MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by m4rtink | 2025-11-27 09:51:40+00:00
Or they don't want to be the ones holding the bag when all the AI companies that ordered RAM from them end up bankrupt and insolvent ?

The stuff they ordered might even be so custom to be useless to be sold by the creditors, leaving the RAM manufacturers hanging dry with unpaid invoices and idle capacity.

So they just do the old cartel thing and wait it out - with the added benefit of selling the same stuff they have been making for twice the price!
by rasz | 2025-11-27 09:52:32+00:00
The metric here is Does the car exhibit problems on an inspection checklist, not is th car reliable. Broken VW are either repaired or scrapped and dont see the light of TUV. VW owners service cars regularly once a year like a clockwork so all the minor ripped rubbers, misaligned headlights, suspension alignment problems, leaking shocks, exhaust leaks, indicator lights etc are routinely tested. Tesla cars dont need _any_ of that. A lot of owners change tires and keep driving until weird smells (cabin filter) or ride harshness (clapped out bushings) starts to really annoy. Its quit common to see Teslas for sale here with untouched suspension and parts grinding metal on metal.

I suspect Toyota might also be a victim of its own reliability. Why would you pay for full service when cars dont break during first 5 years of ownership.
by sunaookami | 2025-11-27 09:52:47+00:00
>All of this is disinformation and propaganda.

I suggest actually looking at how the EU operates instead of accusing others of "spreading disinformation and propaganda" which is a typical response when someone critizies EU institutions.

>There is parliamentary oversight

A rubber stamp is oversight I guess. Laws like the DMA and DSA give the commission way too much power without being kept in check.

>it's literally the next step in the process.

Ah yes the "informal trilogue" where all parties meet behind closed doors and the public and most parliament members are excluded. Only ten members allowed! Did you know that from 2009 to 2014 at least 93% EU-wide laws were "debated" this way?

>We all voted for the EU commission through our respective elections for national governments, who appoint the comission

That's a very generous definition of "voted". As I said people can't vote for the EU commission nor can the parliament vote for the members of the commission. Remember that the EU commission is the ONLY one that can propose laws, the parliament CAN NOT do this even though it's their job.

>You could not be jailed for this comment, though sometimes I wish you could

Yes let's jail everyone for online comments you do not like. How about that German journalist that critizied a politician regarding free speech and got probation? Or when the police raided someone's home because he called a politician on Twitter a "dick"? Is this your idea of democracy?
by imiric | 2025-11-27 09:53:15+00:00
It's interesting that maturing and growing up for me has resulted in opposite conclusions to yours. We're all different, of course, but I'd like to offer a different perspective.

> And anyway, because most people are trying their best, regardless of how the outcomes line up to affect my life and my interests personally, really do not deserve my scorn and derision.

The fact that most people are "trying their best" doesn't mean that their goals and interests can't be selfish, or that their actions can't negatively impact others. Particularly people who pursue positions of power, in politics or corporations, often treat others with hostility. And unlike most hostile people, it's these high-rank individuals that have the capability to impact millions of people.

So while I agree with your overall sentiment that well-intentioned people don't deserve my scorn and derision, the real world has taught me that governments and corporations often abuse my trust, my rights, my freedoms, and my quality of life. And for that, the least I can do is speak freely about how I feel about them as people on an online forum. I'm sure that my actions have practically zero impact on their lives, unlike theirs on mine.
by b112 | 2025-11-27 09:53:53+00:00
Some find music to be distracting, and therefore don't listen to it. This can build a general dislike of music.

I presume such souls may wither away and die, while in a coma, as a person "helpfully" plays very annoying sounds 24x7.

An alternate, is I do see some very strong preferences for music, with strongly expressed dislikes, even among music lovers. I can imagine the same, someone in a coma giving up and dying, to "get away" from the horror.

(Meant as an amusing thought, I doubt any would vacate this world to escape)
by climb_stealth | 2025-11-27 09:54:24+00:00
My bad, I shouldn't have said tainted. Trustworthy is what I had in mind.

I moved my private repos to sr.ht ages ago because it was the open source, free software, ethical, longevitable approach. And stepping away from the mega corporations and everything going on with those.

I was wondering whether this was still the case.
by theshrike79 | 2025-11-27 09:54:31+00:00
I kinda want authors to define "vibe coding" in their specific context when they write articles like this.

Is it "try to one-shot something via a Web UI" or "Figure out proper spec with Claude in Plan mode, let it implement according to the plan"? Both give completely different results.

And it doesn't matter a bit if LLM produced code isn't deterministic. We have 100% deterministic tools to check the code. Have had for decades. Agentic LLMs might produce bad code, but they can also run deterministic checks on the output and fix them immediately before even bothering the user.
by lwkl | 2025-11-27 09:54:36+00:00
Before CarPlay and Android Auto we had TomTom for $130 and map updates costing about $40. The map updates from car manufacturers were always sold at a premium.

I bet Google Maps pays for itself through ads alone. In addition Google Maps gains a lot of invaluable data from its users like new businesses, reviews, pictures, updated opening times, traffic data and more. So no Google Maps isn't really "free" it's paid for by its users with ads and free labor to improve the mapping data.

Having the users split between different navigation software is a worse user experience because the mapping data will be worse. So I welcome a monopoly in this case.

The hard work of mapping is done by the government in most countries and paid for by the tax payers. So you are just paying the car company to convert the mapping data you already paid for into their proprietary format.
by ljm | 2025-11-27 09:55:00+00:00
I don't always get it right but I try not go on the internet and contribute even more anger and negativity that is already there. Try not to be a dick to other people.

It's not really for anybody's sake except my own, because I'm the one who has to sit with a mind full of shit at the end of the day and I'm just going to wear myself down. Nobody who matters is gonna read any of the bile I could write and change who they are, after all.
by dangus | 2025-11-27 09:55:23+00:00
After this discussion I looked it up and the original sources that made a claim that the Windows 11 start menu is written in react aren’t even confirmed accurate, and allegedly the components involving react are using react native for windows and are therefore compiled to native code - no web views are involved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44124688

So even this base assumption that a slow heavy bloated experience is on offer is just hearsay. The only section that uses React is the allegedly recommended section, the one that can be disabled entirely with a single settings toggle.

Anyway, again, the 5-10 second screenshot thing, I’ve been testing it live and could never get it to be slower than 2 seconds between invoking the shortcut key to file on the disk. Keeping in mind that this includes me physically reacting as quickly as possible to click after the shortcut keys to initiate the capture. It’s about one second between clicking capture and observing the file appear in file explorer. My CPU is 5 years old, my RAM is DDR4, and I use an off brand nvme SSD, for your reference.

I will also add to this that the main competitor to Windows, macOS, adds an intentional delay to their screen capture where the screenshots aren’t added to disk until after the little preview disappears or is manually dismissed. In Windows the preview notification and file being written to disk happen simultaneously, and the system automatically copies the image to clipboard which Apple doesn’t do, saving further time.

Your network share issue could be something misconfigured at your work, I have no way to verify whether that’s something your IT department messed up. My personal Windows and Linux systems are both connected to my SMB shares at all times through their graphical file managers and I don’t notice any difference in performance.

Last rebuttal: your finder experience in Macintosh classic (System 3.0 when the 512k debuted) is fast because there’s no multitasking, when you are at the desktop of a Macintosh the only application open is Finder and it’s already in RAM. Open any other application and then close it. You’ll notice a relatively long delay (10 seconds in my testing, although I don’t have real hardware) after closing the application before the desktop and finder are responsive again. You can try this on your preferred Macintosh emulator online.
by oreally | 2025-11-27 09:55:27+00:00
I'm talking about the practicalities though. For example I'd really like my smartphones to be long lasting and reliable such that I only have to replace every 10 years. All that Apple marketing isn't convincing me to buy their iphones knowing that I'm going to be locked in.

Generally, the majority of humanity is too tied up in their personal troubles to think deeply about their products. So the best thing is to accept the narrative of the marketing of the best marketed product, then deviate comparisons from there.
by oulipo2 | 2025-11-27 09:56:21+00:00
You don't understand much if you think that to fight the lack of mentors for men, you have to put down women. It's completely orthogonal.

People in power want you to have this "I don't have what I want because this other minority takes it from me", but it's simply wrong, even though this argument seems to capture the mind of simple-minded people.

We don't have what we want because we're in a ruthless capitalist society, directed by stupidoes like Trump and Musk
by wltr | 2025-11-27 09:57:12+00:00
So, Java instead of wasm, but open source. While LogSeq is an open source copycat (not really) of Obsidian, I simply can’t stand it. I have tried Penpot a couple of years back, so cannot say anything about it, with the exception that I noticed it’s Clojure. Would love to learn more if someone can comment on that. I guess I’m biased against Java, but I’m not experienced with it, so I may be very wrong on that one. Of course having an open-source Figma around feels empowering, so much it is ingrained into the current dev process.
by zkmon | 2025-11-27 09:57:41+00:00
The song goes that way because Paris is attractive to young men compared to the American farms. But being attractive may not mean good. Candy is attractive too, to children. And that hard work in farms doesn't necessarily mean being less happier than your modern life, as happiness is more dependent on expectations than what you have. Paris experience raised expectations for army folks.

Sometimes, I think that the modern education setup (schools and colleges) is a recruiting and training mechanism. Bright kids from all over the country side are filtered and sucked away to work in the modern factories. Same as army recruitment camps that go to rural side, conduct running competitions and take away all the strong youth from villages.

Ofcourse, they sell education as knowledge or refinement as a person. But the real goal is to create a workforce.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-27 09:57:45+00:00
My idea is, that they do _not_ upgrade their dependencies daily, because that is what is causing the issue. People don't pin all their versions and checksums properly, and the next time they run `npm install` they get a new version of some library. I don't even want to see any "@^1.2" or whatever the syntax was. Also they should be running `npm ci`.

I have seen this multiple times with people from various backgrounds and in frontend as well as backend. People still think like "Lets auto upgrade patch releases, so that we always get the bugfixes." or "Lets upgrade quickly, so that we deal with changes right away, before accumulating the work.". But they don't think properly about security and reproducibility.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-27 09:58:33+00:00
It is difficult to get society to accept that maybe it's time to balance the constant public and media validation of women with some public and media validation of men.

Disney has seen a bunch of Marvel flops since they switched the focus to Marvel properties that target women (they've since publicly indicated a course correction on this).

Take a bunch of IP that primarily males are interested in (super-heros), water it down so that it's less male focused, and then find that neither males nor females are interested.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-27 09:59:00+00:00
Wait, how exactly did Adobe create noninfringing models?

Edit: not a full explanation, but https://www.mikechambers.com/blog/post/2025-09-24-generative... ; this is subtly different. It's a claim that the model will not create infringing output, but that's not the same as "this model was trained only on content which was licensed for the purpose of AI training".

(there's also a discussion of the idea that the output of a model may not be copyrightable at all, which will cause a whole second set of problems for commercial users)
by liampulles | 2025-11-27 09:59:11+00:00
Most of the gamers I know who are not in the tech space are very against AI, especially if it is being used for stuff that is more on the art side. Anything that displaces "game industry workers" is viewed as a bad thing.

I personally don't mind AI use to write code, and while I haven't seen AI art that conveys much in me, I'm open to the idea that it could be used in interesting ways.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-27 10:01:04+00:00
> Density/proximity are far better incubators for innovation than people being bored and isolated on farms.

That might be the case for you.

I do all my best programming when I'm driving a tractor. When I stop, I just need to type it all in.

Or, driving my car, for that matter. I just need to get from here to way over there, it's maybe 90 miles, something like a two and a half hour drive, during which time no-one can phone me, no-one can come up and hand me something that's Clearly My Problem Because It Has An Electrical Connector, no-one can ask me what's wrong with the printer in the facilities office, and I can just sit and quietly think. I don't even have to put up with braying adverts on the local radio station.
by teekert | 2025-11-27 10:02:40+00:00
Yes same, you bump, you put iPhones on to op each other, you enable "findable by other". And still you may be messing around for minutes. Then a larger transfer starts... But fails half way for 6 times.

It's the best way (if it works!) to transfer full quality live images quickly, but otherwise I'd be happier just using Signal.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-27 10:02:58+00:00
> You don't understand much if you think that to fight the lack of mentors for men, you have to put down women. It's completely orthogonal.

Knee-jerk much? How on earth did you get "put down women" from what I wrote?

> People in power want you to have this "I don't have what I want because this other minority takes it from me", but it's simply wrong, even though this argument seems to capture the mind of simple-minded people.

Where did you read that in the tiny little snippet I wrote?

Let me be clear, so that there is no misunderstanding -

1. Men dominate the bottom of almost every ranking. This is just another ranking.

Maybe before we try to fix this specific ranking, we should be asking ourselves why men are at the bottom in every ranking.
by lwkl | 2025-11-27 10:03:12+00:00
I have seen multiple USB-C ports break on Lenovo and HP laptops. About 1 in every 50 laptops over the span of 2-3 years. I don't know if it was the users fault or a manufacturing issue. But the manufacturers fixed these under the extended warranty.

It might be an issue with the USB-C port used in these laptops since the ports on MacBooks feel less wobbly to me. But in the end this is just speculation and anecdotal.
by sylware | 2025-11-27 10:03:43+00:00
The second your macro-assembler has a significantly complex syntax, you are done: feature creep for 2042 features then 2043 then 2044... and it mechanically reduces the number the alternative implementations and make the effort required to develop a new more and more unreasonable.

In this end, it is all about the complexity and stability in time for this matter.
by CalRobert | 2025-11-27 10:04:21+00:00
It does feel a bit cruel that we were told to be vulnerable and open, and then when men said we’re lonely got accused of asking other people to fix our problems and that we just needed to deal with it.

Also I don’t think I’d risk being e.g. a teacher - the girls in my high school would casually joke about accusing their teachers of being creeps if they failed a test, etc.
by berkes | 2025-11-27 10:05:06+00:00
While I do applaud the idea of "re-thinking the computer for deverlopers", this looks little more than "thinking", to me.

A back of a beermat business idea, pulled through an expensive marketing machine.

My rule of thumb: if something has a concrete price, but the something itself isn't made yet, it's either way too expensive or a ploy or both.

Maybe its a "find if there's need for it" phase. But if you cannot make that "it" concrete, I -and I suspect many more of the target audience- cannot answer this question.

So yes: kudos for bringing up the "developers need other hard and software than general audience" idea. But I would strongly advice to first make it concrete and deliver pieces and parts. Release the DE and OS so we can experience if this solves "problems" that devs have. Finetune that. Again. And again. Then pair it with hardware. Personally, I'd go for hardware thats already popular with devs.

For me, thatd be: Ship me a high end Lenovo, with Ubuntu¹ pre-installed and loaded with software like neovim, zsh, git, ripgrep, chrome, firefox, zed, slack (we all require it, don't we?) vscode. Maybe some icing like starship, a nice theme. It could be opinionated or extremely configurable (and remain stable at that over years).

Or, on second thought: I have all that. So what problem does this solve?
by misja111 | 2025-11-27 10:05:32+00:00
Wow I've only stayed in about 100 but have seen several. There are several variations:

- bathrooms with glass walls but with (glass) door

- bathrooms with walls but without door

- bathrooms with partially open walls, sometimes even with door :P

The worst was when I was once sharing a room with my daughter and the bathroom was one with glass walls and no shower curtain. We decided to schedule our toilet visits and showers so the other one would not be in the room.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-27 10:05:59+00:00
>Let us please consider the GitHub issues that remain open as metaphorically “copy-on-write”. Please leave all your existing GitHub issues and pull requests alone. No need to move your stuff over to Codeberg unless you need to make edits, additional comments, or rebase. We’re still going to look at the already open pull requests and issues; don’t worry.

No way for those to be moved too or not worth the effort? Unless misremembering, another project that moved forges (to GitLab?) had somehow done it.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-11-27 10:06:13+00:00
Agents are basically tool using LLMs running in a loop where they come up with a plan, which includes running tools, the tool output is added to the context, and it iterates until it is done fulfilling some goal. It's basically exactly like a regular LLM chat except it is chatting with itself and giving itself instructions to run particular tools.

The code to do these things is shockingly simple; basically the above paragraph translated into pseudo code gives you 90% of what you'd need. Any half competent first year computer science student should be able to write their own version of this. Except of course they should be letting LLMs do the heavy lifting here.

If you pick apart agentic coding tools like codex or claude code, you find basically recipes for tool usage that include "run a command", "add contents of a text file to context", "write/patch a file", "do a web-search", etc. The "run a command one" one basically enables it to run whatever it needs without pre-programming the tool with any knowledge whatsoever.

That all comes from training and web searches. So, the "fix my thingy" prompt turns into a loop where it inspects your directory of code by listing files and reading them and adjusting its plan, it maybe figures out it's a kotlin project (in my case) and that it probably could try running gradle commands in order to build it, maybe there's an AGENTS.md file with some helpful information. Or a README.md. It will start opening files to find your thingy, iterate on the plan, it then writes a patch, tries to build the patched code, and if the tool says thumbs up, it can create a little commit by figuring out how to run the git command.

It's like magic when you see this in action. But all the magic is in the LLM; not the tool. Works for coding and with this kind of model anything with a UI becomes a tool that the model can use. UIs become APIs basically.

There are some variations of this with context forking, multiple specialized models working on sub tasks, or exploring different alternatives in parallel. But the core principle is very simple.

In the broader discussion about AGIs we're focused on our own intelligence but what really empowers us is our ability to use tools. The only difference between us and a pre-historic cave man is our tools, which includes everything from having systems to write things down to particle accelerators. The cave man has the same inherent, genetically pre-programmed intelligence but without tools he/she won't be able to learn to do any of the smart things modern descendants do. If you've ever seen a toddler use an ipad, you know how right I am. Most of them play games before they figure out how to walk.

The LLM way of writing things down is "adding them to a context". Most of the tool progress right now is about making that scale better. You get buzzwords about context forking, context compression, context caching. All that is is low level hacks to get the LLM to track more stuff. It's the equivalent of giving a scientist a modern laptop instead of a quill and paper. Same intelligence, better tools.
by jaffa2 | 2025-11-27 10:06:42+00:00
I got to this point in the article:

“ You may ask why give up a laptop series known for good Linux support and rock-solid build for a brand known for Hinge Problems?”

And i said to myself, ‘yes, i am asking myself that’

Then i read the rest of the article and this ‘why’ question was never answered.

Weird.
by fzeroracer | 2025-11-27 10:07:43+00:00
People are going to misread the article and go off in their own direction but the problem is clearly capitalism. It's always been capitalism. Lower income boys have drastically less access to male mentors than higher income ones and the article even states this.

Low family income means less options. Most of your mentors at a young age are going to come from schooling, which still generally has a gender tilt towards women for multiple reasons. But lower income schools are going to be more resource starved with larger classes and less time for teachers to interact with students individually.

edit: fixed wording to better emphasize what I meant