MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keeptrying | 2025-10-30 03:38:19+00:00
With an LLM it takes 15 minutes. With libraries and books and youtube and research probably 4 hours.

Thats a meaningful difference to get upto speed.

If you're an engineer you get a hell of a lot of agency in 15 minutes.

A lot providers will mark up prices for things that actually don't matter. You ca definitely figure that out quickly and tell them its not needed.

And hten others will give you a cheaper alternative at a higher price - this is really fucked but I"ve seen it a lot.

Essentially service providers (most) are screwing you on price is terrible ways. LLMs can get you 20% off at the VERY least.

IF you aren't in a hurry you can cut a lot more down and even do most of the things on your own with a LLM.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-30 03:38:20+00:00
Kafka allows you to have a consumer group… you can have multiple workers processing messages in parallel, and if they all use the same group id, the messages will be sharded across all the workers using that key… so each message will only be handled by one worker using that key, and every message will be given to exactly one worker (with all the usual caveats of guaranteed-processed-exactly-once queues). Other consumers can use different group keys and they will also get every single message exactly once.

So if you want an individual offset, then yes, the consumer could just maintain their own… however, if you want a group’s offset, you have to do something else.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-30 03:38:51+00:00
In high-security systems, we solved this problem with trusted, independent evaluators who got all the data. They replicate the results themselves. They analyze every artifact for flaws. They also pen test the system offensively. If they say it's good, then maybe it is good or maybe less, obviously bad.

We could have third-party groups with evaluation criteria who don't make models or sell A.I.. Strictly evaluators. Alternatively, they have a different type of steady income with the only A.I. work they're doing being evaluation.
by jerrygoyal | 2025-10-30 03:39:08+00:00
For those who find red squiggly lines too distracting, I built a lightweight Chrome extension (<1MB) that approaches grammar correction in a minimalistic way: Highlight text -> Select "Correct grammar" from the toolbar -> Replace text.

The quality is unmatched because it uses SOTA models like GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini.

Yes, you can use your own API key as well.

https://jetwriter.ai
by scuff3d | 2025-10-30 03:39:15+00:00
I use NeoVim, not Helix, but I think it's more about sane defaults then the amount of customization. Out of the box NeoVim is just a basic modal text editor and not much more. You have to dive in and start configuring to get the real power out of it.

Helix does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

Also, as a side note, I feel like trying to use someone else's config in NeoVim is a path to madeness.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-30 03:40:45+00:00
I’m being sarcastic of course - this isn’t a Snow Leopard release and it wasn’t marketed as such. There are in fact new features in v26: live translations and a revamped Spotlight. But these are treated almost as footnotes, with most of the advertising devoted to Liquid Glass: https://www.apple.com/os/macos/

Worth noting Snow Leopard also had new features, most notably the App Store. But it was marketed as a performance upgrade. v26 / Tahoe’s new features (excluding the UI reskin) are comparably small. But instead it is a massive slowdown & bloat release :(
by kmeisthax | 2025-10-30 03:41:46+00:00
So, do you remember the Wolf of Wall Street? AKA Jordan Belfort. Huge fraudster, did shittons of financial crime. People on Prodigy and Compuserve forums were talking about it, and so Jordan Belfort decided to sue the shit out of the companies in order to take the speech down and censor the users talking about him.

The resulting caselaw we got out of this mess was that Prodigy's moderated servers were treated as publisher and assigned defamation liability; while Compuserve, being unmoderated, had no such liability. CDA 230 was written specifically to overturn the Prodigy verdict. So repealing it would put us in a place where Internet forums are either totally censored and sanitized, or completely unregulated messes of spam and garbage. No middle ground.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-10-30 03:42:50+00:00
Yes, I think they claim they are a far better dice roller in randomness and speed and that this is very important. The first might be true, but I don’t see why second is in any way true. These all need to be true for this company to make sense :

1. They build a chip that does random sampling far better than any GPU (is this even proven yet?)

2. They use a model architecture that utilizes this sampling advantage which means most of the computation must be concentrated at sampling. This might be true for energy based models or some future architecture we have no idea about. AFAIK, this is not even true for diffusion.

3. This model architecture must outcompete autoregressive models in economically useful tasks, whether language modeling or robotics etc, right now auto regressive transformers is still king across all tasks.

And then their chip will be bought by hyper scalers and their company will become successful. There is just so many if’s outside of them building their core technology that this whole project makes no sense. And you can say that this is true for all startups, I don’t think that’s the case, this is just ridiculous.
by sleepybrett | 2025-10-30 03:43:05+00:00
it does open up some possibility for mechanics that exploit the fact that the play area ("board") is almost infinitely mutable.

But honestly concepts like this, mixing of physical and digital, have been tried to very little success in the gaming space for years. Out best success is wii-motion controls and rockband-era .. elaborate controllers. But there have been card games that utilized cameras to read the cards, skylanders, etc.

Actually this is closest to some of the things that original run of microsoft surface tables could do. I played some backgammon on one with physical dice and disks. It was .. fine, but it was just backgammon, they were just showing off the object tracking features. The only thing you could do with the board was some fancy animated board themes.

Anyways all of that stuff is largely abandoned. So I wish these guys luck.
by kelnos | 2025-10-30 03:45:06+00:00
> when did people forget how to run a baremetal server ?

I don't think people have forgotten, but I think Amazon has done an amazingly excellent job of marketing and developer relations over the years, to the point that they've convinced most developers that doing your own thing is 1) a lot of expensive, specialized work, and 2) actively dangerous for your business, whether it's because of security, uptime, or some other ops bogeyman of the day.

Note that I said "developers". Most developers are not sysadmins or IT operations people. Most of them have never set up Linux on a desktop or laptop, let alone on real server hardware (that they've also set up themselves). Most of them never had the chance to forget how to run a bare-metal server; they never knew how in the first place. (Hell, I've been running desktop Linux for 25+ years, and I don't think I've ever set up Linux on actual server hardware. Closest I've come is bare-metal Solaris, but that was like 25 years ago.)

"DevOps" today usually means that you know how to run a CLI tool or drive a web interface to deploy your automatically-built container artifact to some cloud-based production system that someone else manages, hiding the details from you. (This bit also can be true for shops that run on bare metal, depending on how advanced their own sysadmin/ops team is.) While developers are often not decision-makers in a larger org, they can be at smaller orgs, and once those developers get on the cloud, you probably will stay on the cloud (companies like OneUptime are the exception, not the rule), even if you've gotten much larger and it's stupid expensive to continue running that way.
by outlore | 2025-10-30 03:45:56+00:00
can one really formulate a consistent philosophy of whether to get the mass market thing that "just works" or the power user thing that the author of this article describes as the path to good taste?

(and by "just works" - i mean about 80% of the time)

some of these are even represented in the hacker news front page: iphone vs fairphone, tesla vs corolla, macbook vs framework, vscode or helix, sora vs comfyui etc etc
by bigyabai | 2025-10-30 03:46:52+00:00
> What modern military doesn't censor reporting during a war in its own territory?

The ones willing to defer to an ICJ investigation? Hell, an IAEA inspection?

Both Dimona and the Liberty were critically reliant on America's infinite tolerance for Israeli transgression. Kennedy's stance towards Israel could have only convinced Johnson that resistance was futile, there's no way he could raise a finger if he did suspect foul play. The two nations were motley and often disagreeing partners united by a desire to mete out territory of neighboring petrostates. If a closed-door meeting ever decided that secrecy was the cost of keeping oil prices low, not a single American president would put their name on the line to speak up about it.

Not a damning accusation, sure. But it's also the same thing many Americans wondered in 1967.
by chii | 2025-10-30 03:47:07+00:00
> To a lot of people it increasingly feels like a form of private authoritarianism over tiny fiefdoms for absolutely no benefit to a vast majority of people.

that is what it means to have property rights.

It prevents your interests from being usurped by someone else without first consulting you. Of course, like anything, it can be taken too far, but getting the balance right is important.

If it tips too far towards gov't authoritarianism, the people who are not connected tends to suffer silently (while the majority who gets told these "nation building" projects benefits them).

If it tips too far towards the private individual, then you get nimby-ism and such.
by scottlamb | 2025-10-30 03:47:27+00:00
Easy: alone, struggling to contact coworkers (while mostly trying to diagnose the problem). I've done both (the alone state didn't last for hours because we did have emergency communication channels, and the hotel was a ski lodge in my case). The surrounded by coworkers is much better.

That's assuming these are actual coworkers, not say a dozen escalating levels of micromanagers, which I agree would be hell. The where isn't really that important in my experience, as long as you've got reliable Internet access.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-30 03:47:28+00:00
Using AI can lead to a sort of logical booby trap.

People ask AI for answers when they lack knowledge.

But knowledge is required to discern if the AI answer is just BS --- which is not uncommon.

So in a way, AI is often a case of the blind leading the blind using nicely articulated BS.

The logical approach is to verify everything but this can take a lot of time. Doing otherwise is where the trap comes into play.
by corimaith | 2025-10-30 03:48:40+00:00
>The US introduced China to western manufacturing markets. So if they would otherwise be poor and non-industrialized, the US is responsible for it all.

Who is "We" here? I am speaking from a global perspective. Chinese industrialization has internal agency, drivers and motivation, the US did not force China to industrialize. Secondly Global Demand is not US-Specific, Europe, Japan and other markets contributed with their own agreements so the claim that the US is "responsible" is overstated here.

>Though I think everyone is just saying Chinese emissions should be counted, proportionally, against the people they're making products for. And the US is one of their biggest customers.

That's not what anyone serious is saying because it's just splitting hairs. Everyone buys from China, the US accounts for 15% of China's total imports so clearly their role here is exaggerated again. China also consumes much of their own manufacturing, while the US also exports many services elsewhere, so should US emissions be counted in other countries? And then there are also structural dynamics in how surplus economies intentionally suppress their demand to run surpluses.

In a world of comparative advantage, I don't see the particular value in performing funny calculations to divy up moral blame according to shifting trade dynamics, just much easier to point it out as shared global responsiblity in the path for Modernity.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-30 03:48:50+00:00
> find the minimum amount of money and people needed to maintain it

> you must improve the software to keep users from just up and quitting

You’re shifting the goalposts. Either they’re doing the bare minimum to maintain it, or they’re improving it with new features. And that too improving it with enough new features to justify a higher price.

And honestly, neither of these are bad things because none of their products have strong lock ins. Either they’re maintaining a service that was otherwise failing and therefore keeping existing users satisfied, or they’re growing and improving it.

Software is hard, so whether they’re successful or not remains to be seen. And turnaround stories almost never happen in software so they’re taking on an even harder job, but so far there’s little evidence that they’re been user hostile.
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by puches | 2025-10-30 03:49:09+00:00
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by qrios | 2025-10-30 03:49:26+00:00
Is that you? The same guy with the comment "hahahhahaha"[1] on "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"[2]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689366

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373
by helicone | 2025-10-30 03:50:28+00:00
well, sonny, ur paw's had a long day at the farm

the cursor-bots needed wranglin' after'n they got into the source code for node.js.

yep, the linter's on the fritz now, too. i think ol' Jedadiah musta convinced it to act like jar-jar binks. well that jokester just cost us one. too bad we' can't fire'em. he's the only one knows how to turn the servers on.

i'm gonna go sit on the porch and watch tiktoks for the rest of the night. you be a good boy and tell the OpenRoomba to do its chores.
by jasonm23 | 2025-10-30 03:50:55+00:00
There's a threshold, of both user ability and scale of 'problem'

I mostly agree with you dfabulich - the repeated efforts to create node/pipeline tools "visual programming languages" are not built for us, and feel redundant.

But I took issue with "where you don't need it" as this is very much dependent on who "you" is.
by acomjean | 2025-10-30 03:51:50+00:00
They’re weren’t that many that weren’t pre compiled for Linux in the c++ world. Python is bad, but others have issues too.

C/C++ often had to compile used “make” which I’ll admit to being better at the conda/pip.

I suspect this is because the c/c++ code was developed by people with a more comp Sci background. Configure/make/make install..I remember compiling this one.

https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/source.html

If the software made it biogrids life was easier

https://biogrids.org/

But a lot of the languages had their own quirks and challenges (Perl cpan, Java…). Containerization kinda helps.
by chii | 2025-10-30 03:51:53+00:00
China's success has come _after_ they economically liberalized in a way that resembles the west's free markets.

Soviets never did any of this. They "stubbornly" kept to a command economy. While china does have their 5-year plans and command economy, they have loosened that up for private individual's enterprises, and allowed special economic zones for which free market capitalism thrives.

With a bit of state help in infrastructure etc, this enabled china to leverage their enormous human capital to simply out-muscle their way into industrial dominance. Now with such a dominant position, they can call shots in a way that irks the US. Compounding the problem is that the authoritarian style of gov't in china enables long term strategic planning and execution - something that seems sorely lacking from the US for the past 3 decades.
by phil21 | 2025-10-30 03:52:54+00:00
> Quality and purity untested

Not true for everyone, or perhaps even most playing in this space.

Every batch friends of mine have ordered has been independently tested for purity and dosing. Random batches also tested for sterility.

Plenty of folks yolo it, but it’s not like it was a couple years ago. Lots of group buys being done that order a large batch and then do random sampling for lab testing.
by novoreorx | 2025-10-30 03:52:59+00:00
Recently I'm working on a project that let the users to analyze and rate the bid documents based on one tender document. The general logic is quite alike to the cv-job_offer example in Pipelex. The challenge I encountered is that both tender and bid documents are very large, it's impossible to load even a single one in LLM context, not to say both. Therefore I have to design a workflow to extract structured informations and evaluation criteria from the tender doc into predefined data models, and then dispatch multiple tasks to complete evaluation of these data models against each bid doc.

I'm wondering if this kind of scenario (essentially it's just the input document is too big) is possible to be handled in Pipelex. In my understanding DSL is good for it's high-level abstraction and easy to understand, but lacks flexibility and the power is restricted. How can the users of Pipelex iterate the pipelines to fulfill the complex need when the business logic became complex inevitably?
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-10-30 03:53:09+00:00
What do you think happens when one level of leadership sets a metric as a goal, and likely ties someone's bonus to that goal?

The metric-goal gets pushed down to lower hierarchy levels, and from then on, all it takes is turning a blind eye and you get the results we've seen in the court case I cited above. The smart ones just don't put it in writing.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-10-30 03:53:36+00:00
Vimeo never seemed to figure out what they wanted to be.

Did they want to be a white label video hosting provider? Did they want to be a social media network? Did they want to be prestige TV for the online age? Did they want to be IFC (indie movies) for the internet?

If they had picked one track and stuck to it they would have done a lot better but they ended up at the intersection of all those disparate spaces which ended up being a very tiny place.

They had several opportunities to become a legitimate competitor to YouTube with the number of times YT dropped the ball over the past decade but they never made the big move they probably should have.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-10-30 03:54:10+00:00
> Have you read the actual article?

The PSF grant one or a different one? In the PSF one, nobody is getting ostracized and fired for daring to suggest DEI, in fact, they are turning down a grant for a more pro-DEI stance.

You might be in trouble for actually implementing DEI programs, but it's not a taboo topic that can't even safely be talked about. Criticism of any DEI-related practice, whether it's illegal hiring discrimination or presubmits that yell at you for using an ever-expanding list of now-verboten words, was taboo in many places.
by kelnos | 2025-10-30 03:54:28+00:00
> people push AWS setups not because it's the best thing - it can be if you're not cost sensitive

This is so weird to me, because if you're running a company, you should be cost-sensitive. Sure, you might be willing to spend extra money on AWS in the very beginning if it helps you get to market faster. But after that, there's really no excuse: profit margin should be a very important consideration in how you run your infrastructure.

Of course, if you're VC backed, maybe that doesn't matter... that kind of company seems to mainly care about user growth, regardless of how much money is being sent to the incinerator to get it.
by cwyers | 2025-10-30 03:54:36+00:00
I'm not saying SWE-Bench is perfect, and there are reports that suggest there is some contamination of training sets for LLMs with common benchmarks like SWE-Bench. But they publish SWE-bench so anyone can run it and have an open leaderboard where they attribute the results to specific models, not just vague groupings:

https://www.swebench.com/

ARC-AGI-2 keeps a private set of questions to prevent LLM contamination, but they have a public set of training and eval questions so that people can both evaluate their modesl before submitting to ARC-AGI and so that people can evalute what the benchmark is measuring:

https://github.com/arcprize/ARC-AGI-2

Cursor is not alone in the field in having to deal with issues of benchmark contamination. Cursor is an outlier in sharing so little when proposing a new benchmark while also not showing performance in the industry standard benchmarks. Without a bigger effort to show what the benchmark is and how other models perform, I think the utility of this benchmark is limited at best.
by skeptrune | 2025-10-30 03:55:10+00:00
>This is because when Next.js loads the actual Server Component, no matter what, the entire page re-mounts. I was begging Next.js to just update the existing DOM and preserve state, but it just doesn't.

YES! YES! I FEEL SO SEEN RIGHT NOW! I find this behavior unbelievably frustrating. It's hard for me to understand why they ever even shipped RSC's without fixing this.
by dangus | 2025-10-30 03:55:32+00:00
Why does the added qualifier in your first paragraph matter?

You’re literally just explaining why the Soviet Union was less successful.

Nothing stopped the Soviet Union from liberalizing their economy and running it better like China. They just didn’t do it. Which loops us back to my original comment.

I didn’t bring my point up as some kind of communism versus capitalism thing, I’m just plainly stating that as far as single-party mostly-authoritarian governments go, China is far more accomplished than the USSR was.
by Pocomon | 2025-10-30 03:56:16+00:00
‘SteveB went on the road to see the top weeklies, industry analysts and business press this week to give our systems strategy. The meetings included demos of Windows 3.1 (pen and multimedia included), Windows NT, OS/2 2.0 including a performance comparison to Windows and a “bad app” that corrupted other applications and crashed the system. It was a very valuable trip and needs to be repeated by other MS executives throughout the next month so we hit all the publications and analysts.’

‘The demos of OS/2 were excellent. Crashing the system had the intended effect – to FUD OS/2 2.0. People paid attention to this demo and were often surprised to our favor. Steve positioned it as -- OS/2 is not "bad" but that from a performance and "robustness" standpoint, it is NOT better than Windows’

"I have written a PM app that hangs the system (sometimes quite graphically)."

http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0860.pdf http://iowa.gotthefacts.org/011107/PX_0797.pdf