MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjk166 | 2025-11-19 16:29:15+00:00
The real grift has been in echo chambers changing peoples vocabulary such that we can use the same words but talk right past eachother, allowing extremely moderate positions to be reframed as extreme and making what ought to be minor disagreements unresolvable. People making an "I can see both sides" argument are completely missing the point - the issue is that most people can't see both sides, and even when they go out of their way to look at the other side's argument, they come away even more convinced that the other side's argument is dumb because it is dumb, if it is assumed everyone is speaking the same language. People haven't all suddenly become insane, or dumb, or unreasonable; we've just taken for granted that people geographically close to us using the same vocabulary would mean the same things, and thus we never developed the skills to translate between people who are in fact living in wildly different worlds possibly in the same household. And much of this is by design - pointing out how dumb someone else is, and complaining about the burden of dealing with these dumb people, takes so much less effort than actually doing the work to build consensus and make changes.
by nwienert | 2025-11-19 16:29:50+00:00
But they fail at global context, consistency, and deep understanding which constantly fails them in the real world.

You have to basically tell them all the patterns they need to follow and give them lots of hints to do anything decent, otherwise they invent new helpers that already exist in the codebase, don't follow existing patterns, put code in places that aren't consistent.

They are great at quickly researching a lot, but they start from 0 each time. Then they constantly "cheat" when they can't solve a problem immediately, stuff like casting to "any", skipping tests, deciding "it's ok if this doesn't work" etc.

a few things that would make them much better:

- an ongoing "specific codebase model" that significantly improved ability to remember things across the current codebase / patterns / where/why

- a lot more RL to teach them how to investigate things more deeply and use browsers/debuggers/one-off scripts to actually figure out things before "assuming" some path is right or ok

- much better recall of past conversations dynamically for future work

- much cheaper operating costs, it's clear a big part of why they "cheat" often is because they are told to minimize token costs, it's clear if their internal prompts said "don't be afraid to spin off sub-tasks and dig extremely deep / spend lots of tokens to validate assumptions" they would do a lot better
by sieep | 2025-11-19 16:30:34+00:00
Also from this wiki page[0], identifying UPF (paraphrased by me):

Long ingredient list: Foods that contain many ingredients, especially those that could not be found in a kitchen, are likely to be ultra-processed.

Claims on the packaging: Ultra-processed foods often come in packaging with nutrition claims like "low-fat," "sugar-free," or "fortified with vitamins."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food
by ddalcino | 2025-11-19 16:30:38+00:00
That’s what I thought too. The author appears to have tried every obvious debugging step, except for switching away from US Mobile.

I’ve been using US Mobile myself for a little over a year, and I remember a period of about 2-3 months where most carriers had implemented RCS for iOS on their services, but US Mobile had not, so I couldn’t use RCS for a while. I don’t know what they had to implement to get RCS working on iOS, but it’s possible that their implementation does not work with iOS 26.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-11-19 16:30:41+00:00
I used to use the :-P emoji on AIM as sort of "that was a joke" emoji, and if I had a nickel for every girl who thought I was flirting with them for using it, I'd have 3 nickels. Not a lot but still weird it happened 3 times. Also how I got my first girlfriend. I wasn't flirting, but she seemed to like what I was doing it so I figured let's give it a shot.
by legitster | 2025-11-19 16:30:52+00:00
Clickbait title, but I wholeheartedly agree.

Much of the AI rollout has been a hot mess of bad UI choices - executives duct taping buttons in random places. Or worse, inconsistent behaviors between chatbots. One button brings up Gemini, and it will answer questions about anything... just not the document you have open. One button brings up Gemini, but it will only answer questions about your document.
by crossbody | 2025-11-19 16:31:22+00:00
By the same token, why stop at 1.5M and not build a 15M mansion? Or 150M palace? Because you need to build what will meet the demand, not just most expensive thing ever that nobody will buy. Capitalism is the most effective mechanism to satisfy market demand for every group, if unrestricted by well meanjng but poor regulation that distorts the market
by absoluteunit1 | 2025-11-19 16:31:46+00:00
I didn’t make this claim.

I also have a personal rule that I will try something for at least 4 months actively before making my decision about it (programming language, new tools, or in this case AI assisted coding)

I made the claim that in my area of expertise - I have found that *most of the time it is faster to write something myself than I write out really detailed md file / prompt. It becomes more tedious to express myself via natural language then it is with code when I want something very specific done.

In these types of cases - writing the code myself, allows me to express the thing I want faster. Also, I like to code with the AI auto complete but still while this can be useful I sometimes disable it because it’s distracting and consistently incorrect with its predictions)
by IAmBroom | 2025-11-19 16:32:08+00:00
The anecdote I heard was a grade-school teacher admitting they had never used the Pythagorean formula IRL.

Well, no fucking shit, Sherlock! You aren't the sort of person to turn to math to solve problems. You're the sort of homesy chuckle-cluck who puts up inspirational posters on your bedroom wall.

OTOH, I've been on my back in an attic with a house builder, and calculated the 3-dimensional length of the bizarre edges of a skylight (where the ceiling opening was completely skew to the roof opening). We absolutely used math to solve the problem.

That grade school teacher? They wouldn't have been asked to check the calculations. The carpenter? Used math IRL.
by GardenLetter27 | 2025-11-19 16:32:48+00:00
The law in Germany comes from when many people couldn't read, so all contracts must be read by a notary to both parties in-person.

The bizarre thing is now they advertise how fast they can read! Like it serves no purpose other than giving notaries and lawyers a slice of all transactions.

Europe is full of backwards stuff like this - where the establishment interests are so strong, it cannot be adapted for modern times. From blocking CRISPR and gene editing crops (while allowing the less controlled but older technology of radiation treatment), to blocking self-driving cars.
by belter | 2025-11-19 16:32:49+00:00
AWS is not going to enable S3 endpoints by default, and most of the thread is downvoting the correct explanations like thinking in terms of a small hobby VPC, not the architectures AWS actually has to support.

Why it should not be done:

1. It mutates routing. Gateway Endpoints inject prefix-list routes into selected route tables. Many VPCs have dozens of RTs for segmentation, TGW attachments, inspection subnets, EKS-managed RTs, shared services, etc. Auto-editing them risks breaking zero-trust boundaries and traffic-inspection paths.

2. It breaks IAM / S3 policies. Enterprises commonly rely on aws:sourceVpce, aws:SourceIp, Private Access Points, SCP conditions, and restrictive bucket policies. Auto-creating a VPCE would silently bypass or invalidate these controls.

3. It bypasses security boundaries. A Gateway Endpoint forces S3 traffic to bypass NAT, firewalls, IDS/IPS, egress proxies, VPC Lattice policies, and other mandatory inspection layers. This is a hard violation for regulated workloads.

4. Many VPCs must not access S3 at all. Air-gapped, regulated, OEM, partner-isolated, and inspection-only VPCs intentionally block S3. Auto-adding an endpoint would break designed isolation.

5. Private DNS changes behavior. With Private DNS enabled, S3 hostname resolution is overridden to use the VPCE instead of the public S3 endpoint. This can break debugging assumptions, routing analysis, and certain cross-account access patterns.

6. AWS does not assume intent. The VPC model is intentionally minimal. AWS does not auto-create IGWs, NATs, Interface Endpoints, or egress paths. Defaults must never rewrite user security boundaries.
by kentm | 2025-11-19 16:33:05+00:00
In my opinion, the problem is that journalists in general used “both sides” rhetoric where it wasn’t warranted to avoid accusations of bias. It feels that nuance is used out of cowardice more often than not.

There’s also the fact that not all positions are equally valid or evidence based. Nuance doesn’t mean treating each position as equally valid, but evaluating each on the evidence. Journalists almost uniformly mistake “both sides” for nuance. There’s nuance in discussions about global warming, but treating “global warming is not man made” as a valid position is not an example of that.

Nuance is definitely something we need more of, but we also need to call a spade a spade more often.
by adishj | 2025-11-19 16:33:57+00:00
thanks! check out the demo video here of the latest version of the interface: https://screen.studio/share/SP7DItVD

i playback parts of the cinematic edit I made to the conversation between Dwarkesh Patel and Satya Nadella (e.g. added cinematic captions, motion graphics)

i can post the full edit as well if you're interested
by josefritzishere | 2025-11-19 16:34:46+00:00
I work in data privacy and I really hold the GDPR in high esteem. The "Ai stuff" is worrisome. The UK has left the EU and rolled back privacy rights. The EU is experiencing the slow erosion of privacy rights; and the US is a morass of highly variable state-level rights. I had such high hopes when the CCPA passed.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-19 16:35:00+00:00
Having a third brightness state feels confusing.

If a safety indicator needs to be visible at a glance, why did it blink at all?

Blinking only works for things that are in your vision and need to be the primary focus.

It seems like blinking to begin with is terrible design for something like this, or else having it be in the corner of your eye is the terrible design decision.
by DonHopkins | 2025-11-19 16:35:01+00:00
Are you actually so mind-numbingly ignorant that you think Rebecca Heineman had a brother named Bill, that you would rudely and incorrectly try to correct people who knew her story well, during a memorial discussion of her life and death?

Or were you purposefully going out of your way to perpetrate performative ignorance and transphobic bullying, just to let everyone know that you're a bigoted transphobic asshole?

I don't buy that it was an innocent mistake, given the context of the rest of the discussion, and your pretending to know her family better than the poster you were replying to and everyone else in the discussion, falsely denying her credit for her own work. Do you really think dang made the Hacker News header black because he and everyone else was confused and you were right?

Do you like to show up at funerals of people you don't know, just to interrupt the eulogy with insults, stuff pennies up your ass (as you claim to do), then shit and piss all over the coffin in front of their family and friends?

How long did you have to wait until she died before you had the courage to deadname, misgender, and punch down at her in a memorial, out of hate and cowardice and a perverse desire to show everyone what kind of a person you really are?

Next time, can you at least wait until after the funeral before committing your public abuse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975524

amypetrik8 13 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | flag | vouch | favorite | on: Rebecca Heineman has died

The work you're outlining here is was performed by "Bill Heineman" - maybe you are mixing up Bill with his sister Rebecca?!?
by kentm | 2025-11-19 16:35:15+00:00
Likely not to their face, but I’ve absolutely had tons of people use it when talking to me as a slur for other people. Because they assumed I was like minded.

It’s absolutely used as a slur in conversation, yes.

I mean you have the Republican President of the United States publicly calling Democrats evil. People like to pretend their party (Democrats and Republicans alike) generally adheres to decency and decorum even though they demonstrably do not, but it’s especially rich for Republicans to act like they’re the party of decency in politics when they’re falling in lockstep with Donald Trump
by juancn | 2025-11-19 16:35:33+00:00
I haven't written perl in a long time but I cannot put a finger on why I stopped using it.

It used to be my goto language for quick and dirty scripts that needed somewhat non-trivial text processing.

Anyway, this made me think of the 2008 Damian Connway Perlcon keynote:

"Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming in Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces... Made Easy"

If you've never seen it it's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTjPx4NIiM
by giantrobot | 2025-11-19 16:35:41+00:00
In all seriousness mod_php killed Perl, or at least struck the fatal blow. In the late 90s I wanted to make dynamic web content, just simple CRUD stuff. The most reliable way to do this was Perl. As long as your hash bang and permissions were correct you could drop a script in a cgi-bin directory and it would work. It didn't matter if the server was Solaris, Linux, or some other Unix. Most hosts that supported Perl also at least had the CGI module installed as well.

It was worth fighting with Perl's syntax because it was the best option for web programming (for random amateurs like myself). Web hosts often didn't have C compilers available so C wasn't an option. TCL was workable but not as prevalent as Perl on web hosts. Same with PHP3. Keep in mind this was an era where you were deploying on machines you didn't on which you didn't have admin access. Most of the time you didn't have shell access on machines you'd deploy on.

As Linux adoption on servers exploded so did the deployment of PHP. It was easy to deploy PHP web apps since they could be readily dropped in your htdocs or public_html directory and be handled by the server. Enabling other CGI outside cgi-bin directories was uncommon.

So by 2000 or so there was no reason to learn Perl to do web stuff easily. You could do it in PHP which was already a templating language. The younger version of me that wanted to do web CRUD stuff bought a PHP book instead of a Perl book. With Python 2's release at that same time if you wanted to do portable non-web stuff you had a much nicer language than Perl available as well.
by HelloNurse | 2025-11-19 16:35:45+00:00
Perl was immensely popular, but it isn't necessarily enough to qualify for the personal "bubble" of languages one learns. It was a good choice of proven, general purpose interpreted scripting language for you in a time when Perl competed with AWK and shell scripts, but in the 1990s I used mainly C and C++ before adopting Java quite early and almost exclusively; when I later decided to learn some proven, general purpose interpreted scripting language Python was my obvious choice: more advanced than Perl 5 and more popular than Ruby.
by busymom0 | 2025-11-19 16:36:18+00:00
Thanks, glad you like it. If you have feedback, feel free to comment or email me (email in the site's about page).

You may also want to look at Hummingbird and compare it to Vapor. Apparently hummingbird is even leaner than Vapor. I only became aware of it after I had already built my site.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-19 16:36:27+00:00
>That's roughly one per 20 minutes? >I think that's doable,

I'm thinking of this for someone working in an office situation. Depending on how long it takes to perform the enema, this is about the same schedule as smokers. So maybe it's not so far off??

Then again, I'm guessing you divided that by 24 hours rather than a work day. Once per 20 minutes would me no sleep which would have worse health effects
by bpodgursky | 2025-11-19 16:36:29+00:00
I'm not sure what you're looking for here. If your position is "it should be difficult to make a company that has PII" you won't get any significant AI or consumer tech companies in your jurisdiction. That's just reality, they use PII, they personalize on PII, they receive PII, that's how they work.

If that is your goal, OK, that's a choice, but then you can't say "oh GDPR fears were overblown". They caused exactly the problems people were predicting, and that's what EU leadership is now trying to change.
by cryzinger | 2025-11-19 16:36:37+00:00
Google's "Messages" client on Android has a feature where, in RCS chats, if you send or receive a message that solely consists of a single applicable emoji (and I believe in response to certain emoji reacts as well?), a little animation plays. The :joy: and related emojis trigger a "haha so funny"-type animation, :cry: and similar trigger a sad, rainy cloud, and so on.

An interesting thing I noticed recently is that :skull: triggers the same "haha so funny" animation as :joy: does! Which kind of surprised me, because I was using the skull to convey "lol I'm dead", so it fit here, but I wouldn't think that's the primary use for it.
by cthalupa | 2025-11-19 16:37:12+00:00
3.0+1.0 was the highest grossing box office release that year in Japan and has a worldwide fanbase. The original series + End of Evangelion are considered by many critics and fans to sit among the best anime series of all time, and the Rebuild movies were absolutely huge.

Personally, I think they pale in comparison to the original series and lose a lot of what makes Eva special and interesting to begin with, so I'd kinda love to dump on them a bit, but... it's about as big of a production as it gets in the anime industry. They're of course nowhere near Pixar level or similar, but it is clearly an example of Blender being battle tested by a serious studio on a serious project.
by teraflop | 2025-11-19 16:37:16+00:00
Not a dumb question at all!

There is no general closed-form solution to the three-body problem. There are certain specific initial conditions which give periodic, repeating orbits. But they are almost always highly "unstable", in the sense that any tiny perturbations will eventually get amplified and cause the periodic symmetry to break.

It's analogous to balancing an object on a sharp point. Mathematically, you can imagine that if the object's center of gravity was perfectly balanced over the point, then there would be zero net force and it would stay there forever. But the math will also tell you that any tiny deviation from perfect balance will cause the object to fall over. It's an equilibrium, but not a stable equilibrium.

The example at the link demonstrates this. The numerical integration can't be perfectly accurate, due to both the finite time steps and the effects of floating-point rounding. Initially the error is much too small to see, and the orbits seem to perfectly repeat. But if you wait a couple of minutes, the deviations get bigger and bigger until the system falls apart into chaos.
by adishj | 2025-11-19 16:37:28+00:00
thanks! Mosaic can already do the rough cuts for you — so you can upload all your footage from your travel, and prompt it to "make a 2 minute highlight reel of your trip to Japan", for instance.

soon, we also plan to incorporate style transfer, so you could even give it a video from the channel you enjoy watching + your raw footage, and have the agent edit your footage in the same style of the reference video.
by sph | 2025-11-19 16:37:28+00:00
> much faster onset

That's what causes addiction though, which is a function of how quick and how large is the spike in dopamine levels over baseline. Nicotine patches take ~4 hours to reach peak dosage in the bloodstream, which is why I even considered them in the first place, as an ex-smoker that doesn't want to get addicted to the stuff ever again.

Nicotine from a cigarette, in comparison, takes about 7 seconds to cross the blood-brain barrier.
by lossolo | 2025-11-19 16:37:47+00:00
They use bidirectional attention between modalities, not within the same modality. This doesn’t change much in the context you're referring to (coding). How do you think "thinking" works in current SOTA models like GPT-5-Thinking/Pro? When generating code, the model's "thinking" already attends to the code, and both influence each other during generation. "Reasoning" models modify the code as they generate it, they delete it, revise it, and adjust their internal reasoning based on the new tokens they produce during the "thinking" process. There are dozens of denoising models created for text, they are not good at it and parallel sampling between modalities will not change that.
by photochemsyn | 2025-11-19 16:38:17+00:00
The author might want to admit that 'moderate reasonable' positions are also branded and incentivized, and can lead to lucrative jobs in the corporate media and think tank worlds and even in the social media influencer space.

What really smells bad here is the 'stupid and insane' theme - everyone who disagrees with my moderate position is living in stupid-world or lacks sanity is itself an extremist fundamentalist position held by many so-called centrists and institutional bureaucrats whose impartiality is questionable as they are economic beneficiaries of the status quo.

Relatedly, extremist positions arise from extreme conditions - a well-paid experienced factory employee who loses their job due to the corporation outsourcing manufacturing to India will likely adopt an extreme position of opposition to shareholder or venture capital control of corporate decisions, and start advocating for worker control of corporations. Does that make them stupid and insane? Or is that just the spin the shareholders and venture capitalists are trying to put on their reasonable moderate position about sharing wealth and power in a more democratic fashion?