MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-18 21:15:25+00:00
You do multiple plugins or use constant configuration values for them. That's why you want plugins, for putting all complex stuff in actual code that doesn't have to live with the main product.

That doesn't decentralize the clock, it gives a maximum capable interface for the few people that need to handle exceptional cases, and a minimally capable one to the people that just want to use your software as is. That is, you make the product live on two opposite values of the clock at the same time.
by wavemode | 2025-11-18 21:16:05+00:00
It's important to keep in mind the difference between the stock market and the economy.

Economically, AI is a bubble, and lots of startups whose current business model is "UI in front of the OpenAI API" are likely doomed. That's just economic reality - you can't run on investor money forever. Eventually you need actual revenue, and many of these companies aren't generating very much of it.

That being said, most of these companies aren't publicly traded right now, and their demise would currently be unlikely to significantly affect the stock market. Conversely, the publicly traded companies who are currently investing a lot in AI (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc) aren't dependent on AI, and certainly wouldn't go out of business over it.

The problem with the dotcom bubble was that there were a lot of publicly traded companies that went bankrupt. This wiped out trillions of dollars in value from regular investors. Doesn't matter how much you may irrationally want a bubble to continue - you simply can't stay invested in a company that doesn't exist anymore.

On the other hand, the AI bubble bursting is probably going to cost private equity a lot of money, but not so much regular investors unless/until AI startups (startups dependent on AI for their core business model) start to go public in large numbers.
by gertlex | 2025-11-18 21:16:35+00:00
My pushing was failing for reasons I hadn't seen before. I then tried my sanity check of `ssh git@github.com` (I think I'm supposed to throw a -t flag there, but never care to), and that worked.

But yes ssh pushing was down, was my first clue.

My work laptop had just been rebooted (it froze...) and the CPU was pegged by security software doing a scan (insert :clown: emoji), so I just wandered over to HN and learned of the outage at that point :)
by jitix | 2025-11-18 21:17:31+00:00
Thanks for pointing out this skewed view of economic history common in North America.

The short period of boom in 50s/60s US and Canada was driven by WW2 devastation everywhere else. We can see the economic crisis' in the US first in the 70s/80s with Europe and Japan rebounding, then again in 90s/00s with China and East Asia growing, and now again with the rest of the world growing (esp Latin America, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, etc). Unless US physically invades and devastates China, India or Brazil the competition will keep getting exponentially higher. It's a shame that US didn't invest all that prosperity into social capital that could have helped create high value jobs.

In short, its easier to have high standards of living in your secure isolated island when the rest of the world (including historical industrial powers) are completely decimated by war.
by jimbokun | 2025-11-18 21:17:37+00:00
Great point!

Remember took my a while early in my career from changing my resume away from saying "I want to do this at my next job and make a lot of money" and towards "here is how I can make money and save costs for your company".

Google didn't learn that lesson here. They are describing why us using Antigravity is good for Google, not why us using Antigravity is good for us.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-18 21:18:37+00:00
If it helps, instead of thinking of it as a perception problem, maybe think of it as a language problem. There are (at least) two versions of EA. One of them has good intentions and the other doesn't. But they are both called EA, so its not that people are perceiving incorrectly, its that they hear the term and associate it with one of those two versions. I tried to disambiguate by referring the one just regular altruism and other by the co-opted name. EA has been negatively branded and its very hard to come back from that association.
by pessimizer | 2025-11-18 21:20:14+00:00
I'm sure Gargantua and Pantagruel is tough in French, but I'd like to recommend it in English translation to people who don't speak French where it's just a lot of good fun. Plenty of older French works (or a lot less old, like Zola) that have been translated to modern English are just good, easy reads.

I'd assume that in French they're tough going for a while until you get your head 500 years back. I'm currently battling my way through Don Quixote in Spanish and though it's a fun and funny (not at all short) read, some of the long twisted sentences (and the old words) can be brutal. I'd bet, as above, that the English translations are breezy. I'm thinking about trying one after I finish this.

In French I'm currently working my way through Voltaire's Micromégas (which is short) but it's a hundred and some years after Rabelais and the prose is really concrete. Very short words and simple sentences. It's the story that's interesting.
by culi | 2025-11-18 21:20:14+00:00
A mantra in the Ruby community is "Matz is nice so we are nice". By contrast, DHH is the type of person who would use the hey.com domain[0] to post rants about London being only 1/3rd white, "Pakistani rape gangs", etc. His racist tirades used to be limited to his twitter, but he's shown he's very willing to use business resources to push his racist politics. More discussions here:

- https://lobste.rs/s/fpri94/dhh_problem_2014

- https://old.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1no4zu2

[0] https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64
by RealityVoid | 2025-11-18 21:20:35+00:00
Are they using it this way? I think if you have access to the cli you can do whatever you want, and it already does use tools and use libraries and parse code. It's just using the cli. Not to mention it's much better this way because I can see it doing all these things. I can see what commands it wants to run and it asks me about it.
by James_K | 2025-11-18 21:20:37+00:00
For those interested, this is a generally and expression of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).

The essential conclusion is that most places with hyperinflation (Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, etc.) where really suffering supply shocks (reparations, farming collapse) and so you actually can just print money, as long as you're using it to get people working and those working people produce greater value through their work than they are paid in printed money.
by mtrovo | 2025-11-18 21:21:31+00:00
Assuming this is irrational and must come back to reality at some point, I'm not convinced this is connected to the common man economy as other bubbles in the past were. This round of investment is mostly being funded by exuberant cash flow accumulated over the years that was otherwise used as stock buybacks by a small number of stocks and some private credit deals that are not that accessible to the general public. This is looking more like a crypto crash kind of effect rather than a 2008 one.
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-18 21:21:48+00:00
1/ Most of the big corporations moved to big cloud providers in the last 5 years. Most of them started 10 years ago but it really accelerated in the last 5 years. So there is for sure more weight and complexity on cloud providers, and more impact when something goes wrong.

2/ Then we cannot expect big tech to stay as sharp as in the 2000s and 2010s.

There was a time banks had all the smart people, then the telco had them, etc. But people get older, too comfortable, layers of bad incentive and politics accumulate and you just become a dysfunctional big mess.
by HWR_14 | 2025-11-18 21:21:53+00:00
[My post below is wrong]

> In fact, in any group with binary operation +, identity element 0, and a non-identity element a, we have a + a + a = a if and only if a + a = 0 (i.e. a has order 2).

The "if" is correct. The "only if" is not. (I assume that '+' and '0' are used as shorthand for "any binary operation" and "the identity of that binary operation", as I don't recall cases where "+" and "*" are used for specific types of binary operations).
by alterom | 2025-11-18 21:22:02+00:00
"Dopamine release from just doing mundane things" is absolutely normal, more so after a lifetime of not being able to simply Do The Thing™.

One is supposed to feel good doing "normal" things. Completing tasks should feel good.

There can be many variables at play: maybe your dosage could be lowered, maybe Adderall isn't ideal for you, or maybe you're simply adjusting to the medication the first few times you take it, and it won't feel the way afterwards.

But most importantly: yes, you're absolutely going to feel like you've got a superpower the first time you take it. The euphoria you feel from being able to simply do things the way neurotypical people can just get up and do them is very much a part of the ADHD experience.

Also, neurotypical people don't do mundane things on Adderall. That's not what makes them feel particularly good. Because for them, doing things without friction and climbing the mental wall first is the normal experience.

They don't feel happiness experiencing it for the first time in their lives when they take Adderall. They've had that ability all along.

TL; DR: you feel that dopamine release from doing mundane things on Adderall because you have ADHD.
by mrandish | 2025-11-18 21:22:31+00:00
Oh yes. It's such an easily avoidable unforced error it's downright incomprehensible - especially after failing by naming their third generation "XBox One" (and the WiiU fiasco providing a cautionary tale). Even Wii was an example of a product good enough that overcame its mildly confusing name. Console naming isn't actually hard.

I blame the rise of "Institutionalized Marketing Departments" inside tech companies dominated by careerist middle-managers who've never actually created any marketing themselves. They just hire and manage creative, ad, PR and branding agencies. The branding agency hires a naming consultancy for a million dollars who has a bunch of hipster creatives brainstorm a short-list of very clever names, do surveys and analyses overflowing with data (and false precision) then package it into an incredible pitch presentation delivered by their most attractive hipster with the coolest foreign accent. All to sell some "too clever by half" high-concept name - because that's the only way to justify their million dollar fee.

I'm pretty sure Sony didn't pay anyone a million dollars to spend three months coming up with "You should name the Playstation 3's successor... Playstation 4."
by onion2k | 2025-11-18 21:22:32+00:00
So I start using it for my project and after about 20 mins - oh, no. Out of credits.

I didn't even get to try a single Gemini 3 prompt. I was out of credits before my first had completed. I guess I've burned through the free tier in some other app but the error message gave me no clues. As far as I can tell there's no link to give Google my money in the app. Maybe they think they have enough.

After switching to gpt-oss:120b it did some things quite well, and the annotation feature in the plan doc is really nice. It has potential but I suspect it's suffering from Google's typical problem that it's only really been tested on Googlers.

EDIT: Now it's stuck in a loop repeating the last thing it output. I've seen that a lot on gpt-oss models but you'd think a Google app would detect that and stop. :D

EDIT: I should know better than to beta test a FAANG app by now. I'm going back to Codex. :D
by dreamcompiler | 2025-11-18 21:23:23+00:00
The Tesla Model Y automatic dimmer is quite stupid. It dims whenever my lights reflect off a street sign and no other cars are nearby. I have to keep it turned off and dim my lights manually, which is a PITA because sometimes I forget and blind oncoming drivers.

The automatic wipers are even worse: They frequently come on when it's not raining and they don't come on when it is. Yet somehow the automatic wipers on my 2011 Audi work perfectly. WTF?
Show HN: GPT-5.1 reasoning agents for hypertrophy periodization
by danielepelleri | 2025-11-18 21:23:25+00:00
I’ve been lifting for years using complex methodologies (Mentzer HIT, Kuba Method, FST-7) and got frustrated that existing trackers are just glorified spreadsheets. They record what you did, but they don't tell you what to do based on your fatigue or biomechanics.

So I built Arvo (https://arvo.guru). It’s a "context-aware" AI coach, not just a logger.

The Problem: Standard apps use static linear progression (add 2.5kg every week). But if you are following a fatigue-based system (like Mike Israetel’s RP or Kuba), you need to autoregulate based on RPE/RIR and soreness. Most users fail to track this accurately in Excel.

The Solution & Tech Stack: Instead of if-then statements, Arvo uses a chain of specialized AI agents (powered by GPT-5 reasoning models) to act as a coach:

NLP Logger: You don't toggle complex UI buttons. You just write a note: "Shoulder hurt on bench press, RPE was 9". The NLP agent parses this, logs the RPE, flags the injury, and automatically swaps the next push exercise to a joint-friendly variation (e.g., Landmine Press) for the next session. Methodology Compliance: The logic engine respects strict rules. If you select "Mentzer HIT", it enforces low volume/absolute failure. If you select "Kuba", it manages volume accumulation. [1] * Contextual Timer: It doesn’t just count down 90s. If the protocol is FST-7, it enforces short rest (30-45s) for fascial stretch. Current Status: We are in Open Beta.[2] The backend is heavily reliant on the new reasoning capabilities of GPT-5 to handle the multi-variable logic of periodization without hallucinating absurd weights.

I’d love you to roast the landing page or try the beta. Specifically interested in feedback on the NLP parsing accuracy from any serious lifters here.

Link: https://arvo.guru

Thanks!
by linguae | 2025-11-18 21:23:45+00:00
As someone who daily-drove Macs from 2006 through 2021 and who've since switched back to PCs, this does not surprise me. From 2017 through late 2021 I used a refurbished 2013 "trash can" Mac Pro as my daily driver; I have since moved to a Ryzen 9 3900 build as my daily driver. I actually purchased my Mac Pro from Apple not too long after Apple announced that it was still committed to pro users (https://web.archive.org/web/20170405022702/http://www.anandt...). It shipped with 12GB RAM, and during the COVID lockdowns of 2020 I upgraded it to 64GB RAM. My Mac Pro was a beast, and it's still a very capable machine despite the lack of support for current versions of macOS.

I want user-serviceability and expandability in my computers. I remember a time when Apple delivered this in spades; the Macintosh IIfx, the Quadra lineup, the beige Power Macintosh towers such as the 8600 and 9600, and the "new world" G3, G4, and G5 Power Macs were a testament to this. While I'm at it, let's also remember the NeXT Cube and the NeXTstation, which were wonderful workstations. Fast forward to 2013, and while the "trash can" Mac Pro lacks expansion slots, it does have user-serviceable RAM and storage, and some users have even upgraded its processor. This was a great machine, and it would've been cool had Apple kept updating it, though I know Apple ran into a wall with its dual-GPU approach.

Unfortunately, I'm disappointed with Apple's stewardship of the Mac Pro line. The 2019 Mac Pro is a very beautiful machine that supports unfathomable amounts of RAM (up to 768GB in the base models and up to 1.5TB in the highest-end models!), and I intend to buy one to add to my Mac collection when prices fall, but at the time of release the Mac Pro was prohibitively expensive: $5,999 compared to $2,999 for its predecessor. I was now priced out of buying a Mac Pro. The ARM-based Mac Pro has soldered RAM, which meant the entire Mac lineup lacked RAM upgradability, and is even more expensive at $6999.

I still pay attention to the Mac; I have a work-issued M3 MacBook Pro and I love its performance and battery life. However, I don't think I'll be buying a Mac for personal use unless Apple changes its direction. I want user-serviceable hardware, and while I'm at it, I want macOS to be unabashedly a workstation OS, not the increasingly iOS-ified environment we have today.
by lenerdenator | 2025-11-18 21:23:53+00:00
It would be nice if this was actually broken down bit-by-bit after it happened, if only for paying customers of these cloud services.

These companies are supposed to have the top people on site reliability. That these things keep happening and no one really knows why makes me doubt them.

Alternatively,

The takeaway for today: clearly, Man was not meant to have networked, distributed computing resources.

We thought we could gather our knowledge and become omniscient, to be as the Almighty in our faculties.

The folly.

The hubris.

The arrogance.
by marcosdumay | 2025-11-18 21:24:16+00:00
> billions of dollars that they dont even have

Companies don't ever "have" things, they are themselves things that people have. There isn't a fundamental difference between taking a loan smaller than their total capitalization or spend some money they have liquid at the bank. It's both taking money from the shareholders and spending on something.

That said, yes that investment is stupid and deserves quotes around the word. But making risky investments when the company is operating in the red isn't stupid at all... it's just that this one isn't risky, it's certainly bad.
by taikahessu | 2025-11-18 21:24:27+00:00
Boring. Tried to explore sexuality related topics, but Alphabet is stuck in some Christianity Dark Ages.

Edit: Okay, I admit I'm used to dealing with OpenAI models and it seems you have to be extra careful with wording with Gemini. Once you have right wording like "explore my own sexuality" and avoid certain words, you can get it going pretty interestingly.
by recitedropper | 2025-11-18 21:24:56+00:00
"major architectural decisions don't get documented anywhere" "commit messages give no "why""

This is so far outside of common industry practices that I don't think your sentiment generalizes. Or perhaps your expectation of what should go in a single commit message is different from the rest of us...

LLMs, especially those with reasoning chains, are notoriously bad at explaining their thought process. This isn't vibes, it is empiricism: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388

If you are genuinely working somewhere where the people around you are worse than LLMs at explaining and documenting their thought process, I would looking elsewhere. Can't imagine that is good for one's own development (or sanity).
by Daishiman | 2025-11-18 21:24:58+00:00
The catastrophizing perspecting is objetively correct from the perspective of the present and future that we are creating.

The open web as we knew it 20 years ago does not exist. Governments continue to tighten down on freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and financial restrictions through the digitizing of currency and arbitrary sanction mechanisms.

Income inequality continues to increase. Standards of living in the West have marginal increases in material access at the cost of unaffordability in housing and health. Retirement benefits continue to be chipped away. Organized labor is made more and more irrelevant each day.

None of this will make a difference in your daily life. Until it does; then it's too late.
by pirates | 2025-11-18 21:25:18+00:00
I think it’s bs that spotify premium still allows ads to be played during podcasts. It’s similar to youtube premium. I’m paying to not have ads, and you still serve me ads. I don’t care that they’re “in roll” or from the creator instead of the platform. That’s a distinction without a difference. Figure it out or I stop paying. And yes, I stopped paying.
by mrguyorama | 2025-11-18 21:26:01+00:00
I'm going to awkwardly bring up that we have avoided all github downtime and bugs and issues by simply not using github.

Our git server is hosted by Atlassian. I think we've had one outage in several years?

Our self hosted Jenkins setup is similarly robust, we've had a handful of hours of "Can't build" in again, several years.

We are not a company made up of rockstars. We are not especially competent at infrastructure. None of the dev teams have ever had to care about our infrastructure (occasionally we read a wiki or ask someone a question).

You don't have to live in this broken world. It's pretty easy not to. We had self hosted Mercurial and jenkins before we were bought by the megacorp, and the megacorp's version was even better and more reliable.

Self host. Stop pretending that ignoring complexity is somehow better.
by susam | 2025-11-18 21:26:49+00:00
> The "if" is correct. The "only if" is not.

Both "if" and "only if" are correct.

Let a + a + a = a. Adding the inverse of a to both sides, we get a + a = 0.

Let a + a = 0. Adding a to both sides, we get a + a + a = a.

> I assume that '+' and '0' are used as shorthand for "any binary operation" and "the identity of that binary operation"

Yes. As I mentioned in my previous comment, "In the last two examples, it is conventional to use product notation instead of +, although whether we use + or · for the binary operation does not matter mathematically."

In multiplicative notation, the statement becomes: a·a·a = a holds if and only if a·a = e, where e denotes the identity element.
by cdaringe | 2025-11-18 21:27:11+00:00
There are some pretty zany alternative realities in the Multiverses I’ve visited. Xerox Parc never went under and developed computing as a much more accessible commodity. Another, Bell labs invented a whole category of analog computers that’s supplanted our universe’s digital computing era. There’s one where IBM goes directly to super computers in the 80s. While undoubtedly Microsoft did deliver for many of us, I am a hesitant to say that that was the only path. Hell, Steve Jobs existed in the background for a long while there!
by justsomehnguy | 2025-11-18 21:27:55+00:00
Thanks for the heads-up!

For now it looks like the original developer of the fork [0] decided to retire their efforts including their whole GitHub account.

User nel0x [1] is communicating with the new repo owner.

https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16

>> Hi @researchxxl, I initially thought this might be Catfriend1’s new account, but apparently that’s not the case.

>> That's one of the biggest challenges I think for getting started. It's not about if we are allowed to, but if you don't already have Catfriends1 key, we probably won't have any way of obtaining it :/

>> i got the key when the repo was transferred to me.

>> Catfriend was on the lookout for a successor and I already knew him from another OSS project they did a while ago. we agreed and I was asked to create a new account after I got keys and creds to their original account. it turned out to be a bad idea to reuse their name so I created a new one.

[0] https://github.com/Catfriend1/

[1] https://forum.syncthing.net/t/does-anyone-know-why-syncthing...
by Rodeoclash | 2025-11-18 21:28:15+00:00
> If you wanted to play a multiplayer game on the internet, either you needed to have explicit host & port information, or you needed to use an online multiplayer gaming service.

Technically true, although tools like Kali existed which could simulate IPX style networks over the internet. I know this because I played a substantial amount of Mechwarrior 2 online when it designed only for local network play!
by woodpanel | 2025-11-18 21:28:25+00:00
Yep.

The First thing that popped into my head, was

- is this a problem because of bloatware in general? Or…

- because its Israeli bloatware?

If the latter, I would understand your discomfort because of past security intrusions by Israeli companies.

But not if it’s just „IsRa-HeLl bAd“