MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cuuupid | 2025-11-21 13:36:47+00:00
Not to just say “skill issue” but… isn’t this just a skill issue?

The main negative impact seems to be trade but the UK already has free trade agreements post-Brexit with the EU. Most of the remaining differences in hurdles are paperwork, which seems like an opportunity for automation that should be almost trivial with AI. The US has successfully automated most compliance based hurdles in the last couple years from finance to law to contracting.

Looking at the positive impacts and lack of growth from those… also skill issue?

Not having to follow regulations from the EU is also a huge boon yet the UK seems to have taken no advantage of this. Which to me is especially concerning because for years we have been hearing that Europe is lagging behind in development because of over-regulation in fields like AI, yet when freed of those shackles the UK seems to be lagging just the same.

The other positive impact heavily touted was reduced net immigration. This >could< have had a short term positive impact (heavily debatable long term cutting off access to talent pools) yet they have almost 3x’ed the reduction in immigration from the EU with an increase in immigration from other sources. The effects of this are pretty palpable as the UK now has its own flavor of nationalist movement, has not seen wage increases in advanced sectors due to supply forces in their labor market, and universities are relying on overseas students to increase tuition revenue - training a labor force that will largely churn.

The last one I’ll hit is not having to follow EU laws. After Brexit, instead of taking advantage of legislative sovereignty, the UK temporarily codified all EU law to avoid disruption. Parliament has had ~5 years to review the laws but from what I can tell has made almost no progress (~10%) and extended the expiration because… they haven’t had time to read the other laws.

So overall while I’m no type of economic analyst it would seem the problems of Brexit are not actually Brexit, but almost all competency issues. If there’s British tech talent in this thread there’s probably a billion pound opportunity in just easily automating trade paperwork or helping UKG review the remaining EU laws.
by duskdozer | 2025-11-21 13:37:15+00:00
The residents of many of these countries are able to tolerate lower salaries because they have guaranteed free/cheap at POS healthcare, stronger employment and disability protections (yes, often union-won, see Denmark), controlled and low educational expenses, and so on. Not to mention, after you get below top companies, dev earnings are much closer to other white-collar jobs
by cjs_ac | 2025-11-21 13:37:17+00:00
Brexit was an economic policy decided on emotional terms: most Britons voted on the basis of I like Europe or I don't like foreigners, and economic forecasts about potential effects were just throwaway talking points to bolster those preconceived opinions. Unlike the US, we have no common vision of a destiny to manifest; unlike the Russians, we have no expansionist goals; unlike the French, our political system is an outcome of a thousand years of compromise, not blazes of revolutionary zeal. We are just an archipelago of people quietly bumbling our way from cradle to grave, buffeted by the winds of change, and taking the advantages they afford us while we can.

Brexit was a mistake, but there is no way back to the privileged position we once held in the EU, and so anyone who still wants to talk about it is just a pointless shit-stirrer.
by ur-whale | 2025-11-21 13:37:20+00:00
Chalk up one more to the very long list of why centralizing institutions is a horrible idea because it creates freedom-killing choke points that the flavor-of-the-day hegemon can use as it damn pleases.

In a decentralized world, the US could huff and puff as much as they please, no one would give two fucks.

But when the US have an actual say in every cent that moves from account A to account B in every country that still harbors the illusion of sovereignty ... well your sovereignty does not actually exist.
by scastillo | 2025-11-21 13:37:36+00:00
It's better if you think that the only thing that is really there is a context window.

They can add complex concepts and tools on top, but all that is is a different way to put things in the context window. Even the chat history on the web... You are not sending a message every time... It's not really a chat... the model is writing what it predicts will come next, like autocompleting a Word document that is written in a chat-like format.

So agents are like you, opening a new window and having the chat there, so you don't pollute the current window with all the tokens needed to process that question, and to use only the output here.

This is important bc of the effective context window problem. Models are more accurate the smaller the context is.

Hence, MCP tools are problematic. If you have registered many of them, the rules for using each one are added to your context, even if you don't use them.

Having a very extensive Claude.md file is also problematic.

You can use skills to instruct the model on which agents to use when requesting a specific thing. Antrophic says they have trained the model to discover on its own when to read the skill and follow the instructions you picture there, which can include Python scripts to run.

So yeah, agents help the model save context window for your current problem, skills help the model follow your instructions better, and instructions can include agent calling, and MCP is crap, you'd better ask the model to generate code to make that call

Oh, there are also slash commands. I don't really use them... if someone has a success story for them, I would love to know about it.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-11-21 13:37:42+00:00
Snugly and enjoying the sense of contentment engendered by the many past profits from them (or their friends) short-selling UK-based instruments, I would assume.

It's the same as the Ruble 11 years ago. Intentionally damage your own country to personally profit from short-selling the currency (or bonds, etc.). Countries are just imaginary social constructs after all, so who cares?
by faitswulff | 2025-11-21 13:38:17+00:00
You see similar levels of hypocrisy leveled at the capacity for Chinese EVs to surveil consumers, but not at Tesla, when we know that Tesla employees had access to sex tapes of their customers in their cars. As long as it’s western capital or western police doing the surveillance, it must be permissible, right? /s

We should be clamping down on all surveillance, and this is not a problem that has a technological solution. Quite the reverse, actually.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-21 13:38:40+00:00
Each new law/regulation is indeed intended to fix something, the problem is what? I'd love to have the optimism that its the problems that population are experiencing, but in most cases its the problems that the rich and powerful are experiencing. Like 'the internet is allowing people too much power to communicate with each other without state intervention', so they fix it with laws to remove that power. Or 'I am very extremely wealthy, but I want to be in more wealthy, and other people to be poorer so my great wealth has more relative power', so they pass laws to cut social programs to fund high income tax cuts. And so on,..
by blipvert | 2025-11-21 13:38:52+00:00
For the benefit of those outside of the UK, Nigel (Mr. Brexit) Farage’s right hand man in Wales, Nathan Gill was just jailed for taking bribes from Kremlin stooges to parrot their propaganda in the EU parliament.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/21/nathan-gill...
by danielbln | 2025-11-21 13:40:01+00:00
I use a codex subagent in Claude Code, so at arbitrary moments I can tell it "throw this over to gpt-5 to cross-check" and that often yields good insights on where Claude went wrong.

Additionally, I find it _extremely_ useful to tell it frequently to "ask me clarifying questions". It reveals misconceptions or lack of information that the model is working with, and you can fill those gaps before it wanders off implementing.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-21 13:40:04+00:00
The concern is that OSes which don't implement the feature will be outlawed.

Movie ratings don't outlaw movies and actually provides a good framework: instead of mandating that OSes implement this, publish a client-side filter spec that OS devs can choose to implement. And if they implement it, their OS gets a label like "PG-capable". Then make it illegal for minors to possess a non-PG-capable device.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-11-21 13:40:13+00:00
This has been my question also: I spend a lot of time experimenting with local models and almost all of my use cases involve text data, but having image processing and understanding would be useful.

How much do I give up (in performance, and running on my 32G M2Pro Mac) using the VL version of a model? For MOE models, hopefully not much.
by wlkr | 2025-11-21 13:40:53+00:00
This seems to have been posted a few times over the years, e.g. [0]. I was impressed and pleased to see that I hadn't missed the boat on this, and in fact, the project seems to still be going very strong [1]!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26184044

[1]: https://github.com/phel-lang/phel-lang
by xmcqdpt2 | 2025-11-21 13:41:25+00:00
The difference with manual memory management or parallel GC is that concurrent GCs create a performance penalty on every reads and writes (modulo what the JIT can elide). That performance penalty is absolutely measurable even with the most recent GCs. If you look at the assembly produced for the same code running with ZGC and Parallel, you’ll see that read instructions translate to way more cpu instructions in the former. We were just looking at a bug (in our code) at work this week, on Java 25 that was exposed by the new G1 barrier late expansion.

Different applications will see different overall performance changes (positive or negative) with different GCs. I agree with you that most applications (especially realistic multi threaded ones representative of the kind of work that people do on the JVM) benefit from the amazing GC technology that the JVM brings. It is absolutely not the case however that the only negative impact is on memory footprint.
by frankest | 2025-11-21 13:41:40+00:00
Brexit was the proof that Putin can influence first world countries via social media. That effort is now franchised to in every country. Plant panic and fear, sow division and erode the EU in a first step to dismantle it.

Step two was funding greens to reduce Nuclear and increase dependence on his energy products so he can fund his military and oligarchs. By spreading extreme left policies that seem unreasonable to normal people he opens the door to install his own populists at the helm of any country over time.

Step three is war to leave his permanent mark by re-expanding Russia and avoiding jail. God knows what else motivates him to do damage.

His apparatus works too well because social media is perfect for spreading fear. Humans evolved socially to protect themselves and the #1 thing they want to spread is things that others should be watching out for. Now the lions at the river are largely manufactured to keep the flock contained and obedient.
by joshuaissac | 2025-11-21 13:41:48+00:00
> The EU is undemocratic

EU Members of Parliament for the UK were elected via proportional representation, whereas Westminster MPs are elected via the comparatively undemocratic first-past-the-post system, where a party with 14% of the national vote gets just 1% of the seats in Parliament (Reform UK, GE 2024), and one with 34% of the vote gets 63% of the seats (Labour, GE2024).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c886pl6ldy9o
by mothballed | 2025-11-21 13:42:30+00:00
Almost every bank in FATF white and gray list countries use the dollar in some way, so although your actions will help, in the end if you're sanctioned and you depend on traditional finance systems you are fucked.

There is a guy on here, weev (username rabite) who was soft sanctioned by the US and can't use banks that transact in the dollar. Last I read of his comments, he was in Ukraine or Transnistria, surviving off of crypto and direct rents from crypto purchased real estate.
by a2tech | 2025-11-21 13:42:31+00:00
I’m an American and I can safely vouch that myself and most of the people I know deeply believe in the American ideals that have been presented as gospel for decades—fair play, hard work, rule of law, loving our neighbors (regardless of legal status), and to a one, believe that as soon as you swear your oath at the immigration court, you’re an American, regardless of the circumstances of your birth.

The situation we find ourselves in is that the American of today does not represent us well. I have hopes for the future, but time will tell.
by gianlucas90 | 2025-11-21 13:42:59+00:00
Hi HN, I'm Gianluca.

I’m an indie hacker currently building from Chiang Mai. One thing I've noticed is that while our work is digital, it's always motivating to know who is physically building nearby.

I built Indie World to visualize our community on a global scale. The goal is simple: put yourself on the map and see who else is working around you, whether you're in a major hub or a remote village.

The Tech Stack: It's built with React Router Framework and Mapbox and uses Firebase for the backend.

I'd love for you to add yourself (it’s free and takes 10 seconds). I'm here for the next few hours if you have any feedback or run into bugs!
by david-campos | 2025-11-21 13:43:24+00:00
AI is commoditising code, but not systems thinking, clarity, and leadership. Teams that win multiply collective intelligence: faster decisions, earlier problem‑finding, stronger retention.

I published an engineering leadership framework to unlock collective intelligence, with 5 reinforcing pillars: 1) Psychological Safety & Bidirectional Communication, 2) Clear Acceptance Criteria & Measurable Success, 3) Delegation as Development, 4) Technical Alignment via Documentation, and 5) Evidence‑Driven Culture (OKRs, SLIs/SLOs, DORA).

This kicks off a 6‑part series: five deep dives (one per pillar) + a final implementation guide. Each post stands alone and builds on the others.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-21 13:43:57+00:00
You can write it without the quotes you know, it's an actual word.

I think it's a real argument personnally and the heart of the issue. That was the main question of the Brexit referundum: do you want to be a part of this pan-European union of people and surrender some of your country power to this union?

You can argue that the subsequent trade agreement and the alignment that followed have reintroduced some of the same constraints, which is true, but practically and conceptually speaking it is a very different kind of situation.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-21 13:44:16+00:00
Regulatory divergence is a cost all of its own. The main impact of Brexit is that manufacturers have to check three sets of rules rather than two and print "UKCA" next to "CE" on goods. As well as all the customs checks which appear because of divergence, including those within the UK because of the NI farming question.

The idea of growth through liberalization should have been subject to the question "which rules, exactly" before getting to the point of the referendum.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-11-21 13:44:29+00:00
That sounds to me like a bunch of individual countries deciding to independently put boots on the ground. At that point what are they voting on as a group? (Though maybe that’s just what you’re suggesting should be done and I’m missing it)

I also wonder what good any sort of military/defensive pact is if any country can unilaterally decide when or when not to participate. It means you can’t depend on it and you may as well not have it then right? To be clear I am not saying military pacts are a good thing, but they do currently exist and participating counties can’t (at least shouldn’t) just pretend they aren’t part of one when it’s inconvenient.
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by bscript | 2025-11-21 13:44:45+00:00
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by hu3 | 2025-11-21 13:45:50+00:00
Without specifics it's hard to understand what kind of difficulties you had.

But PHP is still so strong because it offers much more than "easy hosting".

What I personaly love most is the instant save file->see results feedback loop. There's no perceptible compilation step. Meanwhile my Java project takes a minute to compile.

Also the shared-nothing model by default is powerful and rare.

Laravel is probably the most well documented frameworks even comparing frameworks from other languages. And symfony, also a PHP framework, is not far from that.

When you say "SSL" I can only think your reasoning is based on outdated information since no one calls it SSL anymore. It's TLS for some years now. And I have been connecting to databases using PHP TLS/SSL since version 5. For almost a decade now.
by webdevver | 2025-11-21 13:47:17+00:00
i now buy deliveroo slop basically every day, and every day the delivery driver is a barely literate global south immigrant.

in other words, its a huge positive impact. unfortunately for the delivery driver, well, hes basically an indentured servant... i have no idea how these guys survive. especially now in 0 degree weather.

i recently started tipping them in the hopes that they don't dekulakize me in some future bolshevik overhaul (that they would be entirely justified to!)
by lambdaone | 2025-11-21 13:47:40+00:00
Monophasic waveforms are generally considered less safe than biphasic waveforms. That's why many TENS units have an output stage based around a pulse transformer, so they can deliver two pulses, one in each direction, shortly after each other. Leaving this out seems to me to be a false economy when you've gone to all the effort of building the rest of the system.
by rozab | 2025-11-21 13:47:52+00:00
That seems like the opposite of what the quoted Reddit post says:

>those with newer machines needed to either have the HEVC codec from the Microsoft Store removed entirely from [Microsoft Media Foundation] or have hardware acceleration disabled

From this it sounds like it's been disabled at a lower level, but Windows still expects it to be there and so fails to decode streams unless hwaccel is disabled
by lukan | 2025-11-21 13:47:58+00:00
Depends on the point of view.

I see it as a great opportunity, that we in the EU get our shit together, to not be dependant on the US anymore. Nor russia. Nor china.

So far we still can afford the luxory of moving the european parliament around once a month, because we cannot agree on one place. Lots of nationalistic idiotic things going on and yes, if those forces win, the EU will fall apart.

If russia graps most of Ukraine, this would be really bad(see the annexion of chzech republic 1938, that gave Hitler lots of weapons he did not had), but it is totally preventable without boots on the ground (russia struggles hard as well). Just not if too many people fall for the russian fueled nationalistic propaganda.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-21 13:48:03+00:00
One of the proposed benefits was cutting bureaucracy and regulation (retained EU laws) that made the EU one of the worst investment and business growth environments in the world, which was a drag on UK/EU economies.

But it seems like the UK lost their political will to drop the hammer on regulation after Brexit, and they actually kept most of those legacy EU laws and only nixed a few.

UK experts: why was that? What made them lose their will?

It seemed to me once you were in for a penny, you were in for a pound and you had to go all the way to realize the benefits.

Now you just have a situation with even more regulatory complexity due to differences between the UK/EU, but the UK got none of the benefits. They’ve fallen between two stools.
by netsharc | 2025-11-21 13:48:19+00:00
Is this how you win the arguments in your head? Your opponent uses the word "genocide", you concluded turning Gaza into rubble with kids and many more innocents underneath them doesn't fit the term "genocide", and you further conclude whatever claim your opponent is trying to make is wrong, and therefore there aren't a few hundred thousand dead civilians, ah the whole accusation is just fictional, they all actually lived happily ever after in peace and harmony (in your head).

Yeah yeah, people are still dying, and we're arguing about the definitions of words. How convenient. Whatever distraction helps you sleep at night, I suppose.
by jdibs | 2025-11-21 13:48:24+00:00
Given the demographics of Europe, what this means is that old people will vote for young people to be fed into a meat mincer just so they can keep collecting their pensions for a couple decades more. Let's call a spade a spade then. This guy is doing just that: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2025/11/20/outcry-a...
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-11-21 13:48:27+00:00
Sure you can. You can pass laws that require companies respect a 'do not track' setting in browsers and don't collect data or make you jump through 'accept cookies' hoops. You can make right to repair laws. You can pass laws that require interoperability like making phones use a standard cable (they did this and I think its great). You can pass laws making companies like MS at least make available a no-tracking, no subscription, no ads, no telemetry, no bloatware, no AI, no bullshit version of windows OS for regular individuals at reasonable cost. They can do stuff that like that.
by oddish-tv | 2025-11-21 13:49:13+00:00
Most AI features in delivery tools look good in demos but fail once teams try to use them. The core issue is not the models but the lack of traceability inside platforms like Jira, Monday, Asana, Azure DevOps and others. AI cannot make real decisions when it cannot see the full chain from requirement to code to test to release.

This article explains how missing links in these systems limit real AI automation and what kind of traceability layer is needed for serious AI workflows.
by fheisler | 2025-11-21 13:49:15+00:00
Thanks for the mention! (Authentik Security CEO here.) We've become something of Okta migration experts at this point... Cloudflare moved to us a couple years back after they had to be the ones to let Okta know it'd been breached yet again. [1]

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-mitigated-yet-ano...
by toasterlovin | 2025-11-21 13:49:55+00:00
> It's telling that ARM, Apple, and Qualcomm have all shipped designs that are physically smaller, faster, and consume way less power vs AMD and Intel.

These companies target different workloads. ARM, Apple, and Qualcomm are all making processors primarily designed to be run in low power applications like cell phones or laptops, whereas Intel and AMD are designing processors for servers and desktops.

> x86 is quickly becoming dead last which should be possible if ISA doesn't matter at all given AMD and Intel's budgets (AMD for example spends more in R&D than ARM's entire gross revenue).

My napkin math is that Apple’s transistor volumes are roughly comparable to the entire PC market combined, and they’re doing most of that on TSMC’s latest node. So at this point, I think it’s actually the ARM ecosystem that has the larger R&D budget.