MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zenethian | 2025-10-05 16:01:34+00:00
Yeah, I share this same sentiment about the author. His inability to see why his wife was actually upset by his behavior is astounding. I'm going to wager that she very much meant to say that she thought he would be incessantly argumentative with the AI as well, and when he wasn't it surprised her because she suddenly realized that it was only her that he was like that with and it became very personal for her.
by AJ007 | 2025-10-05 16:02:09+00:00
Each had a unique set of pitfalls. Out of the 3 Usenet seems to be functionally dead for it's original purpose. Perhaps there was no possible outcome where usenet would scale along with the internet.

The email spam issue is trivially solvable with a contact whitelist, which is a UI issue. Email as it is right now is definitely very usable, but keep me the hell away from anything from Microsoft.

IRC is alive and small. On the optimistic side it outlived Skype. Maybe 25 years from now IRC will still be working and Discord will be dead. There has been a lot of buy in on Matrix, but I'm unconvinced the protocol is going to thrive long term due to design choices made.

Reddit is doing what Usenet did. In my ideal world, reddit would be part of the fediverse along with Usenet & Twitter and the UI would close to hn.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-05 16:02:12+00:00
if the Internet actually managed to move to v6 the end of NAT and CGNAT would be a huge win.

Also, look at the price of every v4 address you have to rent, and compare it to v6 and tell me there's no return.

I've practically built an entire career out of finding ways for customers to use fewer v4 addresses and the demand is there because v4 addresses are expensive as shit due to their scarcity.
by ashtonsix | 2025-10-05 16:03:05+00:00
Good work, wish I saw it earlier as it overlaps with a lot of my recent work. I'm actually planning to release new SOTAs on zigzag/delta/delta-of-delta/xor-with-previous coding next week. Some areas the work doesn't give enough attention to (IMO): register pressure, kernel fusion, cache locality (wrt multi-pass). They also fudge a lot of the numbers and comparisons eg, pitching themselves against Parquet (storage-optimised) when Arrow (compute-optimised) is the most-comparable tech and obvious target to beat. They definitely improve on current best work, but only by a modest margin.

I'm also skeptical of the "unified" paradigm: performance improvements are often realised by stepping away from generalisation and exploiting the specifics of a given problem; under a unified paradigm there's definite room for improvement vs Arrow, but that's very unlikely to bring you all the way to theoretically optimal performance.
by crims0n | 2025-10-05 16:03:17+00:00
I sometimes wonder what an alternative history would look like if Jobs was still around. Apple has done well, but they have largely played it safe. Even their riskiest product, the Apple Vision Pro, seemed like less of an innovation and more a response to market expectations.

Jobs excelled at taking a niche product category and reinventing it for the masses. He did it with desktop and mobile computers, he did it with the mp3 player, and did it with the smartphone and tablet. What has post-Jobs Apple done? Maybe the smartwatch… but one could argue that in itself is an iteration on the iPod (remember the Nano and Shuffles?).

Credit where credit is due, they are killing it in silicon - but that is a bit opaque culturally.
by oofbey | 2025-10-05 16:03:26+00:00
Why are people betting on small modular reactors? Even given all the problems described. I don’t think it’s that policy officials are gullible to marketing.

I think the key reason is the promise of low price, high power, and fast deployment. PROMISE being the key word, because it should be obvious (not to the author) that you don’t get low prices on the first experimental units. You get them when you have factories efficiently building hundreds. And in this hopeful future, you can turn these things on much faster than setting up acreage of wind or solar plus supporting batteries. And do it in places where you don’t have natural supply of either.

It’s a bet that hasn’t proven itself yet. But given the severity of the crisis, I for one am glad somebody is taking it.
by grumpyprole | 2025-10-05 16:04:09+00:00
Both OCaml and Clojure are principled and well designed languages, but they are mostly evolutions of Lisp and ML from the 70s. That's not where functional programming is today. Both encourage a functional style, which is good. And maybe that's your definition of a "functional language". But I think that definition will get increasingly less useful over time.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-05 16:04:29+00:00
When you buy a stock, you're not contributing it to the company's productive use. If I buy $1000 of MSFT, Microsoft doesn't get an extra $1000 in their bank account to invest in their business. That $1000 is going to another bettor to settle his previous bet, and at some point in the future, I'll sell and get an unknown amount of money to settle my bet. Just because historically betting on the stock market has been +EV doesn't mean it's not still gambling.
by ednite | 2025-10-05 16:04:47+00:00
Hey ModernMech, Ed Nite here. Not AI, just a guy with too much imagination (and yes, a pen name). I’m a real software dev who’s spent years building and supporting B2B platforms as a solo dev. Lately, I’ve been leaning into the creative side, blogging, writing, and soon, YouTube. My ego even likes to think AI sounds like me (wink).
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-05 16:04:57+00:00
Look at what China actually builds. Nuclear power is declining in their electricity mix.

> One of the main points of SMRs is to harness the effects of large numbers.

How many trillions in subsidies should we waste to try scale when the competition we also funded decades ago already delivers?

We already gave a try building nuclear power again 20 years and at the same time invested in the nascent renewable industry.

The nuclear investment evidently did not pan out.
by dpark | 2025-10-05 16:05:02+00:00
> On the contrary all epicenters of gambling are extremely rich areas populated by people who have mastered such art.

This does not seem to be a rebuttal. The “extremely rich areas” are generally funded by the not at all rich who lose their money gambling.

Additionally most in the “extremely rich areas” are not actually wealthy. And there are many, many gambling areas that are not rich at all.
by thisisit | 2025-10-05 16:05:06+00:00
This seems like the age old discussion of how new technology changes our lives and makes us "lazy".

Before the advent of smartphones people needed to remember phone numbers and calculate on the fly. Now people don't even remember their own numbers and save it on somewhere and open the calculator app for smallest of things.

But there are still people who can do both. They are not luddites rather not fully reliant on smartphones.

Same thing is going to happen with LLMs.

At some point restricting LLM usage is going to be considered good parenting just like restricting phones are today. Use it for some purpose but not all.
by yorwba | 2025-10-05 16:05:17+00:00
Chinese companies need to pay much higher prices for the same GPUs, so they would need to charge more to make a profit, but it's difficult to charge more unless they have a much better product. So building massive data centers to gain market share is riskier for them.

That said, Alibaba not releasing the weights for Qwen3-Max and announcing $53 billion in AI infrastructure spending https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-launches-qwen3-m... suggests that they think they're now at a point where it makes sense to scale up. (The Reuters article mentions data centers in several countries, which I assume also helps work around high GPU prices in China.)

Circling back to OpenAI: I don't think they're spending so much on infrastructure just because they want to train bigger models on more data, but moreso because they want to serve those bigger models to more customers using their services more intensively.
by matt-attack | 2025-10-05 16:05:43+00:00
I sort of follow and as a liberal I struggle to find much to get worked up over. Things I see: the number of friends who now own electric cars (all Teslas) well ten years ago truly scoffed at the idea. Tesla sold 1/2 million cars THIS LAST QUARTER. Their highest ever. That’s 1/2 million gas engines not sold. I attribute all of that to one person. Full stop. Anything else is delusional.

I saw fellow liberals protesting the Tesla cafe in Los Angeles. They’re actively discouraging people from buying electric. Global warming is the more important threat to our species and these fellow liberals are ACTIVELY DISCOURAGING people from buying and owning electric cars. Truly the mind boggles.
by gs17 | 2025-10-05 16:05:49+00:00
The best part is one of the cited articles: "Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's "Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis"

A rebuttal of a rejection of an "alleged refutation". You can tell there's a lot of academic egos involved here.
by morshu9001 | 2025-10-05 16:05:50+00:00
Or, I can focus on getting the project done. If IPv6 is a requirement then I'll do it, no complaints. Chasing nice-to-haves is how the project explodes in complexity.

Which btw, is what ipv6 did. They just needed to enlarge the address space, instead it became a whole redesign that was not only harder to adopt but also inherently more complicated than v4 (aside from removing fragmenting). So I wouldn't even say it's the right thing, it's just what someone else wants. Maybe a compromise will be reached in v7, like v6 packet format that otherwise acts like v4 and carries over the old /32s.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-05 16:05:55+00:00
You're conflating their jobs quite a bit, here. Torvalds is the project lead of Linux, whereas Jobs was the chief executive officer of Apple. There were almost certainly even meaner people than Linus internally pushing for highly opinionated macOS changes; we just never saw them. Jobs' legacy is more lambasted for his lack of technical acumen and interpersonal frustration.

Guys like Woz would make a particularly bad replacement for Torvalds, because while he was super talented, Woz was also a pushover who had to leave Apple after being insulted hundreds of times by Jobs, who had almost no valuable technical know-how. Torvalds will never make his mistake, and Linux has long been better off ignoring the Tannenbaum types.
by tombert | 2025-10-05 16:06:07+00:00
I actually somewhat agree with you; Linus has been an asshole in the kernel world for a long time, and it’s really not charming anymore.

I will admit that I used to find it funny but after having worked with a lot of people like Linus in the corporate world, a part of me wants to say something like “I promise you that you are not as smart as you think you are, and we are not as dumb as you think we are”.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-10-05 16:06:33+00:00
And even in China nuclear power is not competitive. As per recent construction starts they will land on 2-3% of the electricity mix.

Wholly insignificant.

We should we hand out trillions in subsidies to the nuclear industry when the alternative we also invested in: renewables and storage. Already deliver what we need to decarbonize society?
by mnky9800n | 2025-10-05 16:06:52+00:00
I don't think that a couple papers counts for much of anything. A couple scientific articles form an opinion about a topic. The evidence shown in those papers are certainly something to think about, but there hasn't been enough time or effort put into the use of understanding how AI technologies aide technical work and the ability to solve more complex problems to make some sort of suggested claim that it is inherently bad.

Compare this body of work to the body of work that has consistently showed social media is bad for you and has done so for many years. You will see a difference. Or if you prefer to focus on something more physical, anthropogenic climate change, the evidence for the standard model of particle physics, the evidence for plate tectonics, etc.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be skeptical that these technologies might make us lazy or inable to perform critical functions of technical work. I think there is a great danger that these technologies essentially fulfill the promise of data science across industries, that is, a completely individualized experience to guide your choices across digital environments. That is not the world that I want to live in. But, I also don't think that my mind is turning to mush because I asked Claude Code to write some code to make a catboost model that would have taken me a few hours to try out some idea.
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by aurizon | 2025-10-05 16:07:09+00:00
In Canada/UK and many other similar regimes, the elected members MUST vote for their party - some abstain, those voting against are expelled but keep their seat. In the USA this is not the case. Since each vote is seen, an elected member now has a sellable asset = vote my way = $50,000 cash. There have been so many 'bag man' jokes that this concept has been validated. What every US voter has = secret ballot, is denied to the elected members. There needs to be a way to give ballot secrecy. Perhaps a dual vote, one secret and one seen. That would allow people to appear to satisfy the bag filler and also vote as they feel they should. The secret ballot carries the win. I suggest this as a way to debag politics in the USA.
by sltkr | 2025-10-05 16:07:16+00:00
I get that popularity comes with problems, but I don't see how the attack surface is any larger than a normal website?

It looks like the entire site is implemented in Javascript, which tries to fetch resources from various HTTPS URLs, some of which are configured to serve only over IPv6, others only over IPv4. But that just requires configuring a normal webserver to serve regular HTTP traffic, which is the bare minimum exposure to exploits any website has.
by iaw | 2025-10-05 16:07:25+00:00
I know this wont go over well but I think it's important to remember: Steve Jobs did not treat his pancreatic cancer when he was first diagnosed and it was treatable, he instead sought holistic/alternative medicine treatments[1]. He leveraged his vast wealth to get a replacement liver [2] that at the time was known to only extend his life. That liver could have gone to someone that did not have such a negative prognosis and possibly saved their life for a lot longer than it did Steve. He used a chunk of his remaining time to work on his last yacht.

He was a great product person but I don't think that excuses all of the horrible things he did as a human.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/food-for-thought/201...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/24/liver.transplant.prior...
by Dusseldorf | 2025-10-05 16:07:39+00:00
That doesn't feel like a very apt analogy. Poor vision or dyslexia can't easily be hijacked into a cycle of addiction the way poor impulse control can. Making a bit of money helping someone with poor vision is very different than blasting advertisements on every single medium and using predatory practices to draw in those with poor impulse control. Not to mention the continued exploitation afterwards until the victim has nothing left.
by alganet | 2025-10-05 16:07:54+00:00
> The disagreement may just be about how significant that triage step is.

Whether it is important or not is highly subjective.

My statement is that _the quality is capped by the non-AI portion of the solution_, which is an objective statement. It means the solution should get better with a better static analyzer, but it probably won't get much better with a better model. That is a testable prediction that might reveal itself to be true or not. It's right there in the first comments I made.

> not because they're trying to bamboozle you with credentials

Let's not use credentials then!
by IAmGraydon | 2025-10-05 16:08:18+00:00
I'm on an iPhone 16 Pro. iOS 26 is not an improvement, I'll put it that way. What's happened here is obvious - they had honed iOS down to a very good OS - perhaps as good as can be or very close to it. The problem arises when they have to show shareholders that they're still "innovating", so they change something just to change it. That's what the new glass interface is. To me, it's a more modern take on something from 20 years ago, which was touted as revolutionary when it became part of Windows Vista. This time, they've just added warping/refraction effects, which have become possible due to more powerful processors. It's distracting, though, and they've removed any option to turn it off. It also just looks instantly dated, IMO.

Beyond that, I've experienced some hangs here and there, and particularly when using Safari. The interface in general also seems less snappy.

I think we've just seen Apple peak. This is not the kind of move a thriving company makes, and runs completely counter to Steve Jobs' ethos, just as is Tim Cook's bowing to an authoritarian regime. They certainly aren't what they once were, and its only a matter of time before the inertia they gained over the last 20 years finally runs out and they begin to plummet.
by tekbruh9000 | 2025-10-05 16:08:32+00:00
We can do a lot of things. Must we? Should we?

Burning resources to memorialize the past we only see through rose colored glasses of naive youth is vanity.

Biology is self selecting and that's all that's happening here. There's no intention or future value. It's plain old signal attenuation and entropy going on; memory is fading as those who experienced it churn out of existence.

A species still escaping banal worship of history ends up avoiding progress.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-10-05 16:08:32+00:00
Very poetic but you either misunderstand me or think I intend for my advice to apply all the time, in all situations.

I’m 100% an AI skeptic but also I won’t invest time and emotion replying to communications where it’s clear the other side a priori also didn’t invest at all. Let machines deal with machines and let me deal with humans.

And believe you me, I reserve this for contexts where I’m not jeopardizing my real interaction with someone I care about.

> Do you really not understand that connecting with other flawed, unpolished people is its own reward?

Oh I understand that perfectly - the above sentence shows that it’s you who didn’t understand what I said in the first place.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-05 16:08:33+00:00
I disagree. What a high level professional gambler is doing is hard work.

Hard work doesn't make you rich, but it's part of the things that you need to prosper. I'm no inspirational poster child, but hard work, building a network, doing good things for people were all essential to my long term success. I didn't have the benefit of familial connections, but that helps too. There's a saying that you make your own luck, which is true... if you're not on the field, you can't get lucky.

People making a living playing poker is fine, but it's just like being a working musician, an investor or an athlete. I had a friend who made a living on horse better. You've developed a set of skills and have a usually limited window to cash in on them. The 95% of people gambling aren't attracted to the game of skill, and flop around with the 101 things to do in a gambling establishment that aren't poker.
by zakelfassi | 2025-10-05 16:08:45+00:00
Meta-response to a lot of these comments: My high school teacher in 2004 accused me of plagiarizing from Wikipedia because my research paper looked "too polished" for something typed on a keyboard instead of handwritten. Twenty years later, HN commenters see clean prose and assume LLM slop. Same discomfort, different decade, identical pattern: people resist leverage they haven't internalized yet.

I use AI tools the way I used spell-check, grammar tools, and search engines before them; as cognitive leverage, not cognitive replacement. The ideas are mine. The arguments are mine. The cultural references, personal stories, and synthesis across domains—all mine. If the output reads coherently, maybe that says more about expectations than about authenticity.

You can call it slop. Or you can engage with the ideas. One takes effort. The other takes a glance at a header image and a decision that polish equals automation. Your choice reveals more about your relationship to technology than mine :)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-05 16:08:50+00:00
> Investing is putting money into (hopefully) productive use, like a company with revenue, in an expectation of a return

The big differences are time horizon, addiction and expectations.

The longer the term, the less actively one must watch it and the lower the expected returns, the more likely it’s investing. The shorter the expected turnaround, the more closely one watches numbers go up and down, and the more one is focused on turning multiples than yields, the more likely it’s gambling.

Any stochastic process can produce gambling behaviour. Only a positive-sum game can facilitate investing.
by Razengan | 2025-10-05 16:08:57+00:00
I don't use or follow Linux but I do stumble upon news about it here and there, and I saw a video just a month or so ago, about Linus going off on RISC-V etc.

Maybe it was this, not sure, not gonna go dig it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8Gb7Ikm2o
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-05 16:09:15+00:00
It's interesting to consider these cause and effects, but I tend to doubt that over-hunting/extintion of megafauna led to farming and agriculture.

It's understandable that ancient hunters might have focused on the larger animals, some of which may also have been less dangerous to hunt, but other smaller animals like deer, bison/cattle, pigs, horses were also common at the time, and even today hunter-gatherer lifestyle seems common among primitive tribes, and agriculture/farming (e.g. Maasai - cattle) less so.

There are other theories for the neolithic revolution and switch from hunter-gatherer to farming lifestyle, including things like population density (partly by cultural choice), and post-ice age climate change enabling farming.
by iaw | 2025-10-05 16:09:31+00:00
>According to a press release from the airline, economy seats on the retrofitted planes will have "back support with a fixed recline design," which in simpler terms means the seat will not have the ability to recline.

>The Premium section at the front of these planes will have "ergonomically contoured seat cushions, reclining seat backs and a large headrest with four-way adjustment capability."

So.. poor people don't deserve ergonomic seats?
by chiph | 2025-10-05 16:09:31+00:00
In the days when you used custom printed forms that had a number printed on them by the printer - when you loaded a new box of paper into your printer you had to input the first form number into the system so they'd match.

If you opened boxes in "whatever" order you'd have invoice numbers that would run contiguous for 150 or so counts (the number of forms in the box), then skip to the next multiple of 150 to correspond to when the next (or previous!) box had been used.
by laborcontract | 2025-10-05 16:09:53+00:00
I think everything I know about Apple's culture under jobs was that steve let his lieutenants have at each other. That culture died when Forstall was booted from the company (one of apple's biggest mistakes, IMO). Tim Cook gives people their space. It's why Jony Ive and Alan Dye have been allowed to run amok, with almost zero checks and balances.