MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gota | 2025-11-12 17:14:28+00:00
At work, I bridged the gap between task tracking software and mandatory reports (compliance, etc.). Essentially, it handles distributing the effective working hours of workers across projects, according to a varied and very detailed set of constraints (people take time off, leave the company and come back, sick days, different holidays for different remote workers, folks work on multiple stuff at the same time, have gaps in task tracking, etc.).

In the words of a colleague responsible for said reports it 'eliminated the need for 50+ people to fill timesheets, saves 15 min x 50 people x 52 weeks per year'

It has been (and still is) in use for 10+years already. I'd say 90% of the current team members don't even know the team used to have to "punch a clock" or fill timesheets way back.
by tcdent | 2025-11-12 17:14:37+00:00
As someone who's used Claude Code daily since the day it was released, the sentiment back then (sooo many months ago) was that the Agent CI coding TUIs were kind of experimental proof-of-concepts. We have seen them be incredibly effective and the CC team has continued to add features.

Tech debt isn't something that even experienced large teams are immune to. I'm not a huge TypeScript fan, so seeing their choice to run their app on Node to me felt like a trade-off between development speed with the experience that the team had and at the expense of long-term growth and performance. I regularly experience pretty intense flickering and rendering issues and high CPU usage and even crashes but that doesn't stop me from finding the product incredibly useful.

Developing good software especially in a format that is relatively revolutionary takes time to get right and I'm sure whatever efforts they have internally to push forward a refactor will be worth it. But, just like in any software development, refactors are prone to timeline slips and scope creep. A company having tons of money doesn't change the nature of problem-solving in software development.
by DogRunner | 2025-11-12 17:14:44+00:00
Apple didn't design the PowerPC or make custom variances. Motorola and IBM did it. Especially Altivec was added by Motorola, and IBM didn't like to add it to their PowerPC CPUs when Apple asked for help, when Motorola had the 500 MHz glitch bug back in the day.

There is a nice coverage on this topic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tld91M_bcEI (Why the Original Apple Silicon Failed)
by ac29 | 2025-11-12 17:14:54+00:00
> Landed on the JBL Tour One M3, they sound okay and support LE Audio.

I recently got the Tour One M2 and was pretty disappointed with the audio quality (both normal bluetooth and LE audio). Noticeably worse than my previous wired headphones, which were also cheaper. The touch controls are also terrible, and I dont like that noise cancelling is on by default with seemingly no way to change the default setting.
by prismatix | 2025-11-12 17:15:04+00:00
I had a similar experience. A few months ago, I was in the city for a weekend and took Waymo for most of my rides. The one time I chose to use Lyft/Uber, the driver floored it before we even had a chance to shut the door or get buckled! The rest of the time we took Waymo.

I rarely use ride-sharing but other experiences include having been in a FSD Tesla Uber where the driver wasn't paying attention to the road the entire time (hands off the wheel, looking behind him, etc.).

I don't know if I trust Waymo cars with my life, but at least there are SOME standards, compared to the natural variance of humans.
by sjducb | 2025-11-12 17:15:21+00:00
Slow roads are easier because you can rely on a simple emergency breaking system for safety. You have a radar that looks directly in front of the car and slams on the breaks if you’re about to crash. This prevents almost all accidents below 35mph.

The emergency breaking system gives you a lot of room for error in the rest of the system.

Once you’re going faster than 35mph this approach no longer works. You have lots of objects on the pavement that are false positives for the emergency breaking system so you have to turn it off.
by ux266478 | 2025-11-12 17:15:38+00:00
Personally I find Python more towards the bottom of the list with me, despite being the language I learned on. Especially if the code involved is "pythonic". Just doesn't jive with my neurochemistry. All the problems of C++ with much greater ambiguity, and I've never really been impressed with the library ecosystem. Yeah there's a lot, but just like with node it's just a mountain of unusably bad crap.

I think lua is the much better language for a wide variety of reasons (Most of the good Python libraries are just wrappers around C libraries, which is necessary because Python's FFI is really substandard), but I wouldn't reach for python or lua if I'm expecting to write more than 1000 lines of code. They both scale horribly.
by kalleboo | 2025-11-12 17:15:44+00:00
The 10gbit connection costs me ¥5,000/mo (around USD 30/mo), which was actually slightly cheaper than I was paying for 1 Gbit...

The main issue is latency and bandwidth across the oceans since Asia far away from the US where a lot of servers live, and even for services that are distributed, I live in a rural prefectural capitol of Japan 1000 km away from Tokyo where all the "Japan" data centers are, so my ping is always unimpressive despite the bandwidth.
by world2vec | 2025-11-12 17:16:31+00:00
An interesting prospect is that a bunch of autonomous cars on the freeways might have a meaningful impact in preventing traffic jams (specifically those "phantom jams") [0] simply by driving in a calm and pondered way always at a constant distance.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m74zazYPwkY&t=1860s
by Retric | 2025-11-12 17:17:02+00:00
The US military doesn’t want to sacrifice the capacity to go through the Panama Canal without getting a large benefit.

As to cost, in many ways a cruise ship is a better comparison than a cargo ship. The giant crew needed to maintain and operate a large aircraft fleet themselves need support staff, supplies, housing, etc. Carriers are expensive because of the people and systems onboard not the size of the ship.

Even just moving aircraft up and down from the flight deck requires a massive and thus expensive system. Civilian nuclear reactor are hideously expensive to build and operate let alone a system designed to ramp up and down more quickly, operate on a moving ship etc. Close in weapon systems have limited field of fire when you want a clear flight deck etc.

So sure, in theory you could just say we want a larger flight deck and are going to just have a number of empty components to pad out the ship but it’s not so simple.
by Netcob | 2025-11-12 17:17:07+00:00
I get that transforming a bunch of facts into prose is boring.

As a reader, I can't get over the fact that I'm supposed to read a text that nobody could be bothered to write.

I wonder how often we waste energy nowadays by telling an AI to turn a one-sentence-prompt into a full e-mail, only for the other side to tell the AI to summarize it in one sentence.
by j45 | 2025-11-12 17:17:47+00:00
You can play youtube videos (ad free) as music on any chromecast device including chromecast homes with the microphone turned off.

Also, when playing music you won't be hit with ads.

Your setup can move with you wherever you are, home, travel, in the vehicle. This can be helpful for engaging the audible sensors of small aliens sans screen.

Youtube without ads on every device, anywhere, is quite a different experience.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-12 17:18:05+00:00
You don't recognize that, which is why your point of comparison to a random thing Trump did openly his first week in office had to be a secret program started 18 years ago and revealed 12 years ago. You just feel obligated to make it a both-sides thing, because you've internalized the idea that a wise or savvy person will always diagnose a problem as systemic rather than blaming specific individuals.

I genuinely don't mean this as an insult! I know what you're thinking because I've been in your shoes, and that's why I can so confidently encourage you to step out of them before it's too late. Donald Trump thinks everyone in the country, including you, should be required to support him and acknowledge his greatness; if you haven't yet felt that pressure, it just means he hasn't gotten around to your interests yet.
by dspillett | 2025-11-12 17:18:16+00:00
It could be that the bacterial life was less varied than now. Fewer starting points reduces the chance of a particular useful set of mutations coming together. The individual parts might have randomly occurred a great many times before they happened in one population.

Also the availability of other resources might have meant that even if eating the tree parts did develop earlier it just wasn't enough to be a key survival advantage, especially if initial “versions” of the process were inefficient. Perhaps what happening was in one strain it lost the ability to feed on the older sources but had the latent ability to consume the new ones, even if much less efficient, so switched and continued from there to quickly refine the process via further mutation. Changes in the availability of other components, which the trees themselves will have had a hand in, will have changed the balance but over a significant amount of time.

Furthermore, and perhaps more significantly the components of our plastics and how they hang together are not that novel, requiring less changes to come together in one individual or population to make consuming them practical.
by toss1 | 2025-11-12 17:18:23+00:00
No, it is not only a problem for "'well above the legal limit' speeding drivers"; it is a problem for you, and the solution requires more thought than the "just follow the rules" that you put into your post.

There are many instances where the entire mass of traffic across three or four lanes is 10-20mph above the stated limit, e.g., going 75-85mph in a 66mph posted area.

It may not be legal, but it is reality. And when it is everyone, it is not only "aggressive" drivers. It is everyone. And one driver thinking they will change the situation only makes it worse.

If you are going 20-30mph below the speed of traffic you are at least as much a hazard to yourself and everyone around you as going 20-30mph above the speed of traffic, and the stated speed limit has nothing to do with it.

Going substantially slower than traffic, even in the slow lane with flashers on, nearly all of the threats and actions are overtaking you and coming from behind you, meaning to see and react to most of the developing situations, you must be driving through your rear-view mirrors.

And the situation you create can be very deadly, as one car can change lanes to avoid you, revealing you late to the next car, which barely changes lanes, and further reduces time for the next, who hits you and starts the pile-up.

It is not only their problem, it is yours too. Sure, you may be legally in the right, but you have still caused yourself to get hit.

What my grandfather explained to me is still correct:

"You never want to be dead right."
by stevefan1999 | 2025-11-12 17:18:31+00:00
> And .NET is the language of choice for "Enterprise". So that's what the majority of jobs are.

Disagree. I would argue Java is more of a choice for "Enterprise".

Also, would you please define the scope of "enterprise".

If you mean "enterprise" as someone who want consistent and predictable management and productivity, then sure .NET is "enterprisy", because instead of a dragon they want a fossil.

But if you mean "enterprise" as they want to sell their core product, and sometimes that pushes to high developmental velocity with multiple development team to tackle on a feature, then .NET is evolving fast enough that it is not so considered "enterprisy".

Heck, even Ruby on Rails would replace .NET for that, especially when you consider the e-commerce scene that is either Ruby or PHP (Wordpress).

Just look at C# and its incredible language revision every year.
by gdulli | 2025-11-12 17:18:40+00:00
The calculator didn't make people better at math, it led to a society of people who can't do math without a calculator. And as a result math doesn't get done in many casual situations where it would be helpful, but people don't go to the trouble of pulling out the calculator.

So it's made it easier for people to be taken advantage of at the grocery store etc.
by disambiguation | 2025-11-12 17:18:56+00:00
I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43948657

Thesis:

1. LLMs are bad at counting the number of r's in strawberry.

2. LLMs are good at writing code that counts letters in a string.

3. LLMs are bad at solving reasoning problems.

4. Prolog is good at solving reasoning problems.

5. ???

6. LLMs are good at writing prolog that solves reasoning problems.

Common replies:

1. The bitter lesson.

2. There are better solvers, ex. Z3.

3. Someone smart must have already tried and ruled it out.

Successful experiments:

1. https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/llm-demo/part1.html
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-12 17:19:06+00:00
I somewhat agree with this. It can be true that all the overwatch was a good idea. And it can be true that the process becomes the point, which is bad. It's hard to tell the difference, but I've personally been bogged down by review processes for months, just to get 2FTE from the government itself while working on the government's approved and funded projects while sitting at the government's desk. It's really silly how bad these things are sometimes. It'll take years to do the thing that even the "fast" programs want you to do.

And the solution to date has been to "start another program". That program promises to move fast, and often does, but it will eventually metastasize with process and review.

I just don't think we can add any more "same but faster" programs. It is time to cut back a lot of process, and thereby bring these programs back to parity so we can then cut down the number of programs.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-11-12 17:19:57+00:00
Pros:

* There's a clean aesthetic

* You do what looks like a full-text search on the entries making it easy to find stuff if people use the keyword I'm typing

* It's a decent MVP

Cons:

* Your attempt to prevent email scraping seems to boil down to base64 encoding the email.

* The site suffers from the chicken-and-egg problem - you need gigs to get users and users to get gigs.

* The 'hacker typer' font isn't for everyone

* Links in people's adverts aren't clickable - maybe you should support a very limited subset of Markdown for people's posts?

* With no categories or labels, people do have to use keyword stuffing.

* It looks like there's no way to mark a gig as filled / person as unavailable - a successful site would be filled with fake vacancies.

The Reddit mechanism for avoiding the chicken-egg problem doesn't work - you can't offer fake help or fake jobs. If you offered non-email communication options you could scrape HN Hiring I guess
by bluGill | 2025-11-12 17:20:06+00:00
Drivers can improve, but they won't. They will talk about the abstract just fine, but always in context of how "the other guy" is so bad, they resist any suggestion that they might not be good either. As soon as your point out something that nearly everyone is doing wrong (as backed up by statistics and traffic safety engineers who study this) and suddenly they will shut you down. As the other reply said: drivers vote and so any change that would affect all of them is impossible.

I'd love to see better public transit, but transit is so bad for most of us that it would take a massive investment before there is any return, and half measures won't work. You have to go all in on transit before you can see any significant change - if you invest in the wrong network you won't know until a massive amount as been invested and there is no return (leaving open the question of if a different investment would have worked).
by myth_drannon | 2025-11-12 17:20:13+00:00
Two Prolog books that I find very interesting:

Advanced Turbo prolog - https://archive.org/details/advancedturbopro0000schi/mode/2u...

Prolog programming for artificial intelligence - https://archive.org/details/prologprogrammin0000brat_l1m9/mo...
by jakeydus | 2025-11-12 17:20:17+00:00
I think that on its face the term "sacred knowledge" kind of communicates an intimacy that indicates that it's not something that's shared with people who don't have a privileged relationship with you.

I think the big difference now is that people have a megaphone in the form of social media and they forget just how wide the statements they shout through it can spread.
by ddp26 | 2025-11-12 17:20:20+00:00
I agree, but it's funny to think that Project Chauffeur (as it was known then) was doing completely driverless freeway circuits in the bay area as far back as 2012! Back when they couldn't do the simplest things with traffic lights.

I think anyone back then would be totally shocked that urban and suburban driving launched to the public before freeway driving.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2025-11-12 17:20:58+00:00
It sounds like you are saying freeways are easier than surface streets if you don’t care about killing a reasonably small number of people during testing.

Really it’s a common difficulty with utilitarianism. Tesla says “we will kill a small number of people with our self driving beta, but it is impossible to develop a self driving car without killing a few people in accidents, because cars crash, and overall the program will save a much larger number of lives than the number lost.”

And then it comes out that the true statement is “it is slightly more expensive to develop a self driving car without killing a few people in accidents” and the moral calculus tilts a bit
by icarito | 2025-11-12 17:21:09+00:00
Hi all — I help manage somosazucar.org, one of the local volunteer groups of Sugar Labs, the nonprofit behind the open-source Sugar Learning Platform originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

SomosAzúcar has supported open education and children’s digital literacy initiatives across Latin America since 2009.

The domain expired on 2025-10-06, but due to a Postfix configuration issue on sugarlabs.org, GoDaddy’s renewal notices never reached us.

By the time we discovered the problem — about 35 days after expiration — GoDaddy informed us that the domain was already being prepared for auction, and that the only way to recover it would be to bid for it like any other buyer.

It feels wrong that a long-standing nonprofit project could lose its .org domain over a technical mail glitch.

Has anyone here faced something similar with GoDaddy or other registrars?

Is there any way to appeal to PIR (.org registry) or GoDaddy executive support to restore the domain before it’s auctioned?

Any advice or contacts would be deeply appreciated — this domain represents more than 15 years of open education work.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-11-12 17:21:13+00:00
> The lag between private models to competitive open models has been shrinking

It really hasn't. It's the opposite, actually. The latest breakthroughs in RL by the big4 labs haven't been replicated yet in any open model (including the latest k2-thinking). Even gemini-2.5 still delivers on generalisation in a way that no open models do, today (almost a year later). The general consensus was that "open" models were 6-8 months behind SotA, but with the RL stuff we can see they've moved further away.

I don't know what exactly it is, if it's simply RL scale, or data + scale, or better secret sauce (rewards, masking, something else) but the way these new models generalise is leagues ahead of open models, sadly.

Don't be fooled by benchmarks alone. You have to test them on problems that you own and you can be fairly sure no one is targeting for benchmark scores. Recently there was a python golfing competition on kaggle, and I tested some models on that task. While the top4 models were chugging along, in both agentic and 0shot regimes, the open models (coding specific or, older "thinking" models) were really bad at the task. 480b models, coding specific, would go in circles, get lost on one example, and so on. Night and day between the open models and gpt5/claude/gemini2.5. Even grok fast solved a lot of tasks in agentic mode.
by dan-bailey | 2025-11-12 17:21:24+00:00
Great show despite the suburban light pollution (20 miles south of Minneapolis). And we’re still not at the peak of the solar cycle until 2026.

This was what finally spurred me to learn the night mode settings on my iPhone camera. (Hint: use 10-second exposures.) Even got some half-decent results:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ8Mg0sER9t/?igsh=ODhsbGxlMjIweG...
by CharlesW | 2025-11-12 17:21:27+00:00
> Holding Shift and selecting a chunk of a video to copy was simple because videos were mostly a succession of independently compressed frames.

That was never true. QuickTime 1.0 famously included the Apple Video ("Road Pizza") codec, which had to do temporal compression in order to support video delivery at usable file sizes.

> There are whole projects striving to provide a reliable way to just cut videos without having to recode…

Again, even QuickTime 1.0 did this perfectly.
by circuit10 | 2025-11-12 17:21:42+00:00
As someone who doesn’t drive but has done a UK theory test - aren’t you supposed to stick to the “slow lane” (no matter how fast you’re going) unless you’re overtaking? And that’s why it’s not actually called the “fast lane” but the “passing lane”. So I don’t see why you would be in the passing lane unless you’re going faster than others anyway. And there are plenty of lorries and coaches (trucks and buses in US terms?) that are physically limited to below the speed limit anyway

Though I’ve heard people treat it differently in the US
by yupyupyups | 2025-11-12 17:22:00+00:00
Even when the so called "ad-pocalypse" happened, this wasn't as big of an issue as it is today.

What's going on with Google being extra stingy seems to correlate well with the AI boom (curse). I suspect there are companies running ruthless bots scraping TBs of videos from YouTube. Not just new popular videos that are on fast storage, but old obscure ones that probably require more resources to fetch. This is unnatural, and goes contrary to the behaviour pattern of normal users that YT is optimized for.

I think AI-companies abusing the internet is why things are getting more constrained in general. If I'm right, they deserve the bulk of the blame imo.
by jjfoooo4 | 2025-11-12 17:22:28+00:00
Waymo is in another league compared to every other autpilot system out there - I've used Tesla, Toyota, and Cruise before it got shut down.

The political climate is VERY suspicious of autonomous vehicles, but they most serious incident I can really recall was the recent one where a car ran over a cat. You can see the reaction here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1omortk/the_shrine_to...

If the biggest black mark against the company is running over a cat on the street at 11:40 PM (according to Waymo, after it darted under the car), I feel pretty good.
by kastagg | 2025-11-12 17:22:46+00:00
The mixture of motivations includes a desire to contribute something to humanity, a desire to make a mark or achieve recognition, or a desire to gain experience that might enhance your ability to get hired.

It can be a hobby like model trains and it can be a a social context like joining a club or going to church.

But it's safe to say that nobody is volunteering "to make billionaires even more profit."
by j45 | 2025-11-12 17:22:48+00:00
Depending on where personal/portable AI devices go, phones might be significantly different or not exist in 10 years as they do today.

There might be a resurgence of some kind of device like a PC.

Seeing iPadOS gain desktop features, and MacOS starting to adopt more and more iPadOS type features clearly shows the desktop, laptop and tablet experiences will be merged at some point by Apple at least.