MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2025-11-16 23:46:46+00:00
It seems like you did a great job collecting info and reporting it. Still, how do you know that the info was obtained via Coinbase? Certainly they are a likely vector but you are too, and maybe there are others.

Edit: Nevermind; I see you addressed that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45948808
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-16 23:46:59+00:00
It doesn't take a genius to work out somebody who bought low might want to sell high.

The newsworthy aspect to this is that the AI hype cycle is saying that right now, today, Nvidia is cheap. If AI is going to capture the entire economy, but it relies on Nvidia hardware, the current valuation is pennies on the dollar of what it will be one day.

Except, you know, that's all a lie. And Thiel peddled it for a while, and is friends with Musk, and connected to many others in the hype cycle besides, and now he's showing his hand that he knows its a lie.
by whizzter | 2025-11-16 23:47:55+00:00
Huh? Qualcomm announced the X2 chips just 2 months ago with shipments for early next year. Looked at a local dealer site and there's MS, Dell, Asus and Lenovo WinArm machines (with current gen Elite X chips).

Yes, Windows on desktop hardware will probably continue mainly with x86 for a while more, but how many people outside of games, workstation-scenarios and secure scenarios still use desktops compared to laptops (where SoC's are fine for most part)?
by pshirshov | 2025-11-16 23:48:21+00:00
Well, what can I say, fails for me in this scenario. Maybe the NICs on the other end matter too, but I experienced same issues on 4 different desktops with both 2.5gbit Realteks and 10gbit AQtions.

All the Flex swithes I tried glitched: USW-Flex-Mini, USW-Flex-2.5G-5 (frame drops and interface going down for several seconds) and (to lesser extent, just frame drops) USW-Flex.

Have no idea why but I observed that more under UDP loads.
by stefan_ | 2025-11-16 23:48:53+00:00
Sorry but I think you just don't know a lot about LLMs. Why did they start spamming code with emojis? It's not because that is what people actually do, something that is in the training data. It's because someone reinforcement learned the LLM to do it by asking clueless people if they prefer code with emojis.

And so at this point the excessive bullet points and similar filler trash is also just an expression of whatever stupid people think they prefer.

Maybe I'm being too harsh and it's not the raters are stupid in this constellation, rather it's the ones thinking you could improve the LLM by asking them to make a few very thin judgements.
by buu700 | 2025-11-16 23:49:45+00:00
Sure, but that doesn't really have anything to do with what I said. The CEO of an AI company may or may not believe in the social benefits of censorship, and the reasoning for their beliefs could be any number of things, but at the end of the day "the corporation" is still motivated by profit.

Executives are beholden to laws, regulations, and shareholder interests. They may also have teams of advisors and board members convincing them of the wisdom of decisions they wouldn't have arrived at on their own. They may not even have a strong opinion on a particular decision, but assent to one direction as a result of internal politics or shareholder/board pressure. Not everything is a clear-cut decision with one "moral" option and one "immoral" option.
by surajrmal | 2025-11-16 23:49:57+00:00
For specific use cases, it's not only more ergonomic, it can be more performant. Look at Linux kernel use of RCU. The important thing is to maintain control over the allocation strategy and lifetime of data depending on the use case for systems programming. Defaulting to a GC just removes your control which is the problem. GC itself is not problematic.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-16 23:50:24+00:00
I think it's important to note that it's not just gaming, but the improvements have cascaded over to regular desktop users as well: I'm taking about improvements in the kernel (for AMD CPUs mainly), improvements in the graphics stack (Mesa, amdgpu drivers), improvements in KDE and of course, improvements to the Wine project in general (which goes beyond gaming). Anyone who's been closely following the FOSS scene can see how the progress in these projects have exploded exponentially over the past 3-4 years, thanks to Valve.

And with the most recent announcements, we can expect to see a similar sort of growth in the FEX emulator and general ARM support for various projects, which is all every exciting even as a non-gamer.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-16 23:50:24+00:00
What degrades conversation is to lie about something being not AI when it actually is. People pointing out the fraud are right to do so.

One thing I've learned is that comment sections are a vital defense on AI content spreading, because while you might fool some people, it's hard to fool all the people. There have been times I've been fooled by AI only to see in the comments the consensus that it is AI. So now it's my standard practice to check comments to see what others are saying.

If mods put a rule into place that muzzles this community when it comes to alerting others a fraud is being affected, that just makes this place a target for AI scams.
by analog31 | 2025-11-16 23:50:57+00:00
One of the reasons why I changed banks. My new bank has a coin counting machine in the lobby, you throw your coins in, it consumes them, and gives you a slip that you take to the teller.

As I understand it, coins are considered a government service. Banks and retailers pay to deal with them. Buying them from the public for face value actually saves them money.
by buu700 | 2025-11-16 23:51:35+00:00
If that's the case, then it sounds like we largely agree with each other. There's no need for personal attacks implying that I'm somehow detached from reality.

Ultimately, this isn't strictly an issue specific to genAI. If a "script roulette" program that downloaded and executed random GitHub Gist files somehow became popular, or if someone created a web app that allowed anyone to anonymously pilot a fleet of robots, I'd suggest that those be subject to exactly the same types of safety regulations I proposed.

Any such regulations should be generically written, not narrowly targeted at AI algorithms. I'd still call that "AI safety", because in practice it's a much more useful definition of AI safety than the one being pushed today. "Non-determinism safety" doesn't really have the same ring to it.
by KPGv2 | 2025-11-16 23:52:36+00:00
Your first sentence cheers that we're moving from NPM micropackages to LLM-generated code, and then you say this will result in people having to learn to code again.

I don't see how the conclusion follows from this.

There will be many LLM-generated functions purporting to do the same thing, and a bug in one of them that gets fixed means only one project gets fixed instead of every project using an NPM package as a dependency.
by stephen_g | 2025-11-16 23:52:39+00:00
Australia's rules for how to round are summed up in four dot points here in a single page of info, with another two short paragraphs about how electronic/credit card and cheque transactions are handled (they are not rounded): https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/rounding-and-eftpos-tr...

When the removal of one and two cent pieces actually happened in Australia (1991), all the details were distributed in a pamphlet of just four pages. That amount of information is probably about all people need, literally just a document with some guidelines!
by analog31 | 2025-11-16 23:52:47+00:00
As I understand it, more than X dollars worth of coins is not legal tender. I learned this due to an absurd case in Detroit, where someone stole bags of coins from an armored car, got caught, and claimed their crime was not a felony because it was below the dollar limit for a felony. Of course the judge treated their request with the disdain that it deserved.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-11-16 23:53:02+00:00
Since you're speaking as a moderator I'd like to ask for clarification on the official position:

Was that actually a personal attack, or was it a verifiable claim about the quantity and type of submissions by this user? Is the problem that it was labeled "propaganda", and would it have been ok without that word?

I thought it was useful context to have a look at the submission history. There is a slew of recent [dead] submissions. At what point is it fair to call that out? Or is it about the wording?
by eibrahim | 2025-11-16 23:53:24+00:00
So many comments about the AI generation part. Why does it matter? If it’s good and accurate and helpful why do you care? That’s like saying you used a calculator to calculate your equations so I can’t trust you.

I am just impressed by the quality and details and approach of it all.

Nicely done (PS: I know nothing about systems programming and I have been writing code for 25 years)
by whoknowsidont | 2025-11-16 23:53:27+00:00
>but isn't this solved by publishing good API docs, and then pointing the LLM to those docs as a training resource?

Yes.

It's not a dumb question. The situation is so dumb you feel like an idiot for asking the obvious question. But it's the right question to ask.

Also you don't need to "train" the LLM on those resources. All major models have function / tool calling built in. Either create your own readme.txt with extra context or, if it's possible, update the API's with more "descriptive" metadata (aka something like swagger) to help the LLM understand how to use the API.
by drumhead | 2025-11-16 23:53:30+00:00
First it was Softbank and now its Thiel. Major sales coming from two of the ultimate tech insiders is probably a very good sell signal. Whether or not its the top is another question. Markets as we know can go higher longer than we think, Michael Burry shut down his hedge fund because he may have started shorting too soon.

One of the funds that Meta were working with to finance their spending on AI, Blue Owl, had to stop redemptions on of their private credit funds merging it with another one of their bigger funds, leaving holders facing a 20% haircut. There also seem to be emerging liquidity issues with banks. The money for the AI gravy train might be running out.
by pengaru | 2025-11-16 23:53:48+00:00
It's odd how banks have largely stopped operating change counting machines.

In my childhood we'd hoard loose change then make a trip to the local po-dunk bank serving my neighborhood surrounded by corn fields, and even there they'd take our bucket of loose change and dump it into a counting machine for free.

It was a game to try guess the amount we'd get in paper cash...

Now you have to pay for this service at a grocery store using a cumbersome machine operated by Coinstar.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-16 23:54:10+00:00
$7-10B was a lower bound. The actual amount of profit is difficult to determine.

Their pricing was considered high enough that it led to a Senate investigation and quite a lot of litigation. (Which likely dug into their profits.)

> https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/company-put-profi...

They could have priced it lower and still have turned a healthy profit. Still, they played the rules of the game as those rules were set, which a Goldman Sachs analyst, at least, ought to appreciate. There's nothing inherently unprofitable about cures, and the nature of the drug development business is inherently unsustainable.
by lostmsu | 2025-11-16 23:54:43+00:00
> Empirically, I don't think Christians do worse investments than us atheists, so rationally speaking I don't think it's much of a factor.

Hm, why not? Like obviously it would be hard to do a study because you can't just control by wealth. But if you control by the level of education and stop at that I'm almost certain christians would lose.
by KPGv2 | 2025-11-16 23:54:54+00:00
> you do avoid worries like "will I have to update this dependency every week and deal with breaking changes?

This is not a worry with NPM. You can just specify a specific version of a dependency in your package.json, and it'll never be updated ever.

I have noticed for years that the JS community is obsessed with updating every package to the latest version no matter what. It's maddening. If it's not broke, don't fix it!
by DrewADesign | 2025-11-16 23:55:57+00:00
I don’t know exactly what educators roles are, but there are lots of training programs out there sponsored either by government job placement programs or industry associations. In Chicago, JARC is one example. Also, a lot of the larger companies have big training programs to onboard inexperienced workers into skilled trades. Most of the classes themselves seem to be taught by people in those trades rather than teachers, but surely that isn’t always the case, and the curriculum development probably involves professional educators. Some of the things are pretty techy— automating industrial robots for example — but in don’t have any direct knowledge of that.
by zamadatix | 2025-11-16 23:56:03+00:00
I'd say not quite, but closer. The original

> Any idea except "it's a contrail or non-hidden spraying of some sort"

Meaning the chemtrail conspiracy is "contrails are actually cover ups for chemical spraying that isn't otherwise known", not just "if chemical spraying is covert, then people made a language rule saying it should be referred to as a chemtrail instead".

I.e. chemtrails refers specifically to the conspiracy about a contrail based cover up for covert chemical spraying by world powers, not just a term for a claim that someone somewhere has sprayed chemicals covertly.
by drumhead | 2025-11-16 23:56:31+00:00
If there is a bubble then the hyperscalers with dominant market shares and big cashflows are most likely to survive if it bursts. Google, MSFT and Amazon. Oracle are on very shaky ground. Their bonds are selling at a discount to par, even though interest rates are dropping, and their debt to equity ratio is nearing 400%. AI is an existential bet for them, but not so much for the others.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-16 23:56:42+00:00
Greenspan warned about irrational exuberance, the newspapers were full of articles like the Guardian one:

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/a...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/1999/dec/20/nasdaq.efin...

This time, "AI" has been hyped up more than tech in 1999 by the media. The media has just reversed course in 2025 because they found out that most people hate "AI". in 2023-2024 it was mainly hype.
Ask HN: LangChain for Rails, Port with AI?
by eibrahim | 2025-11-16 23:56:58+00:00
I need to use an agentic framework in my rails app and debating different solutions. How hard would it be to point AI at the Langchain repo and say “convert to a rails gem”. I took a stab at it and haven’t tested it yet but the code looks pretty damn good. I feel like this is a great use of AI where it’s not really thinking just converting from one language to another. Thoughts?
by gnabgib | 2025-11-16 23:57:45+00:00
(2000) Popular in:

2023 (37 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763307

2021 (168 points, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626532

2016 (94 points, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872658
by throwup238 | 2025-11-16 23:58:02+00:00
That questions belies a misunderstanding of how the pharmaceutical industry works and I'm having a hard time figuring out if the journalist made a mistake or the report was written by someone with little experience in the industry (I haven't read it).

Since we've mostly run out of small molecule drugs, the (vast?) majority of drugs are developed outside the pharmaceutical industry by biotechs funded by VCs and public investors. It's a well understood pipeline now that takes IP from university tech transfer to VC biotech to pre-revenue* IPO with the final exit being an acquisition by a pharmaceutical company, which comes in with the manufacturing infrastructure to take the drug from phase III trials or approval to the mass market. Once a drug is approved (or the phase III is very promising like Sofosbuvir), pharmaceutical companies trip over each other trying to buy the IP. The industry has offloaded most of the scientific risk to VCs and the public while sharing the rewards with those investors.

As long as the number of pharmaceutical companies doesn't drop to oligopoly/cartel levels and capture the regulators completely, the incentives are strong for one pharmaceutical company to buy a cure and take it to market to undercut a competitor's treatment. Even if an oligopoly develops, since there's no "product market fit" risk and zero scientific risk once a drug is approved, financing the purchase is trivial and starting a new pharmaceutical company to compete with the oligopoly is relatively easy. The manufacturing bit is no joke but the amount of money involved even with a single drug makes starting up a new pharmaceutical competitor totally worth it, since the manufacturing and quality control is a well understood engineering problem.

On top of that, it's practically impossible for every pharmaceutical company to have a drug that treats the same thing without a ton of consolidation in the market. Drug approvals often use active-comparators and standard of care controls that raise the bar for each new drug on the market that treats the same thing. A cure on the other hand is essentially just competing against a single golden standard (there are many exceptions but it's a good rule of thumb).

Another factor is pricing. Treatments are generally priced based on how they impact quality of life because that decides how much insurers are willing to pay, especially the big state healthcare providers that have to do hard cost benefit calculations. If a treatment is making bank, the ceiling for what you can charge for a cure is a significant fraction of the lifetime cost of the treatment, and not just based on the QOL impact. It creates a strong incentive for both investors and insurers to get the cure to market.

* If you think unprofitable tech IPOs are bad, most biotechs that IPO do so with zero revenue, let alone profit. Usually to fund clinical trials.
by KPGv2 | 2025-11-16 23:58:15+00:00
If you use an LLM to generate a function, it will never be updated.

So why not do the same thing with a dependency? Install it once and never update it (and therefore hacked and malicious versions can never arrive in your dependency tree).

You're a JS developer, right? That's the group who thinks a programmer's job includes constantly updating dependencies to the latest version constantly.
by evolve2k | 2025-11-16 23:58:18+00:00
It’s not “free tier” it’s all the tiers being significantly discounted (underpriced). It’s ALL pricing.

Per the article is all underpriced… run the logic.. assume when the funds run out that prices across the board go up 5x, 10x, more. Assess where u think it’d all be at.

What do u think downward affect on the market will be?
by toast0 | 2025-11-16 23:59:19+00:00
Everyone knows Alanis Morissette is a master electrician. That's why she has one hand in her pocket, while the other is probing a circuit.

Anyway, it's kind of Ironic [1] that the dude from Queen is an astrophysicist, and Britney Spears is writing Semiconductor Physics tutorials. Something something music and math.

[1] Sorry
by jorvi | 2025-11-16 23:59:45+00:00
> If you're the author of a library, you have to cover every possible way in which your code might be used.

You don't actually. You write the library for how you use it, and you accept pull requests that extend it if you feel it has merit.

If you don't, people are free to fork it and pull in your improvements periodically. Or their fork gets more popular, and you get to swap in a library that is now better-maintained by the community.

As long as you pin your package, you're better off. Replicating code pretty quickly stops making sense.
by Laremere | 2025-11-17 00:00:12+00:00
No law in relation to pennies has changed. The executive branch has simply took the law stating the mint should create as many pennies as necessary, and decided that the necessary amount is 0.

The practicalities of their illegality then comes down to enforcement. Given the current executive branch's behavior related to enforcement of laws, that can mean anything from "melt them all down", to "don't do it", to "if our friends start doing it, it'll be legal, if our enemies start doing it, we'll enforce".
by westurner | 2025-11-17 00:00:22+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Coherent synchrotron radiation by excitation of surface plasmon polariton on near-critical solid microtube surface" (2025) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/cnym-16hc https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04561

NewsArticle: "A Radical New Kind of Particle Accelerator Could Transform Science" (2025) https://www.sciencealert.com/a-radical-new-kind-of-particle-...

... CSR Coherent Synchrotron Radiation X-Rays from laser EM on CNT Carbon Nanotubes
by rainsford | 2025-11-17 00:00:23+00:00
Is the connection through Cloudflare still encrypted between the two peers, as it would be going through a Tailscale relay? If not, that's definitely a downgrade using the Cloudflare approach. But if not, I'm not sure the trust model is significantly different with maybe the added benefit of the fact that Cloudflare's relay performance is likely better given that relaying traffic is kind of their main thing rather than a very secondary function like it is for Tailscale.

On the other hand, my experience with Tailscale is that they're very, very good at NAT hole punching and I'd rather have a direct connection where possible from a latency standpoint.
by James_K | 2025-11-17 00:00:31+00:00
> Most programming languages hide complexity from you—they abstract away memory management, mask control flow with implicit operations, and shield you from the machine beneath. This feels simple at first, but eventually you hit a wall. You need to understand why something is slow, where a crash happened, or how to squeeze every ounce of performance from your hardware. Suddenly, the abstractions that helped you get started are now in your way.

> Zig takes a different path. It reveals complexity—and then gives you the tools to master it.

> This book will take you from Hello, world! to building systems that cross-compile to any platform, manage memory with surgical precision, and generate code at compile time. You will learn not just how Zig works, but why it works the way it does. Every allocation will be explicit. Every control path will be visible. Every abstraction will be precise, not vague.

But sadly people like the prompter of this book will lie and pretend to have written things themselves that they did not. First three paragraphs by the way, and a bingo for every sign of AI.
by kasey_junk | 2025-11-17 00:00:51+00:00
When someone says “bare metal” to me, it implies that virtualization is a problem for their workloads. I’d be very surprised if there was a mass increase in workloads that was the case for. I’d be surprised if most of Hetzners existing non-virtualization customers even care.

When someone says “on premise” I assume they mean they are running some part of the premise. Whether they are leasing rack space in a broader data center or not, I agree that it’s a continuum, but I’d expect on premise to include negotiating energy and network as part.

To me, the more interesting question for this conversation is a)how are you paying for compute, are you doing long term lease/purchase of servers or are you getting short term provisioning of a standard sku and b) are you using “value added” services. Are you provisioning your own data warehouses, specialized database clusters etc, or are you using a managed service?

The distinction between a vm on a hyper scalar and per hour provisioning of hetzner compute (virtualized or not) seems pretty straightforward and I’d be shocked if there was some mass migration of those workloads away from the big clouds.

I have done workloads where virtualization very much matters and the physical locality of the servers makes a big difference and we are seeing the opposite happen, the cloud providers are dipping their toe in that market which has been closed to them.