MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by derbOac | 2025-11-11 14:58:16+00:00
This was interesting to read but didn't pass the sniff test for me. I strongly believe there are secular trends in sexual and gender identity, and it's worth noting that the trends they discuss — real or spurious — predated the current US administration. At the same time I'm not sure I trusted this data and it seems to be misinterpreted a bit.

First, the surveys in the article are kind of odd and idiosyncratic in terms of samples, and not exactly top of the line in terms of methodology either.

Second, relatedly, the rates of non-cis-hetero endorsement are super high in some of those figures, way higher than makes any sense. The absolute rates themselves are enough to call into question anything that is said about them.

Sure enough, the article mentions that when you apply weighting, the trends disappear:

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-no-there-is-no...

All in all it suggests there's something about these surveys and their participants that is affecting things.

To their credit, the authors of the article mention a lot of their problems. They address the fact that not endorsing gender isn't the same thing as endorsing being trans, and they also cite the weighting issue. But they have this kindy of hand-wavy response to it that isn't really a response. The idea that weights aren't necessary or can be misleading is a ridiculous response in this kind of situation. And who cares if nonbinary-type response rates correlate 0.7 with trans identification? Maybe that rest of the variance is what accounts for changes at any given period.

I'd be more convinced by a series of rigorous surveys with rigorous methodology. Admittedly it's kind of hard to measure this sort of thing, but clearly something isn't working with this.

Also in the end, even if you take these data at face value, what should you conclude other than that secular trends are influencing the way people respond to, and maybe think about, questions about their sexual or gender identity? That's interesting but let's say the trend lines go back to what they were pre-2010 or so. Ok, the rest of the endorsers are still there, it's not 0% endorsement, and even if it were that would be a bit suspicious. And how do we interpret survey responses among the rest? That they're being open-minded about their sexual or gender identity a bit? How much? Did the respondents themselves change? What does this matter in terms of policy? That sexual and gender identification is more fluid than people might think, or that it implies something about freedom of speech?
by ivape | 2025-11-11 14:58:39+00:00
It seems like a douchey post but it’s not. Just browsing the internet makes me regularly question how difficult it is keeping the tech industry full of people that give a shit. Software ate the world and along with it came a contingent that don’t care enough about it. The choppy first page load, the non-smooth scrolling, the ads janking in, shifting layout and content in unpredictable ways, and finally the bombarding of intrusive ads and popups where the dev didn’t even take a few minutes to construct a sensible UI compromise (yes, we need to show ads, but can we show the ads without anal fucking the user’s eyes? Yes possibly).

So yes, we have a real IDGAF issue in tech, and I can’t imagine this getting better because Gen Z all have a casual drug dealer “this just my side hustle” attitude, and Millennials will not a give a fuck because they are still pissed about the GFC and the cost of housing. The Leetcode people don’t give a fuck because they are burnt out on Leetcode and their entire identity is based on salary and very little to do with quality of their actual work.

There’s literally … and I mean this, there’s literally no one left to care.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-11 14:59:31+00:00
The vast majority of people making handcrafted do not charge enough for their items. If they did, nobody could afford them. Most items are priced based on the cost of the material with little consideration to the time to make them. I have a friend that is a very skilled knitter, but for large items like blankets and sweaters, there are weeks of effort involved. When broken down, "kids in Chinese factories" make more per hour.

The great thing is that this type of person will tell you they are not in it for the money. As long as they can "buy more string" with the proceeds (or whatever their materials are), they are quite happy.
by tylerrecall | 2025-11-11 14:59:46+00:00
I'm building RecallBricks - persistent memory infrastructure for AI coding tools.

The problem: Every time you switch between Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, your AI forgets everything. You spend half your time rebuilding context instead of coding.

RecallBricks automatically captures context from your coding sessions and makes it available across all AI tools via semantic search. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Continue.dev, GitHub Copilot, or any LLM.

Built the entire stack with Claude Code (meta, I know). Gas utility worker who taught myself to code, now shipping production infrastructure. Currently in private beta, launching publicly in a few weeks.

Tech stack: Render API, Supabase (Postgres + pgvector), Python/TypeScript SDKs, VS Code extension, MCP connector.

Would love feedback - especially from folks juggling multiple AI coding assistants.
by mock-possum | 2025-11-11 15:00:00+00:00
That’s funny, because to me, it was always immediately obvious that once that line runs, then it must be true - once that line runs, x is now equal to whatever it was before, + 1. It’s the price opposite of the lie, it’s the literal definition of truth, in the sense that what is true is set by that line.

Programming is telling things to the computer, and in this case, you’re telling it what x is. Whatever you tell a computer is all the computer knows, whatever a computer does can only be what it’s told. If you never told it what x was, then x wouldn’t be anything… that’s the truth.
by JohnFen | 2025-11-11 15:00:14+00:00
He didn't, really. He made an inexpensive clone of the military radio.

Where I work, we make complex industrial robots that incorporate multiple SBCs. The SBCs we use cost a bit more than $2K each, although you can buy functionally equivalent ones off of Amazon for about $200.

The reason that we go with the expensive ones over the cheap ones is that the expensive ones are hardened for use in very rough environments (electrically noisy, dirty, high temperature, high-vibration, subject to frequent physical shocks, etc.). The cost isn't for the computational abilities, it's for the ruggedness required to operate constantly in adverse environments for years on end. My guess is that the same thing is true for these military radios.
by jugg1es | 2025-11-11 15:00:15+00:00
I think there is a misunderstanding about the therapeutic effects of psychedelics. The drugs themselves may alter physical structure in your brain a little bit - but what they really do is temporarily give you a different perspective - they change your point of view. That skewing of perspective is (I believe) where the therapeutic effect from these drugs arises.

If you are deeply curious about these types of drugs, you need to remember that they all wear off eventually. Lots of very smart and happy people have taken these drugs and experienced no harm.
by prennert | 2025-11-11 15:00:38+00:00
Adding an example would be useful to see how it renders.

Obviously a cool side-project. but I dont understand why anyone would want automate CV generation for "production use".

CVs are personal, and get updated once a year or so. Each life is different, each CV is different. So it does not easily scale across people.

As someone who is reviewing CVs, I review CVs from two aspects:

1. does the person have the skills I need, and 2. can the person communicate and do they have professional pride

Its much easier to get 1 & 2 across if you craft your CV. Think about what message you want to get across and work very hard to get that message across on one page. Expand with more detail in pages 2 and following.

As a hiring manager I am filtering roughly in this order:

1. has core skills I need, if yes, then 2. has used core skills I need in enough projects to likely meet our bar, if yes, then 3. are the relevant projects close enough to what we are building?

Later in the interview process, interviewers will look at the CV more closely to prepare for the interview.

Anyway, if anything I would only start with automating from page 2 and beyond.
by nandomrumber | 2025-11-11 15:00:51+00:00
Since we’re here making comparisons, here’s the USA’s electricity production breakdown:

22.2% Nuclear 19.5% Renewable 31.7% Natural gas 26.0% Coal 0.6% Petroleum

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

——

Edit to add: in response to your reply and because I’ve hit my rate limit for replies (this being one of my few favourite things to rant about)…:

It’s actually a much better mix than how I thought I remembered it.

If that’s the US’s plan, it’s a good one.

I just wish the Australian government would get onboard with nuclear, and ditch the renewables for gas. We export as much LNG by volume as Qatar!
by stavros | 2025-11-11 15:01:04+00:00
This just screams that Apple has jumped the shark to me. First of all, they're selling a knitted scarf for putting your phone in, which... what?

> Inspired by the concept of “a piece of cloth”

Groundbreaking.

> iPhone Pocket in the short strap design retails at $149.95 (U.S.), and the long strap design at $229.95 (U.S.).

Just... good luck, guys.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 15:01:12+00:00
> they failed to make phones that are convenient to carry.

I loved the iPhone SE and small phones generally, but at the same time I realize Apple's not failing at anything. They're giving the market the size people actually want. The smaller phones don't sell nearly as well. Most people prefer a bigger phone even if carrying it is less convenient.

I've just accepted my phone will be bulky now, so I double down and attach a magnetic wallet to it, and carry it in my hand or jacket pocket or bag rather than my pants pocket like I used to. During meetings it lies on the table rather then in my pants pocket. C'est la vie.
by asa400 | 2025-11-11 15:01:16+00:00
Thank you for this post and I'll add a note for people who are seeing this and are maybe discouraged about learning Erlang/OTP/Elixir.

I generally agree with you that learning Erlang stuff can be daunting.

I will say that many things worth doing are not easy! Erlang and the whole OTP way of thinking is tough to learn in part because it is genuinely different enough from everything else that is out there that one's odds of being familiar with its conceptual underpinnings are low.

If you have trouble learning Erlang (and OTP specifically) it's not because you're dumb, it's because Erlang is different.

Learning Erlang is not like learning any other dynamic language you've learned. Learning Erlang is closer to learning a bespoke operating system designed to build reliable low-latency long-running systems. It's a larger conceptual lift than going from one dynamic OOP language to another dynamic OOP language.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-11-11 15:01:31+00:00
Because, in real life, power re-alignment of that magnitude tends to be.. chaotic. I like my life. I also like my kid to survive long enough to fend for itself. Both of these become a big gamble if we do not work within the existing system.

I am saying this as a person who had a front seat to a something similar as a kid. It was relatively peaceful and it still managed to upend lives of millions ( because, at the end of the day, people don't really change ).
by eszed | 2025-11-11 15:01:33+00:00
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it builds a static charge as it runs through the projector and attracts dust. I say this because I remember holding my hand near moving film in our (home) movie projector, and as a kid enjoying feeling the hairs on my arm standing up from the static. Maybe professional gear protects against that somehow, but if not that'd be why.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-11 15:01:52+00:00
I wouldn't want to be part of a company that uses a ternary to make an English only i18n thing. Please use a proper i18n framework that supports proper pluralization, as the Polish example highlights.

Keep in mind English is a super weird language, it's three languages in a trenchcoat with stuff like 'beef' coming from French and 'meat' from Germanic.
by bob1029 | 2025-11-11 15:02:08+00:00
I'm surprised it was this easy to exfiltrate that amount of information before being stopped.

When I worked at Samsung we had an enhanced TSA experience every time we walked in and out of the building. Phones in the tray, give me all your papers please, etc. Remote access to certain workstations was permitted but was also actively monitored. By the time I managed to screenshot the 2nd PDF I'd have my access terminated and someone knocking on my door.
by Sol- | 2025-11-11 15:02:24+00:00
I think in the end they will just pay off copyright holders. The German GEMA is mostly interested in rent-seeking through whatever means available, it's basically the whole point of the organization.

They'll easily be paid off once all legal avenues are exhausted for OpenAI. Though they'll of course keep fighting in court in the hopes of some more favorable negotiating position.
by jimkri | 2025-11-11 15:02:28+00:00
Yeah for sure, this is what I buy on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FAB10ZI) and the dosage depends on what you are experiencing. I was doubling my dosage, but have lowered it back to the recommended dosage on the package (10 pills, they are tiny). I have also taken the powered version but the umami taste is really strong, so I went back to the pill version.

I like to take it with Psyllium Husk Fiber / Metamucil to help increase the fiber in my diet since the higher dosage is like eating a lot of kale at one time, it can move through you super quickly.

Here are some studies that I commented before that I have read that has helped with learning more about the supplements and the dosages depending on what you are experiencing:

- High-dose supplementation of Chlorella and Spirulina increases beneficial gut Bacteria in healthy ICR mice: A 90-day feeding study (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2025.106796)

- Spirulina in Clinical Practice: Evidence-Based Human Applications (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3136577/)

- Effect of spirulina and chlorella alone and combined on the healing process of diabetic wounds: an experimental model of diabetic rats (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8212205/)

- Beneficial Effects of Spirulina Consumption on Brain Health ( https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14030676) This is a new study that I found, that I'm going to read, but it shows the impact on neuroinflammation, and from experience the supplement has helped me with inflammation, and why I think it has helped with my ADHD/Anxiety.
by psunavy03 | 2025-11-11 15:02:51+00:00
I don't make light of industrial theft/espionage, but let's be honest. Can you not just put a blurb on your proprietary stuff with the proper lawyerese? Something like "Business confidential and proprietary - not to be released without written authorization" or somesuch?

For those of us who have worked in the cleared space, a company labeling something "Intel Top Secret" is like watching a 12-year-old put on Daddy's suit jacket and tie in front of the mirror. If business confidential materials leak, yes, it can have huge financial impacts for the business. If actual TS materials leak, people can no-kidding die.

Not to mention if your company does do cleared work, you've now created unnecessary confusion between "Company Top Secret" and actual TS, which just increases the chances for someone doing something stupid/malicious.
by wswope | 2025-11-11 15:03:25+00:00
Yeah, I really look forward to seeing more research on the ability of these PETase genes to spread. The article touched on it briefly, but it’d be great to have more insight on how much of this is due to HGT vs. something likely to originate de novo across species.

> That makes me wonder if we'll soon see mammals with gut microbiomes that can digest microplastics.

On a less serious note, my cat is deadset on this accomplishment.
by mmastrac | 2025-11-11 15:03:27+00:00
The SSU feature is woefully underdocumented and the patent gives you _some_ information, but it's missing all of the details. I hope to break this part out into a project of its own.

I am 100% certain a VT420 will never be able to support more than two sessions, as the ROM explicitly has a ton of checks that look like "if session1 { ... } else { ... }". Unfortunately your best bet here would be putting a more advanced terminal multiplexer behind your VT420 and then making the F4 key a full passthrough (disabling the native session switcher).
by zkmon | 2025-11-11 15:03:35+00:00
Sorry if my comment sounded out of context, but it is a very thin veil between craftmanship and salesmanship. Everything that you do to get the sale can also be seen as craftsmanship. The difference is about who is the user? Any feature that you put out just for the sake of pleasing someone should be an anti pattern. If your post is aligned with this, then I stand corrected

Btw, passion displayed in your post is great, but sometimes, it could mean excess for you and your team.
by boilerupnc | 2025-11-11 15:04:19+00:00
I suspect the early variants will fall into two camps:

1. Traditional garden variety human to human, computer to computer and computer to human crime stuff that happens today.

2. Human to computer (AI) crime, misdeeds and bullying. Stuff like:

- Sabotage and poison your AI agent colleague to make it look bad, inefficient, ineffectual in small, but high volume ways. Delegate all risky, bad+worse choice decision making to AI and let the algo take the reputational damage.

- Go beat up on automated bots, cars, drones, etc ... How should it feel to kick a robot dog?

For a humorous read on automation bots and AI in a dystopian world, take a look at Quality Land [0]. Really enjoyed it. As a teaser, imagine having some drones suffering from a fear of heights, hence being deemed faulty and sentenced for destruction. Do faulty bots or AI have value in this world even if they don't deliver on their original intended use?

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36216607-qualityland
by jmyeet | 2025-11-11 15:04:27+00:00
If only that were true.

The likes of Google, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle will survive by cuttings costs (ie firing people) and probably getting bailed out by the government, either with direct loans or simply with government contracts.

We're already seeing massive increases in homelessness. Now imagine if unemployment goes to 8-10%. We had higher unemployment in Covid but the government opened the money faucet to avoid a complete collapse. Unemployment peaked at around 10% in the GFC and it was both a massive wealth transfer to the already-wealthy and a massive decrease in real wages as entry-level positions disappeared.

You don't spend trillions in corporate investment to have the bubble collapse and society not to feel the pain.
by imtringued | 2025-11-11 15:04:44+00:00
Yeah the first bug is the telltale sign. How the hell can something as simple as the frame limiter be broken? You'd think that problems that affect every single game would have been addressed by now.

If creating text, sprite objects, etc results in a performance bottleneck with less than 20 objects on screen, then why offer those in the first place? I mean, so little is happening in that game that you couldn't even come up with enough game objects to tank the performance with.

There's what? A title of the location, the enemy HP indicator, the level number and the player stats. Even if you committed the worst performance sins, it should just work anyway.
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-11 15:04:44+00:00
I was speaking more generally, but sure, I think the behavior fits. BEAM has a lot more surface area than Apache Beam does here — just do a site search for beam and see how far you have to go to see the Apache project. It’s ridiculous to expect the author of a blog post targeted at people interested in BEAM to disambiguate between them. Additionally, it’s a BEAM conference talk converted to a blog post and it says so right at the beginning of the article with a link to the conference. Thirdly, whoever submitted the link expecting a technical crowd to put in a modicum of effort to figure things out from context is completely reasonable. And how arbitrary is expecting the line to be drawn at your level of need? Shouldn’t project managers be able to read the article without having to look up VM meaning Virtual Machine? Or that functional programming isn’t any programming that uses a function? So yeah, I do not think it’s valid to criticize an author of a blog post aimed at people who already understand the subject for not putting a 1000’ overview at the top.
by Yokolos | 2025-11-11 15:04:49+00:00
I'm not sure what you mean by "so you can't hot -plug/-unplug it". If I use it in Windows or Linux, I can eject it like I can any standard non-SSD USB stick. I'm also not sure what issues you've been having with booting from them. I've occasionally used these things to boot Linux LiveCDs without issue. Might be a compatibility issue with your BIOS specifically? I've seen some messed up BIOS's that simply defy all expectation in how they work. Then again, I primarily only use these things to transfer data between machines (primarily games), so all I really care about is their performance.

I also preferably call them USB sticks instead of SSDs, since afaik TRIM isn't supported on them, which makes them significantly worse than any proper SSD.
by tylerrecall | 2025-11-11 15:05:04+00:00
Interesting approach. The challenge I keep hitting with AI-generated documentation is that it lacks the persistent context of how the codebase actually evolved - the decisions, the "why we didn't do X" knowledge, the patterns that emerged over time.

I'm working on RecallBricks (memory infrastructure for AI coding tools) and seeing similar problems: AI tools are great at answering questions about code right now, but they don't remember the conversation you had last week about why you chose this architecture over that one.

For documentation specifically, have you thought about combining the AI-generated docs with a memory layer that captures decision history? Like "this API endpoint exists because of issue #247 where users needed X functionality." That context makes docs way more useful than just describing what the code does.

Curious how you're handling the "outdated docs" problem mentioned above - do you have triggers to regenerate when code changes significantly?
by crazygringo | 2025-11-11 15:05:22+00:00
It's kind of hilarious to me when the tech world collides with the high-end fashion world. On the one hand, I get how absurd this seems from a tech perspective. On the other hand, dropping a couple hundred dollars on a fashion item that will be trendy for a season among a certain group... it's no different from any other high-end fashion accessory. It's just that the two worlds so rarely overlap.
by masklinn | 2025-11-11 15:05:48+00:00
> Unsurprisingly, the primary reason identified for the iPhone 16e 's weaker debut is its higher launch price.

Adjusting for inflation, the SE (€479 in 2020) was €588 and the SE2 (€519 in 2022) was €567. The 16e is 699, a 25% increase.
by xutopia | 2025-11-11 15:05:58+00:00
People have to stop trying to depend on supplements for what a diet should provide.

Neither spirulina nor chlorella are good sources of choline. For example if you had to take spirulina you'd need about 6 cups per day to reach RDI. Way to risk getting elevated uric acid, vitamin A overload or a slew of other intestinal issues.

Compare with 3-4 eggs... or 90g of beef liver I know what I would take.