MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-22 22:35:40+00:00
I can see what you mean, I interpreted everything to be elaboration to your introductory remark:

> "We" are replacing layers of stupid shit that got layered on top of, and associated with OOP, with different renderings of the same stupid shit.

Meaning that both structured programming and ADTs are different names for the same "stupid shit", meaning the same ideas as OOP. I agree with this for ADT, that is really just the same thing under another name, but I failed to see how structured programming has something to do with OOP.

I now see, that the paragraph wasn't to be read like that.

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This:

> All the glop that was added later -- Factories, FactoryFactories, GoF patterns, services, microservices -- that's not OOP as originally proposed. A bunch of often questionable ideas were expressed using OO, but they were not part of OO.

> The OOP hatred has always been bizarre to me, and I think mostly motivated by these false associations. The essential OOP ideas are uncontroversial. They are just programming language constructs designed to support programming practices that are pretty widely recognized as good ones, regardless of your language choices. Pick your language, use the OO parts or not, it isn't that big a deal. And if your language doesn't have OO bits, then good programming often involves reimplementing them in a systematic way.

is really the summary under every explanation or criticism of OOP. It is way more eligible for expression than most blog-posts, but it is so concise that it kind of doesn't even warrant to be that.
by Ancapistani | 2025-11-22 22:36:19+00:00
You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth here.

The specific origins of the virus have not, to my knowledge, been confirmed.

I am not asserting that it was a lab leak; I’m merely asserting that it is not unreasonable to consider it possible.

Nowhere did I suggest that I believed it more likely to be the source than zoonotic spillover, nor did I assert anything about a coverup by any party.

Frankly, this whole discussion is a great example of why I commented. It should absolutely not be discouraged to consider less-likely explanations when the most likely has not been conclusively proven.
by pandaman | 2025-11-22 22:36:24+00:00
does not explain why places with more wealth inequality see more homelessness

That's just because it's not true. Aspen, Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard and other places with the peak wealth inequality do not see more homelessness (or any homelessness worth mentioning). Liberal cities are the epicenters of homelessness because they all follow the same policies of enablement.
by genezeta | 2025-11-22 22:37:25+00:00
As stupid as the headline sounds -which I concur, sounds rather silly-, it does not mean that.

The article is about organoids [0]. What the quote means is that if a patient had colon cancer, they could extract some tissue from it, grow it -in a dish, in a lab- into an organoid, and then try various options on it to see exactly what works on this specific patient.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoid
by brnaftr361 | 2025-11-22 22:38:05+00:00
I would think the argument for this is that it would enable and facilitate more advanced environments.

There's also plenty of games with fully explorable environments, I think it's more of a scale and utility consideration. I can't think of what use I'd have for exploring an office complex in GTA other than to hear Rockstar's parodical office banter. But Morrowind had reason for it to exist in most contexts.

Other games have intrinsically explorable interiors like NMS, and Enshrouded. Elden Ring was pretty open in this regard as well. And Zelda. I'm sure there are many others. TES doesn't fall into this due to the way interiors are structured which is a door teleports you to an interior level, ostensibly to save on poly budget, which again, concerning scale is an important consideration in both terms of meaning and effort in-context.

This doesn't seem to be doing much to build upon that, I think we could procedurally scatter empty shell buildings with low-mid assets already with a pretty decent degree of efficiency?
by NotNerdz | 2025-11-22 22:38:24+00:00
InfiniaxAI is an all-in-one artificial intelligence platform built to handle chat, code generation, agent workflows, visual creation, and advanced model integrations in one place. It combines multiple top-tier models—including GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Qwen, and more—into a unified system designed for speed, depth, and flexibility. Developers can run multi-model “Nexus” prompts, build agents, generate games or apps through the Visualizer, and manage everything through a clean, modern interface with token-based usage.
by amarant | 2025-11-22 22:39:06+00:00
You're getting downvoted, likely for prudish reasons, but in all seriousness it doesn't seem unlikely that you're right.

The porn industry has historically been very quick to adopt new technologies, it's easy to see how this could benefit that industry, so it's a logical enough conclusion to draw. They'll very likely be the first commercial application of this, once viable.
by tzs | 2025-11-22 22:39:33+00:00
Could you be more specific?

I've got several Matter smart plugs and a couple Matter smart bulbs.

They all were quick and easy to set up with their first Matter controller (an RPi4 running Home Assistant or an iPad with Apple Home), and quick and easy to add to whichever controller I didn't use as the first controller.

They all worked then without requiring me to get their manufacturer's proprietary app or make an account or anything like that.

Some needed a firmware update to support Matter 1.3, and so I had to use the manufacturer's app for that. Some also have proprietary functions and options (for example one of bulbs supports some kind of presence detection if you have at least two of those bulbs in the same room) so I might get the manufacturers app if I decide I want to use those functions.

Adding them to the manufacturer's app does not interfere with their use as Matter devices so if I do decide I want to use some of the proprietary stuff it doesn't break things.
by jl6 | 2025-11-22 22:39:52+00:00
News is often highly decontextualized, to our detriment. This site is a nice idea, because seeing echoes of today in old news is a starting point for adding a little bit of context back in. A lot of people live in a permanent rage-state induced by the simple good vs evil narratives that are so easy to spin when the context is obscured. These narratives break down when you start to piece together why events unfold the way they do.
by allenrb | 2025-11-22 22:40:01+00:00
The typical 1 gigawatt rating for a nuclear power reactor is measuring electrical output. Given the various inefficiencies, the actual reactor output (as heat) is something like 3x that amount. Whereas a research reactor will be quoted as thermal output.

That to say, a typical commercial reactor might be 30x the power of a 100 MW research device.
by recitedropper | 2025-11-22 22:42:00+00:00
I think we agree no the limitations of the study--I literally began my comment with "for seasoned maintainers of open source repos". I'm not sure if in your first statement ("there are no studies to back up this claim.. I welcome good analysis") you are referring to claims that support an AI-speedup. If so, we agree that good analysis is needed. But if you think there already is good data:

Can you link any? All I've seen is stuff like Anthropic claiming 90% of internal code is written by Claude--I think we'd agree that we need an unbiased source and better metrics than "code written". My concern is that whenever AI usage in professional developers is studied empirically, as far as I have seen, the results never corroborate your claim: "Any developer (who was a developer before March 2023) that is actively using these tools and understands the nuances of how to search the vector space (prompt) is being sped up substantially."

I'm open to it being possible, but as someone who was a developer before March 2023 and is surrounded by many professionals who were also so, our results are more lukewarm than what I see boosters claim. It speeds up certain types of work, but not everything in a manner that adds up to all work "sped up substantially".

I need to see data, and all the data I've seen goes the other way. Did you see the recent Substack looking at public Github data showing no increase in the trend of PRs all the way up to August 2025? All the hard data I've seen is much, much more middling than what people who have something to sell AI-wise are claiming.

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware...
Show HN: Pastehub.app – client-side "what did I just copy?" tool
by jcfs | 2025-11-22 22:42:16+00:00
I kept copying stuff and opening 10 different tabs to understand it, so I built pastehub.app.100 % client-side, zero backend, nothing ever leaves your machine.

Current detectors (all instant):

JSON → pretty + minify JWT → decode header/payload Base64 / Base64url → decode to text or file Images → QR/barcode decode + dominant color palette + OCR (Tesseract) URLs → clean tracking params + rich preview Hex, colors, unit conversions (kglb, cmft, °C°F, etc.) Math expressions → instant calculation and ~20 more small ones

It’s deliberately over-engineered for the weird stuff I paste daily.

Try throwing anything at it: https://pastehub.app Feedback button () goes straight to me. Curious what breaks it :)
Show HN: FlashDrive 1987 – "First Ride", an AI-assisted short film experiment [video]
by ErkMkd | 2025-11-22 22:44:21+00:00
I’ve been working on a small retro-sci-fi project called FlashDrive 1987, where a 13-year-old kid in Arizona builds an autonomous car using 1980s tech. This is Capsule 10, the moment the AI (“Chip”) speaks and the car moves for the first time.

I used a mix of Midjourney, Dall-e, Hedra, ElevenLabs and custom sound design. Happy to share details about the workflow, mistakes, tools, and the pipeline if anyone is interested.
by nitwit005 | 2025-11-22 22:45:39+00:00
I can see this working as a randomly generated map for some quick game, like the Worms games did in 2D.

But, having things feel strongly on a grid kind of ruins the feel. It's rare for every building to be isolated like that. I am guessing they had trouble producing neighboring buildings that looked like they could logically share a common wall or alleyway.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-22 22:45:51+00:00
My first question would be: or is it that cat owners are schizophrenic are more likely to get a cat?

I'm not answering that question, but I do want to quote your article. From the bottom:

> Results were inconsistent across studies, but those of higher quality suggested that associations in unadjusted models might have been due to factors that could have influenced the results.

> One study found no significant association between owning a cat before age 13 and later developing schizophrenia, but it did identify a significant link when narrowing down cat ownership to a specific period (ages 9 to 12). This inconsistency suggests that the critical window for cat exposure is not well defined.

> A study in the US, which involved 354 psychology students, didn't find a connection between owning a cat and schizotypy scores. However, those who had received a cat bite had higher scores when compared to those who had not.

> Another study, which included people with and without mental disorders, discovered a connection between cat bites and higher scores on tests measuring particular psychological experiences. But they suggested other pathogens, such as Pasteurella multocida, may be responsible instead.

> Before we can make any firm interpretations, the researchers reiterate that we need better and broader research.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-22 22:45:53+00:00
> Hell, ask someone to write a signature for array flat, you'd be surprised how many would fail.

To be clear, an array flat type:

type FlatArr<Arg extends unknown[]> = Arg extends [infer First, ...(infer Rest)] ? First extends unknown[] ? [...First, ...FlatArr<Rest>] : [First, ...FlatArr<Rest>] : [];

is far from basic Typescript. The average Typescript dev likely doesn't need to understand recursive conditional types. It's a level of typescript one typically only needs for library development.

Not only have I never been expected to write something like this for actual work, I'm not sure it's been useful when I have, since most of my colleagues consider something like this nerd sniping and avoid touching/using such utilities, even with documentation.
by sfink | 2025-11-22 22:46:25+00:00
This article is annoying. It's not wrong, but it also doesn't come across as terribly relevant without suggesting some vaguely plausible alternative. The closest it comes is that everyone should go back to using "regular" search engines that will return "regular" pages. and that if all the players (browser makers + search engines) did that then everything would be just fine.

That'd be great, if that pristine Web still existed to search and people were happy with today's results of searching it. But in the real world, the Web is a pile of auto-generated and auto-assembled fragments of slop, SEO-optimized to death, puddled atop and all around the surviving fragments of value. (The value is still there! I suspect the total value in the Web has never stopped increasing. Just like those monkeys are always typing out more and more Shakespeare.) Also in the real world, people are decisively choosing the AI-generated summaries and fevered imaginings. Not for everything, but web search -> URL -> page visit is becoming a declining percentage that won't always be able to support everything that it does today.

It's not that I particularly want AI in my browser. I would say that I emphatically don't, except that automatic translation is really nice, and Firefox's automatic names for tab groups are pretty cool, and I'm sure here and there people will come up with other pieces. I'm actually ok with AI that targets real needs, which is 0.01% of what people are pushing it for. But I also think that we're past the point where NOT having AI in the browser is a sustainable position. (In terms of number of users and therefore financially.)

Should Mozilla be head over heels in love with AI, as it appears to be now? I'd definitely prefer if it weren't. But telling Mozilla "don't do bad thing, it'll make you irrelevant and have no users" is fine and dandy but ultimately pointless unless you have an alternative that doesn't require the entire world to cooperate in turning back the clock.

(Disclosure: Mozilla pays me a salary to write bugs.)

(And working code! I write some of that too!)

(And no, I currently don't do anything that adds AI to the browser, nor can I think of anything I'd want to work on that would add any AI.)
by dweekly | 2025-11-22 22:46:39+00:00
Note Chrome ATLs formally declaring yesterday: "Since JPEG XL was last evaluated, Safari has shipped support and Firefox has updated their position. We also continue to see developer signals for this in bug upvotes, Interop proposals, and survey data. There was also a recent announcement that JPEG XL will be added to PDF.

Given these positive signals, we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance. With those and our usual launch criteria met, we would ship it in Chrome."

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKc...
by blendo | 2025-11-22 22:46:48+00:00
Back in the 80s, the Tek 4115 (color, 1280x1024) was so much fun for a young programmer working at RADC/Hanscom AFB.

Mandelbrot sets and Towers of Hanoi were so exciting to write in Fortran (I think Fortran 77), running under, iirc, CP/M.
by decasia | 2025-11-22 22:46:48+00:00
I thought this was a really good piece of writing. It’s rare to do something like this because the job discourages it by putting PR filters on everything you say.

My uncle was a pretty big pop star in the 1960s. His group at one point had a big fanzine, they were household names across the country, over time they had stalkers and weird fans and all that, made movies and albums, had big parties and knew other famous people, pretty much all those things that the OP writes about (circa 50 years later, some of it has changed but not that much).

He could be charismatic and surprisingly eloquent and I could picture him writing a piece like this, if the mood had struck.

He also lost pretty much all the money through mismanagement (several times over), eventually moved out of LA, had a tumultuous family life with numerous spouses and wasn’t around much for his kids, and after his 40s was trapped in a sad cycle of reunion tours because the band still needed the money. The tours still had some level of excitement and crowd enthusiasm, even pretty late in life and I guess he always loved the stage, the performing, all that. But in the end, I kinda felt it seemed like a lonely existence. Hard to form really deep connections when you’re always traveling and often away in your head.
by gabriel316 | 2025-11-22 22:46:59+00:00
I’ve been working on a small side project called MyPromptLibrary and would love some feedback.

It’s a community-driven prompt library where:

- You can bookmark prompts you like - You can fork someone else’s prompt, tweak it, and either keep it private or publish your own version - Prompts aren’t tied to any specific IDE or model

I was inspired by the Cursor prompt directory, but I wanted something that’s editor-agnostic. I’m also building a VS Code extension so you can pull your prompts directly into your editor (still figuring out the best workflow there).

It’s early and a bit rough around the edges, so I’m especially interested in feedback on: - Whether the forking/private/public model makes sense - What’s missing for this to be useful in your day-to-day workflow - Any UI/UX pain points

Happy to answer questions and share implementation details in the comments.
by programjames | 2025-11-22 22:47:10+00:00
> States are saying that schools have to post the 10 commandments

Yeah that definitely seems against the First Amendment (and Texas' equivalent in their Bill of Rights). I feel like the world makes more sense if you read the First Amendment as a treaty between the Christian sects that were executing one another in the colonies for heresy, rather than y'know what it literally says.

> when teachers put up a poster about “everyone is welcomed here” showing kids of different colors it’s “too woke”.

Keep gang signs out of the classroom. In places where university rivalries are high, teachers are also asked to keep ensignia off their doors. It's the same here. "Everyone is welcomed here" (without a cross) is now a callsign for "registered Democrat". Imagine if a teacher put a big "don't trample on me" sign with a snake... I feel like that would send a message other than, "be respectful in class."
by Nextgrid | 2025-11-22 22:47:13+00:00
I think the whole tech career/ladder and concept of permanently employed software engineer is flawed and leads to unnecessary complexity and endless churn in the ecosystem. Despite what the techbros will claim, software once built requires very little (sometimes zero) maintenance. Similarly, not all software requires exceptional skill to create.

But the career progression and compensation frameworks don't currently reflect that, which means there's an incentive for engineers to artificially increase complexity of their solution, introduce churn/unneeded maintenance, all to boast their own track record, get promoted and stick around, ultimately at the expense of the company who would be much better off with a functioning product and paying for one-off maintenance/alterations as needed.

There's little correlation between someone's level on some company's progression framework and their actual engineering skill beyond a certain baseline; if anything I would say it is the opposite (the more "experienced" in traditional tech career progression the more likely they will deliver an overengineered solution, as opposed to a junior delivering a PHP script that fulfills the requirement simply because they don't know any "better").

I would only trust such a level if the person was lucky to be at the right place and time and their engineering efforts actually contributed to building/extending a useful product, as opposed to made-up busywork (with after-the-fact resume justification) which is closer to art (in terms of inventing creative ways of extracting salary from a company) than engineering.

Ideally software engineering would be closer to trades like building or electricians/plumbers/etc. They get called on a job, paid their quoted amount, and are then responsible to deliver the quoted work ideally as fast as possible (for their own good, since they'd get paid the same but could enjoy the free time or go to the next job). They won't get paid to stick around so there is little incentive to make up busywork, and the work is closer to actual engineering which is to figure out a technical solution within the agreed requirements and budget.
by jamietanna | 2025-11-22 22:47:29+00:00
I have both types of blog post on my site - deeply personal like talking about my ADHD (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/10/04/adhd/) or salary history (https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/09/21/year-later-salary-histor...) and weekly notes, but also a lot of tech stuff. And as an IndieWeb website, I use it as my social media too, so people can read posts/replies to social media all in one place!

I don't feel like I've had any negative impact from that, or I'm very privileged to be able to say I don't care if I have had any impact from that - I've done fairly well for myself, and I can remind people I'm a full human being!
by defrost | 2025-11-22 22:47:44+00:00
The effectively silent response of the CEO in respect to seriously tackling a pedophile problem was damning, it's an understandably difficult problem with bad optics.

The fully open gleeful embrace of using Roblox to groom future gambling addicts as a path to future revenue streams is so far past damning it screams walking abyss of moral self awareness.
by aaplok | 2025-11-22 22:47:50+00:00
> Were they a coop when they went bankrupt?

They were not. In fact they went through series of mass-redundancy episodes that were supposed to save them from bankruptcy, soon followed by yet another bankruptcy.

The COOP might fail. Indeed the call for contributions discussed in the article was motivated by that risk. But it won't fail because it was a COOP, because every CEO who tried also failed to save it. The COOP structure is this company's last chance, literally.
by dweekly | 2025-11-22 22:48:21+00:00
Note prior HN Discussions on this topic:

FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35589179

Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399940

Chromium jpegxl issue closed as won't fix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40407475
by macintux | 2025-11-22 22:48:29+00:00
In a similar vein, I recommend Looking for Trouble[0], a memoir by Virginia Cowles. I haven't finished it, but it's a look back at her time as a foreign correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

I found it courtesy a comment from cooldrcool1 on a very short discussion here on HN[1, 2].

[0] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714362/looking-for-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32411900

[2] https://lithub.com/christina-lamb-on-the-remarkable-life-and...
by robrain | 2025-11-22 22:48:45+00:00
Still have it, intermittently. A sort of nameless-but-familiar "chemical" smell that comes and goes, along with any sense of taste. That is, I have bad days with no taste, just a chemical smell. Other days I have a pretty good sense of smell, generally with a good sense of taste.

Intriguingly some of the really unpleasant smells never get through to me - I could probably work at a sewage works now. Worryingly I have next to no ability to smell burning, though I do now get the smell of natural gas (or the additive used to make it smell).