MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sdoering | 2025-11-20 08:49:04+00:00
Don't mix PII data and cookies (or any other similar tech). There are different regulations in place here.

If you want to use ddata that can identify me (even in theory), you need to ask me, if I am fine with that. If you want to store data on my computer, you also need to ask me, if I am fine with that. Because, if I request a download, I expect to download the file. If I request a website, I expect the website content. I do not expect data that you or others can use to see how often I visited your site. Like meta-shit, or google-crap, or linkedin-slop...

If you want to do that, just ask m. And explain in clearly understandable words, what you do and why. That is just human decency.

Yes, I can (and strongly do) protect myself against this (and I am working in that business, I know the tricks and tools and stuff). But my late mom can't. Or her 80+ year old neighbor. Or SO#s my 19 year old niece that only uses a tablet and a crapload of apps that target her and spew a shitload of targeted ads for wheightloss onto her since she was an early teen...

So no -> Those companies need to be highly regulated. To me, those companes need to rott in hell, but that is my take. I want people to be protected. From business, from government. Thst is the basis of European privacy law - protecting the small person from the big entities. And rightly so. We have our history from which those protections originated.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-20 08:49:07+00:00
I can imagine (I have no clue about this, I just watch manufacturing videos) that this is easier to mass produce. A less refined version of this is used to make Rockwool, an insulation material similar to fiber glass. Melt the stuff, extrude it, ????, profit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6FWPTZjwLo
by wyclif | 2025-11-20 08:50:01+00:00
My Dad is a retired R&D chemist who worked at the DuPont corporation's Experimental Station. When I was a kid he would bring his old slide rules home from work when he got a new one, and at one point he explained to me how they work but I forgot it all long ago.

I still have the slide rules, so this post was a great rabbit hole to go down. In software there's no need for them but I still find them fascinating as a window into how engineers used to get their work done.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-20 08:50:11+00:00
What about when the lack of cookies makes everything break and you cannot work around it because it's too much JS to reverse-engineer, and/or it's a copyright-felony in your country to develop workarounds?

"I'll use my l33t hacker skillz to avoid it on my own" is a losing strategy in the long run.

A similar thing happens with the proliferation of cameras and license-plate readers.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-11-20 08:50:14+00:00
They fund founders with the immutable qualities which correlate with success. These include

1. FAANG or Ivy/Stanford/Harvard pedigree

2. Ex-founder with a good exit

3. Physically attractive/charismatic, a good salesman

4. Extremely high intelligence, ability, track record of aptitude

These qualities are more important than the idea of the company, which they expect to pivot or evolve over time. What doesn't change over time is the founders' relative advantage over their peers in these aspects, so it makes sense to prioritize them in selection
by johnisgood | 2025-11-20 08:50:34+00:00
I got downvoted, and you replied this... when tuition is not free in most European countries, at least not for higher education. In my country, med school used to cost over $18k, which is probably higher now.

Also the very hidden caveat of low or no tuition fee in some other countries is that you study in their language, not English.
by kakacik | 2025-11-20 08:50:47+00:00
A contrarian opinion - I also didn't jump the train yet, its even forbidden in our part of company due to various regulations re data secrecy and generally slow adoption.

Also - for most seasoned developers, actual dev activity is miniscule part of overall efforts. If you are churning code like some sweatshop every single day at say 45 its by your own choice, you don't want to progress in career or career didn't push you up on its own.

What I want to say - that miniscule part of the day when I actually get my hands on the code are the best. Pure creativity, puzzle solving, learning new stuff (or relearning when looking at old code). Why the heck would I want to lose or dilute this and even run towards it? It makes sense if my performance is rated only based on code output, but its not... that would be a pretty toxic place to be polite.

Seniority doesn't come from churning out code quicker. Its more long the lines of communication, leading others, empathy, toughness when needed, not avoiding uncomfortable situations or discussions and so on. No room for llms there.
by chickensong | 2025-11-20 08:51:09+00:00
It's an interesting question. Personally, I feel like it's a combination of factors.

On the content side, I think the content editing can have more of an impact than the subject itself. For example, I can watch something like a fast-paced action movie with a reasonable amount of camera tricks for a couple hours without any noticeable strain, but 30 mins of a modern cooking show can be exhausting just because the average time between camera cuts and zooms is only a few seconds. The latter jams so much stimulation into a small window that baking a cake is on par with a car chase.

On the format side, regardless of content, the loop and video switch gives me similar vibes to the editing tricks, but ofc the short video probably also contains similar editing, so it's a double whammy, and likely spread across different subjects as you scroll every minute or so. Bonus points if the content itself is stimulating.

If the modern cooking show I described is cocaine, doom scrolling shorts is crack cocaine. Harder, faster, more addictive.
by friendzis | 2025-11-20 08:51:32+00:00
That is not my experience or look at the history at all, wrt general-ish purpose technologies.

What usually happens is they either empower unskilled (in a particular context) personnel to perform some amount of tasks at "good enough" level or replace highly specialized machinery for some amount of tasks at again "good enough" level.

At some point (typically, when a general purpose technology is able to do "good enough" in multiple contexts) operating at "good enough" enough level in multiple verticals becomes profitable over operating ant specialized level and this is when the general purpose technology starts replacing specialized technology/personnel. Very much not all general-purpose technologies reach this stage at all, this is only applicable to highly successful general purpose technologies.

Then market share of general technology starts increasing rapidly while at the same time market share of specialized technologies drops, RnD in general tech explodes while specialized technologies start stagnating. Over time this may lead to cutting edge general purpose technologies surpassing the now-old specialized technologies, taking over in most areas.

> A very clear example of this is early Tesla surfing the reduction in Li-ion battery prices. <...> By the time the technology is ready for sedans, Tesla has a 5 year lead. > everyone at GM and Toyota was saying: Li-ion batteries are totally infeasible for the consumers we prioritize who want affordable cars.

We are nearly two decades since the Tesla "expensive sports car" and pure BEVs are still the significantly more expensive option, despite massive subsidies. If anything, everyone at Toyota were right. Furthermore, they have been developing their electric drive-trains in parallel via the hybrid tech: surfing the same wave while raking in profits.

In fact, BEV sales outpace other drive-train sales only in regions where either registrations of those are artificially limited, or the government heavily subsidizes both purchase and maintenance costs. If you don't have government subsidized rooftop solar the cost per mile of BEV is more or less on par with a HEV and in most cases worse than diesel for long range trips.
by Epskampie | 2025-11-20 08:52:08+00:00
The three dots in trim(...) make a callable out of a function, that was already in, so seem best to re-use that syntax, at least for now. [1]

As for the partial function application, there is already an RFC to add that, but it's not decided on as of now. [2]

1: https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.first_class_callable...

2: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/partial_function_application_v2
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-20 08:52:41+00:00
Yes, the original assessment was wrong. Such things happen all the time to reasonable people.

The person you were describing in your "most charitable" version above was not being reasonable. They didn't just underestimate the petty anger of the internet, they were being fundamentally foolish about their own desires. That's why I replied, to show you a different way someone could end up in this position.
by sdoering | 2025-11-20 08:52:51+00:00
And by that they are actually in violation of GDPR. But hey - since when was Musk interested in following regulations. And since when has a governmental or supra-governmental entity been able to curb that tendency of the super rich and biggest cooperations.

Like with meta: They know they mke 7 billion annualy from serving 15 billion scam ads daily. They calculated that they will have at most have to pay about a billion in governmental fines all over the world, if they should one day be regulated for that.

So it is a clear business decision to go on shoing 15 billion+ scam ads per day to their "users". Were some interesting journalistic pieces on that a few days ago.

And exactly those companies are the reason we need stronger protection. And these protections more heavily enforced.
by nickpp | 2025-11-20 08:53:38+00:00
Interesting that you have privacy so high on your list of priorities. The general public usually considers other small thing like "cost" and "convenience" when thinking about privacy.

Most of us actually don't mind losing a little privacy to read a news article when faced with the alternative of paying money or that news website ceasing to exist at all.

But, hey, keep pushing your warped privacy sense onto all of us, I am sure you are right.
by Y_Y | 2025-11-20 08:53:49+00:00
> Businesses have absolutely zero incentive to say that regulations are not bad.

Your overall point is solid, but I'd like to what I think is another reason that businesses could desire regulation. You're right that a dominant business can use its political power to "regulatory capture" its market and prevent new entrants, but I believe this isn't limited to uncompetitive markets.

Regulation can also prevent "arms races" by acting like explicit collusion. A straightforward example is competitive advertising in a saturated market, like cigarettes. Under the rough assumption that cigarettes are all equivalent and most potential smokers already smoke, then competitve advertising cuts into the profit margin, and companies have to participate or lose out. If you ban advertising then it's as if the bosses all got together and agreed not to compete like that. See e.g. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31547234/
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-11-20 08:54:12+00:00
I don’t know a single developer who is NOT using LLMs in some form, so either they or their company are paying for it. And that’s just a single service - they probably have a home account, and another few different services to test things, so it’s not exactly making zero.

Lately I’ve been finding LLM output to be hit and miss, but at the same time, I wouldn’t say they’re useless…

I guess the ultimate question is - if you’re currently paying for an LLM service, could you see yourself sometime in the future disabling all of your accounts? I’d bet no!
by whstl | 2025-11-20 08:55:08+00:00
I recently had a very interesting interaction in a few small startups I freelanced for recently.

In a 1-year company, the only tech person that's been there for more than 3-4 months (the CTO), only really understands a tiny fraction of the codebase and infrastructure, and can't review code anymore. Application size has blown up tremendously despite being quite simple. Turnover is crazy and people rarely stay for more than a couple months. The team works nights and weekends, and sales is CONSTANTLY complaining about small bugs that take weeks to solve.

The funny thing is that this is an AI company, but I see the CTO constantly asking developers "how much of that code is AI?". Paranoia has set in for him.
by oblio | 2025-11-20 08:55:24+00:00
Pick other examples, then.

We have superhuman coding (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45977992), where are the superhuman coded major apps from small companies that would benefit most from these superhumans?

Heck, we have superhuman requirements gathering, superhuman marketing, superhuman almost all white collar work, so it should be even faster!
by Terr_ | 2025-11-20 08:56:06+00:00
> A future where everyone has a personal computer was exciting and seemed strictly beneficial

I like to frame it in terms of capital goods, even if I didn't think of it at that time: The personal computer's promise was that everyone would own their own digital foundry and factory, creating value for them, controlled by them, and operating according to their own best interests.

Nowadays, you're just renting whatever-it-is from BigCorp, with massive lock-in. A tool for enacting other people's decisions at you.
by J_Monclare | 2025-11-20 08:56:17+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Jonathan Monclare. I'm an AI enthusiast approaching this from a philosophical and intuitive perspective, rather than a traditional engineering one. As a result, I've minimized academic jargon in this whitepaper to focus on the core concepts. It might look a bit unconventional (or informal) to the domain experts here, so please bear with me. I would really appreciate any feedback, critique, or advice on the architecture. Thanks for reading!
by cess11 | 2025-11-20 08:56:17+00:00
If you were to put a name on your ideological position, what would it be?

It can't be liberalism, since that tradition considers the state separate from society, and the state's purpose to provide liberty to the latter.

Communists of the 'tankie' variety (i.e. 'authoritarian' rather than 'libertarian' or anarchist) believe the state is or ought to be made up of its citizens, but they are aiming for scientific industrial administration and would never describe the state as an organism.

The tendency that does describe the state in that way, is fascism.

If the state inherently wanted all that for its citizens, why have people formed unions and militant organisations and struggled to achieve things like common education and so on?
by Bishonen88 | 2025-11-20 08:56:38+00:00
this seems rather basic. From watching a bit, it just seems to cut/combine the videos? No transitions, no bg music which would fit nicely with the cut timing etc.

I am waiting for a tool that does stuff along those lines for a long time. Apps like dji kinda do it but they have generic music and the cuts do not fit the tune at all, and are rather random. Doing it myself with little effort using davinci or premiere takes ~30 minutes but the results are 5 times better.

Was hoping that this app would do it for me. And even if it would, if it would cost >X$ to create a video like that, then probably I'd still do it myself.
by rixed | 2025-11-20 08:56:41+00:00
In the early 2000s when Google explained how they achieved their (already back then) awesome reliability, ie assuming that any software and hardware will eventually fail, and that they designed everything with the idea that everything was faulty, there were some people who couldn't get it, who would still bring the argument that "yeah but today with modern raid..."

People here chatting about unwrap remind me of them :)
by jstanley | 2025-11-20 08:56:51+00:00
This is kind of a myopic view of what it means to be a programmer.

If you're just in it to collect a salary, then yeah, maybe you do benefit from delivering the minimum possible productivity that won't get you fired.

But if you like making computers do things, and you get joy from making computers do more and new things, then LLMs that can write programs are a fantastic gift.
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by revanx_ | 2025-11-20 08:58:37+00:00
There is no "real" GPU virtualization available for regular consumer, as both AMD and NVIDIA are gatekeeping it for their server oriented gpus. This is the same story with Intel gatekeeping ECC ram for decades.

Even if you run games in container you still need to expose the DRM char/block device if you want vulkan,opengl to actually work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU_virtualization#mediated
by sensanaty | 2025-11-20 08:58:56+00:00
I keep hearing this argument that it stifles small businesses, but how is that exactly? I've worked for a variety of small startups in NL and GDPR has never, not once, been a real issue or blocker.

Yes, it forced these small businesses to think about how they're handling personal data, but that should be the fucking point, I don't care if a company is Facebook or if it's a 2 person startup, neither should be collecting and redistributing personal data and tracking people.
by morshu9001 | 2025-11-20 08:58:58+00:00
There have been times when something was very important and my ability to churn out quick proof of concept code (pre AI) made the difference. It has catapulted me. I thought talking was all-important, but turns out, there's already too much talk and not enough action in these working groups.

So now with AI, that's even quicker. And I can do it more easily during the half relevant part of meetings, which I have a lot more of nowadays. When I have real time to sit and code, I focus on the hardest and most interesting parts, which the AI can't do.
by friendzis | 2025-11-20 08:59:07+00:00
> What I want to say - that miniscule part of the day when I actually get my hands on the code are the best.

And if you are not "churning code like some sweatshop every single day" those hours are not "hey, let's bang out something cool!", it's more like "here are 5 reasons we can't do the cool thing, young padawan".
by nickpp | 2025-11-20 08:59:21+00:00
Such unhinged takes are one of the reasons EU has fallen behind so much. Nobody is arguing for child labor. We are just fighting for the right to build startups without worrying about reading hundred-page regulation manuals and having to hire "compliance officers" before even turning a profit.

Yeah, regulation generally tries to do good but that is going to be little consolation when EU's economy will go broke because all products and services we consume are build in less-regulated territories (USA and China to be specific).
by sdoering | 2025-11-20 09:00:00+00:00
Look at what YT loads in terms of tracking, when opening a page with an embedded YT video - even if you do not play that.

Or install something like pi-hole and watch how many analytics calls to Adobe Analytics the Adible app is sending out. Even if just idle in the background. Given the fact that you pay Adobe by the server call, Audible clearly must earn a shitload of money, if they can burn tracking calls like this.

If you are on a Mac, try Little Snitch and see where your data is going while surfing the net. No wonder in the US there are companies, that can sell you a clear image of all relevant data on nearly any person to enable algorithmic wage discrimination [1].

I know, that industry is trying to push EU further and further towards less consumer protections. But we have a great example of what that means for workers, consumers and all of us in the US.

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-20 09:00:53+00:00
At least in my experience, the early years of PHP was lacking more enterprisey users; back then there was a small revolution when RoR came out and introduced the MVC pattern to a lot of (web) developers, who didn't have as opinionated a pattern / architecture up until then.

During that same period, there were a lot of mediocre tutorials and documentation online, including on the PHP website itself which allowed people in comments to post code examples, but as far as I know there wasn't a lot of moderation on those.

And finally, a lot of people ended up writing their own frameworks and the like, because they could. But also because there weren't any or not many good and widely adopted frameworks out there, that came later with first Zend Framework and then Laravel, the latter being the de-facto standard nowadays.
by hamandcheese | 2025-11-20 09:01:04+00:00
A major reason agentic LLMs are so promising right now is because they just Figure It Out (sometimes).

Either the AI can figure it out, and it doesn't matter if there is a standardized protocol. Or the AI can't figure it out, and then it's probably a bad AI in the first place (not very I).

The difference between those two possibilities is a chasm far too wide to be bridged by the simple addition of a new protocol.
by tkgally | 2025-11-20 09:01:09+00:00
I would also be unable to write SVG code to produce anything other than the simplest shapes.

I noticed that, on my page, Gemini 3.0 Pro did produce one animated SVG without being asked, for “#8Generate an SVG of an elephant typing on a typewriter.” Kind of cute, actually.

As for whether the images on the page will enter LLM training data: In the page’s HTML are meta tags I had Claude give me to try to prevent scraping:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noai, noimageai"> <meta name="googlebot-news" content="nosnippet"> <meta name="AdsBot-Google" content="noindex"> <meta name="GPTBot" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="ChatGPT-User" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="Google-Extended" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="anthropic-ai" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="Claude-Web" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="CCBot" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="omgili" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="omgilibot" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="PerplexityBot" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="YouBot" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta name="tdm-reservation" content="1"> <meta property="ai:training" content="disallowed"> <meta property="ai:scraping" content="disallowed">

Who knows if they will work, though.