MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nikole9696 | 2025-11-20 15:33:59+00:00
Well 90% of my test code is AI generated, and we have a lot of tests. Also Cursor is really good at generating all my documentation. So depending on how we spin it, I could say at least half the code (often more if I'm spinning up new stuff it can do based off existing stuff) in my PR was AI generated.

That said, AI wasn't very good until it had enough examples and guidance from us on our codebase. After that though, it definitely helps.

Caveat: I'm no rocket scientist. It's not difficult code. It's just web services and whatnot. The code is often the least difficult part of my job.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-20 15:34:01+00:00
According to the judgement, it appears that techrights and tuxmachines do experience real harassment and have convinced themselves that MG is behind it all.

From their perspective, they're retaliating with the same force MG is supposedly using against them. I could understand that, if MG was actually behind the harassment, which this lawsuit would be the best place possible to lay out their proof for but ended up not being convincing enough not to cost them 70k pounds.

I doubt they'll be convinced that MG isn't behind the attacks, but hopefully their weird lashing out against him will stop now.

I hope TR/TM do find and stop the harassment they receive, because as much as their libel is a problem, they actually are victims themselves.
by matula | 2025-11-20 15:34:07+00:00
I've seen a few other comments also talk about PHP becoming more complex. However, I have "simple" code built using 5.3 and it works perfectly fine in 8. So I guess it CAN be complex, but doesn't really need to be. The biggest changes I would make to that code are fixing the multiple 'switch' and 'if/else' blocks to an anonymous function or some mapping... but it's not required.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-20 15:34:17+00:00
Yes, sorry, I had a non-sequitur between my two sentences. The first was about modern animated shows. The second was about how dialog in shows (not necessarily Rick and Morty) could affect kids.

Regardless, I also highly doubt that Rick and Morty is only consumed by people who are no longer susceptible to getting cues on how to interact with others from media.
by danaris | 2025-11-20 15:34:19+00:00
I dunno; I started with PHP 5 (actually, I think I started in late PHP 4), and I've only been happy with the changes as it's evolved.

The only one that's caused me any significant stress is the deprecation of the old `mysql` DB interface; I had to refactor a whole bunch of code for that, since I'm maintaining a codebase that's been in continuous use & development since 2001.

The additions to PHP since 5 add more things you can do, but they don't really change the simple things you can do to first learn PHP. You can still just create a .php file and start interspersing HTML and <?php script tags with basic operations.
by matthiaswh | 2025-11-20 15:34:24+00:00
We were there a few weekends ago. The C&H exhibit had quite the crowd!

It is largely a collection of original strips. You won't see anything new or original, that is not in one or more of the books. But it is interesting to see his process, to note where he made mistakes, to listen to everyone chuckle at one strip or another, and to see the progression of the characters and artist as you walk through the lifetime of the comic.

Well worth the trip!
by recitedropper | 2025-11-20 15:34:52+00:00
There could definitely be a chance. I was just responding to what in your comment sounded like a question.

That said, I think there is a good reason to be skeptical that it is a good chance. The consistent trend of finding higher complexity than expected in biological intelligences (like in C. Elegans), combined with the fact that the physical nature of digital architectures versus biological architectures are very different, is a good reason to bet on it being really complex to emulate with our current computing systems.

Obviously there is a way to do it physically--biological systems are physical after all--but we just don't understand enough to have the grounds to say it is "likely" doable digitally. Stuff like the Universal Approximation Theorem implies that in theory it may be possible, but that doesn't say anything about whether it is feasible. Same thing with Turing completeness too. All that these theorems say is our digital hardware can emulate anything that is a step-by-step process (computation), but not how challenging it is to emulate it or even that it is realistic to do so. It could turn out that something like human mind emulation is possible but it would take longer than the age of the universe to do it. Far simpler problems turn out to have similar issues (like calculating the optimal Go move without heuristics).

This is all to say that there could be plenty of smart ideas out there that break our current understandings in all sorts of ways. Which way the cards will land isn't really predictable, so all we can do is point to things that suggest skepticism, in one direction or another.
by lukan | 2025-11-20 15:35:28+00:00
"Imagine someone sending you a link that you open and then now you have child porn or whatever else on your hard drive, cached. Quite a shitty situation to be in."

I guess the correct legal approach would be to go to police with this.

And the correct technical approach to keep online spaces clean, is the ability to kick, mute or ban people who violate the rules.

Saying, "just be mentally prepared" sounds to me like accepting it. Well, I don't. I go somewhere else.
by ZeroCool2u | 2025-11-20 15:35:30+00:00
I tried the studio ghibli prompt on a photo my me and my wife in Japan and it was... not good. It looked more like a hand drawn sketch made with colored pencils, but none of the colors were correct. Everything was a weird shade of yellow/brown.

This has been an oddly difficult benchmark for Gemini's NB models. Googles images models have always been pretty bad at the studio ghibli prompt, but I'm shocked at how poorly it performs at this task still.
by thr0waway001 | 2025-11-20 15:35:53+00:00
It never was.

I can’t think of one genius that became really famous and successful that also didn’t have to work their friggin’ as s off or who had everything handed to them, or who didn’t have to collaborate with or appeal to normies to get ahead in this world.

“It’s a long way to the top if you want to Rock ‘n Roll”
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-11-20 15:35:58+00:00
This counts on there being more juice to squeeze out of learning than I think actually exists. The people currently spending $1000s/month on real tutors are probably learning at ~90% of their potential. An idealized AI might push that to 100%, but the people who can't afford tutors or college are going to see greater benefit from even the cheapest models. That scenario results in decreasing stratification.
by blfr | 2025-11-20 15:36:06+00:00
The fact that you can do poorly (by external measure) despite high IQ doesn't really mean much. It correlates well with a swath of positive outcomes and I'd still take legitimate 150 IQ (for myself, for my kids) over virtually any other real-world ability. I think only looks are even in the running here.

It's not just that IQ allows you to succeed. It allows you to navigate the modern world. I see people having trouble with pointers, simple abstractions, basic diagrams, or statistics and wonder: what am I missing? And I'm no von Neumann to not miss anything.
by palmotea | 2025-11-20 15:36:14+00:00
> AI will continue to stratify education.

> The typical student will get AI generated course content by the cheapest models.

> Other children will spend $1000s/month on multimodal AI tutors spinning up Python code to check their math homework. Those students will easily surpass others without individualized support.

The better-off children whose parents are "spend[ing] $1000s/month" will get real teachers who are people, not fancier AIs.

I mean look at food: The lower classes are eating industrially-processed McDonald's food, the upper classes are not eating more expensive but still industrially-processed stuff from McDonald's, they're eating organic, locally grown stuff from the farmer's market (which used to be the standard for food for everyone).
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-20 15:36:17+00:00
> Meanwhile, generative AI presents a few other broader challenges to the integrity of our society. First is to truth. We’ve already seen how internet technologies can be used to manipulate a population’s understanding of reality.

Bubble aside, this could be the most destructive effect of AI. I would add to this that it is also destroying creativity, because when you don't know whether that "amazing video clip" was actually created by a human or an AI, then it's no longer that amazing. (To use a trivial example, a video of a cat and dog interacting in a way that is truly funny if it were real, and goes viral, but that means nothing if was AI-generated.)
by wavemode | 2025-11-20 15:36:32+00:00
Intelligence is a lot like height. The world is designed for people of a certain level. If you're far below that, you're going to struggle. If you meet a certain threshold, you'll be fine.

And if you're far above, it may give you a slight boost, but is not going to magically propel you to success. You can do math in your head? Okay, your competitor will just use a calculator. You have impeccable spatial reasoning? Okay, the other guy will just draw himself a visual diagram.

There are only a few narrow domains where the raw processing power of your brain is going to automatically cause you to become richer or more successful than your peers. For everything else, luck, people skills, creativity and hard work are the dominant factors (in roughly that order).
by thisisit | 2025-11-20 15:36:38+00:00
> Insights I've never gotten to from talking to docs, reading papers, reading bio textbooks etc.

Curious why do you think you not have gotten these insights that too even from textbooks no less?

> I guess some small percentage of it was hallucinated

You guess it is a small percentage? How much do you guess this small percentage was the most important part about this disease?

Because it seems like you were taken in by the empathic answers by gpt and think it got things mostly right.
by axxto | 2025-11-20 15:36:52+00:00
How do you measure the capacity for improvisational comedy? How do you measure a talent for telling convincing lies? How do you measure someone's capacity for innovating in a narrative medium? How do you measure someone's ability for psychological insight and a theory of self? How do you measure someone's capacity for understanding irony or picking up subtle social cues? Or for formulating effective metaphors and analogies, or boiling down concepts eloquently? How about for mediating complex, multifaceted interpersonal conflicts effectively? How do you measure someone's capacity for empathy, which necessarily involves incredibly complex simulations and mental models of other people's minds?

Do you think excelling in any of these doesn't require intelligence? You sound like you consider yourself quite intelligent, so are you excellent at all of them? No? How come?

Can you tell me which part of an IQ test or your "rigorous, moslty equivalent definitions for intelligence" capture any of them?

> I hate how stupid people propagate this lie that we don't know what intelligence is, just because they lack it. It's quite convenient, because how can they be shown to lack intelligence when the word isn't even defined!

How's this: "I hate how stupid people propagate this lie that we know what intelligence is, just because they do well within the narrow definition that they made up. It's quite convenient, because how can they be shown to lack intelligence when their definition of it fits their strengths and excludes their weaknesses!"
by jordanb | 2025-11-20 15:37:06+00:00
> Americans don't want to sit on a freighter for 6 month tours away from their families

And yet finding crews was never a problem before differential subsidies ended.

In fact crewing US flagged is harder now because the work is intermittent. If people can't find berths they time out on their licenses and go do something else in a different industry.

> People from the Philippines will do it because it is life-changing amounts of money

The international minimum wage for seafarers is about $700/mo. In comparison wages in the Philippines are between 20k-50k pesos a month or $340-$850. Seafaring is an above-average income job in the Philippines but not "life-changing."
by ad_hockey | 2025-11-20 15:37:06+00:00
Prior to the current government the Tories were in power for 14 years, mostly with a majority. So I guess your opinion that the elites are left wing must be quite recently formed?

For the newspaper editors, take a look at the circulation figures for 2020 (the last year that we have a full set)[1]

The Guardian, i, and Mirror had a combined circulation of 800,989.

The Mail, Express, Sun, Times, and Telegraph had a combined circulation of 4,246,217. That’s 81% (you'll also notice there are more of them). The newspaper landscape in the UK is overwhelmingly right wing.

I don’t know why you’ve included Civil Servants, since according to your own data only 32% of respondents think they’re part of the elite.

I think this has probably run its course. I did ask for evidence, but from your answers for CEOs and bankers it’s pretty obvious that your opinion is just based on vibes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit...
by evrenesat | 2025-11-20 15:37:10+00:00
IMHO, the US and China’s hurry to expand into every possible corner is unsustainable. Unless we are actually trying to get ready to face an extraterrestrial threat, our endless effort to maximize our tech and become more and more efficient and profitable is unneeded and puts too much stress on earthlings, which is definitely not sustainable. Do you really believe that when we are able to pass production of almost anything to AI and robots and give generous UBI to each and every person, they will be happy and satisfied? It is a dead end, a loss of meaning that we are racing to reach ASAP.

Population collapse cannot be a good enough reason, either. Older people won't be happier if their servants are robots instead of climate migrants.
by ecshafer | 2025-11-20 15:37:22+00:00
A lot of the new RTS games I think just end up trying to be StarCraft but not. Grey Goo for example was one that came out a few years ago and it was just Starcraft with a new skin. I am not saying Starcraft is a bad game, its a fantastic game (though I do prefer Warcraft). But it kind of sucks the air out of the genre.

Starcraft and Starcraft II, and Warcraft I,II,III had great campaigns. So it is kind of ironic that a lot of the games copying them cut the campaigns for the esports focus.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-11-20 15:37:32+00:00
All you said is true - but these investigations are often used for the purpose of determining financial liability and often that comes down to figuring out that one, immediate, proximate thing that caused the accident.

A whole bunch of things might have gone wrong, but if only you hadn't done/not-done that one thing, we'd all be fine. So it's all your fault!
by lostmsu | 2025-11-20 15:37:39+00:00
> The first part of the article puts down a person whose IQ is in the 140-180 range. If you read about the person, that part makes sense as an opinion.

It's worse. In both cases the IQ scores are basically fake. The first one probably does not reach moderate 130 required for Mensa based on the report of repeatedly trying the same test and not passing some not-too-high bar the first time (the first _known_ time; the test is only valid when taken once).

The second one does not have any credible backing to their IQ score whatsoever and for all we know could be under 100.
by voxic11 | 2025-11-20 15:38:04+00:00
It patches the game with a modernized UX, implements a new client-server multiplayer networking model, allows you to play the game on systems which don't support it like macOS, and adds better support for modding. Overall it just updates the experience to meet modern gaming expectations.

They have a whole section of their website where they list the features. https://chronodivide.com/#features
by etempleton | 2025-11-20 15:38:07+00:00
Depends on the exact "IQ" test but many do not have an upper bound. The thing to understand about IQ tests is that they were designed and are primarily used as a diagnosis tool by psychologists to identify learning deficiencies. There really isn't much evidence that having a 180 vs a 140 IQ means a whole lot of anything beyond one's ability to take that specific test. If anything, having an extremely high score outside of the normal range may indicate neuro-divergence and likely savant syndrome. Some people are savants in specific ways - working memory, pattern recognition, language skills, etc. IQ tests certainly test several different categories of intelligence, but also certainly leaves out a few other known forms of intelligence.
by next_xibalba | 2025-11-20 15:38:44+00:00
I think Calvin was of a common archetype of that era. The sarcastic, mildly anti-heroic protagonist. And I think that archetype did all of us who grew up in that era and imbibed the culture were done a disservice. I, too, have found my way to respecting and admiring the pragmatic, the persistent, and even the earnest among us over the smart alecs and the sarcastic wits.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-20 15:38:49+00:00
The observation in this article is part of a more general principle: Happiness isn't a single variable equation. It directly parallels the observation that "money doesn't buy happiness." 210 IQ will never be enough. $20M dollars will never be enough.

This article is interesting to me because I see people falsely equivocating money with happiness all the time, and pretty much never see it with IQ. I didn't realize it was a thing.
by danaris | 2025-11-20 15:39:12+00:00
> you cant return an typed array from a function, witch is just really bad.

Why is it bad?

In particular, why is it worse than not being able to declare a typed array in your current scope? (I understand the basic argument in favor of typed arrays, but I also understand why PHP would choose not to go that route; I'm not sure I see how it's worse to not be able to return one from a function, given that they don't exist elsewhere.)
by culi | 2025-11-20 15:39:18+00:00
Many of these indigenous knowledge systems are essentially memory palaces. It's a way to memorize large amounts of information and map that information on some sort of tangible metaphor. Modern western astrology is pretty divorced from the original practice(s), but the original practice actually used a sidereal clock and actually corresponded to the positions of stars. The stars being an important component for navigation, agricultural calendars, etc. Astrology served as a memory palace to store this sort of information.

These metaphors are quite common across the world and over time gain many layers of knowledge. Go a little more east and you'll commonly see the 4 winds, the 4 cardinal directions, the 4 tastes, 4 [insert characteristics of medicinal properties] etc all mapped onto each other.

The most embarrassing part of humanity imo is the arrogance and disregard with which people sometimes approach other cultures
by recitedropper | 2025-11-20 15:39:30+00:00
Sure, but the extent to which you bend the truth to get those impressive numbers is absolutely gotcha-able.

Showing a new screen by default to everyone who is using your main product flow and then claiming that everyone who is seeing it is a priori a "user" is absurd. And that is the only way they can get to 2 billion a month, by my estimation.

They could put a new yellow rectangle at the top of all google search results and claim that the product launch has reached 2 billion monthly users and is one of the fastest-growing products of all time. Clearly absurd, and the same math as what they are saying here. I'm claiming my hottake gotcha :)
by meetpateltech | 2025-11-20 15:39:39+00:00
Currently, it’s rolling out in the Gemini app. When you use the “Create image” option, you’ll see a tooltip saying “Generating image with Nano Banana Pro.”

And in AI Studio, you need to connect a paid API key to use it:

https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-3-...

> Nano Banana Pro is only available for paid-tier users. Link a paid API key to access higher rate limits, advanced features, and more.
by jayd16 | 2025-11-20 15:40:33+00:00
There's a lot of things going against the RTS genre.

They're technically challenging to make and creatively hard to balance.

The public doesn't want to pay $60 upfront for a campaign when fun freemium games exist.

The UX does not work well on controller so a huge amount of console players will be out of reach.

Games tend to be quite long and because it's not team play matchmaking matters a lot. This push multiplayer into being highly competitive and not pushes out the casual players.

Seems like Clash Royale likes are the best we've come up with to modernize the genre but of course its very different.
by ziml77 | 2025-11-20 15:40:40+00:00
I prefer CachyOS. It's basically an easy-to-use Arch distro. They package more than the default Arch repos contain which helps a bit in avoiding building stuff yourself out of AUR.

I tried Bazzite, but I'm just not a fan of how everything is installed as a flatpak. It might be more secure and allow for easy rollbacks and stuff, but it limits what apps are allowed to do by default. The main issue that caused for me is that the 1Password Firefox extension was not able to communicate with the main 1Password process. Maybe I could have tinkered with it using Flatseal, but that feels like such a hack.
by echelon | 2025-11-20 15:40:56+00:00
LLMs might be a dead end, but we're going to have amazing images, video, and 3D.

To me the AI revolution is making visual media (and music) catch up with the text-based revolution we've had since the dawn of computing.

Computers accelerated typing and text almost immediately, but we've had really crude tools for images, video, and 3D despite graphics and image processing algorithms.

AI really pushes the envelope here.

I think images/media alone could save AI from "the bubble" as these tools enable everyone to make incredible content if you put the work into it.

Everyone now has the ingredients of Pixar and a music production studio in their hands. You just need to learn the tools and put the hours in and you can make chart-topping songs and Hollywood grade VFX. The models won't get you there by themselves, but using them in conjunction with other tools and understanding as to what makes good art - that can and will do it.

Screw ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and the rest. This is the exciting part of AI.
by beej71 | 2025-11-20 15:42:10+00:00
Speaking as an instructor, everyone's goal should be to be better than the LLM. This includes teachers. And, yes, that requires work, but that's what we're getting paid for, and it's not particularly difficult to best an LLM in any field.

If you can't do it better than an LLM, you have no more value than one to an employer.

In short, it's shameful to provide a paid primarily-LLM-based product. People can just make those themselves with minimal effort and zero cost.
by jimmygrapes | 2025-11-20 15:42:15+00:00
Age reckoning in South Korea (and other east Asian countries) is quite different than what you might expect. Age 1 in this context could be up to 3; if year 1 is your birth date and you age up at the new year, you could be "2 years old" while being alive for only 3 days. It could also work the other way around if they follow one of the other methods. Pretty interesting and not yet fully standardized!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning