MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MinimalAction | 2025-11-25 01:05:57+00:00
> For one, I can't even understand this part:

Let me explain. My belief was that research as a task is non-trivial and would have been relatively out of reach for AI. Given the advances, that doesn't seem to be true.

> And then there's the opinion that for some reason we should 'value' manual labor over using AI, which seems rather disagreeable.

Could you explain why? I'm specifically talking about research. Of course, I would value what a veteran in the field says higher than a probability machine.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-25 01:06:26+00:00
Agreed that we don't have to focus on age!

An ability to execute well requires a focus on task and purpose, and an organization given set up & leeway to iterate and improve.

DOGE just seemed completely uninterested in doing real work. They fired whomever was possible to fire wherever they could (and especially in places with more expertise / Blueness), while calling it reducing "Waste Fraud and Abuse" (without presenting any evidence).

Some of these folks are now embedded in agencies, some even doing actual work to try to improve these systems in some way. There's very little clarity or transparency to it all though: part of the Trump/DoGE takeover has always been being accountable to no one, presenting no real evidence, but lots and lots of sound and thunder.
by davidmurdoch | 2025-11-25 01:06:38+00:00
I've mostly stopped using Claude because of it, it will still try use Python for the most random tasks. It recently wrote an HTML file with some inline js in it, then started a local python server to open the HTML file, and check the log output.

This is in a node.js project. It is just too obsessed with using Python, and it seems to help it focus and make more sensible choices by removing the option.
by zozbot234 | 2025-11-25 01:07:26+00:00
Reuters: “Samsung hikes memory chip prices by up to 60% as shortage worsens, sources say,” Nov 14 2025. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-hikes-memory-chi...

Tom’s Hardware: “Samsung raises memory chip prices by up to 60% since September as AI data-center buildout strangles supply,” Nov 2025. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-raises-me...

Note the consistent "up to 60% since September" figure in the above recent reports. That's for one module capacity, with others being up 30% to 50% - and it certainly isn't the 200% or more we're apparently seeing now in the retail market. That's pure panic hoarding, which is actually a very common overreaction to a sudden price spike.
by ofermend | 2025-11-25 01:08:06+00:00
Can't wait to try Opus 4.5

We just evaluated it for Vectara's grounded hallucination leaderboard: it scores at 10.9% hallucination rate, better than Gemini-3, GPT-5.1-high or Grok-4.

https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard
by estearum | 2025-11-25 01:08:08+00:00
> Is the distinction that the suchness is somehow conscious/aware but not "conscious of itself"?

Yes, that’s correct

There is experience itself (“suchness”), and one possible object that can exist in that experience/be experienced is the idea that one is a “self.”

But you can also have experience that does not have within it the sensation of “self.” So they must be distinct.
by blaiz2025 | 2025-11-25 01:08:51+00:00
Yeah, by portable I do mean just an EXE to run. That is, no install, won't mess with your operation system, or play with your registry settings etc, nor require any setup to get running.

This also allows the app to run seamlessly on a USB pen stick/harddisk so you can use it on different computers without fuss or being tied down by an installation. The app stores all it's settings etc in a folder alongside the EXE itself, usually "(app name).exe_storage", and automatically manages any references to external filenames/folders on it's own disk drive, allowing it to operate on different computers that might assign its disk drive a random/different drive letter without interrupting access to any referenced filenames/folders.

And no, it's not multi-platform/cross-platform. It's a Win32 (32 bit) binary/codebase. The occasional experiment I have done in the past into cross-platform coding has left me less than impressed. Unfortunately, I'm used to coding at the low-level/API level, and as soon as the programming language starts to abstract away the commands things tend to get dicy for me, and I inevitably find myself lugging around 20+ MB libraries of converted functions, and with no particular guarantee the final app with behave or look similar on different platforms.

Though I do wish such a thing existed. Something like a universal translation layer for all variations of software apps that is hardware accelerated and uniform in execution down to the very last and simple command would be a dream come true. Can't see why in 2025 we are still expected to code and/or compile apps for different operating systems and hardware platforms.
by AngryData | 2025-11-25 01:09:01+00:00
Maybe if they expect to upgrade within a few years it would be fine. But when I built my current computer 11 years ago I also didn't expect to need 16 gb of ram and only bought 8. 5 years later 16 gb of memory was a requirement for both software and games I was playing. And now 11 years later 16 gigs is not enough for fairly "simple" 3d modelling and 32 gigs is pretty close to the minimum requirement to fully utilize other modern hardware.
by joegibbs | 2025-11-25 01:09:13+00:00
It's very good but it feels kind of off-the-rails in comparison to Sonnet 4.5 - at least with Cursor it does strange things like putting its reasoning in comments that are about 15 lines long, deleting 90% of a file for no real reason (especially when context is reaching capacity) and making the same error that I just told it not to do.
by tomcam | 2025-11-25 01:10:54+00:00
The test can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKfLZNMtmU

Paul Reubens wasn't great. With the right direction he could easily have been as good as Fleischer, but I'm sure he was (incorrectly in this case) trying to show he could be less over the top than Pee Wee Herman, who was a known quantity in LA at that time.

What fascinated me is how I reacted to the Jessica Rabbit pencil test, where she snuggles up to the live actor. Even in that low resolution, lousy video transfer, I had a visceral reaction to her character. Those animators were all kinds of good even for a minor demo.
by wvenable | 2025-11-25 01:10:54+00:00
"interactions with Core have gone so poorly that they were adversely impacting my mental health"

That seems a little more serious than "could be proactive about comms" especially when this is one of the key people responsible for a lot of the original Pebble tech, rebble tech, and working within Google to get the Pebble OS open sourced.
by mscbuck | 2025-11-25 01:12:13+00:00
Yes, I've absolutely noticed this. I feel like I can always tell when something is up when it starts trying to do WAY more things than normal. Like I can give it a few functions and ask for some updates, and it just goes through like 6 rounds of thinking, creating 6 new files, assuming that I want to write changes to a database, etc.
by MindSpunk | 2025-11-25 01:13:33+00:00
Depends on the program, and it can be a very useful tool.

Rust has Mutex::get_mut(&mut self) which allows getting the inner &mut T without locking. Having a &mut Mutex<T> implies you can get &mut T without locks. Being able to treat Mutex<T> like any other value means you can use the whole suite of Rust's ownership tools to pass the value through your program.

Perhaps you temporarily move the Mutex into a shared data structure so it can be used on multiple threads, then take it back out later in a serial part of your program to get mutable access without locks. It's a lot easier to move Mutex<T> around than &mut Mutex<T> if you're going to then share it and un-share it.

Also It's impossible to construct a Mutex without moving at least once, as Rust doesn't guarantee return value optimization. All moves in Rust are treated as memcpy that 'destroy' the old value. There's no way to even assign 'let v = Mutex::new()' without a move so it's also a hard functional requirement.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-11-25 01:14:09+00:00
I'm wondering what happens when the earths magnetic field flips. A mass die off?

>“It is amazing that sea turtles have access to a wealth of invisible information that they use to navigate in ways that are hard for us to even imagine.”

we can never hope to compete with nature, but i do find that statement funny. They literally built a device to help emulate turtle navigation. GPS is a part of life. Humans can detect and have found uses for almost every part of the spectrum. Compasses have existed for centuries. I'm not being dismissive of this discovery at all. I just find it remarkable how much we have managed to achieve.
by ALittleSlow | 2025-11-25 01:14:10+00:00
> "some random domain"

Implies a fair amount of bias towards, "I'm just here for the job" integrity and self ownership/authorship is not my thing. Just the type of short term employee a manager would be looking for. Not a lot of risk or integrity for ether party, is kinda baked in to the culture. It's not just programming. Let's call them open source HOA's
by westurner | 2025-11-25 01:14:17+00:00
Would this work on peanuts?

"Near-Field Optical Nanopatterning of Graphene" (2025) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smsc.202500184 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45623301

Why are they random lasers?

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45949800 :

> "Cavity electrodynamics of van der Waals heterostructures" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19745 ; graphite / graphene optical cavity

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922581 :

> "Grover's algorithm to efficiently prepare quantum states in optical cavity QED" (2025) https://phys.org/news/2025-08-grover-algorithm-efficiently-q...:

>> "Deterministic carving of quantum states with Grover's algorithm" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/s3vs-xz7w
by rester324 | 2025-11-25 01:15:11+00:00
Kubernetes is not a fad. DynamoDB and MongoDB is not a fad. Golang is not a fad. These were all born in the last few decades, so they are rather new, and they will stay for equally long decades. And the list goes on and on... So all of those skills in your list mean nothing when it comes to these fundamental technical tools. They require an understanding on a completely different abstraction level which is equally complex as of those that you listed.

So if you don't have the understanding of these technologies when the project requires it, you are obsolete and you have no right to be in a leading position. And such fundamental technologies are born continuously.

So this myth that you can have fundamentals and that's enough is definitely untrue.
by tomcam | 2025-11-25 01:15:18+00:00
So now Roger Rabbit's creator has the rights back, which is awesome. There will never again be a movie version with as outrageous a cast as the original movie. Somehow they managed to get rights to the biggest characters from competing IP owners. It was a stunning, very much unheralded achievement. These days it would be roughly akin to DC getting to use Darth Vader, Captain Kirk, Spock, Iron Man, and the Hulk in one of their movies.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-25 01:15:34+00:00
LLM APIs are more sticky than many other computing APIs. Much of the eng work is in the prompt engineering, and the prompt engineering is pretty specific to the particular LLM you're using. If you randomly swap out the API calls, you'll find you get significantly worse results, because you tuned your prompts to the particular LLM you were using.

It's much more akin to a programming language or platform than a typical data-access API, because the choice of LLM vendor then means that you build a lot of your future product development off the idiosyncracies of their platform. When you switch you have to redo much of that work.
by djoldman | 2025-11-25 01:16:11+00:00
Maintainers and repo owners will get where they want to go the fastest by not referring to what/who "generated" code in a PR.

Discussions about AI/LLM code being a problem solely because AI/LLM is not generally a productive conversation.

Better is to critique the actual PR itself. For example, needs more tests, needs to be broken up, doesn't follow our protocols for merging/docs, etc.

Additionally, if there isn't a code of conduct, AI policy, or, perhaps most importantly, a policy on how to submit PRs and which are acceptable, it's a huge weakness in a project.

In this case, clearly some feathers were ruffled but cool heads prevailed. Well done in the end..
by TacticalCoder | 2025-11-25 01:16:22+00:00
So basically if you like to put SSDs on shelves (for offline backups), you should read them from scratch once in a while?

I rotate religiously my offline SSDs and HDDs (I store backups on both SSDs and HDDs): something like four at home (offline onsite) and two (one SSD, one HDD) in a safe at the bank (offline offsite).

Every week or so I rsync (a bit more advanced than rsync in that I wrap rsync in a script that detects potential bitrot using a combination of an rsync "dry-run" and known good cryptographic checksums before doing the actual rsync [1]) to the offline disks at home and then every month or so I rotate by swapping the SSD and HDD at the bank with those at home.

Maybe I should add to the process, for SSDs, once every six months:

... $ dd if=/dev/sda | xxhsum

I could easily automate that in my backup'ing script by adding a file lastknowddtoxxhash.txt containing the date of the last full dd to xxhsum, verifying that, and then asking, if a SSD is detected (I take it on a HDD it doesn't matter), if a full read to hash should be done.

Note that I'm already using random sampling on files containing checksums in their name, so I'm already verifying x% of the files anyway. So I'd probably be detecting a fading SSD quite easily.

Additionally I've also got a server with ZFS in mirroring so this, too, helps keep a good copy of the data.

FWIW I still have most of the personal files from my MS-DOS days so I must be doing something correctly when it comes to backing up data.

But yeah: adding a "dd to xxhsum" of the entire disks once every six months in my backup'ing script seems like a nice little addition. Heck, I may go hack that feature now.

[1] otherwise rsync shall happily trash good files with bitrotten ones
by ggm | 2025-11-25 01:16:30+00:00
I have a very strong feeling of "underwhelm" about this announcement. I can imagine a lot of things, principally some kind of TPU/GPU localised model which can do a first approximation model and be tuned, and a massive amount of data leakage into the back-end, which is SAAS and $charged$ to give you the specifics with more fidelity.

ie, "alexa" or another home assistant.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-11-25 01:17:07+00:00
> If AI can provide emotional support and an outlet for survivors who would otherwise not be able to have that kind of emotional need fulfilled, then I don't see any issue.

Surely something that can be good can also be bad at the same time? Like the same way wrapping yourself in bubble wrap before leaving the house will provably reduce your incidence of getting scratched and cut outside, but there's also reasons you shouldn't do that...
by raddan | 2025-11-25 01:17:16+00:00
Amusingly, I started using OpenBSD in 2000 because after repeatedly trying to get Debian running on my PowerPC G4 and failing (for months), I discovered that OpenBSD had a PowerPC port that immediately worked. Honestly the hardest part about OpenBSD is the installer, which has a few small improvements over the one back in 2000, but is essentially the same. I'm sure that kids these days will turn to ChatGPT for help, but I learned most of what I knew about hacking on a UNIX machine from OpenBSD's amazingly good man pages; they are still great.

I went through the process again just this weekend, because the disk in my firewall died. It's obvious that they continue to put a lot of effort into the OS. It's too bad that I can't use it as my daily driver, because I gladly would.
by AngryData | 2025-11-25 01:17:20+00:00
They are too expensive for younger generations, too unreliable for people without tools and a garage and mechanical experience along with crazy expensive parts, and the old people who still love Harleys are now old enough that riding a motorcycle is treacherous at best because age reduces both balance and strength which are important factors in safely riding a motorcycle in anything but the most ideal conditions.

Also, single pin crank engines are essentially obsolete but that is the distinctive sound of Harleys. So they can't change the motor without losing customers, but also that engine is a dead-end for use in most any other application too. Double pin cranks are superior in basically every way with better performance, better efficiency, and less vibration.
by hellonov24 | 2025-11-25 01:19:41+00:00
"Wanna be in my guild bro?"

Real talk, call me "old" - but it's like "Oh we get to be put on some list?". TLDR: They ruined the fucking internet. The internet sucks now, all those great "magical" experiences - they fucked it up. For all of us. Everyone.

You know there is one way to say a big "fuck you" to all this shit? I mean at least an idea I had?

What if you had physical "RSA" keys, you were part of groups, had to join, etc. Something like this...whatever. And you know how you use the internet? You literally send use data encrypted blogs in blobs. Keys change, ciphers change. Think 56k internet, but not "slow" - just blobbed/packageized.

In theory, you can basically just wrap the whole internet like a privatized radio relay - just much much faster and, global. The internet becomes only a packet relayer. Custom cryptogrphically rotated black box to anyone except keys in theory. Try and surveil that fuck shit mother fuckers.

The internet could at least fucking exist in some form. You could even have this "public" type AI-VERFIER "resigned/hashed packet" that uses some open source community checker that can be this trust based "thing"...auditble that is basically saying there "there is no weird images, etc...or there is no whatever here" and this can be signed. ISP network layer would see something like:

[VERIFIED CHECK] fsdf34234ASDFsdfDataBLOB

Or go "naked" fuckyou_fsdf34234ASDFsdfDataBLOB

In theory, it would at least try and prevent the NSA/INSERT_GOV_TER_ORG_HERE from at least respectfully trying to decrypt the "risky" packets. Blah blah blah. You know, just being kind to everyone I guess. Thanks.

I don't know...just an idea.

EDIT: There are of course other solutions related to end devices and comprised devices. The "simple" solution is offline, air gapped stable enviroments that handle all your decrypted / encrypted devices.

There there are network things, etc. All details - blah blah. But I am just talking shit. Someone should build this.
by tomcam | 2025-11-25 01:19:57+00:00
Super fun but so much not for me. Fricking awesome if you're in the TV or movie business trying to get that effect right. Reminds me of the first time my artist kid used the term "pixel art", which in my memory brings back only frustration from my 1980s restriction to 2, 4, then 16 colors. I love unlimited colors, thank you very much. And I remember being grateful to pay $1,000 for a flat screen monitor around 1995 or so. I adore the crispness of digital output.

Again, not criticizing this effort. Just saying that I love being here in the 21st, thank you very much.
by smackeyacky | 2025-11-25 01:20:37+00:00
Harley backed themselves into a niche and only have themselves to blame. I ride motorcycles but have zero interest in Harley’s because most of the riders seem to be cosplaying a 1%er vibe that is off putting in the extreme.

The clothing lines are a giveaway as to who their market is.

I divide riders into Harley enthusiasts and everybody else. People who like motorcycles generally have wide tastes or at least can appreciate all kinds of bikes. Harley riders wobble to a stop outside a bar and pretend to be hard men.
by igouy | 2025-11-25 01:21:34+00:00
Smalltalk can use build & deploy. (Image as cache, not archive.)

"At the outset of a project involving two or more programmers: Do assign a member of the team to be the version manager. … The responsibilities of the version manager consist of collecting and cataloging code files submitted by all members of the team, periodically building a new system image incorporating all submitted code files, and releasing the image for use by the team. The version manager stores the current release and all code files for that release in a central place, allowing team members read access, and disallowing write access for anyone except the version manager."

1984 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment" page 500
by rester324 | 2025-11-25 01:22:07+00:00
Well, I can see your point, but this assumes that engineers only care about their career and or personal relationships. But I know that many engineers care deeply about a project's success and project goals enough to endure bad leadership for very very long times, because they know from experience that the average leader is mediocre, so switching teams or companies is a gamble, and not all life situations allow people to gamble with their lives.
by mikeyouse | 2025-11-25 01:22:24+00:00
It’s not unheard of in the medical realm. Slightly different but when Intuitive Surgical released their DaVinci robotic surgery platforms, a hospital system I worked with was early on their list. They also set up the demo unit in the cafeteria so you could see surgeons peeling oranges and then stitching them back up or what not.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-25 01:23:32+00:00
The article references the original coverage which talks to this:

> Despite server-grade RDIMM memory and HBM being the main attractions for hardware manufacturers building AI servers, the entire memory industry, including DDR5, is being affected by price increases. The problem for consumers is that memory manufacturers are shifting production prioritization toward datacenter-focused memory types and producing less consumer-focused DDR5 memory as a result.

But I'm sure the hysteria around that isn't helping prices come back down either.
by jrjeksjd8d | 2025-11-25 01:23:57+00:00
The problem is that chatbots don't provide emotional support. To support someone with PTSD you help them gradually untangle the strong feelings around a stimulus and develop a less strong response. It's not fast and it's not linear but it requires a mix of empathy and facilitation.

Using an LLM for social interaction instead of real treatment is like taking heroin because you broke your leg, and not getting it set or immobilized.
by danielrmay | 2025-11-25 01:24:18+00:00
this is how i got my start in programming, eventually leading to working in finance and now in gamedev for a AAA. many of the programmers i worked with as a teenager to build neopets automations are in similar places. i have so many stories and even met my ex wife of ten years through the community!

oh and i regret all the duping glitches i found and exposed and stuff im sorry
by nullbio | 2025-11-25 01:24:31+00:00
You're forgetting the step where they write a nefarious paper for their marketing team about the "world-ending dangers" of the capabilities they've discovered within their new model, and push it out to their web of media companies who make bank from the ad-revenue from clicks on their doomsday articles while furthering the regulatory capture goals of the hypocritically Palantir-partnered Anthropic.
by nubinetwork | 2025-11-25 01:24:35+00:00
I've got some old SSDs just to test this myself, the old 256gb corsairs I tested previously were fine after a year and a half, but I might have misplaced them...(they only had 10% write life left, so no huge loss) the 512gb samsungs on my desk should be getting pretty ripe soon though, I'll have to check those too.