MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-01 21:27:26+00:00
[S]ubmissions to arXiv in general have risen dramatically, and we now receive hundreds of review articles every month. The advent of large language models have made this type of content relatively easy to churn out on demand, and the majority of the review articles we receive are little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion of open research issues.

arXiv believes that there are position papers and review articles that are of value to the scientific community, and we would like to be able to share them on arXiv. However, our team of volunteer moderators do not have the time or bandwidth to review the hundreds of these articles we receive without taking time away from our core purpose, which is to share research articles.

From TFA. The problem exists. Now.
by dcre | 2025-11-01 21:27:39+00:00
Worth mentioning that while this was very nice work by a Helix enthusiast, it was proposed as a replacement for the official docs and mostly rejected, and for good reasons IMO. An instructive discussion!

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/12127#issuecommen...

It's rarely a good idea to do a bunch of work on a big change to an open source project in a direction that has not been validated by the maintainers. Or at least, if you do, do it for your own education and don't have high expectations that it will be merged. The contributor in question had a very good attitude about it.
by julian-klode | 2025-11-01 21:28:23+00:00
Isn't it also funny that all of these things are done by the same person?

In all seriousness though, let me assure you that I plan to take a very considerate approach to Rust in APT. A significant benefit of doing Rust in APT rather than rewriting APT from scratch in Rust means that we can avoid redoing all our past mistakes because we can look at our own code and translate it directly.
by seg_lol | 2025-11-01 21:28:38+00:00
> It appears that the industry learned exactly nothing from the COVID shortages.

To be clear, automakers during pandemic canceled all their chip orders, then after the wafer slots were reallocated, proceeded to uncancel all their orders leading to even more chaos in the industry. I think that this point, fabs should stop giving the auto industry any preferential treatment.
by mattlondon | 2025-11-01 21:28:44+00:00
I had a similar issue but on unifi gateway lite after upgrading to 1gig fibre, I couldn't get above about 250-300mbps, even wired. Everything looked good in the unifi app. Turns out in the unifi web UI there was a "use hardware acceleration" checkbox for the gateway that was unticked and not even visible in the app. Ticked that and now I am getting 900+mbps

I also sometimes have alerts saying more than one device is using the same IP address (DHCP issues) but it won't tell me which ones! At least give me the MAC addresses!

Unifi's stuff is great, but the software is sometimes infuriating.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-01 21:28:49+00:00
That article also states:

> Coca-Cola, whose drink in Slovenian stores was found by researchers there to contain more sugar and more syrup than that sold in Austria, responded by saying it adapted its recipe to local tastes.

In other words, Slovenia gets a better deal on Coca Cola but a worse deal on strawberry yogurt. Without more direct counter examples, that only seems to validate the claims made by manufacturers.

While there is plenty of proof that some companies are selling inferior products of their name-brand product in poorer countries, that doesn't mean a difference in taste automatically means it's part of some big conspiracy. Local preferences do actually differ and companies that don't account for that only stand to lose customers.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-01 21:29:16+00:00
What a bizarre statement if taken at face value as a description and not just as talking up the economy, even if the explicit premise is true; there were plenty of firms in the dotcom bubble that actually had real earnings and sustainable business models (they are, in some cases, still tech giants today); it was still a bubble; the contrast drawn requires false assumptions about what happened in the dotcom boom.
by SamInTheShell | 2025-11-01 21:29:32+00:00
Currently today, I would say these models can be used by someone with minimal knowledge to churn out SPAs with React. They can probably get pretty far into making logins, message systems, and so on because there is lots of training data for those things. They can struggle through building desktop apps as well with relative ease compared to how I had to learn in years long past.

What these LLMs continue to prove those is they are no substitute for real domain knowledge. To date, I've yet to have a model implement RAFT consensus correctly in testing to see if they can build a database.

The way I interact with these models is almost adversarial in nature. I prompt them with the bare minimum that a developer might get in a feature request. I may even have a planning session to populate the context before I set it off on a task.

The bias in these LLMs really shines through an proves their autocomplete properties when they have a strong bias towards changing the one snippet of code I wrote because it doesn't fit in how it's training data would suggest the shape of it's code should be. Most models will course correct with instructions that they are wrong and I am right though.

One thing I've noted is that if you let it generate choices for you from the start of a project, it will make poor choices in nearly every language. You can be using uv to manage a python project and it will continue to try using pip or python commands. You can start an electron app and it will continuously botch if it's using commonjs or some other standard. It persistently wants to download go modules before coding instead of just writing the code and doing `go mod tidy` after (it literally doesn't need the module in advance, it doesn't even have tools to probe the module before writing the code anyway).

RAFT consensus is my go-to test because there is no 1 size fits all way for you to implement it. It might get an in-memory key store system right, but what if you want it to organize etcd/raft/v3 in a way that you can do multi-group RAFT? What if you need RAFT to coordinate some other form of data replication? None of these LLMs can really do it without a lot of prep work.

This is across all the models available from OpenAI, Claude, and Google.
by acmiyaguchi | 2025-11-01 21:29:49+00:00
This does exist to some degree, as far as I understand, along the lines of style-transfer and ControlNet in visual domains. Anthropic has some research called "persona vectors" which effectively push generative behaviors toward or away from particular traits.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21509
by sixdimensional | 2025-11-01 21:30:06+00:00
This brings a whole new meaning to "memoizing", if we just let the LLM be a function.

In fact, this thought has been percolating in the back of my mind but I don't know how to process it:

If LLMs were perfectly deterministic - e.g. for the same input we get the same output - and we actually started memoizing results for input sets by materializing them - what would that start to resemble?

I feel as though such a thing might start to resemble the source information the model was trained on. The fact that the model compresses all the possibilities into a limited space is exactly what makes it more valuable - instead of having to store every input, function body and outputs by memoizing that an LLM could generate, it just stores the model.

But this blows my mind somehow because if we DID store all the "working" pathways, what would that knowledgebase effectively represent and how would intellectual property work anymore in that case?

Thinking about functional programming, to me the potential to think of the LLM as the "anything" function, where a deterministic seed and input always produces the same output, with a knowledgebase of pregenererated outputs to use to speed up the retrieval of acceptable results for a given seed and set of inputs.... I can't put my finger on it.. is it a basically just a search engine then?

Let me try another way...

If I have a ask an LLM to generate a function for "what color is the fruit @fruit?", where fruit is the variable, and I memoize that @fruit = banana + seed 3 is "yellow", then the set of the prompt, input "@fruit", seed = 3, output = "yellow"... then this is now a fact that I could just memoize.

Would that be faster to retrieve the memoized result than calculating the result via the LLM?

And, what do we do with the thought that that set of information is "always true" with regards to intellectual property?

I honestly don't know yet.
by smcin | 2025-11-01 21:30:07+00:00
I meant general audiences would not understand a one-word reference to 'Windsor' (single word) as meaning 'The person FKA Prince Andrew'. Whereas 'AMW'/'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' might. 'Windsor' until now referred to the entire UK Royal Family, various towns, the castle in Berkshire, the tie knot, etc.
by culi | 2025-11-01 21:30:37+00:00
Just wanna plug the most thorough and useful video I've seen on the history of this conflict. The US, Russia, and many other players are more heavily involved in this conflict than is often discussed in media. It breaks down the specific ways many international players are profiting from the conflict and helps makes sense of the motives driving it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqIMES53rsY
by nradov | 2025-11-01 21:32:01+00:00
The other side of that is that many people are simply terrible and really unsuitable for being in any sort of long term stable relationship. No dating app can solve that problem (unless maybe they incorporate mental health and life coaching services, which seems kind of sketchy as a combination). Whether the situation has gotten generally harder these days is impossible to say but I certainly don't envy those still in the dating pool.
by 4bpp | 2025-11-01 21:32:44+00:00
I don't know how you would measure it, though I would assume that there is no particular reason for the people who use the language or their preferences to change? A quick search brought up that they apparently renamed their master branch to "main" very recently (https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/10/16/renaming-t...) (context: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/jun/23/gitbranchname/), to the point I was more surprised that it hadn't already happened earlier.

The general temperature of politics in FOSS, I think, is not obviously lower than before: just in terms of things that made it onto HN, in the past month or so alone we have seen the aforementioned kerfuffle about dhh (the leader? founder? of Ruby on Rails), his projects and their detractors, and the wrestling over control between NixOS's board and its community moderators who were known for prosecuting political purges and wanted to assert formal authority over the former.
by CPLX | 2025-11-01 21:33:04+00:00
Here’s an analogy that might help:

Imagine if an executive was running the world’s largest charity for cancer research, which was chartered to make sure a cure remained in the public trust and raised millions with that promise.

But then once they discovered a cure for cancer the executive instead decided to transfer that cure to a ruthlessly competitive company they personally owned a large percentage of and then become a billionaire many times over.
by everforward | 2025-11-01 21:33:09+00:00
I know, and I do agree it's consistent, but then it doesn't make any sense to me as a keyword in a language where non-primitives are always by-reference.

You can't mutate the reference, but you _can_ copy the values from one array into the data under an immutable reference, so const doesn't prevent basically any of the things you'd want to prevent.

The distinction makes way more sense to me in languages that let you pass by value. Passing a const array says don't change the data, passing a const reference says change the data but keep the reference the same.
by kakacik | 2025-11-01 21:33:39+00:00
We just have to keep protecting them and give them weapons, otherwise somebody else will do it.

Quite a high moral ground to be on, I tell ya. I know I know, realpolitik and all, but then lets stop pretending there is some higher ground and treat say china-us conflict as something that literally doesn't concern Europe at all (seems like US has still military upper hand but who knows for how long, seems like China will steamroll ya economically/technologically pretty soon). Especially given this year developments when we saw that US military equipment cannot be trusted, US IT infra cannot be trusted and so on.
by riffraff | 2025-11-01 21:34:55+00:00
> poor harvest and infestation of brown marmorated stink bug drove up prices

Holy cow, I live in central europe and the amount of these bugs this year has been insane, I find a dozen of these per day in my apartment.

I fear we should have started some eradication effort years ago and it's already too late, these bugs feed on a bunch of crops, and will damage yields massively.
by pinnochio | 2025-11-01 21:34:58+00:00
Here's the relevant line you seem to have missed:

> It might be too early for OpenAI, but we shouldn't wait until they own all of the next Internet in the way Facebook, Google and Amazon ended up.

He wasn't proposing breaking it up as it is, which is what your comment assumes.

However, as I said in another comment, they do have other products (Sora and others in the pipeline that are meaningfully separate from their core product). I'd agree it's too early to break them up (at least by conventional anti-trust standards), and that if anything, they should be regulated on other dimensions.
by bdcravens | 2025-11-01 21:34:59+00:00
Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, what will happen once the immigration problem is "fixed"? That's always been the narrative that has been sold: the borders were "open", they are now "closed", and now we have to take some extreme action to correct things. Presumably this means there will be a time when enhanced enforcement is no longer necessary (the mere existence of uncaught immigrants doesn't define the need, if you look to COVID as an example of a resolution to point where the emergency passed)
by sixdimensional | 2025-11-01 21:35:12+00:00
I think your last comment hints at the possibility- runtime generated and persisted code... e.g. the first time you call a function that doesn't exist, it persists if it fulfills the requirement... and so the next time you just call the materialized function.

Of course the generated code might not work in all cases or scenarios, or may have to be generated multiple times, and yes it would be slower the first time.. but subsequent invocation would just be the code that was generated.

I'm trying to imagine what this looks like practically.. it's a system that writes itself as you use it? I feel like there is a thread to tug on there actually.
by dlivingston | 2025-11-01 21:35:42+00:00
Currently, I'm using VS Code with Vim keybindings (through the Neovim plugin). My workflow (C/C++/Rust) involves multiple panes open, using the lldb debugger, goto/peek definitions, CMake integration w/ active target compilation on Ctrl+Shift+B, clang format on save, LLM-powered tab-autocomplete, and IntelliSense powered by `compile_commands.json`.

Is switching to Helix worth it? Can I get more-or-less equivalent functionality with Helix?
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-01 21:35:46+00:00
The difference between American and European Nutella seems to have been documented in a lot of detail, but I can't find any sources on the differences within Europe. I have found videos about the differences between German and French Nutella, and French and Italian Nutella, but nothing more than that.

I think a combination of bad cocoa harvest and previously a bad hazelnut harvest have altered recipes globally to be more sugar and fat and even less cocoa and hazelnut, but it's hard to find any recent comparisons.

Maybe you have a link? I don't speak any languages from behind the Iron Curtain where the impact is probably the most obvious, so I would appreciate a good link.
by kelnos | 2025-11-01 21:35:54+00:00
> Formally verified _always_ beats anything else.

Formally verified in an obscure language where it's difficult to find maintainers does not beat something written in a more "popular" language, even if it hasn't been formally verified (yet?).

And these days I would (unfortunately) consider assembly as an "obscure language".

(At any rate, I assume Rust versions of cryptographic primitives will still have some inline assembly to optimize for different platforms, or, at the very least, make use of compile intrinsics, which are safer than assembly, but still not fully safe.)
by ArcHound | 2025-11-01 21:36:20+00:00
This article is a soup of concepts. And the worst part: most of them are not contradictory at all.

Nothing matters as in there is no purpose given to us from above is true (at least according to Nietzsche). That means we have the option of inventing our own purpose. Or not - it's still good to enjoy life as is.

I've read hope is fucked some long time ago. It touches the stoicism with: don't get too invested in things outside of your control, it's not good for you. Yes, but Mark forgets that living like this is not pleasant at all. But having the skill of acceptance is good as we're not omnipotent, so there are things we can't do anything about.

That brings me to manifesting (ugh). We all know we won't get everything by wishing hard. It's still good to try and by thinking about positive result we have better probability of figuring out a plan and sustaining motivation to see the plan through.

Next we move on to terrible people listening to philosophy. Yes, they can do that and it doesn't take away from the teachings. And no, e.g. stoicism has a strong moral component which they are purposefully ignoring.

Also, to respond to title directly: accepting your life is shitty and understanding it doesn't take away from your character doesn't mean not trying to improve your situation. Yes, it means feeling good if your attempts fail. You still have the option of trying again.

I give the article author massive props for being honest with themselves. But no, books cannot save you. Only you perhaps can, but you might fail. And that's ok.

To end positively, I agree with the call to action. And the article is a nice historical overview.
by gspr | 2025-11-01 21:36:28+00:00
Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate that there's anything minor about it, or that nobody is doing the work. I should have phrased myself differently.

I'll try to rephrase: if we never want to give up support for a platform we've supported in the past, then I think we only have two options: (1) never adopt new technology where support for said platforms doesn't come for free, or (2) leave it up to those who care about the niches to ensure support.

Neither is pain-free, but the first seems like a recipe for stagnation.

It's lovely to see the two alternative compiler paths for Rust moving forward though! Thank you!
by rconti | 2025-11-01 21:38:09+00:00
I'm lazy so I just fire off the occasional speed tests using Ookla.

It doesn't _really_ seem to matter what channel width or frequency I use, I tend to get around 600Gbps from my iPhone (17, pro).

When you make it a point to ensure you're on the correct AP, line of sight from a few feet away, sometimes I break 1Gbps. I was surprised, watching TV the other day, to randomly get a 1.2Gbps speedtest which is one of the faster ones I've seen on WiFi.

(10gbps internet, UDM Pro, UDM enterprise 2.5Gbps switch for clients, PoE WiFi 7 APs on 6ghz).

Honestly, I'd say overall 6ghz has been more trouble than it's worth. Flipping the switch to WPA2/3 as required by 6ghz broke _all_ of my clients last year, so I had to revert and now I just have a separate SSID for clients I have the energy to manually retype the password into. 6Ghz pretty much only works line of sight and from a handful of feet away. There were bugs last year in Apple's "Disable 6e" setting so it kept re-enabling itself. MLO was bad, so it would stick to 6ghz even when there was basically no usable signal.

Over the course of the past year, it's gotten pretty tolerable, but sometimes I still wonder why I bother-- I'm pretty sure my real world performance would be better if I just turned 6ghz off again.
by jimleroyer | 2025-11-01 21:38:13+00:00
> You shouldn't be citing articles about the first 100 days

I think we can. This tells his popularity is not as strong as what the claim is. We are in a presence of a significant vocal minority. I will grant that his core base is hard to move, including the farmers who are going bankrupt and harmed by his own policies, and many will rationalize it. As Twain's quote go: "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled". Especially when voters are voting based on identity.

Equally, he could do a lot worse than his current numbers and they are not that catastrophic, granted. Comparing to Clinton who did bad in his early 1st term isn't great (for a myriad of scandals that are quite pale compared to recent times), or Biden inheriting a bad economy with a pandemic, while Trump inherited a boosting economy in his first term, and a recovering one for his second. Hence his numbers should be so much better.

Some key metrics to focus is the independants support/approval that he lost in majority, and certain pro maga communities such as the latinos who's families are directly affected. Farmers, who knows how much will swing and wake up after losing it all, but some did already. A trend might start with the economic dominoes slowly dropping.

Overall, I don't think he has normal polling numbers given the context. But we are not in normal times.
by djoldman | 2025-11-01 21:38:32+00:00
I am not a lawyer.

There may be some confusion here. It's legal for anyone to take a photo of anyone else in public, with few exceptions. TFA is not saying that ICE is forcing people to stand for a photo, it's saying that once ICE takes a photo, they can do stuff with it.

As an aside, it's my understanding that, unless someone is arrested, they're free to wear whatever clothing they like including something that covers their face. Probable cause is required for arrest, therefore ICE cannot force you to uncover your face. I'm not sure this has been tested much though, especially with folks temporarily detained.

Second aside, I anticipate a ton of lawsuits where folks give clear and convincing evidence of US citizenship and are unlawfully detained thereafter.
by handfuloflight | 2025-11-01 21:39:38+00:00
Who is the racist? I use my Hacker News account as a way to bookmark things, if you have a problem with that, take it up with the moderators.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Negro-Business-Booker-T-Washington/dp...

> The Negro In Business is a book written by Booker T. Washington, a prominent African American leader and educator, that explores the history and current state of black entrepreneurship in the United States. The book discusses the challenges faced by black business owners, including discrimination, lack of access to capital and resources, and limited opportunities for education and training. Washington also highlights the successes of black entrepreneurs, including their contributions to the economy and their role in building stronger communities. Through personal anecdotes and statistical analysis, Washington offers a comprehensive overview of the state of black business in America at the time of the book's publication in 1907. The book serves as a valuable historical document and a testament to the resilience and determination of black entrepreneurs in the face of adversity.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.