reason that 18% of clinical trials around drugs against Alzheimer's still target plaques

also the etiological model evolved a lot (as others pointed out, it's removing blockage after the pipe has ruptured still can lead to a sinkhole forming later)

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trc...

also some nuance regarding the scientific fraud and the Amyloid mafia https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/reaction-alzheimer...
by anonym29 | 2025-10-27 10:32:28+00:00
The idea that average people can't handle incremental improvements like a password manager, MFA, full disk encryption, etc is unhealthy infantilization of people who are entirely capable of understanding the concepts, the benefits, the risks they address, and appreciating the benefits of them.

Most people just don't care enough until after they're hacked, at which point they care just enough to wish they'd done something more previously, which is just shy of enough to start doing something differently going forward.

It's not that normies are too stupid figure this out, it's that they make risk accept decisions on risks they don't thoroughly understand or care enough about to want to understand. My personal observation is that the concept of even thinking about potential future technology risks at all (let alone considering changing behavior to mitigate those risks) seems to represent an almost an almost pathological level of proactive preparation to normies, the same way that preppers building bunkers with years of food and water storage look to the rest of us.
by CZEC | 2025-10-27 10:33:48+00:00
Learning a language from a different language family is an intellectual adventure. While learning the language, one learns a new way of analysing one’s experiences and coding them into a communicable form. One also learns to re-think many things that until then seemed self-evident, natural and universal, while in fact they are not so at all. Because Kannada has been cultivated as a literary language for at least seventeen centuries, it has had the time to reach a very high level of standardization, precision and subtlety. Still today, it is one of the leading literary languages of India. The most prestigious national literary award, the Jnanpith Award, has until recently been won by more Kannada authors than by authors in any other language, and more often than by authors who write in a language with a comparable number of speakers. For its literary and historical richness, Kannada has been recognized as a ‘classical language’ by the Government of India in 2008.
by benterix | 2025-10-27 10:33:59+00:00
It depends where you find it. If it's a comment, it's highly unlikely it would include careful punctuation such as semicolons, whereas for em-dash you need to do something extra as it's not available on the keyboard as a single keystroke by default, so everybody is using a hyphen instead of em-dash or en-dash.

However, a magazine article, or even a blog where the author cares might include all: printer quotes instead of straight ones, en/em dashes, ellipsis as as single character and many more. If suddenly half of the web is filled with shallow content dressed up in certain styling, people are right to feel something is not right.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-27 10:34:34+00:00
Well, again, me as a parent vaccinates his kids, and myself too for that matter. It's the only sane thing to do.

People who don't but live in "the West" are worse off in expectation but for most, not by much. They can mostly afford anti-vax BS because some good soul in a well equipped ICU looks after the kiddos.

But if this nonsense rubs off on people in poor places, if they start doubting the safety of vaccines because some influencer on Twitter says so, then that's a huge tragedy. To me at least.

I'm not in any way saying not vaccinating your children for no reason is ever a good idea.
by fps-hero | 2025-10-27 10:34:46+00:00
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

It’s very frustrating that the tried and true method of sampling comparators has become prohibitively expensive due to niche parts.

I suspected that the ST HRTIMER would be a good candidate for replacing the delay line components, with the benefit of synchronisation for free. Good to see it works!

The diode bridge sampling and verification is the “hard part”. My motivation was for wanting to make a TDR was lack of equipment required to measure the signals required. Ironically, it’s the very equipment you need decent equipment to verify a TDR is working correctly. Most existing designs attempt to replicate old sampling bridges that use exotic unobtainable diodes. If you stray from the tried path, it’s up to you to verify performance, so there is some valuable insight here.

I liked reconstructing the signal using a spectrum analyser, very clever idea.
by da_chicken | 2025-10-27 10:34:48+00:00
I'd not heard of clickhouse before. It does seem interesting, but I just can't get behind a project that says:

> The easiest way to download the latest version is with the following command:

> curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh

Like, sure, there is some risk downloading a binary or running an arbitrary installer. But this is just nuts.
by achairapart | 2025-10-27 10:35:55+00:00
If your destination is Messina or even Catania, you can can save some time leaving the train in Villa San Giovanni (last stop before the train will be loaded into the ferry) and, literally, jump on the first ferry that is starting, so you save all the time needed to load and unload the train.

No one will ask you for a ticket (no one will ask for anything, actually). Or at the least it was like this some twenty years ago when I did it.
by krapp | 2025-10-27 10:36:11+00:00
Which, let's be fair - most science fiction does to some degree.

Even the "hard" sci-fi tends to comprise of the author's one area of expertise or hyperfixation while everything else is nonsense. You'll have descriptions in intricate detail of how the spacecraft are engineered down to the self-sealing stembolts, but biology is basically magic.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-10-27 10:36:34+00:00
From the link

> To address this concern, the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust, and integrate this decoder into Firefox. If they successfully contribute an implementation that satisfies these properties and meets our normal production requirements, we would ship it.

That is a perfectly clear position.
by Xylakant | 2025-10-27 10:36:50+00:00
The time you spend on a night trains is spent sleeping. They deliberately don’t run full pace - no one wants to arrive at 5 in the morning. So they slow-roll on a long stretch to make arrival times reasonable.

Very often you can make an earlier arrival at a destination via night train than you can via plane - unless you fly in the evening before.
by joakleaf | 2025-10-27 10:38:15+00:00
It will be by far the longest span of a suspension bridge at 3300 meter.

The current longest is in Turkey at 2023 meter.

Each of the pylons of the Messina Bridge will be around 400 meters tall. Which is taller than the Empire State Building.

The strait is too deep, with too much current and seismic activity to place the pylons in the water. So they have to be on the shore, as I understand it.
by mistercow | 2025-10-27 10:38:25+00:00
> and don’t think that the programmer more than the languages contribute to those problems

This sounds a lot like how I used to think about unit testing and type checking when I was younger and more naive. It also echoes the sentiments of countless craftspeople talking about safety protocols and features before they lost a body part.

Safety features can’t protect you from a bad programmer. But they can go a long way to protect you from the inevitable fallibility of a good programmer.
by egorfine | 2025-10-27 10:38:39+00:00
So you say that I can burn a bit of ICE's GPUs by typing words suggesting I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers I plan to hire undocumented workers

Right?
by n4r9 | 2025-10-27 10:41:19+00:00
Please consider that your original post could also be seen as shaming people who appreciate the beauty of train journeys.

Some of the best quality time I've spent with my son has been during train journeys. Like many two-year olds he loves the whole experience. Watching out of the window while the train is moved onto a ferry would blow his mind. I agree that high-speed trains are marvellous; I'm sad that their introduction deprives us of some rich cultural experiences.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-27 10:41:39+00:00
> Amazon is so completely irresponsible for their marketplace that recently, shopping for a glass oral thermometer (because the digital ones suck) I stumbled on reviews with photos showing products that had no mercury inside and actual blobs of mercury stuck to the tip that goes in your mouth. These were still for sale.

I did wonder about how this kind of thing was handled in the UK, and (a) Amazon will happily offer a mercury thermometer for sale and (b) it has been illegal to sell mercury thermometers in the UK since 2009.

The absolute poster child for ubiquitous illegal toxic products though? Disposable vapes.
by gpderetta | 2025-10-27 10:41:49+00:00
You mean GO segmented stacks? You can literally them in C and C++ with GCC and glibc. It was implemented to support gccgo, but it works for other languages as well.

It is an ABI change though, so you need to recompile the whole stack (there might be the ability for segmented code to call non segmented code, but I don't remember the extent of the support) and it is probably half deprecated now. But it works and it doesn't need GC.
Challenge: An asymmetric key system that does everything
by oiko_nomikos | 2025-10-27 10:42:10+00:00
I’m curious if anyone has thought about this before:

We have asymmetric cryptography, but the main systems all have trade-offs:

RSA: You can encrypt/decrypt and sign/verify, but you cannot derive hierarchical public/private keys—every key pair must be generated independently.

ECDSA (elliptic curves): You can sign/verify, and you can derive hierarchical deterministic keys (HD wallets!), but you cannot do encryption/decryption natively.

So here’s the challenge:

Can anyone design an asymmetric key system that can do all five things:

1. Encrypt

2. Decrypt

3. Sign

4. Verify

5. Hierarchical key derivation (master → child public/private keys)

Right now, no single system can do this perfectly. Either you get encryption or hierarchical keys, but not both.

If we could create such a system, it would unify digital identity, secure messaging, and deterministic key management in a single cryptosystem.

I’d love to see ideas, proposals, or even wild theoretical approaches. Has anyone tried combining elliptic-curve deterministic keys with encryption in a clean way?

Oiko
by antonvs | 2025-10-27 10:42:13+00:00
> Cognition requires at its basis awareness

This seems like an unsupported assertion. LLMs already exhibit good functional understanding of and ability in many domains, and so it's not at all clear that they require any more "awareness" (are you referring to consciousness?) than they already have.

> the spark of awareness required to be intelligent.

Again, this seems like an assumption - that there's some quality of awareness (again, consciousness?), that LLMs don't have, that they need in order to be "intelligent". But why do you believe that?

> We’ve all had sudden insights without deliberation or thought.

Highly doubtful. What you mean is, "without conscious thought". Your conscious awareness of your cognition is not the entirety of your cognition. It's worth reading a bit of Dennett's work about this - he's good at pointing out the biases we tend to have about these kinds of issues.

> We might very well be able to fake it to an extent that it fools us

This leads to claiming that there are unobservable, undetectable differences. Which there may be - we might succeed in building LLMs that meet whatever the prevailing arbitrary definition of intelligence is, but that don't possess consciousness. At that point, though, how meaningful is it to say they're not intelligent because they're not conscious? They would be functionally intelligent. Arguably, they already are, in many significant ways.
by cthulberg | 2025-10-27 10:42:23+00:00
> Portraying Israeli intelligence as this omnipotent, cartoonishly evil entity that assassinates via uranium phones

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-hezbollah-was-fooled-into-...

> and then gloats at press conferences with "IT WAS DEFINITELY US" t-shirts

https://www.timesofisrael.com/pms-office-confirms-netanyahu-...

It is not antisemitic, just daily news.
by mrsvanwinkle | 2025-10-27 10:42:30+00:00
Not a fan of his other works but his short story The Egg (not sci-fi) is up there with Asimov's best shorts (I'm not a fan of Asimov's Foundation series either). I'm more of a fan of Frankenstein and Singin in the Rain sci-fi that explores the social/personal disruptions introduced by technology. Much like how Stand Alone Complex (not Ghost in the Shell) focused on the media ecology i.e. interfaces between human and machine interactions and some of their (social) network topologies (rhizome for example).