MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ftrsprvln | 2025-11-27 20:32:59+00:00
[Sometime in the near future] The world's starved for authenticity. The last original tweet crowned a God... then killed the kid chasing that same high. Trillionaires run continent-wide data centers, endlessly spinning up agents that hire cheap physical labor to scavenge the world for any spark of novelty. The major faith is an LLM cult forecasting the turning of the last stone. The rest of us choke on recycled ad slop.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-11-27 20:33:19+00:00
> Capitalism requires that capital is owned and controlled by specific people.

That is an overly simplistic description. One can imagine a board of directors voting on which AI-CEO-as-a-service vendor to use for the next year. The 'capital' of the company is owned by company, the company is owned by the shareholders. This is not incompatible with capitalism in principle, but wouldn't surprise me if it were incompatible with some forms of incorporation.
by andyferris | 2025-11-27 20:33:36+00:00
> averaging power over 15 minute chunks, and taking the worst one of a year.

What an interesting metric. Wouldn't even a very cheap and small battery (definitely small enough to keep inside an appartment) provide enough smoothing to, like, halve this peak number? You could rig it to not even output energy until you are beyond the current year's peak usage... How much money would you save this way?

I just feel this number is so prone to small mistakes (grandma plugs in the wrong things at the wrong times) and hacks (like the above) that the relationship between users' reward/punishment and the grid's health seems wildly disproportionate.

> market rate price of the energy in each 15 minute chunk separately

I am currently on a plan with 5 minute market rates, can buy and sell in (sell prices can go negative - as can buy, actually), all automated. At least I feel we am working with the grid, not against it, and we make a small net profit (before depreciation).
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-11-27 20:33:59+00:00
I don't buy this. Watching hi-res remasters of old films (Alien, Catch Me If You Can, Jurassic Park) you get incredible definition without damage to suspension of disbelief.

I think this comment[1] above really highlights what bothers me about modern shows and movies, but in short it's not the high def, it's how it's used.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46062911
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-11-27 20:34:01+00:00
In Norway we have kommune.no for municipalities.

For example:

- Oslo https://www.oslo.kommune.no/ the largest municipality in terms of population, and home of Oslo the capital of Norway

- Utsira http://www.utsira.kommune.no/ the smallest municipality in terms of population with just 217 people per 2025.

- Nordkapp https://www.nordkapp.kommune.no/ home of the famous Nordkapp (North Cape)

And there is vgs.no for High Schools.

For example:

- Elvebakken videregående skole https://elvebakken.vgs.no/

- Nydalen videregående skole https://nydalen.vgs.no/

- Foss videregående skole https://foss.vgs.no/

These two and some others are called category domains and are managed by Norid, who also run the .no registry as a whole.

https://www.norid.no/en/om-domenenavn/regelverk-for-no/#4.-A...
by port11 | 2025-11-27 20:35:00+00:00
We can point to how data brokerage/mining/analysis is being used to undermine democracies, sway elections, manipulate consumers into purchases they wouldn't make, change the pricing or even denial of coverage for insurance, and so on. These are all quite tangible, and all stem from people giving up their data too willingly. We all fuel the Shit Economy of ‘free with personalised ads’ which ultimately allows those with the data to hold power/influence over everyone else.

And to your last point, plenty of people were shocked Google Chrome incognito wasn't really a private experience, or don't know that what they type into an LLM prompt gets collected, etc. People do give these out in the first place.
by kraptv | 2025-11-27 20:36:28+00:00
I love the old interent. I'll confess I have three locality domains and they are wonderful.

I'll confess I have successfully registered a locality domain this year (2025) and it was a little bit fun to go through the weird hoops to get this new domain registered.

I'm also working on/helping out a registrar whose owned died and his widow is resolving what to do with the non-profit.

A related quaint couple of blogs[1][2] if you're feeling nostalgic and motivated to register your own:

[1] https://sleepless.seattle.wa.us/2022-07-01-110449/

[2] http://nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us/locality.html
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-27 20:36:34+00:00
Up to the locals in the US. Depends what their pain threshold is for falling behind and looking a bit behind the times. I think FOMO is going to be a big driver in a few years. This is not a left vs right topic. It's a money topic. And my impression of the US is that they love getting stuff on the cheap. Solar energy should be such a thing and it's getting painfully obvious that the US is paying a steep price where the rest of the world isn't. If I'm reading the situation correct, that is already annoying the hell out of a lot of traditionally republican leading states and not because they are tree-huggers.

The right question to ask is whether places like Mexico are going to politely wait for the US to get its act together or whether they'll just go ahead and start electrifying their country and industry and reducing their cost levels. The current isolationist policy works both ways. Very sunny place, Mexico. Great place for solar and batteries. And once you have those, Chines EVs produced locally might work very well. And they can export those further south.
by valadaptive | 2025-11-27 20:37:00+00:00
> The patent for the Cherry MX design finally expired in 2014.

OK, but did it really? I've seen this claim pop up occasionally, but nobody ever points to the patent in question. A quick Google search for "cherry mx patent 2014" shows the oldest result as being a Reddit comment from 2017 (https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/6am47a/comment/dh...):

> The patent expired in 2014. Many people have been paying the same price for mechanical keyboards with cheaper Chinese MX switches without knowing.

And an Ars Technica article from 2023 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hands-on-with-cherry...):

> For 20 years, Cherry’s patent on mechanical switches made it the only player around. That patent’s expiration around 2014, though, released the floodgates and allowed countless copycats and switches with varying levels of modification to the cross-stem design to pour in.

However, what seems to be the actual Cherry MX switch patent (US4467160A) was filed in 1983 and expired all the way back in 2003. So what exactly expired in 2014?
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-27 20:38:06+00:00
Something that freaked me out a little bit is that I've now written enough online (i.e.: HN comments) that the top models know my voice already and can imitate it on request without having to be fed any additional context.

There's a data centre somewhere in the US running additions and multiplications through a block of numbers that has captured my voice.
by port11 | 2025-11-27 20:38:12+00:00
We really have _plenty_ of identity theft, personalised scams (hi Tess' mom!), accounts hacked, large scale photo leaks, etc. People just a) don't hear about it enough, or b) quickly move on to the next crisis with their hands up bexause what can you do.

Privacy-preserving options are also often not as easy/convenient/friendly to use.

People, perhaps, don't care. But that's a cynical assumption. They supposedly don't care about the environment and yet we're moving the needle on that.
by gruez | 2025-11-27 20:38:12+00:00
>And the current norm that the trillion dollar companies have lobbied for is that you can train on copyrighted material all you want so that's the reality we are living in. Everything ever published is all theirs.

What "lobbied"? Copyright law hasn't materially changed since AI got popular, so I'm not sure where these lobbying efforts are showing up in. If anything the companies that have lobbied hard in the past (eg. media companies) are opposed to the current status quo, which seems to favor AI companies.
by kbenson | 2025-11-27 20:38:27+00:00
I think I know what this is, but the description is so much in its own context I'm not sure. It's for web-apps that also want an offline local version that works and deals with syncing the data when online again and either local or remote is updated?

It probably markets and explains itself perfectly find for someone in that space and/or looking for this solution, so I'm not sure that's actually a problem, but if you also want to stick in the mind of someone that sees this and doesn't have any current interest, but may stumble into needing a solution like this in the future, a few extra words in your initial description might help it be understood more quickly and be something remembered even if they don't dive into it. Or maybe it's fine and I'm just a bit slow today.
by binsquare | 2025-11-27 20:38:55+00:00
It will be possible to run from a node SDK soonTM!

Here's the work-in-progress here: https://github.com/BinSquare/ERA/tree/main/era-agent/sdk/nod...

I'm not very familiar with node to be fair so it's taking a little longer for me to get that going.
by dpe82 | 2025-11-27 20:39:29+00:00
P/B frames (which is usually most of them) reference other frames to compress motion effectively. So losing a packet doesn't mean a dropped frame, it means corruption that lasts until the next I-frame/slice. This can be seconds. If you've ever seen corrupt video that seems to "smear" wrong colors, etc. across the screen for a bunch of frames, that's what we're talking about here.
by xpe | 2025-11-27 20:39:46+00:00
> Feedback doesn't scale because relationships don’t scale.

I would not say it this way; it is too simplistic. In fact, I generally caution against the dominant metaphor here of comparing feedback to scaling. It falls apart quickly.

Here’s a counter point. In many scenarios and settings, relationships provide transitive benefits. For example, if a leader builds trusted relationships with other leaders, a significant amount of trust can flow through that relationship.

To build a better understanding, I suggest building diverse models. Try to answer the question: What kind of qualities do relationships confer and why?

There’s also a generational aspect here. I started my career in the 2000 tech boom and bust. I’ve seen a lot of up-and-down cycles in the industry. I’ve seen lots of management styles and organizational cultures. People that had formative years during peak social media and/or COVID often have a different kind of socialization and this affects their default expectations. I won’t attach normative judgments without research, but there are significant differences.

When I think of the most impressive collaborations I’ve participated in with amazing results, relatively few of them involve tech organizations.

Building a scalable culture over various company sizes feels hard in the sense that generalizing prescriptive advice is tricky. A two person start up is cake because you only have to manage one internal relationship (a pair). People know great culture when they see it, but that is nothing like growing it.
by auggierose | 2025-11-27 20:41:07+00:00
Yes, I know what you mean, but there is a relationship, it is just that some of that relationship is described outside of Isabelle, but nevertheless provably. Ultimately, math is like that, provably so.

You could do what you want by making that argument explicit formally and machine-checked, but then you have to do a lot more work, by translating all of the components of the informal proof into formal ones. This will not give you any more insight than what the book already describes. But of course you could take it as an example of something that should be easy once you grasp the informal proof, but is actually quite a lot of work.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-11-27 20:41:20+00:00
The AI agents don’t appear to know how & where to be economically productive. That still appears to be a uniquely human domain of expertise.

So the human is there to decide which job is economically productive to take on. The AI is there to execute the day-to-day tasks involved in the job.

It’s symbiotic. The human doesn’t labour unnecessarily. The AI has some avenue of productive output & revenue generating opportunity for OpenAI/Anthropic/whoever.
by hagbard_c | 2025-11-27 20:41:44+00:00
They are circular though and with that should count as zero-emission:

1: steer calf is born from cow

2: calf gets his goolies cut off turning him into an ox

3: ox eats grass, burps and farts and shits it out on both ends. Some of his shit ends up as fertiliser for the grass he or one of his fellow bovines eat

4: eventually ox gets eaten

The input: grass -> cow -> oxen

The output: oxen -> shit -> grass

From grass they came, to grass they return. If someone were to be so kind as to shrink bovines down to, say, bumblebee-size it would be easy to do an experiment with that in one of those glass-sphere closed ecosystems. I'm pretty sure they'd thrive.
by AngryData | 2025-11-27 20:42:01+00:00
Depends on the aircraft, current ultralights that you don't need to drop $100,000 to get licensed for can only weigh 250 lbs, while motorcycles don't really have a limit and can weight over 1,000 lbs, approaching the weight of a Cessna 152. And when you account for crash scenarios, yeah the rider is at risk in both, but the motorcycle is far more likely to be in and around other people and vehicles during a crash, while a plane is 99% of the time over clear land and even an emergency landing is unlikely to put other people at risk.

It ain't a perfect comparison, both have problems, but it is far easier to get a license to drive a truck hauling 20+ tons than to get a license to fly a 500 pound plane, and motorcycle licenses is basically a signature and a couple bucks away.
by port11 | 2025-11-27 20:42:12+00:00
And, clearly, all the mass surveillance in the USA has worked wonders to stop key political figures from engaging in pedophilia and other shenanigans. It's been 100% successful.

We must do it in Europe, lest the children be harmed. You know, instead of improving daycares and schools, the general economy, give them access to safe outdoor spaces, help families so they don't take it out on the kids…

I don't know. I've a son now, and I expected that to make me connect with this type of policy. It didn't.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-27 20:42:23+00:00
> set the expectation that they have strong relationships with their own teams

Good luck with that.

In most cronytocracies (typical, at the top levels of most companies), you get who you get. They may be really good engineers and "first line" managers, but suck at anything else.

A big problem is that companies don't have career tracks that match people's skills. The Peter Principle[0] applies.

Bad managers hire and promote other bad managers. Highly skilled engineers can often be terrible managers, but want to be managers, because that is the position they equate with "success," at an organization.

A Principal Engineer should be just as valued and well-treated as a CTO. Most companies fail to do this, so everyone wants to be the CTO. Establish a career track, where technical people aspire to technical positions.

And hire good managers; not ones that don't make the CEO uncomfortable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-11-27 20:43:14+00:00
Yes, I've heard this reason before, but how does that help? The only benefit of that particular arrangement as far as I can tell is that it's possible to enforce via linter. It doesn't signal intent, it merely states a fact that could be observed by reading the source code. What is the point of that? What problem does it solve? Are people running into hard to debug issues because a variable got reassigned? I don't remember that ever causing an issue before the advent of const. People go to great lengths to avoid writing `let` just because the linters have been telling them to use `const` so they consider `let` a code smell now. Is this really better?
by briandw | 2025-11-27 20:44:07+00:00
Ok so clearly a satire. However I kinda want this. They make some really good points about how an AI would be better than many CEOs. Honestly some of the companies I've worked for would be better with Gemini at in charge. Yes humanity is doomed, but at least I would understand the motivations and we'd have less CEO ADHD moments. (CEO ADHD -> "Some other CEO told me about X, why aren't we doing X")
by fransje26 | 2025-11-27 20:44:19+00:00
> There are bunch of things that are only manufactured in Germany. You don’t hear those companies that much because they are not public but they are well known by the people who work in specific industries.

There is small town of 35,000 inhabitants around the corner from where I live. It produces 50% of the world's surgical equipment, from a base of around 600 companies.

There are good reasons why "made in Germany" is not as dead as some people want us to believe.
by fasbiner | 2025-11-27 20:44:36+00:00
I disagreed with some points and agreed with others based on my experience and the data I have available, but the last few sentences really weakened the overall point.

> Giga AI, a company building AI customer support agents, claims to have sworn off the "forward deployed engineer" model of custom software favored by many other successful startups, in favor of software that customizes itself—only possible because of coding agents.

Giga AI is not a publicly traded company and they have zero legal liability or possible downside for lying, and massive upside for lying. They also don't have real customers and are not in positive revenue. The trend is that everyone who has said this was lying.

When there's tangible evidence of this, I think it will be an important part of the discussion. Until then, saying "claims" and "but I don't really know" but then paraphrasing their press release without analysis is about as sophisticated and as honest as tweeting "people are saying."

The author should take their own advice and wait six months when these claims will be easier to substantiate and support the analysis far more strongly.
by pksebben | 2025-11-27 20:44:55+00:00
The potentially bitter pill to swallow here is that we all need to get better at critical thinking.

There's a lot of talk over whether LLMs make discourse 'better' or 'worse', with very little attention given to the crisis we were having with online discourse before they came around. Edelman was astroturfing long before GPT. Fox 'news' and the spectrum of BS between them and the NYT (arranged by how sophisticated they considered their respective pools of rubes to be) have always, always been propaganda machines and PR firms at heart wearing the skin of journalism like buffalo bill.

We have needed to learn to think critically for a very long time.

Consider this; if you are capable of reading between the lines, and dealing with what you read or hear on the merits of the thoughts contained therein, then how are you vulnerable to slop? If it was written by an AI (or a reporter, or some rando on the internet) but contains ideas that you can turn over and understand critically for yourself, is it still slop? If it's dumb and it works, it's not dumb.

I'm not even remotely suggesting that AI will usher in a flood of good ideas. No, it's going to be used to pump propaganda and disseminate bullshit at massive scale (and perhaps occasionally help develop good ideas).

We need to inoculate ourselves against bullshit, as a society and a culture. Be a skeptic. Ironnman arguments against your beliefs. Be ready to bench test ideas when you hear them and make it difficult for nonsense to flourish. It is (and has been) high time to get loud about critical thinking.
by bartblast | 2025-11-27 20:45:20+00:00
Hi Elixir friends,

I'm Bart Blast, creator of Hologram. I wanted to share an update that's been on my mind lately. For those unfamiliar, Hologram is a full-stack Elixir web framework that automatically transpiles Elixir to JavaScript, bringing the language to the browser, see: https://hologram.page

After nearly 3 years of full-time work on Hologram, I've reached a crossroads. I believed deeply enough in this vision to dedicate years of my life to it - and that belief has been validated. We're seeing real-world production use, endorsements from community leaders, and genuine excitement from the ecosystem. But to keep this momentum going, I need to find a sustainable path forward.

Right now, I'm working 60+ hour weeks trying to balance contract work with Hologram development. It's not sustainable, and frankly, neither the codebase nor the community deserves a maintainer who's stretched this thin.

I've put together a post that explains where we are, where we're going, and how you can help if Hologram's vision resonates with you: https://hologram.page/blog/seeking-sustainable-sponsorship

Even if sponsorship isn't an option for you right now, sharing the post or talking about Hologram in your networks helps more than you know.

Thank you for reading. Let's build the future of Elixir web development together!

- Bart
by mikhailt | 2025-11-27 20:45:45+00:00
Just an update, because I think my last point wasn't clear.

I'm not saying forever drug is a bad thing. I'm saying people who wants to take GLP-1 as a temp drug to lose weight quickly and get off it may not realize the long term impact it may have on their body.

For an example, certain type of anti-depressants has serious side effect that if not carefully tapered off and managed with a different drug, can leave folks with cluster headaches that lasted several months if not years.
by nutjob2 | 2025-11-27 20:45:58+00:00
How could Google's custom hardware become useless? They've used it for their business for years now and will do so for years into the future. It's not like their hardware is LLM specific. Google cannot lose with their vast infrastructure.

Meanwhile OpenAI et al dumping GPUs while everyone else is doing the same will get pennies on the dollar. It's exactly the opposite to what you describe.

I hope that comes to pass, because I'll be ready to scoop up cheap GPUs and servers.
by testing22321 | 2025-11-27 20:46:43+00:00
We got roof top solar 1.5 years ago in Canada. Payoff will be 6-7 years, but we got an interest free loan to cover it.

So we’ll just pay what we would have for power for those years ~$1000 a year, then we’ll have free power for 20 more, saving something like $20,000 for $0 investment.
by belorn | 2025-11-27 20:47:01+00:00
The safeguards will prevent the AI from reproducing the proprietary drivers for the IBM-whatever printer, and it will not provide code that breaks the DRM that exist to prevent third-party drivers from working with the printer. There will however be no such safeguards or filters to prevent IBM to write a proprietary driver for their next printer, using existing GPL drivers as a building block.

Code will only ever go in one direction here.
by jnurmine | 2025-11-27 20:47:12+00:00
Cost is not everything. Quality matters a lot.

If things are of higher quality, higher cost is acceptable to many.

As a trivial example, talking about a ca. 5 EUR purchase here, I bought a German-made pencil sharpener (Möbius-Ruppert nr. 0603 "Vertex").

It's basically a small metallic block (brass) with two holes with blades attached. It is surprisingly heavy and while it may sound strange, the sharpening result is simply excellent. (I bought some Japanese-made pencils to pair with it)

Chinese sharpeners can be had for under 0.5 EUR at best, they can be very cheap.

However, I had Chinese sharpeners and they actually were the reason I ended up buying a German one. Unless I lose the German sharpener, I will never need to buy another.