MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonvs | 2025-11-04 08:18:39+00:00
Panpsychism doesn’t explain anything, it just asserts that consciousness doesn’t have an explanation, that it just “is”. It’s not impossible that something like panpsychism could be true, but knowing that wouldn’t get us any closer to understanding consciousness.

It also raises more questions than it answers, such as how an integrated consciousness arises within a brain/mind, whereas it presumably doesn’t in, say, a hamburger patty. Ironically, attempts to explain that start to hint that such an explanation might not need to rely on panpsychism in the first place - i.e. if you can explain how consciousness arises from a sum of parts, you may not need to postulate that it exists independently of that combination of parts.
by fragmede | 2025-11-04 08:18:45+00:00
If you try and one shot it, sure, but if you question Claude, point out the errors of its ways, tell it to refactor and ultrathink, point out that two things have similar functionality and could be merged. It can write unhinged code with duplicate unused variable definitions that don't work, and it'll fix it up if you call it out, or you can just do it yourself. (cue questions of if, in that case, it would just be faster to do it yourself.)
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-04 08:18:55+00:00
> everyone picks on radiology as the 'obvious' field that will get automated.

Nah, pre-LLM, I think the obvious fields to pick on were lawyers, middle-management, and "email jobs" generally. That was a big miscalculation, since most people (especially engineers) do not understand the politics of power. Those jobs tend to jealously protect the power that they have and systematically dismantle what accountability they might be subjected to. Engineers in general are much more likely to democratize (and thus threaten) power, by creating things like accountability via metrics, at the same time as they mostly refuse to unionize. Radiologists have some unions, medicine generally enjoys a moat of credentials and certification. Things that SWEs in particular rejected while they said "come on over, anyone can code". I doubt radiologists ever suggested themselves that they should be measured on throughput, but SWEs actually did push ideas of 10x engineers and metrics like lines-of-code for years to argue they are productive enough to deserve raises.
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by negativelambda | 2025-11-04 08:21:45+00:00
In this work and in their previous papers they suggest that the dimming of distant supernovae can be at least partially explained by the age of the supernovae progenitor rather than cosmic acceleration. Their work now seems to agree much more with findings from DESI BAO + CMB, which suggest a much more complicated dark energy than simple vacuum energy. In this new analysis, the expansion of our universe could be actually decelerating at current times.
by qayxc | 2025-11-04 08:23:15+00:00
Whitney has valid reasons to write code this way. If you look at his career, you'll understand how this is not a problem - he literally spent decades working on "one-page" programs written that way. It's not "for the lols", it's simply what he's been comfortable with for 50+ years.

He's a software developer from a different era, when individual programmers wrote tiny (by today's standard) programs that powered entire industries. So for what he's been doing his entire career, neither lack of accountability, job security, or working with teams are really applicable.
by makoqd | 2025-11-04 08:24:10+00:00
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by scotty79 | 2025-11-04 08:25:35+00:00
There's nothing analogous in Windows to ~/.ssh and yet I can find my keys there even on Windows. There's nothing analogous to /etc on Windows and yet I can find a dns resolver file in \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

I grew up using Windows and decision to name a folder Scripts (inconsistently), in a multiplatform open source software development project is incomprehensible to me.
by MrScruff | 2025-11-04 08:26:03+00:00
When we say "think" in this context, do we just mean generalize? LLMs clearly generalize (you can give one a problem that is not exactly in it's training data and it can solve it), but perhaps not to the extent a human can. But then we're talking about degrees. If it was able to generalize at a higher level of abstraction maybe more people would regard it as "thinking".
by 9rx | 2025-11-04 08:26:50+00:00
> Otherwise we go in endless circles about language and meaning of words

We understand thinking as being some kind of process. The problem is that we don't understand the exact process, so when we have these discussions the question is if LLMs are using the same process or an entirely different process.

> instead of discussing practical, demonstrable capabilities.

This doesn't resolve anything as you can reach the same outcome using a different process. It is quite possible that LLMs can do everything a thinking entity can do all without thinking. Or maybe they actually are thinking. We don't know — but many would like to know.
by p_l | 2025-11-04 08:26:57+00:00
VT5xx was the budget line with limited functionality, that's why only 525 among them supports ANSI color. The only fancy stuff was multisession (TD/SMP if you have all bits to support it) and "desktop accessories" like clock and calculator.

The really interesting ones are VT340 variants with ReGIS and full SIXEL graphics
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by brodo | 2025-11-04 08:27:55+00:00
I was recently looking for a QUIC library for Zig and found zquic¹. The readme tells me it's perfect, 'PRODUCTION READY! ' and ' Ultra-high performance'. It all reeks of AI, so I looked deeper into it. It depends on two libraries by the same author, one for crypto, one async runtime. So I checked out his other repos². This guy 'implemented' everything: a database, an RPC framework, a scripting language, an event loop (which is different from his async library), a compression library, I could go on. If you delve ;-) into the code, you'll see it's all non-working AI slob.

Is this only CV hacking or something more malicious I can't think of? Do we need a 'report this repo as fake' button on GitHub?

1: https://github.com/GhostKellz/zquic 2: https://github.com/GhostKellz?tab=repositories
by businessmate | 2025-11-04 08:29:26+00:00
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025

On Monday, November 3, 2025, the submission deadline for GEO vendor reproducibility tests closed. No submissions were received.

This does not signal failure of any individual company. It signals the current maturity of the category. GEO products are evolving fast, yet independent verification workflows are not yet established. Visibility claims remain ahead of audit-grade evidence.
by lordnacho | 2025-11-04 08:29:38+00:00
I agree with you.

If you took a Claude session into a time machine to 2019 and called it "rent a programmer buddy," how many people would assume it was a human? The only hint that it wasn't a human programmer would be things where it was clearly better: it types things very fast, and seems to know every language.

You can set expectations in the way you would with a real programmer: "I have this script, it runs like this, please fix it so it does so and so". You can do this without being very precise in your explanation (though it helps) and you can make typos, yet it will still work. You can see it literally doing what you would do yourself: running the program, reading the errors, editing the program, and repeating.

People need to keep in mind two things when they compare LLMs to humans: you don't know the internal process of a human either, he is also just telling you that he ran the program, read the errors, and edited. The other thing is the bar for thinking: a four-year old kid who is incapable of any of these things you would not deny as a thinking person.
by samus | 2025-11-04 08:33:19+00:00
> He doesn't point to a single thing that pg_vector doesn't do or doesn't do well. He just complains it hard to do.

He very clearly complains that IVFFlat indexes have to be periodically rebuilt, that HNSW has high overhead (both during inserts and rebuilds) and that the query planner is not particularly good at optimizing queries involving this kind of indexes. None of this is a problem if the dataset is puny enough, but deadly if you want to scale up without investing significant engineering.
by josh-stylo | 2025-11-04 08:33:59+00:00
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by aryehof | 2025-11-04 08:37:29+00:00
I see this a lot in what LLMs know and promote in terms of software architecture.

All seem biased to recent buzzwords and approaches. Discussions will include the same hand-waving of DDD, event-sourcing and hexagonal services, i.e. the current fashion. Nothing of worth apparently preceded them.

I fear that we are condemned to a future where there is no new novel progress, but just a regurgitation of those current fashion and biases.
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by rwmj | 2025-11-04 08:39:07+00:00
As an engineer writing OCaml (and Rust too), I don't find any of this stuff to be a pain point. The syntax is fine once you get used to it. Anecdotally one of my colleagues who is learning OCaml and contributing to the code is using an AI to help get the syntax right and that works for him. Types in Rust are way more complicated and obscure than the ones in OCaml.

The ecosystem stays out of the way as much as possible - we are mainly interested in interfacing with C code directly, and OCaml (and Rust) make that pretty easy. I've been writing this project for over a decade and the language has been reasonably stable (OCaml 5 made some changes to the C interface, but we coped). Rust actually causes far more code churn - there's virtually a monthly cycle of some Rust compiler update requiring changes to existing code.
by 9rx | 2025-11-04 08:39:13+00:00
> idk man, plenty of people have "ai" gf/bf/therapist, ask "ai" for vacation trip ideas, recipes, gym workouts, &c.

Not without engineering a system to get the AI to generate a response they don't.

> non software engineering tasks.

There is no non-software engineering task when using an LLM. All LLM use first requires designing software to get the LLM to do anything. An LLM will not autonomously act on its own. It can only respond in accordance to the the program you have designed for it.

That program can be written in natural language, granted, but software programs are not limited by the particular language they are written in. Its not somehow not a program just because you didn't write machine code on punch cards.
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by ethin | 2025-11-04 08:41:02+00:00
If it's obviously AI generated and is an absurdly long PR, I'd ask them to extensively justify the complexity (especially if it does side quest-isms like this example where the AI created a DSL and stuff: why exactly is the DSL required?). If the project already implements the feature, I'd ask that they remove the re-implemented parts and use what already exists. If one of the dependencies of the project does this, I'd ask that they update the PR to use those instead of wholesale redoing it. If they respond, at all, with AI-generated responses instead of doing it themselves, or their PR description is AI generated, or it's blatantly obvious they used AI, I would immediately mentally classify the PR as an ultra low effort/quality PR until proven otherwise. Might seem harsh, but I prefer PRs from people who actually both understand the project and what the PR is trying to do. I don't mind if people use AI to assist in that understanding; I don't even mind if they use AI to help write parts of the PR. But if I can tell that it's AI generated (and completely re-implementing something that the project either has already or is in the stdlib or a dep is a very good sign of AI generated code in my experience), I'm far more inclined to dismiss it out of hand.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-04 08:42:17+00:00
No, and a lot of Flash projects have already been converted; notably, Google was one of the first to release a flash-to-html5 converter, because a lot of ads were Flash at the time.

But Adobe's missed opportunity was keeping Flash alive, "just" adding a html5 / canvas / JS version instead of the browser plug-ins that were killed when smartphones/tablets refused to support them.
by slightlyoff | 2025-11-04 08:42:59+00:00
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by syrusakbary | 2025-11-04 08:44:19+00:00
Really impressive work. Would love to see it progress.

Some ways I can see it could improve:

1. setjmp/longjmp could implemented via Wasm Exceptions (this is how we do it on WASIX) - no need to wait on stack switching proposal 2. fork could work easily with asyncify (start/resume), per binary compiled 3. JIT could work via dlopen/dlsym (compiling the Wasm and linking it), even with runtime patching (using memory spaces on tables and updating them as you go to newly compiled code).

In general, I recommend taking an inspiration from WASIX [1] for those things, as we have spend quite a bit of time to make things work as much as possible!

[1] https://wasix.org/
by tamimio | 2025-11-04 08:44:26+00:00
> Minister for Victims and Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls

Violence? This act of choking most of the time is requested by women themselves. It's the woman who fantasizes about it and asks her partner to perform it. I have never heard or read anywhere that the guy initiated it, simply because it adds nothing to the overall pleasure for him. Actually, women's fantasies are usually more messed up than men's on average, and you can compare the porn that men mostly watch vs the dark fantasies that women read in their books. Women's fantasies are usually about abduction, abuse, stalking, pain, among others. There's always this theme whenever you read about domestic violence or really anything bad in relationships or families, including things like manipulation and abuse. You always find that the man is portrayed as bad, the woman as the victim, a completely biased language as it's never the other way around, while in reality both can commit abuse. Males usually do so in physical form but females usually in emotional and mental form, which is far worse, and you can ask anyone who had an abusive mother.

Back to the ‘choking’ part, how will they regulate other forms of choking? And without going vulgar about it, hands aren't necessarily used, so can a woman accuse the man within the coming 3 years of the intimate event (per the article) after he had a “specific oral sex” with her and she choked on it? What if it's the other way around, the woman is big and was over the man's face? Will the same rule apply? This is a silly law and it's surprising it's already been in place since 2021. Probably in 10 years sexual intimacy will be done how it was in the Demolition Man movie, zero physical contact!
by jakozaur | 2025-11-04 08:44:29+00:00
I talked to some enterprises and saw similar patterns:

1. Agentic AI systems are hard to measure and evaluate methodologically.

2. Quote from Salesforce analyst day: "it's been so easy to build a killer demo, but why has it been so hard to get agents that actually deliver the goods.”

3. Unfortunately, small errors tend to compound over time, which means most systems need a human in the loop as of 2025.

4. A lot of enterprise buyers feel the huge potential (and FOMO), yet ROI is still unclear as of 2025. MIT report "State of AI in business 2025": Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, 95% of organizations are not seeing profit and loss impact.