MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gf000 | 2025-10-28 21:43:22+00:00
The context was "business", that kind of application is developed quite differently than, say, a cool little hobby terminal emulator or whatever.

Even though the business currently doesn't have a need to e.g. support any other currency than USD and EUR, an experienced developer will clearly see that it is unlikely to stay that way for long, so doing some preliminary preparation for generalizing currencies may well worth the time.
by strictnein | 2025-10-28 21:43:25+00:00
> I have never died before, not once in my life. The most likely outcome is that I will live forever.

They didn't say that this is always true for every situation forever. They said "The best predictor of future events is past experience".

Keyword is "best".

You being alive today is the best predictor of you being alive tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 21:43:56+00:00
> Provide numbers. Sanders, for instance, funded his proposed system by (among other things) taxing capital gains at the level of ordinary income.

Not tax penalizing non-capital income is sort of an essential reform in the era of increasing automation anyway; I'm not sure what point you are trying to make there. The average middle income family isn't making a substantial share of their income in forms taxed as long-term capital gains, so that seems...unrelated to the focus of your argument.

> I'm critical of the US system, but I have exactly the opposite diagnosis you do: my concern with the system is that, by the numbers, it appears to function by driving way too much spending on "actual" care.

It does both (particularly, in the “actual care” angle, as regards low-benefit, high-cost measures near the end of life.) We have a system based on denying and economically incentivizing younger people to avoid and defer care, but then doing much less of that with (most of) the elderly.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-28 21:44:02+00:00
> Lastly, AI seems to be focused around its own set of tooling, like Cursor

Nah, the best coding LLMs are console applications like Claude Code, Codex CLI and the like.

Editor integration mostly brings more tools, like tapping into different validators on VSCode and examining the "problems" view.

Also Rider's autocomplete is at least partially AI powered unless you specifically disable it IIRC.
by xor01 | 2025-10-28 21:44:25+00:00
For years, I operated under what I thought was a fundamental truth of tech: if you build a high-quality, well-architected product, users will eventually find it. After launching several SaaS apps with a partner to near-total silence (our user count was less than five), I had a painful awakening.

This post is a candid post-mortem of my journey from the comfortable certainty of the command line into the chaotic world of marketing. It's a story of my failures:

- My attempt at "building in public" that was just a monologue.

- Getting my first Reddit account permabanned for not understanding the culture.

- A Product Hunt launch that completely flopped.

- Realizing that my "clever" automation for finding users was just sophisticated spam.

I'm not a marketing guru now, not even close. But I've learned a ton from these setbacks, especially about the importance of community (Discord), providing value first, and the sheer persistence it takes to get noticed.

I wrote this for other developers who might be standing where I was a few months ago, thinking that code is the only thing that matters. Happy to answer any questions and hear about your own experiences with the "build it and they will come" fallacy.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-28 21:44:43+00:00
This is one of those topics where the Hacker News take is unlikely to be correct. There's a lot of strong feeling here, and an outsider would need at least three books to understand the historical context (one of which, afaict, has not been written yet: it's oral tradition only).

People closer to the issue are better-placed to gather the necessary information, but again: strong feeling. Most people find it hard to get past that. The most informed person I know is so biased that I don't at all trust their conclusions.
by Latty | 2025-10-28 21:45:29+00:00
I'm a little amazed people still have the perspective of "a few more years" when it is very clear that the Republicans have no intent of offering a free and fair election. The rubicon has been crossed ten times over, they got into power after attempting a coup last time, all the safeguards and people who would refuse are long gone, if they don't succeed this time it'll be through sheer incompetence rather than anything else.
by gusgus01 | 2025-10-28 21:45:40+00:00
Oh I'm clear about the demographic you are trying to discuss, my point was I'm not sure this all stemmed from a discussion about that specific demographic. It started at "people in US", then went to "most", then by the time you got involved in the thread you were defending a statement about people with private health insurance.

I could have made this comment at the level where it went off the rails, but I thought making it at the leaf level would help everyone involved see the deviation between what was said and what was being argued.
by aboringusername | 2025-10-28 21:45:59+00:00
A great example of this is the 'networking' permission. Being able to control which app can speak to the WAN/LAN is a very important security consideration. Instead, every Android app can send any data it wants without the user being able to have a say in the matter. A lot of apps work just fine without being able to 'phone home'.

Thankfully there's the likes of GrapheneOS, however, with Google's recent changes, unless their OEM partner pulls through, their days are likely numbered.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 21:46:01+00:00
Yes, but good luck finding a way to integrate CEC with Home Assistant, or anything else for that matter. Even modern GPUs don't support it. You usually have to buy a USB dongle that MITMs the connection for a disgusting amount of money. It looks like Raspberry Pis support it, but then you have an SBC and its power source dangling off of your TV just to run a single lightweight daemon that may not even fit your use case. CEC is not designed for total control, and on many TVs it's even a bit flaky. I had to disable it on mine because misbehaving devices would randomly turn the TV off and on when I didn't want it.
by lurquer | 2025-10-28 21:46:40+00:00
In C++, I’ve noticed that ChatGPT is fixated on unordered_maps. No matter the situation, when I ask what container would be wise to use, it’s always inordered_maps. Even when you tell it the container will have at most a few hundred elements (a size that would allow you to iterate their a vector to find what your are looking for before the unordered_map even has its morning coffee) it pushes the map… with enough prodding, it will eventually concede that a vector pretty much beats everything for small .size()’s.
by clickety_clack | 2025-10-28 21:46:48+00:00
I’m actually bootstrapping, so the VC situation isn’t relevant to me.

It’s a distant memory to me now, I’m building a company and so much has happened that the details of this decision have faded away. But, between the AI act and GDPR, there’s a set of potential traps laid out for you to step into, along with reams of paperwork. All that requires lawyers and compliance consultants to help you figure it out, and that’s way too much for a fledgling startup.

I think it said it all that the AI regulations were written before there was really anyone to regulate. Why would I want to pour my heart and soul into a system that’s geared to find ways to stop me from building?

Anyway, it’s no longer relevant to me: I’m gone and I don’t have to worry about it anymore.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-28 21:47:53+00:00
> you can leave your passport in your hotel room

I generally do this anyway; about the only time I carry a passport while just out and about in another country (note: not risky ones) is if making large purchases that will be VAT-refundable. Do merchants accept the card in lieu of passport for verifying you for VAT exemption? Many will take a photo on the phone, but not all.
by Grimblewald | 2025-10-28 21:48:03+00:00
Youre missing an important detail - how many deaths / maimings per violent offense. If violent offences dont drop but those do, worth no? How about school shooters - will people no longer crash out and attack their classmates? No. We havent solved the underlying issue, however, such a crashout sans guns seems siginificantly more preferable to me.

besides, the usa has proven that freedom to access guns doesnt protect you from dictatorships / authoritarian governments. That was the main stated constitutional reason for having that right.

So the USA hasn't seen any benefits from free gun access ans has lost uncountbaly many lives to death and trauma. How is it still justified?
by supertrope | 2025-10-28 21:48:35+00:00
Even if you keep your plan it's getting enshittified every year.

It's that time of year again - enroll for 2026 benefits. My employer raised employee premiums by 10%, raised the deductible, added more administrative burden such as "step therapy" (the insurance company denies your claim for a drug until you've tried a cheaper but less effective drug, even if you've already done "step therapy" while on another health plan!) Your employer will change the plan premiums and structure every single year. They can lay you off, exclude expensive drugs, exclude doctors, etc. Some specialties like anesthesiology and psychiatry are usually not in network. In extreme cases an employer can change health administrators mid-year and your deductible will reset.

https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/health-industries/libra... https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/workplace-health-insu...
by astrange | 2025-10-28 21:49:02+00:00
Oh, I don't think that applies. He's part of a movement called "neo-Brandesian" aka "hipster antitrust", which basically thinks government should promote small businesses by explicitly bullying large businesses, and that the customer welfare standard was a cop out to give up on this.

So not only would they be against deregulation (they think painful regulations are good because pain for the sake of it is good), but the previous admin actually tried this with Lina Khan and it didn't really work.

The issue here is Democrats are "mainstream" coded, so all populist politics works by fighting them even when they're trying to do your own policy.
by AndrewDucker | 2025-10-28 21:49:16+00:00
Leaving aside the availability of various Intel processors, exactly what I want is for the various manufacturers to compete as hard as they possibly can.

I want Intel to catch up this month. And then next month I want AMD to overtake them. And then ARM to make them all look slow. And then Apple to show them how it's done.

The absolute last thing I'd want is for Apple to have special magic chips that nobody else even comes close to.
by magicalist | 2025-10-28 21:49:49+00:00
> It is a term almost exclusively used by the left

What a strange claim.

If you search the sites you cite, all of them have at least one use of "toady" or "toadies" (which only gets a few hits on fair.org as well). Meanwhile go check the national review and they seem to love the word. Maybe recheck your priors.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-10-28 21:49:50+00:00
Maybe I'm missing it, but they mention Flatbuffers a lot here, then don't show benchmarks:

https://fory.apache.org/blog/fury_blazing_fast_multiple_lang...

But flatbuffers is _much_ faster than protobuf/json:

https://flatbuffers.dev/benchmarks/
by kragen | 2025-10-28 21:50:27+00:00
The average user might have one or two non-free programs they depend on that aren't websites. Maybe AutoCAD, or Photoshop, or SketchUp, or Excel, or the driver for their oscilloscope, or Dark Souls. Everything else can easily be free software or webapps. So an "app store" that doesn't contain non-free software can be the primary source of software, and for almost all Debian or Ubuntu users, it always has been.

The average Ubuntu user doesn't even have those one or two non-free programs. After all, Autodesk doesn't provide a version of AutoCAD for Linux in the first place.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-28 21:50:27+00:00
I've never purchased a refrigerator in my life - every place I've lived in my adult life has been a rental where I wasn't the one picking the appliances. What happens when I'm looking for a place to live, and I find somewhere that meets my requirements, except that the landlord has this Samsung smart fridge in the kitchen - maybe they thought this was a selling point, like the landlord I had who put the fact that they had a Google Nest thermostat proudly in the apartment ad (I deliberately never gave it my WiFi password)?
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 21:50:45+00:00
When I tried to pair mine out of the box it initiated an "Update to iOS 26!" workflow and wouldn't let me pair until I did. Also, after I updated my iPhone and paired them to my iPad Pro, still on iPadOS 18, they just showed up as generic bluetooth headphones with none of the ANC or Hearing Assist features available.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-10-28 21:50:54+00:00
Why couldn't the journalist simply have said "Doorbell camera" every time they said "Flock camera"?

?

(It would have been the same story -- just less biased against a single equipment manufacturer in a product category (Doorbell Cameras)...)

So, why couldn't the journalist simply have said "Doorbell camera" every time they said "Flock camera"?

?
by kstrauser | 2025-10-28 21:51:16+00:00
Great point, and an excellent illustration. If it was trivial for an adversary to see that some people were visiting http://cia.gov/visitor-center-and-gift-shop-hours, but others were visiting https://cia.gov/[we-can't-see-this-part], they'd know exactly who to concentrate their rubber hose cryptography efforts on.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-28 21:51:22+00:00
These arguments constantly devolve into "why would you want an APPLE product that's less good than $_new_shiny_PC_thing" and it's always currently available products being pitched against conceptual products in the heads of Intel's fanboys that may come to market in a year. It's a ridiculous comparison.

I got an M3 Pro Macbook Pro on clearance recently for $1,600, 16 inch screen brighter than any PC laptop's I've ever seen, that's the fastest computer I have ever used, hands down and it's 2 generations out of date already. OR I can have a PC gaming laptop where the fit and finish isn't as nice, where the screen is blurrier, the battery life maxes out at 4 hours if I do absolutely nothing with it, and any time I do anything of remote consequence the fans kick up and make it sound like it's trying to take off.

And that's without even taking into account the awful mess Windows is lately, especially around power management. It makes every laptop experience frustrating, with the same issues that were there when I was in fucking high school.

Like if you just hate Mac, fine, obviously a Mac is a bad fit for you then and I wouldn't try and tell you otherwise. But I absolutely reserve the right to giggle when those same people are turning their logical brains into pretzels to justify hating a Mac when it has utterly left the PC behind in all things apart from gaming.
by pedalpete | 2025-10-28 21:51:35+00:00
Interesting study, but it mostly reinforces what we already know about sleep mechanics.

Of particular importance is how sensory regions remain metabolically active while higher-order regions downshift during NREM sleep. That suggests the benefit of sleep depends less on how long we sleep and more on the specific activation and de-activation of networks during sleep.

I work in neurotech/sleeptech as the founder of https://affectablesleep.com. Our stimulation triggers sensory pathways during sleep to enhance the brain’s restorative function without changing sleep time.

This systematic review [1] covers non‐invasive approaches to enhancing slow‐wave activity in sleep and outlines their physiology and effects. This focused paper [2] explores the neurophysiology of closed‐loop auditory stimulation during sleep.

Though the title of the post suggests the study looks at falling asleep, the study is really focused on what happens during NREM sleep, which has been our focus for the last few years.

Of particular interest to me right now are the processes of waking. Research suggests that different neural networks come online in a specific sequence, and when that sequence is disrupted, we experience sleep inertia or the sense of not being fully restored.

[1]https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2021.101438 [2]https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16132
by XCSme | 2025-10-28 21:51:42+00:00
It's hit or miss, but for my product type it worked quite well: https://docs.uxwizz.com/guides/ask-ai

The problem is that often once it starts failing, it rarely recovers from an error, even given the exact error code.

In my dashboard, I added OpenRouter access, so you can quickly swap between models and see which one works best (for your desired accuracy/response time/pricing). Grok 4 Fast is one of the best overall.
by harrall | 2025-10-28 21:51:46+00:00
Less than 1% of the hash maps I use have ever needed order.

The underlying data structures between both are different. Ordered hash maps use more memory, are slower, and are more complicated.

Knowing CS fundamentals, using an ordered hash map should be a deliberate choice like renting a box truck when you need to move a lot of stuff. Don’t just drive a box truck everywhere because you might pick up a couch from a thrift store one day.
by blueg3 | 2025-10-28 21:51:54+00:00
Not only will sideloading via ADB continue to work, installing from most other third-party app stores will continue to work. The developers on the Amazon, Samsung, and Epic app stores won't have a hard time with the developer verification process. F-Droid is in a uniquely inconvenient position that they have a legitimate app store, but its design causes them to have a hard time with developer verification.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-10-28 21:52:09+00:00
> For an extreme example: Harvard's tuition is nominally $60K per year, but for families earning $200K or less it's $0. Many prestigious universities follow similar patterns resulting in a large percentage of students paying no tuition, the middle ground of students paying some fraction, and a small number of students from wealthy families subsidizing everyone else.

As someone from a country (Sweden) that to a larger extent has decreased people’s reliance on their families, and grown the welfare state instead, it’s weird to think that your parents wealth or income should have any impact on things like tuition, once you’ve reached the age of majority

Once I finished high school, my parents had nothing to do with my business as far as any institutions were concerned, and vice versa. But uni was tax-funded and free at the point of use. And when they get too old to care for themselves, it will likely be the government supporting them financially, not me (unless I strike it rich first, in which case I suppose they’ll spend their sunset years in style)
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-28 21:52:31+00:00
This nonsense keeps getting repeated over and over again for years now and I have yet to find a single documented case of it happening. You'd think that with all the attention, someone would've actually documented it by now.

Enough people connect their TV/smart devices willingly to the internet that there is no need for adversarial approaches like this (which are not trivial to set up - they'd need to maintain per-country partnerships with Wi-Fi hotspot providers, pay them and hope the ROI is worth it).
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-28 21:52:42+00:00
AI can produce code that looks like patterns which it has seen as part of its training data.

It can recognize patterns in the codebase it is looking at and extrapolate from that.

Which is why generated code is filled with comments most often seen in either tutorial level code or JavaScript (explaining the types of values).

Beyond that performance drops rapidly, and hallucinations go up inversely.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-10-28 21:52:56+00:00
> But, no, I'm given to understand they couldn't run e.e. the DeepSeek 3.2 model full size because there simply isn't enough GPU RAM still.

My RTX 4080 only has 16 GB of VRAM, and gpt-oss 120b is 4x that size. It looks like Ollama is actually running ~80% of the model off of the CPU. I was made to believe this would be unbearably slow, but it's really not, at least with my CPU.

I can't run the full sized DeepSeek model because I don't have enough system memory. That would be relatively easy to rectify.

> And once it does add up, and these models can be reasonable run on lower end hardware... then the moat ceases to exist and there'll be dozens of providers.

This is a good point and perhaps the bigger problem.
by Latty | 2025-10-28 21:53:42+00:00
Is the DPRK a democracy? They claim they are, so should a wiki blindly report that they are?

Likewise, it's absurd to claim Gamergate was about "ethics in game journalism", even a cursory look at what the movement actually did makes it very clear that was never the focus.

It's not biased to look at what happened and report that people didn't do what they claimed to be doing.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-28 21:53:56+00:00
Sonnet 4.5 is rebranded Opus 4. That's where it got its token-happiness.

Try asking Opus to generate a simple application and it'll do it. It'll also add thousands of lines of setup scripts and migration systems and Dockerfiles and reports about how it built everything and... Ooof.

Sonnet 4.5 is the same, but at a slightly smaller scale. It still LOVES to generate markdown reports of features it did. No clue why, but by default it's on, you need to specifically tell it to stop doing that.
by stuffn | 2025-10-28 21:54:12+00:00
These wild cases aren't worth considering as far as "do I move to the US or not". They are exceedingly rare and while they can happen so can the wing falling off your plane on the trip here.

The bigger concern, IMO, is insurance is tied to employment. The time you get your massive bill is when you get very sick after being fired/laid off and your COBRA is up.

The next biggest concern is the ACA which is the greatest scam ever pulled on Americans. It started out as, what would've been, universal healthcare. Instead, it simply played into the insurance company profit centers by forcing people (now by law) to hold some kind of insurance or pay a large tax fine. So you're stuck paying $1,500 for sub-par care on a bronze plan with a massive deductible and no limit. So much for "increasing the competitiveness of the market".

Healthcare spends more money on lobbying than any other sector in America. The solution isn't to start breaking it down with crap like the ACA. That will get gutted by the bought and paid for politicians (which it did). What we need to do is begin by repealing citizen's united, limiting campaign contributions to 0 from industry professionals (in both their professional and personal capacity), and fire the congressmen taking the most money from them.

They don't have hearts. They have large wallets. Hit them where it hurts.
by asveikau | 2025-10-28 21:54:43+00:00
I may be off by 100-200 years, but this is what I read. There were accents and regionalisms but they were all mutually intelligible.

It is an example I think of often, about how quickly languages can change. In the scale of 1000 years, a lot changes. Most of the diversity in Romance languages is from around that timescale too, it really started to diverge substantially around 900ad-1100ad.
by doomroot13 | 2025-10-28 21:55:34+00:00
I am excited about Panther Lake myself but where are you reading that it has higher performance/watt than M5? The chips aren't even out yet. All we have are Intel marketing materials with vague lines on charts. No one could have possibly done a performance/watt test on Panther Lake yet. I'm hoping they beat M5 but if I had to, I'd put my money on M5.