MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by insurancesucks | 2025-11-15 19:32:18+00:00
Every Go thread on this site is the same.

"Man I love Go, it's so simple, plenty fast, really easy to pick up, read, and write. I really love that it doesn't have dozens of esoteric features for my colleagues to big brain into the codebase"

"Oh yeah? Well Go sucks, it doesn't have dozens of esoteric features for me to big brain into the codebase"

Repeat
by cryzinger | 2025-11-15 19:33:12+00:00
Even without introducing LLMs into the equation, I've been brought on as the technical writer for many projects where the team says "oh, we already have a readme, you just need to clean it up" and then all of the readme definitions for parameters or settings or whatever are like:

brickLock: The lock of the brick. brickDrink: The drink of the brick. brickWink: The wink of the brick.

...which is to say, definitions that just restate whatever's evident from the code or variable names themselves, and that make sense if you're already familiar with the thing being defined, but don't actually explain their purpose or provide context for how to use them (in other words, the main reasons to have documentation).

My role as a writer is then to (1) extract net-new information out of the team, (2) figure out how all of that new info fits together, (3) figure out the implications of that info for readers/users, and then (4) assemble it in an attractive manner.

An autogenerated code wiki (or a lazy human) can presumably do the fourth step, but it can't do the first three steps preceding it, and without those preceding steps you're just rearranging known data. There are times where that can be helpful, but it's more often just gloss
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-15 19:34:34+00:00
You tend to distrust the propaganda of the other side. You are not quite as distrustful of the propaganda of your own side. If it is clever enough not to appear as a cheerleader like this article, you may barely notice it cherrypicking the benefits of a story.

Obligatory: "Are we the baddies?"-sketch illustrates the concept very nicely.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-15 19:34:43+00:00
Yes, that depends on the definition. Lamarck could fit into it, but he had no clue about DNA, genes and so forth; neither had Darwin. He babbled about gemmulae.

Even the definition of a gene is not very accurate. Many important sequences yield a miRNA or another RNA. Only few sequences yield a mRNA. Some "genes" are just integrated viruses/phages/transposons etc... that were modified. One of the most fascinating one was the retrovirus in regards to the mammalian placenta: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4332834/ but there are many more examples. We are all DNA hybrids at the end of the day. The whole species concepts makes very little sense these days, IMO. I can see the use case for eukaryotes, but it makes no sense to me for bacteria yet alone viruses.
by jayflux | 2025-11-15 19:34:48+00:00
Hi all, wow was not expecting this to be trending right now.

I’m the creator of Boa, you can catch my talk about it at JS Conf EU 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uD2pijcSi4

That said, today Boa has a whole team of maintainers who I’m sure will answer some questions here.

Yes the name does invoke the sense it’s a Python project but I liked it and stuck with it, I saw a Boa snake at a zoo once and knew I wanted to name my next project after it, I was also inspired by Mozilla at the time who named their projects after animals.

Speaking of Mozilla, Boa’s existence came to be because at the time I was working on Servo and wanted to include an all-rust JS engine, one didn’t really exist so I set about making one as a learning exercise, after around 2 years more joined me on that journey and today Boa is around 8 years old. It is not browser grade (although at 94.12% it is more compliant than some browser engines) but that doesn’t matter, plenty of Rust projects have found good use for it as they find it easy to embed and use, so we’re happy.

One recent example is Biome who use it for their plugin infrastructure. https://github.com/biomejs/biome/pull/7300

Another recent thing which we’re very proud is seeing our implementation of Temporal be used in V8 and other engines, so we’re also helping the wider ecosystem and raising all ships! (More here: https://boajs.dev/blog/2025/09/24/temporal-release)

We do hope to improve performance over the next year or so, hopefully that answers some of the Qs here.
by drdaeman | 2025-11-15 19:35:36+00:00
> WireGuard also works just fine - I was able to selfhost and use it without any extra obfuscation.

Good for you. I have a few machines around the world (a truly geo-distributed homelab lol), and my node on a residental connection in Russia (north-west, no clue about other regions) has pretty spotty vanilla Wireguard connectivity to the rest of the world - it works now and then, but packets are dropped every other day. My traffic patterns are unusual compared to usual browsing (mostly database replication), and something seem to trigger DPI now and then. Fortunately, wrapping it in the simplest Shadowsocks setup seems to be working fine at the moment.

But yeah, can confirm, VPNs are ubiquitous and work reasonably well for everyone I know who still lives there. Although I think all decent VPN providers have measures against traffic analysis nowadays, as plain Wireguard is not exactly reliable.
by simonw | 2025-11-15 19:35:37+00:00
Here's another one that went un-cited:

> When you ask AI to generate code with dependencies, it hallucinates non-existent packages 19.7% of the time. One. In. Five.

> Researchers generated 2.23 million packages across various prompts. 440,445 were complete fabrications. Including 205,474 unique packages that simply don’t exist.

That looks like this report from June 2024: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10279

Here's the thing: the quoted numbers are totals across 16 early-2024 models, and most of those hallucinations came from models with names like CodeLlama 34B Python and WizardCoder 7B Python and CodeLlama 7B and DeepSeek 6B.

The models with the lowest hallucination rates in that study were GPT-4 and GPT-4-Turbo. The models we have today, 16 months later, are all a huge improvement on those models.
by malux85 | 2025-11-15 19:35:45+00:00
Exactly my thought as well, in creative idea generation you have creative fluency “how frequently do you have new ideas” and creative originality “how novel are your ideas”

The creative originality of giving an LLM memory is next to zero, is such an obvious next step it’s absurdly laughable that these people are claiming the idea was “theirs” and then extrapolating that it was stolen. I stopped reading at that sentence.

Not only does it show a mindblowing lack of situational awareness on their behalf, but it also shows a huge lack of domain knowledge because people have been experimenting with all forms of additional memory to ALL different AI systems since the 60s. “Add memory to this” (working memory, long term memory, episodic memory) is such a well known thing to do in the entire AI / ML field, it also shows just how disconnected the poster is from existing research.
by devin | 2025-11-15 19:35:45+00:00
Why do you think they’re “lazy”? The point is usually to bait you: “You’ll never guess this one weird trick!”

Here it actually makes some sense. There are _so_ many AWS services. It’s similar to the quiz about AWS service icons that demonstrated that not only are the icons broadly unknown, there are myriad unknown services which further complicates things.
by Frannky | 2025-11-15 19:35:48+00:00
To me, free speech in the US is sacred because there is a set of rules that shields citizens from being imprisoned simply for expressing their thoughts—otherwise, a huge swath of Bluesky users would already be behind bars...

Can you speak freely in Russia, China, the UK, and beyond like you do in the US? How many people are incarcerated in each of those countries just for saying stuff vs. in the US?

As for the president, you can't control him from pulling every lever to push his agenda, but at least the system allows for accountability.

In the meantime, you can tell as many people as possible what's going on, so that when voters vote again, they can be made aware of contrary information.

It's not a perfect system, but I think it's way better than exposing people to the risk of a crooked elite infiltrating the propaganda and censorship layer and making it impossible for contrary ideas to be shared.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-15 19:36:21+00:00
This is a superb piece of research, and odd that nobody has pulled this material before.

The Atlas 2 is obviously the successor to the Atlas, which Turing worked on before "The Baby" at Manchester University booted up, at which point he quit and moved to Manchester to work on that.

I seem to recall his early programs for The Baby - and his planned use of the Atlas - was to model "morphogens", his theory of how animals got their strips, spots and other markings. I think it was at the Science Museum in London (worth a trip for computer historians anyway to see Babbage's Analytical Engine, built in xxxx, next to a jar containing Babbage's actual brain), where there was a collection of printouts showing spots like on a Friesian cow (the most common breed of dairy cows in England).

I find this diving back into early uses of computing for creative and scientific purposes fascinating - it's like people were just so excited about being able to do interesting things, they just dived in with the tool that they had.

The poetry of Coetzee's program in this article is interesting - it's better, arguably, than you'd get from an LLM today. It's mildly mysterious, grating, intriguing but uncomfortable. A little like the things I remember of Coetzee's actual later writing (which I've not read much of, TBH).
by SOLAR_FIELDS | 2025-11-15 19:36:38+00:00
Yes the cask is fine. The problem with 1pass installed via nix is that it doesn’t put it in applications folder because that defeats the hermeticity of the solution. However the 1Password devs designed the binary on Mac to only boot out of applications folder, presumably for security reasons. Most other apps you can get around this by setting up trampoline links to the nix store versions, but if the app straight up refuses to boot anywhere else besides applications folder, you can’t use the typical nix installation path
by giobox | 2025-11-15 19:37:01+00:00
I did this for years during the early 2010s, but given the IP ranges of most the major VPS players are widely known, many sites and services now just block them outright. It got to the stage I had to stop doing it. I suspect it has only gotten worse now many sites are trying to prevent scraping for AI training as well.

If your primary focus is just reaching region blocked content, Self hosted VPNs can work great if you have access to a residential IP in your target country- I've taken advantage of family member's domestic connections instead of VPSes now, as I was lucky enough to have family in the regions I wanted. Devices like the Apple TV can function as a Tailscale exit node too, which greatly simplified deployment.
by bigtex | 2025-11-15 19:37:13+00:00
Don't forget he promised robotaxis in 2019:

“Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road,” said Musk on October 21, 2019. “The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That’s all it takes.”

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...
by qbane | 2025-11-15 19:37:31+00:00
I am not meant to be harsh, but note that it fails on a small number of test cases, on v0.21 that is ~900 out of ~50k. Strictly speaking it cannot be described as standard-comforming unless there is some reason behind every failed test. A better way to strive on standard conformance, like QuickJS takes, is to pin down the ecma262 revision and make it 100% compliant.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 19:37:32+00:00
> What? Seriously?! It isn’t even in the top ten!

You are being disingenuous. You know what the guy meant. But then again what can you expect from a hindu zionist.

> The partition of India. Zanzibar. Nigeria. The Khmer Rouge. The Cultural Revolution. The invasion and annexation of Tibet. Indonesia. Bangladesh. Rwanda. Idi Amin. The Kurds. Srebrenica. Biafra. The Khmer Rouge. Guetemala. The Cultural Revolution. The invasion and annexation of Tibet. Guatemala. Indonesia. Rwanda. Uganda. The Kurds. Srebrenica.

You repeated a bunch of them. Regardless, which of these is an example of 80% of the population being ethnically cleansed and being displaced by european settlers?

> This sort of extremist ignorant activism hurts the people one claims to be protecting, because once exaggeration is shown it’s easier to dismiss the whole thing.

It's only easy to dismiss when you intentionally misunderstand the point of the comment. Obviousy there has been more deaths in countries with larger populations. But which experienced the ethnical cleansing and displacement like palestine?

That you think the "invasion and annexation" of Tibet is worse than what's happening in palestine shows your true colors.
by saulpw | 2025-11-15 19:37:49+00:00
It's a framework for analysis. If you can use it to promote or discuss free market ideas, please do.

There's nothing "far left" about noticing that there are 10+ orders of magnitude difference between the assets of the richest and poorest people, and that people's lives are qualitatively different at different magnitudes.

For the record, as the author, I generally believe in the virtues of a "free market". Unchecked capitalism, however, seems to devolve into quite the non-free market, captured and controlled by a small number of people. That much seems unsurprising and apolitical. What to do about it is where policy and politics comes in.
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-15 19:38:00+00:00
Just wait until you learn that flying straight towards an opponent's border to trigger defensive systems, then turning away in the last literal second, is Standard Operating Procedure of US aircraft around North Korea, China, and Russia.

On a radar screen, that is indistinguishable from a first-strike scenario until the very moment it isn't.

So please... think twice before repeating this "Bullies need to get slapped once" nonsense. Because if someone in Pyongyang, Beijing, or Moscow ever agrees with that logic for even a heartbeat, we're not talking about one downed plane - we're talking about World War III.

This isn't a schoolyard where you teach someone a moral lesson. It's a nuclear standoff where one hot-headed mistake can erase every living thing on Earth.

Deterrence requires discipline, not chest-beating bravado.
by trilogic | 2025-11-15 19:38:03+00:00
Well as you may see this was not just an idea but was implemented before chatgpt. https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMDevs/comments/1ou8rvp/comment/no...

And this is not the first time as mentioned. Absurd is you if you think that the chats don't get logged and filtered for certain purposes.

How do you think they report to Law enforcement certain crimes??? Keep your attitude for you please.
by kragen | 2025-11-15 19:38:10+00:00
Does "session protocol" mean that it provided packet retransmission and reordering, like TCP? How does that save you serializing and deserializing byte streams?

I agree that, given the existing design of IP and TCP, you could get much of the benefit of first-class addresses for services by using, for example, DNS-SD, and that is what ZeroConf does. (It is not a coincidence that the DNS-SD RFC was written by a couple of Apple employees.) But, if that's the way you're going to be finding endpoints to initiate connections to, there's no benefit to having separate port numbers and IP addresses. And IP addresses are far scarcer than just requiring a Linux container or a network namespace: there are only 2³² of them. But it is rare to find an IP address that is listening on more than 64 of its 2¹⁶ TCP ports, so in an alternate history where you moved those 16 bits from the port number to the IP address, we would have one thousandth of the IP-address crunch that we do.

Historically, possibly the reason that it wasn't done this way is that port numbers predated the DNS by about 10 years.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-15 19:38:23+00:00
I suppose that matters of how closely the body guards get exposed to state secrets. Surely there is some accidental leakage, but you would hope that getting elevated to the top would require close scrutiny.

From mid-way in the article

He’s had a rocky tenure so far, marked by public fights with senior Cabinet officials and accusations that he leaked information to the press, which Bongino denied. In August, Trump appointed Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as co-deputy director at the FBI, setting off speculation that the White House had lost faith in Bongino. But he remains in the job. ProPublica could not determine whether Bongino sat for a polygraph exam or what its results were. Though the existence of a polygraph waiver is an indication he may not have passed the test, it is possible Bongino received a preemptive exemption, a former senior FBI official with knowledge of the vetting program told ProPublica. When ProPublica sought comment from the FBI, the agency denied that Bongino or the other senior staff members failed polygraph tests. “It is false that the individuals you referenced failed polygraphs,” wrote spokesperson Ben Williamson.

Unfortunately, a testimony form this administration is not worth much, so I am stuck in a schordinger's situation where he both passed and failed the polygraph.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-11-15 19:38:24+00:00
There's a lot of research in this area. You might not like the conclusions.

Fukuyama (Trust) or Putnam (Bowling Alone) might be a good place to start, or here is a public paper by Putnam: https://www.puttingourdifferencestowork.com/pdf/j.1467-9477....

Here's another prominent paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

Uslaner (2002) makes a distinction between moralistic trust ("Can people be trusted?") and strategic trust ("Can THIS person be trusted?") that you may find interesting.

There is also Yamagashi's Paradox: Japanese cooperate more, but trust less. Americans trust more, but defect more in specific situations.
by ryanjshaw | 2025-11-15 19:38:51+00:00
Yes. I’ve built apps on Power Platform and I’ve built a Slack App; the Teams experience is superior, for me. Could it take some lessons from Slack - yes, a python or typescript code block in Power Automate would be awesome.

As for your reaction: if your experience is so different, a useful attitude might be to ask why you have such an absurdly negative viewpoint.
by jstummbillig | 2025-11-15 19:40:14+00:00
The issue I take is not criticism of LLMs. It is the lack thereof, and presenting it as such.

If you find ~30 reported deaths among 500 million users problematic to begin with, you are simply out of touch with reality. If you then put effort behind promoting this as a problem, that's not an issue of "lack of context and nuance" (what's with the quotes? Who are you quoting?). I called it what it is to me: Distasteful and devious.
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-11-15 19:40:20+00:00
No. TCP likes zero packet loss (connected), and it understands 100% packet loss (disconnected). Its weakness is scenarios (semiconnected) in which packet loss is constantly fluctuating between substantial and nearly-total. It doesn't know what is going on, and it may cope or it may not, because its designers did not envision a future in which most networks have a semiconnected last mile; but that is where we are. Without things like forward error correction, TCP would be nearly useless over wireless. It is interesting to envision a layer-4 protocol that would incorporate FEC-like capabilities.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-15 19:40:22+00:00
Do you see catching up on performance with v8-jitless as a goal or is conformance the primary goal right now? Any plans on doing a JIT? I was always impressed by the idea of Truffle where you implement the language semantics once and you get both interpreter and JIT safely out of it which is a huge source of vulnerabilities in traditional JIT systems
by crystal_revenge | 2025-11-15 19:40:33+00:00
> All of the VPNs you've ever heard of in some advertisement on YouTube or whatever are easily and totally blocked in China.

Have you actually been to China? I was there not long ago traveling around a range of cities and never had trouble with either Mullvad or Astrill having used both hotel and residential networks. I have many friends who have similar experiences. In fact, I've never recalled anyone having trouble getting outside of the great firewall.
by hinkley | 2025-11-15 19:41:19+00:00
We usually do up front design for individual epics. And if we cannot predict what much of the work will be, first we do a spike to sit with the code and any new libraries long enough to guess what the surface area is.

All of these guesses will be wrong of course, but you want to end up with a diagram of how things were, how we would like them to be if time and existing code were no object, and what we decided to do given the limitations of the existing system, and resources (skill and time).

That second diagram informs what you do any time the third fails to match reality. If you fall back to what is, you will likely paint yourself into an architectural corner that will last for years. If you move toward the ideal or at least perpendicular, then there is no backpedaling.
by Spivak | 2025-11-15 19:41:47+00:00
It's always a treat when the exact problem I'm describing shows up in the replies. Yes feed them sugar. Children have a significantly heightened sweet tooth until adolescence where it slowly declines and they develop more complex tastes and a tolerance for "adult" flavors. When I bake for kids I have to make it cloyingly sweet to an adult palate and it gets snarfed down. And it's also why Funfetti cake doesn't hit like it did as a kid because your tastes have changed. Trying to impose adult standards on kids is native at best and futile in aggregate—you can only serve it, you can't make them eat it and they won't.

You understand how moronic it sounds to prepare and serve food that kids won't eat in the hopes that they eat less, right? Plus free lunch programs are to deal with malnourishment and to make sure kids get at least one full meal a day.

My elementary school, which was a private school and so wasn't beholden to any government meddling, followed this formula and it worked out great. Every meal was carbs, protein, and sugar, and everything was sweet. It wasn't an apple, it was fruit cocktail in syrup, the pizza had sweetened bread and sauce, vegetables were sweat peas, carrots, and corn. Every student was put on a rotation to clean trays so I got to see first hand what the waste situation was. And it wasn't zero but you didn't see a tray full of food minus pizza coming back.
by hearsathought | 2025-11-15 19:41:48+00:00
Imagine if south korea needed china's permission to build nuclear submarines. We'd called them china's vassals and attack china for being bullies who deprived nations of their sovereignty.

Imagine if the title was : "China Gives South Korea Green Light to Build Nuclear Submarines".

What would the comments here be like. No doubt a lot of nonsense about "the ccp" this and "the ccp" that.
by deepllearning | 2025-11-15 19:43:12+00:00
No questions about the architecture decisions made without knowing in details.

What about custom workloads besided databases, monitoring etc...? I guess you are providing an very straightforward way to customer to provision and run their workloads on k8s as well as easy integration with the container registry (whatever they are using).

This will become more interesting when customer requires very custom configurations to databases etc...I guess allowing them to edit the yaml of helm charts is an option but then share responsibilities etc...

Looking forward to know more about your plans with this approach

Cheers!