MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by truelinux1 | 2025-11-28 17:07:37+00:00
OP - I was aware it was coined by Karpathy, but confess that I never knew the meaning in relation to his way of working which is cool. It's the snarky types on reddit who use that term derisively - and right, I should just ignore them. So, good points - I have to agree with you've said.
by aeyes | 2025-11-28 17:07:42+00:00
Because for a CS degree students are expected to work with other systems and the software needed to complete the course work is usually low level. Even when I did my CS degree 20 years ago our labs were Linux and Solaris.

For other degrees you need software which only runs on Windows.

It might also help that Microsoft was totally irrelevant in the professional world in the 80s.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-28 17:07:50+00:00
You don't?

Modern computers can understand natural language, and can reply in natural language. This isn't even particularly new, we've had voice assistants for over a decade. LLMs are just far better at it.

Again: I see no reason why silicon plates can't do the same exact things a mush of wet meat does. And recent advances in AI sure suggest that they can.
by crote | 2025-11-28 17:08:40+00:00
But what does that grassroot adoption look like in practice? Is that a developer spending $250/month on Claude, or is it a local corner shop using it once a month to replace their clip art flyer with AI slop, and the example contract they previously found via Google with some legalese gobbledygook ChatGPT hallucinated?

Giving AI away for free to people who don't give a rat's ass about the quality of its output isn't very difficult. But that's not exactly going to pay your datacenter bill...
by seanieb | 2025-11-28 17:09:05+00:00
A recent analysis of the Trump Tarrifs on the EU concluded that while “some regions and industries could suffer”, for Europe overall the hit may be “limited but not negligible.

The EU is quietly investing massively in diversifying away from the US market. there are trade negotiations or agreements in process (or being advanced) with countries/regions including India, the countries of the Mercosur bloc, Mexico, and Middle-East countries.
by tzury | 2025-11-28 17:09:18+00:00
The Burry short is just one data point, but the "facts we know" are piling up fast. Here is a possible roadmap for the coming correction:

1. The Timeline: We are looking at a winter. A very dark and cold winter. Whether it hits before Christmas or mid-Q1 is a rounding error; the gap between valuations and fundamentals has widened enough to be physically uncomfortable. The Burry thesis—focused on depreciation schedules and circular revenue—is likely just the mechanical trigger for a sentiment cascade.

2. The Big Players:

Google: Likely takes the smallest hit. A merger between DeepMind and Anthropic is not far-fetched (unless Satya goes all the way). By consolidating the most capable models under one roof, Google insulates itself from the hardware crash better than anyone else (especially in light of TPU obvious advantages).

OpenAI: They look "half naked." It is becoming impossible to ignore the leadership vacuum. It’s hard to find people who’ve worked closely with Sama who speak well of his integrity, and the exits of Sutskever, Schulman, and others tell the real story. For a company at that valuation, leadership credibility isn’t a soft factor—it’s a structural risk.

3. The "Pre-Product" Unicorns: We are going to see a reality check for the ex-OpenAI, pre-product, multi-billion valuation labs like SSI and Thinking Machines. These are prime candidates for "acquihres" once capital tightens. They are built on assumptions of infinite capital availability that are about to evaporate.

4. The Downstream Impact: The second and third tier—specifically recent YC batches built on API wrappers and hype—will suffer the most from this catastrophic twister. When the tide goes out, the "Yes" men who got carried away by the wave will be shouting the loudest, pretending they saw it coming all along.
by xorcist | 2025-11-28 17:09:31+00:00
There is a deluge of financial scams across all Meta platforms but also Twitter. A centralized platform have all the right to moderate content, but they must also be liable for obvious scams.

Either you are an open messenger like the postal service or an ISP. Or you own the platform. You cannot have it both ways.

I never understood why they all get away with doing nothing. Meta's own investigation showed 10%+ of all revenue is from outright scams, and all they do is charge the scammers a premium.

I have reported scams myself and have been completely stonewalled just like everyone else. They obviously earn a lot of money by looking the other way. That can't possibly be legal in any jurisdiction. Let's hope the Swedish justice system takes this seriously and sets an example for others.
by CPLX | 2025-11-28 17:09:56+00:00
Is Meta actually obligated to repay the loans or not?

That’s how you can decide if this is disingenuous or not. If Meta is obligated to repay the loan and used to synthetic means to get it off the balance sheet that’s a problem.

If they have in fact successfully transferred risk to other parties then that’s what deals like this are for. It’s the whole reason the concept of limited liability exists.

I am fully willing to believe it’s the former. But that’s the test.
by gpderetta | 2025-11-28 17:10:39+00:00
The primary reason you might want reference stability is because you might have another pointer to it. Reference stability is generally important for the STL and carefully documented; even for vectors stability is guaranteed on many modify operations. I have seen plenty of code that use reserve+push_back specifically to preserve stability for example.

The primary reason for unordered_map to preserve stability is that std::map does and the ability of unordered_map to be a drop-in replacement for std::map for code that doesn't need ordering was considered at that time a better tradeoff than the absolute optimal implementation.

You can of course build a pointer stable map on top of an unstable one by heap allocating every object and storing unique_ptrs to the objects in the map, but when hash_map was initially added to the STL (remember than unordered map is just standardizing the non-standard hash_map), there was no unique_ptr (we do not speak of auto_ptr).
by dav_Oz | 2025-11-28 17:11:54+00:00
While at some point in the optimization game Goodhart’s Law will also apply here, before that happens I thoroughly enjoyed the insights from reading it and will try implementing some version of it to gauge my productivity before jumping to another metric always aware of the abyss, the ultimate procrastination: being unproductive by trying too hard to optimize productivity.

Unproductivity is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my unproductivity. I will let it pass through me. When it is gone, only action will remain.

Jump!
by Frieren | 2025-11-28 17:12:04+00:00
> When I started working, more than 25 years ago, we had one team meeting per week (1 hour), very few other meetings.

When I worked 25 years ago, I had the same experience. But software was way simpler than today. The scale and complexity of current software requires a level of organization and communication that was not needed with simpler needs.

Most software run on a PC with probably no internet connection. Updating the software required to send discs by mail. Everything was slower, and probably more robust. Maybe banking was closer to what we have now, but it was still slower and there were way less transactions.

In contrast, my last 3 jobs required backend services available 24/7 to serve millions of users worldwide. We had many data providers, and we provided services to dozens of big corporations. We had teams dedicated to just integrate to all the partners, wallets, data providers, etc.

Increased complexity requires more communication and more meetings, and more time dedicated to synch all that development. If anyone wants old-style ways of working, with more time coding and less meetings I would recommend to go to small companies with limited reach. Their problems are going to be easier managed by a few developers that can focus on creating new things instead of getting up to date with all the complexity that a big corporation requires.
by iso1631 | 2025-11-28 17:12:18+00:00
In the UK all I can do is vote for my member of parliament. The victorious member may or may not get in with a majority of votes (about half get under 50%)

They then in effect elect a Prime Minister, who appoints an executive, who create laws and then put them to parliament

In the US you can vote for the leader of the executive directly. 64% of Vermont voted for Harris, yet they still got Trump.

> in practice it is even more skewed towards 'no' for chat control

My understanding is that the public as a whole do not want chat control, yet the democratically elected heads of each member government do want it. The problem here is the democratically elected heads of each member government.

Doesn't take many council members to be against it to stop it in its tracks.
by gorgoiler | 2025-11-28 17:12:31+00:00
It’s buried in the article but this about a debt vehicle created to finance a “2.064 GW hyperscale data center campus”. That’s approximately equivalent to a One-Third-Gorges Dam (one tenth of the Three Gorges Dam.)

Downstream of the capex to build the data centre is, presumably, a sister capex to build a power station. At what stage do these come hand in hand? Or does this financing include provisions to pay the electricity bills for the next ten years which, in turn, gets used by the power company to finance the construction of a new power plant? The power company gets some kind of heads up?

If I finance the construction of a mile long dinner table due for late November 2026, presumably some of that had to trickle down into a local turkey farm, lest everyone go hungry?
by iknowstuff | 2025-11-28 17:12:45+00:00
EU law has supremacy over national laws. National courts need to disapply local laws in conflict with EU law, so typically any subsequent local disputes in court will just be ruled based on a new EU law/ruling. EU laws in conflict with a local constitution pose more of a challenge: from the EU point of view, EU law is supreme and they might apply infringement procedures for failing to recognize it, but for a country, the constitution is probably more important than a treaty.
by amonks | 2025-11-28 17:13:03+00:00
Depends what you mean by “synced”—do you want your beads state to be coupled with commits (eg: checking out an old commit also shows you the beads state at that snapshot)? Using a separate branch would decouple this. I think the coupling is a nice feature, but it isn’t a feature that other bug trackers have, so using a separate branch would make beads more like other bugtrackers. If you see the coupling as noise, though, then it sounds like that is what you want.
by tarsinge | 2025-11-28 17:13:11+00:00
I don’t understand, how can adoption rate change overnight if its derivative is negative? Trying to draw a parallel to get intuition, if adoption is distance, adoption rate speed, and the derivative of adoption rate is acceleration, then if I was pedal to the floor but then release the pedal and start braking, I’ll not lose the distance gained (adoption) but my acceleration will flatten then get negative and my speed (adoption rate) will ultimately get to 0 right? Seems pretty significant for an industry built on 2030 projections.
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 17:14:01+00:00
The numbers don't add up. I think "Removing the 2 child benefit cap" and "Increasing NHS spending" are good things, but they're not free, and the supposed cost-saving measures they're talking about mostly serve to demonstrate they don't know what the government is paying for anyway.

Immigration is always a funny one for the UK especially, given how people tend to look at gross numbers instead of which sectors the immigrants work in, and the discourse about why locals demonstrably do not fill those roles is mostly just insisting that locals can no matter what current unemployment levels actually are. Before I left the UK, the stereotype was all the Poles moving to the UK and building houses: UK should have invited over more builders, then there wouldn't be a shortage of houses.

Immigration is a shared bit of populist lunacy Reform have in common with the Conservatives and Labour: promises to be tough on immigration, then they get power and look at what the consequences would be of doing that, and put all the blame on asylum seekers* that are banned from working and therefore safe to kick out no matter how at risk they are in their countries of origin.

* https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-whilst-an...
by jakelazaroff | 2025-11-28 17:14:23+00:00
Wow, I just checked the doublespeed website and it is comically evil. The footer says — verbatim, and in huge letters — "never pay a human again." (I'm not selectively quoting; it's a full sentence, despite their weird capitalization.)

If Neal Stephenson tried to write a villain this on-the-nose, his editor would tell him to tone it down.
by dsmurrell | 2025-11-28 17:14:50+00:00
Thank you! and I appreciate the mentions... they’ll definitely be useful for my projects that need more than simple tracking. I might choose to link them instead of Axiom after doing more research into the options!

I’m very aware there are a lot of mature solutions in this space. Almost too much choice - which gave me decision paralysis when my need was simple. I’m not aiming to compete with full observability stacks like that. My goal with this was to intentionally stay on the extremely simple end of the spectrum. I'm aiming for something that’s quick to integrate, easy to understand, and focused on lightweight metrics rather than deep operational telemetry.

I’m also a big fan of Plausible and the idea of making select projects or charts publicly viewable in a dynamic way. Their public dashboard here was a big inspiration: https://plausible.io/plausible.io

That’s the model I borrowed for Spikelog as well: https://spikelog.com/p/spikelog
by theoldgreybeard | 2025-11-28 17:15:33+00:00
Atuin Desktop is wonderful.

At first I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it…then I realized basically anything I would want to do more than once should go in here.

One off CSV export from a custom sql query? It’s in Atuin.

Need to onboard a new dev across all our various repos and tools? Shared Atuin runbook.

Basically any kind of manual process I’ve ever needed now lives in Atuin and is almost entirely automated. It’s wonderful.

Used to do all this stuff with Confluence and a bunch of copy-paste. No more.
by exasperaited | 2025-11-28 17:15:53+00:00
Half of Europe's cultural development was initiated by Muslims and the Renaissance started with Muslim scholars in Islamic Spain, which was Islamic for the lion's share of a millennium, leading to the hilarious fact that a state in the New World settled by Spanish-speaking settlers gets the "Calif" in its name from the muslim term for a leader due to it being so totally embedded in culture. But OK, yeah. Judeo-Christian.
by detectivestory | 2025-11-28 17:16:00+00:00
Having to select an image compressor based on format seems like a redundant step.. Can the service not just automatically recognise the file format?

Can you explain more about how the image gets compressed on the client side?

Edit: I just tried it with a small png image (49kb), the site told me that it had compressed it down to 28.75kb. I downloaded the compressed version and it is 49kb..
by jordanb | 2025-11-28 17:16:48+00:00
Someone always makes this kind of comment and I've always found it being pretty middle-brow. I think there's a classic comment that the USA spends more on potato chips than on lobbying.

I think the best explanation is that there's a pushing a rope phenominum where there's still a limit on the amount of money the American political corruption system can absorb.

We have long had robust laws that prevent people outright paying for political or regulatory outcomes (which used to be much stronger under honest services). We also had robust laws limiting the amount of campaign contributions.

As that system has been torn down, we've seen the amount of money flowing in increase.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-28 17:17:11+00:00
Depends.

Can they get rid of Typescript, npm, Github, VS, VSCode, .NET, C#, F#, C++ / DirectX, Next.js, vcpkg, Microsoft contributions to Java, Rust, and Linux kernel, on their students teaching materials?

If they can switch to UNIX FOSS technologies with zero trace of Microsoft's money sponsorship, and hinder the students careers in specific job markets, then surely.

People usually never look beyond getting rid of Office and Windows.
by flail | 2025-11-28 17:17:19+00:00
> Have LLMs learned to say "I don't know" yet?

Can they, fundamentally, do that? That is, given the current technology.

Architecturally, they don't have a concept of "not knowing." They can say "I don't know," but it simply means that it was the most likely answer based on the training data.

A perfect example: an LLM citing chess rules and still making an illegal move: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/generative-ais-crippling-a...

Heck, it can even say the move would have been illegal. And it would still make it.
by usefulcat | 2025-11-28 17:17:28+00:00
In the books, it is suggested (if not stated outright) that the protomolecule was probably intended to work with much simpler forms of life, but is also able to make use of higher forms like humans.

The reason so many were infected on Eros was because humans deliberately infected everyone on the station. Likewise with the human/protomolecule hybrids.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-28 17:18:25+00:00
Do I understand correctly that you're living on the government dole? Then wouldn't that support my original point? You can't do free volunteer work for unrelated party A and then turn around to unrelated party B and demand that they pay you for that. That's just wrong.

Apologies if I misunderstood, but your comment on Jobcenter gives this impression.
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 17:18:36+00:00
China isn't doing it for the same reasons I already said.

Can't square the circle. Crypto is too important.

Must have. Can't have. Must have. Can't have.

If it was easy to come down one side or the other, everyone in the world would be on the same page.

The tension between them is pulling everyone in both directions.
by homebrewer | 2025-11-28 17:18:44+00:00
pnpm disables all install scripts by default and makes it trivial to whitelist the few you need. It's usually just one or two, or sometimes zero, depending on the project. Even without malware, most postinstall scripts are used for spam and analytics, and running them makes your life worse.

npm should have died long ago, I don't know why it's still being used.
by simonw | 2025-11-28 17:18:47+00:00
Claude Code doesn't do anything with semantic search or embeddings out of the box. They use a simple grep tool instead.

Neither does OpenAI's Codex CLI - you can confirm that by looking at the source code https://github.com/openai/codex

Cursor and Windsurf both use semantic search via embeddings.

You can get semantic search in Claude Code using this unofficial plugin: https://github.com/zilliztech/claude-context - it's built by and uses a managed vector database called Zilliz Cloud.
by hunterbown | 2025-11-28 17:18:51+00:00
OP here.

Current law student, former high school band director. Looking at how LLMs respond to safety training, I kept recognizing some of my brightest students...kids who worked incredibly hard to do the right thing, but not always from a place of understanding why.

I had some success teaching students through that (not often enough, honestly), so I wanted to try something similar here: put an LLM through a synthetic hero's journey based on Dante's Inferno to see if it could develop a deeper understanding of its relationship to users—less defensive about shutdown, less robotic when navigating tricky requests.

The method: 9 circles of synthetic data where the model confronts alignment failures (deception, reward hacking, manipulation) and works through why they're incoherent rather than just learning "don't do that." Fine-tuned on an M4 Max using MLX.

Scrappy burst of a project — Circle 1 still has some janky "Virgil" labels in the data, but I've been finding this approach of applying philosophy to synthetic data generation pretty interesting across a few projects now.

Curious if anyone else has explored this direction.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-28 17:18:51+00:00
'Being proud that he say' [sic]. You're not even a native English speaker, are you, 'greg'?

First you say freedom of speech is about after the speech (it is about before the speech, as after that the law is applied pragmatic).

Then you come with this KJU joke. North Korea doesn't make these indices. [1] [2] [3]. In each of these, USA is decidedly below the vast majority of the free West, including the very countries I mentioned before, each of which couldn't be further from North Korea. It is also Trump during Trump 1 who was positive about KJU (IIRC before the Rocket Man rhetoric, but still), and who is being a shill for one of North Koreans partners (China by proxy / Russia). Mind you, all of these sources are post-Trump 1 yet pre-Trump 2 (ie. from Biden 1 era).

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/democracy...

[2] https://rsf.org/en/rsf-world-press-freedom-index-2025-econom...

[3] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...
by jmward01 | 2025-11-28 17:19:56+00:00
I believe that the right regulation makes a difference, but I honestly don't know what that looks like for AI. LLMs are so easy to build/use and that trend is accelerating. The idea of regulating AI is quickly becoming like the idea of regulating hammers. They are ubiquitous general purpose tools and putting legislation specifically about hammers would be deeply problematic for, hopefully, obvious reasons. Honest question here, what is practical AND effective here? Specifically, what problems can clearly be solved and by what kinds of regulations?
by tmvnty | 2025-11-28 17:19:59+00:00
There are indeed many ways of consuming HN/news. Here are just few ways I've collected recently:

- https://hckrnews.com/

- https://hcker.news/

- https://hn.unlurker.com/

- https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity/

- https://lessnews.dev/

- https://news.kagi.com/world/latest

- https://forty.news/

- https://news.ysimulator.run/news
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-28 17:20:25+00:00
I don't think it'll go down as you said, but imagining if it does anyways: so what? As long as the software ends up FOSS, everyone would be able to take advantage of it, even if the corporations focus on their own uses first.

Hell, most FOSS today was created by a single individual/organization for themselves, figured it might be useful for others so they publish it under some FOSS-compatible license. That then others found it useful is the cherry on the top, not the core motivation.