MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-26 15:45:54+00:00
> If your org is blindly data/metric driven, it is probably just a mater of time until managers start asking why everyone else is producing so much, while you're slow?

It’s a reasonable question, and my response is that I’ve encountered multiple specific examples now of a project being delayed a week because some junior tried to “save” a day by having AI write bad code.

Good managers generally understand the concept of a misleading productivity metric that fails to reflect real value. There’s a reason, after all, why most of us don’t get promoted based on lines of code delivered. I understand why people who don’t trust their managers to get this would round it off to artisanship for its own sake.
by shagie | 2025-11-26 15:46:23+00:00
Elsecomment I explained this more...

It is as low risk as trying to use Windows and Microsoft Word with a keyboard and mouse mirrored to a Linux machine running Open Office and expecting the same results.

You can't run the two systems side by side - different screens, different keyboard entry... and some of the keyboard entry can't touch the other system.

And this is assuming you can put a dry path into the production system. If the answer is "no", then you're putting a dev environment into a production environment... and that's certainly a "no".

We had test environments and we had a lab were we had two rows of systems where the two systems sat back to back and each row was hooked up to a different test store (not feasible in a production store environment).
by k_kelly | 2025-11-26 15:46:44+00:00
Google makes over a billion of its ad Revenue from search. Intent works.

But I think Open AI is not a slam dunk for Ads. Gemini and AI mode will compete for the same budget, and Google's Ad machine is polished.

I think eventually you will buy Ads for Open AI in Google's marketing platforms, just like most people buy bing ads in Google.
by fileeditview | 2025-11-26 15:46:48+00:00
While a general "crashing down" probably will not happen I could imagine some differences to other mass produced goods.

Most of our private data lives in clouds now and there are already regular security nightmares of stolen passwords, photos etc. I fear that these incidents will accumulate with more and more AI generated code that is most likely not reviewed or reviewed by another AI.

Also regardless of AI I am more and more skipping cheap products in general and instead buying higher quality things. This way I buy less but what I buy doesn't (hopefully) break after a few years (or months) of use.

I see the same for software. Already before AI we were flooded with trash. I bet we could all delete at least half of the apps on our phones and nothing would be worse than before.

I am not convinced by the rosy future of instant AI-generated software but future will reveal what is to come.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-11-26 15:46:53+00:00
I think you're right, however that only defeats themselves in the long run. AI is something that can be run locally, while search, shopping, movies, social, etc. cannot. And once the ads are baked into the product, you will need a force like the EU to remove them else shareholders will riot. Ads will be the perfect weapon to shoot themselves in the foot.
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-11-26 15:47:03+00:00
Ideological purity is a crutch for those that can't hack it. :)

I love it when the .NET threads show up here, people twist themselves in knots when they read about how the runtime is fantastic and ASP.NET is world class, and you can read between the lines of comments and see that it is very hard for people to believe these things while also knowing that "Micro$oft" made them.

Inevitably when public opinion swells and changes on something (such as VSCode), all the dissonance just melts away, and they were _always_ a fan. Funny how that works.
by aurareturn | 2025-11-26 15:47:15+00:00
OpenAI has ChatGPT (not a social platform).

You didn't state reasons why not being a social platform matters here.

Anyways, check this out: https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt/

It seems to me you're comparing apples and oranges here.

I don't think so. 1 billion users and a clear intention to deliver ads with an immense amount of data on users. That's a clear threat to both Meta and Google.

PS. That's why Meta and Google are all in on AI. OpenAI is an existential threat to both in my humble opinion.
by bodge5000 | 2025-11-26 15:47:18+00:00
> Nobody is trying to appeal to "pro-AI crowd"

Oh yes they are, there's a lot of games (or at least, promises of future games) that promise to be 100% vibe-coded or that make heavy use of AI in a way thats very prominent to the player. There was an example just last week:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730100/Whispers_from_the...

> And losing the small portion of the vocal-always-complaining crowd (who odds are, wasnt part of their audience to begin with), is not a loss at all.

That seems like a very different crowd to me. I've been around the industry long enough to see the signs of that, and I don't see that much from the anti-ai crowd, or at least not in any more significant numbers. See: the project zomboid AI art issue

But like I say, for an indie, yes losing a small audience can still be a big loss.
by tekne | 2025-11-26 15:47:47+00:00
It's not ads, honestly. It's quality. The tool being designed to empower the user. Have you ever seen something encrusted in ads be designed to empower the user? At least, it necessitates reducing the user's power to remove the ads.

But it's fundamentally a correlation, and this observation is important because something can be completely ad-free and yet disempowering and hence unpleasant to use; it's just that vice-versa is rare.
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-26 15:48:24+00:00
Your claim about Bennu fascinated me...

"The spacecraft risked being swallowed whole by the asteroid as it collected the sample. As OSIRIS-REx touched the ground in October 2020, pebbles began flying about. The timely ignition of its thruster kept it safe and led to the creation of a puzzling large crater 8 meters (26 feet) across." https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-osiris-rex-was-almost-swall...

Wow.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-26 15:48:27+00:00
I think in this case the choice is between AI localization and no localization at all. If that is the case, I actually think that users will appreciate localization with minor issues over doing things in English.

Anecdotally, I have found AI translation to be perfectly acceptable for the languages that I do know, on par with a human translation service, at least. This may be different in a game with e.g. fantasy vocabulary that is made up.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-26 15:48:28+00:00
Louis CK and Genghis Khan were both very effective in their respective lines of work and I'll die on that hill. And while I'm at it, Bill Clinton was an alright president (though the surrounding administration would likely be looked at as a bunch of snakes if not for the even worse Bush2 cabinet that followed).

Heck, Lincoln wanted to ship 'em back to Africa and Henry Ford was a moralizing anti-semite. Nobody is clean under a microscope.
by everdev | 2025-11-26 15:48:37+00:00
And yet here I am being told by young devs that these kinds of terrible UX decisions don't matter, or I get mocked for bringing them up. They don't have the cognizance of experience to know why these things matter or can, and they struggle to even conceptualize how things like this can be security holes open for spammers and scammers.

If they worked for me, they'd learn fast or wouldn't work for me for long.
by keiferski | 2025-11-26 15:48:41+00:00
I have no idea what point you're trying to make. They obviously chose Belgrade because it's a cool city and because one of the founders is apparently from there. It's a community hub, not a infrastructure site. My guess is that they're spending a few thousand dollars on rent, and that's about it. Full stop. Your comment chain is not engaging with the actual post in good faith, at all.
by firefax | 2025-11-26 15:48:49+00:00
>A lot of Reddit users have drifted over here, too. Bringing with them a culture of juvenile humor and unreserved antagonism. I'm sure it has made Dang's job harder.

Did you mean "undeserved" antagonism?

I think HN has as good a culture as some of the more well moderated subreddits, but HN has more experts and Reddit has more folks who are eager to learn and share their thoughts.

Dan has certainly done a good job keeping it as a place to discuss technical matters and not descending into a sea of memes ala slashdot, but I think one of the few failings of HN (and this is not the fault of dang) is that a small subset of the folks here are very fragile -- you can tell from interacting with them that they are not used to be challenged in meatspace, and because of that the mildest criticism gets "rounded up" to antagonism or worse.

Maybe part of why folks are like that is we have a lot of "rockstars" posting, and just like in the entertainment space, when most of your interactions consist of people catering to you, any form of criticism can feel like a personal attack.
by Blackthorn | 2025-11-26 15:48:58+00:00
I don't think that just because something becomes accessible to a lot more people that it devalues the experience.

To use the two examples I gave in this thread. Digital music is more accessible than ever before and it's going from strength to strength. While at-home subtractive CNC is still in the realm of deep hobbyists, 3d printing* and CNC cutting/plotting* (Cricut, others) have been accessible and interested by the masses for a decade now and those spaces are thriving!

* Despite the best efforts of some of the sellers of these to lock down and enshittify the platforms. If this continues, this might change and fall into the general tech malaise, and it will be a great loss if that happens.
Show HN: Awesome Directories – Open-source launch directory aggregator
by meysamazad | 2025-11-26 15:49:01+00:00
Hi HN,

I spent 20 hours manually researching "best startup directories" for my last launch. Found outdated GitHub lists, dead links, and no data on which directories actually matter. So I built this instead.

*Live*: https://awesome-directories.com *GitHub*: https://github.com/awesome-directories/awesome-directories

*What It Is*

An open-source aggregator of 300+ verified launch directories with:

- Domain Rating scores (Ahrefs), dofollow/nofollow badges, pricing filters - Community voting, favorites, and submission tracking per project - CSV export and multi-select checklist

*Tech Stack*

- Frontend: Astro.js + Tailwind → GitHub Pages (static) - Backend: Supabase (PostgreSQL + Auth) - Data: Ahrefs API via Supabase Edge Functions (weekly updates) - Cost: $20/month

*Why Open Source*

Apache-2.0. Fork it, remix it. I'm building reputation, not revenue. The indie hacker community helped me learn—paying it forward.

*Technical Questions*

1. Client-side filtering vs Supabase full-text search: I went client-side for <500 directories. At what scale would you switch? 2. PDF generation: Currently client-side (jsPDF). Worth moving server-side?

*The Retention Problem*

Directory aggregators have a fundamental issue: once you find your directories, you never return.

Current ideas to solve this:

- Weekly digest of new directories - User-submitted launch stories ("I got 200 signups from BetaList") - Crowd-sourced directory performance rankings

How would you solve this?

*Feedback Wanted*

- Is the UI too busy? (Backend engineer, not a designer) - What directories am I missing? - Would you add performance tracking (which directories drove actual traffic)?

Looking for contributors to expand the directory list or improve the stack.

Thanks for reading.
by xixixao | 2025-11-26 15:49:04+00:00
At least the description is not at all about building an adtech platform inside OpenAI, it's about optimizing their marketing spend (which being a big brand, makes sense).

There are a bunch of people from FB at OpenAI, so they could staff an adtech team internally I think, but I also think they might not be looking at ads yet, with having "higher" ambitions (at least not the typical ads machine ala FB/Google). Also if they really needed to monetize, I bet they could wire up Meta ads platform to buy on ChatGPT, saving themselves a decade of building a solid buying platform for marketers.
by alonmower | 2025-11-26 15:49:08+00:00
If you’re interested in this area I highly recommend “The Vital Question” by Nick Lane if you haven’t read it.

The TLDR of his theory is that life originated in alkaline hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, where natural energy gradients could have driven primitive metabolic reactions before the development of DNA.

Book goes into a lot of layperson-accessible detail.
by heelix | 2025-11-26 15:49:25+00:00
Oracle is supporting Java 8 till 2030 as a paid binary if you download from them and free source code as part of the OpenJDK. Other OpenJDK vendors, like Adoptium, are providing free binaries till 2030 as well. Other folks may or may not provide free binaries. RHEL builds of the OpenJKD are free till November 2026, part of extended life support till 2030.

For us, the biggest driver for getting off Java 8 was SpringBoot dropping support for anything older than 17.
by jcfrei | 2025-11-26 15:49:40+00:00
There's also a possible scenario where the online ads market around search engines gets completely disrupted and the only remaining avenues for ad spending are around content delivery systems (social media, youtube, streaming, webpages, etc.). All other discovery happens within chatbots and they just get a revenue share whenever a chatbot refers a user to a particular product. I think ChatGPT is soon going to roll out this feature where you can do walmart shopping without leaving the chat.
by lacoolj | 2025-11-26 15:49:52+00:00
> ... and to find out whether things like this happen in other countries as well.

I didn't DM anyone, and I didn't run the campaign, but there happened to be the John Edwards campaign HQ near me so I walked inside and said I could help do their IT, next day I was a full-on volunteer.

They took me to Charleston for a rally (which was cool cuz I never been) and even got me a jacket with my name and the campaign logo on it. Was pretty nifty at the time.

Few months later they hired me and sent me to New Hampshire for the primary.

Wasn't long after that that we were no longer in the running, but was great experience.

Highly recommend more young people attempt cold walk-ins/calls/DMs like this article mentions.
by glp1guide | 2025-11-26 15:49:55+00:00
> Of the 308 who benefited from tirzepatide, 254 (82 percent) regained at least 25 percent of the weight they had lost on the drug by week 88. Further, 177 (57 percent) regained at least 50 percent, and 74 (24 percent) regained at least 75 percent. Generally, the more weight people regained, the more their cardiovascular and metabolic health improvements reversed.

So weight loss was actually maintained for most people -- the hard part is finding a healthy daily lifestyle which can maintain the drastic effects of GLP1s.

This information isn't new -- weight regain has been studied before and I've written about it before:

https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...

The missing piece to this article is just how bad the alternative is -- never having the cardiovascular and metabolic benefits is clearly not the best strategy (and if simply changing patterns was so easy, people would have done it already).

GLP1s don't work for everyone but they're pretty close to miraculous in effect given the balance of positive and negative side effects. Making GLP1s cheaper & more tolerable then figuring out how to actually deal with the complex web of how to keep the weight off sustainably for most people seems like the right way forward here, not avoiding potentially life-saving medication because you may not be able to get off of it as fast as you want (if you can afford it).

BTW, there is already generic Liraglutide, and legal workarounds for getting compounded Semaglutide that already mean no one pays the $1000 that was in the zeitgeist a while ago. Even Lilly Direct and similar outfits from Novo sell for $500/month, with the $150/month pricing coming soon[0].

[0]: https://glp1guide.substack.com/p/negotiations-are-underway-f...
by paddleon | 2025-11-26 15:49:59+00:00
did similar work at similar scale to srean.

Assume you have signal from one IoT device, say a sensor reading. Anomalies are sudden changes in the value of the signal. Define sudden (using the time delta between observations and your other domain knowledge); let's say the sensor reports 1x/second and sudden means 1-3 minutes.

Simple options: rolling mean last 3 values/rolling mean last 60 values. If this value is over a threshold, alert

Say the readings are normally distributed, or they can be detrended/made normal via a simple 1 or 2 stage AR/MA model. Apply the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric_rules to detect anomalies.

Complexer but still simple options. Say you have IoT sensors over a larger area, and an anomaly is one sensor which is higher than others. Run roughly the same analysis as above, but on the correlation matrix of all the sensors. Look for rapidly changing correlations.

example: temperature detectors in each room of your house, and your kid opens the front door to go play in the snow. The entry hall cools down while the rest of the house's temp stays roughly stable. You can picture what that does to the correlation matrix.
by postexitus | 2025-11-26 15:50:04+00:00
Tapping into AdTech is extremely hard, as it's hard driven by network effects. What you mean is "displaying ads inside OpenAI products" then, yes, achievable, but that's a miniscule part of targeted Ad markets - 2% is actually very optimistic. Otherwise, they can sell literally 0 products to existing players as they all have already established "AI" toolsets to help them for ad generation and targeting.
by ferfumarma | 2025-11-26 15:50:25+00:00
> Still far, far too complex to occur "randomly," which is fascinating

Why spend time making this point? Nobody believes that this occurred randomly: it occurred via evolution.

The mutations are a random part of evolution, but the process overall is not random at all - no more so than your immune system (which randomly generates antibodies, then selects against those that target innate epitopes), or stable diffusion (which starts with random noise, then marches up a gradient toward a known target).

It is the selection step that makes similar processes non-random, because a random selection step would just be noise.
by fileeditview | 2025-11-26 15:50:47+00:00
I don't think programmers are the issue here. What you describe sounds to me more like the typical product management in a company. Stuff features into the thing until it bursts of bugs and is barely maintainable.

I would love to do something like what you describe. Build a simple but solid and very specialized solution. However I am not sure there is demand or if I have the right ideas for what to do.

You mention invoicing and I think: there must be hundreds of apps for what you describe but maybe I am wrong. What is the one good app you mention? I am curious now :)
by mbirth | 2025-11-26 15:52:04+00:00
Depending on the local laws, that's easier said than done. E.g. in Germany, a private entity (read: person) can't just bill a company. And you can't just write something that resembles an invoice either. Especially, you're not allowed to make it look like a business invoice by putting net sums on it.

A German business on the other side of the transaction rarely will pay anything if there's not a proper invoice (listing net sums and VAT separately) on file. And they usually also require the (business) tax ID of the other party.

To be fair, founding a business is a matter of filling in some form, paying a small fee, and a few days of time (depending on the workload of your local trade office). But still - if this is a one-off thing and you don't even know whether there will be more... I'm not sure I'd want to go through the hassle. Especially if it means having to hire an accountant with monthly costs, when I don't even know whether there will be more income.
by Atlas667 | 2025-11-26 15:52:47+00:00
Luddism is a reaction to the current situation as it pertains to labor. Marx had this to say about it:

"It took both time and experience before the workers learned to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used."

- Karl Marx. Das Kapital Vol 1 Ch 15: Machinery and Modern Industry, 1867

Tech can always be good, how its used is what makes it bad, or not.
by deaux | 2025-11-26 15:54:47+00:00
Not entirely sure how conservatism is related to either - DOGE is far removed from conservativsm, and the second topic I talked about is even less related to it.

Both are views by the politician from this politican who this entire article is about, sounds pretty related to me.

Very strange downvotes as well, not used to that here. I guess they'll remain now that above has been flagged.
by pneumic | 2025-11-26 15:55:04+00:00
For me LLMs have been an incredible relief when it comes to software planning—quickly navigating the paralyzing quantity of choices when it comes to infrastructure, deployment, architecture and so on. Of course, this only highlights how crushingly complex it all is now, and I get a sinking feeling that instead of people solving technical complexity where it needs solving, these tools will be an abstraction layer over ever-rolling balls of mud that no one bothers to clean up anymore.
by karmakaze | 2025-11-26 15:55:06+00:00
A better presentation would be to have someone make the best performance/price on AWS EC2, then someone else make the best performance/price on Hetzner and compare.

I myself used EC2 instances with locally attached NVMe drives with (mdadm) RAID-0 on BTRFS that was quite fast. It was for a CI/CD pipeline so only the config and the most recent build data needed to be kept. Either BTRFS or the CI/CD database (PostgreSQL I think) would eventually get corrupted and I'd run a rebuild script a few times a year.
by Fokamul | 2025-11-26 15:55:14+00:00
Hmm, do you realize, that even if you have 1B probes everywhere. You're still bound by speed of light communication speed, right?

It's faster than probe speed in this age, yeah. But still not enough, if we're talking distances to other specific planets, stars, etc.

Two possible ways to solve this, humans will become immortal or speed of light bypass method will be discovered.
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-26 15:55:23+00:00
You raise an interesting point. Performing the act of browsing the web on the TV from the sofa in the living room has been mostly[1] a non-starter for as long as we've had a web to browse, since the user experience sucks.

Dedicated remote-oriented apps usually do improve upon that user experience.

But does it have to be an app that runs within Apple TV's walled garden?

With a $20 Android streamer box (like the one sold under Wal-Mart's in-house ONN brand), a person can install SmartTube and watch ad-free YouTube with a configurable glitz-free remote-oriented interface and SponsorBlock. (If it dies or something better comes along, it was only $20. $20 doesn't buy very many cheeseburgers these days.)

[1]: There have been attempts to improve the WWW's sofa experience, perhaps with WebTV being the largest effort. And I've sat down with a trackpad-equipped wireless keyboard and run Firefox on some manner of television-connected computing device at various times. It's always pretty severely lacking compared to browsing the web with a laptop, desktop, or pocket supercomputer. Even though it's ostensibly almost exactly the same thing, it just never really flows well at all: It's worse than using a computer and also worse than using a TV remote in ways that compound with eachother.