MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberpunk | 2025-11-07 13:26:01+00:00
> Most systems handle this defensively with locks and runtime validation.

So i work at an org with 1000s of terraform repos, we use the enterprise version which locks workspaces during runs etc.

everywhere else i’ve worked, we either just use some lock mechanism or only do applies from a specific branch and CI enforces they run one at a time.

My question is: who is this aimed at and what problem is it actually solving? Running terraform isn’t difficult - thousands of orgs handle it no problem - the issues I have with it with it have never been around lock contention and race conditions..
by Telaneo | 2025-11-07 13:26:25+00:00
The other large factor is copyright. If we had 21 year copyright terms for shows and movies, I'd imagine someone would have set up a streaming service with every show and movie under the sun that they could fit into that, and people would eat it up, since they often just want to half-watch Seinfield, Friends, Star Trek, et cetera, since its their comfort show. A service that can provide that without being hostile is quite a lot of what many people look for in a streaming service.
by voidUpdate | 2025-11-07 13:26:40+00:00
My expectation isn't of confidentiality, but of attribution. Sure, my website is perfectly accessible on the internet, and I'm fine with being able to find it on google, but if you pipe it into an algorithm that will start throwing out stuff based on what I wrote, with zero reference to me at all, I'd get a bit annoyed. This website has taken the combined output of probably thousands of people, shoved it into an algorithm and is then using their work to give "original" ideas. If one person wanted their content removed from the system, how would you do that?
by fullstop | 2025-11-07 13:26:55+00:00
Wow, the chat logs are something else.

My wife works at a small business development center, so many people come in with "business ideas" which are just exported chatgpt logs. Their conversations are usually speech to text. These people are often older, lonely, and spend their days talking to "chat". Unsurprisingly, a lot of their "business ideas" are identical.

To them "chat" is a friend, but it is a "friend" who is designed to agree with you.

It's chilling, and the toothpaste is already out of the tube.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-11-07 13:27:08+00:00
Isn't it just like diary-writing or memo-writing, as far as therapy goes, the point being to crystallise thoughts and cathartise emotions. Is it really so bad to have a textual nodding dog to bat against as part of that process? {The very real issue of the OP aside.}

Could you expand on why you feel this is the fastest way to "cook your own brain"?
by voidhorse | 2025-11-07 13:28:13+00:00
I never said they were dumb. It is entirely possible to be smart about a lot of things and to still vote against your own material interests because you have either been manipulated or harbor ideology. Not to mention, most people are fed partial information when it comes to voting on policy decisions. The NYC mayoral election itself is a great example, it's difficult to find any meaningful information on ballot proposals beyond the one paragraph snippet they give you, and any other information on them is usually spun by people who want you to vote for/against.
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by RedHexC2 | 2025-11-07 13:28:29+00:00
Thought I would share a project my two friends and I have been grinding out over the last year in our free time. It is a new command and control framework. We tried to focus on a simple setup with sane defaults and some AI features to help make operations more efficient for both novice and senior operators. We even have some pretty slick agents included as well.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-07 13:28:53+00:00
Maybe a reverse of this (well, that's not quite right). I have had recurring dreams in the past of being in an enclosed space like in a mall or in the halls of a large college building where I can find no exit—just endless rooms, halls, etc. In the dreams it's kind of threatening but also kind of exciting: the endless possibilities. How I imagine Hong Kong, also, BTE. I've never been but would love to go there. Oh, and Kowloon City.)

This seems to have crept into the game, Glider (a game where you control a paper airplane through a long house), that I wrote over three decades ago. In playing some of the longer houses I start to get a little claustrophobic.

It could of course be a coincidence: the dreams, game design. It's also possible I am misremembering the period when I first had the dreams—perhaps they actually began after the first shareware version of the game.
by Rochus | 2025-11-07 13:29:22+00:00
Cool idea. So you essentially only use the Typst parser (i.e. the generated AST, I assume the text format of it)? With askama templates you essentially implement your own Typst renderer, which sounds like quite an achievement. May I assume that only a subset of Typst is supported by your renderer? What is the advantage of all this effort compared to e.g. Markdown or Asciidoc?
by everdrive | 2025-11-07 13:29:26+00:00
There's an interesting side-story here that people probably aren't thinking about. Would this have worked just as well if a person was the one doing this? Clearly the victim was in a very vulnerable state, but are people so susceptible to coercion? How much mundane (ie, non-suicidal) coercion of this nature is happening every day, but does not make the news because nothing interesting happened as a consequence?
by maxglute | 2025-11-07 13:29:52+00:00
Spamming retarded propaganda doesn't make it not retarded propaganda. You didn't even post the og retarded source of coerced labour claims i.e. our innumerate boi AdrienZ at Jamestown, even he had the sense to realize the most disinformation label he can misattribute is coerced labour because all the data he tries to misinterpret still shows labour transfer wages significantly higher than regional average. But tldr yes solving terrorism and reducing poverty to integrate restive minority without doing a Gaza is tripleplusgood. All while proliferating cheap renewables for developing countries and climates and we have to start using exponents good. Double plus undersells the spectacular scope and scale of PRC de radicalism campaign, literally the least bloodshed melting pot integration speedrun in recorded history. Nobel prize worthy vs Obama by none libtard metrics. 20% hyperbole.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-11-07 13:31:07+00:00
I'm the author, so I will address everyone's comments in here:

> Why

To scratch an itch. I wouldn't have ever made this if /I/ had to make it. I wanted a way to express the primitive solids in a way that my autistic brain understands (through rigid object definitions in code). I have another neurodivergent trait called aphantasia which doesn't let me easily (at all really) conjure images in my mind, everything is described as text in my head... literally like reading a book, bringing up an "image" takes me multiple seconds while I read through all my brain comments about an image, especially if I'm supposed to focus on one feature. So I had an LLM build a tool for me (why it is called JermCAD and not something more professional sounding) that works how my brain does.

> How does it compare

100% doesn't. All of those tools are light years more advanced, and while I did try to use a CadQuery JS port, and another threejs CAD plugin, I couldn't get them to work, and I'm not a fan of python, so I stuck with what I knew font-end, web development.

> AI Slop

Yes. But again, this is a personal project that scratched an itch for me. It is a testament to how far you can get something in a few hours with an LLM, that would have taken months or years, but likely never would have happened, because who is going to invest months into redefining CAD to work the way that their specific neurodivergence works (Well maybe an autistic person hyperfixated on it, or me when I was 25 years younger).

---

This software as it is probably isn't useful to anyone except for myself. I originally shared it a few days ago to start a conversation, it got no traction. I am not saying that this or any vibe-coded, AI slop should ever be production software, but why not use it for a very specific implementation of something?
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-11-07 13:31:10+00:00
I do want to push back on this a little. People leave all the time for this "I wanna see what else is out there" especially at such senior levels and with so much financial security as he inevitably has from working at Meta for 11 years. It is not always a gamble for many of them, and many of them are not so skeptical and cynical of other places they could go and bring their expertise
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-07 13:31:17+00:00
I've used some pretty bad ncurses apps that barely have keybindings, like oterm.

I'd probably put them in a third, discarded, mutant category where they are mouse-first applications that run in the terminal. Thus like GUIs, keyboard-support is bolted on.

So a better distinction here is mouse-first vs keyboard-first, but I think "TUI vs GUI" is close enough to that and it kinda stands in for that distinction in most cases.

Vim, tmux, and weechat would be examples of keyboard-first TUIs where mouse support is bolted on as polish, but never required.

Where you lose me is that every example you can think of where a bad TUI might not perfectly mesh into a keyboard-only workflow, the GUI counterparts to that example is much worse. So we would just agree that it's a bad TUI rather than anyone going "you're right, the average GUI is much better if keyboard-driven control is my priority".

I don't understand some of your examples though. Your super key is always at a global level that you wouldn't expect apps to read, that's the point. And using timeouts to handle keybinding collisions or something? Dunno what that looks like nor why you would do it. The examples are like if I said GUIs suck because it's a dreadful experience if you insist on using your mouse upside down.
by thrance | 2025-11-07 13:31:38+00:00
I don't think this is specific to gaming, whatever new sport or feeling I experience, I "hallucinate" while trying to sleep.

Whenever I go skiing, the first few days I'll feel myself sliding while in my bed, the exact same feeling as on snow.

On the rare occasions I traveled by boat, I could still feel myself rocking in my bed later, while no longer at sea.

And just a few days ago, I picked up Elden Ring (a video game). That same evening after "only" 2 hours of play I could still see swords slashing, giant monsters leaping at me, and me instinctively rolling around to dodge that.

I just think this is normal, and part of the brain rewiring itself to be better at that task. Indeed, my second days of skiing/gaming are way better than the first. Obviously it could be problematic if this process happened to me in the street.
by evanjrowley | 2025-11-07 13:31:50+00:00
This project never fails to impress me.

If you scroll to the bottom of the announcement, you'll see maps from Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and Oblivion loaded into OpenMW.

Games people spend 1000 hours playing earn a level of cultural significance that deserves protection from rent-seeking publishers. Each time Bethesda announces an update to Skyrim or Fallout 4, I cringe, because what the updates do above all else is break the existing mods. OpenMW is solving this problem for older Bethesda titiles, but I am pessimistic about Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5. Those two are years away and already lost causes IMHO.
by thadt | 2025-11-07 13:31:56+00:00
> Random IDs > Latacora, 2018: Use 256-bit random numbers.

> Latacora, 2024: You should get 100 lava lamps, point a camera to them and use the frames as seed for a PRNG.

Man, is my boss gonna be surprised what's getting requisition ordered this morning.
by muzani | 2025-11-07 13:32:09+00:00
I think they simply don't know what to do next. In the past century, you could write a book with good content, put it on a shelf, and people would pay money for it.

Then at some point, book stores stopped existing. Some turned into gift stores where the book was some decoration you'd put on the shelf to add aesthetic to the room.

So a lot of things went digital. But nobody wants to pay for digital information. You'd think almanacs would be popular in the era of overinformation.

What channel next? YT shorts? TikTok? Do farmers even use LinkedIn? How do you deal with bots that grab all the information you put out there and repackage it into a $20/month subscription?
by jasonlotito | 2025-11-07 13:32:36+00:00
For what it's worth, I see no crypto videos. YouTube recommends stuff I find enjoyable (lots of sketch comedy, TTRPG videos, interesting documentary style stuff, BTS on video game development, etc). I really have to wonder if your tastes align with crypto currency scams.

That being said, I am paying for Premium, so I wonder if you are, and if you are blocking ads.
by Arnt | 2025-11-07 13:32:43+00:00
"These solar panels will provide a lot of electricity. The solar panels imported into Sierra Leone in the last 12 months, if installed, would generate electricity equivalent to 61% of the total reported 2023 electricity generation, significantly adding to electricity supply."

That's fast.

Of course it doesn't displace grid power to a significant degree. Repeat that for three more years and the grid operator has a real problem, though.

I guess this is disruption, at scale.
by ritzaco | 2025-11-07 13:32:51+00:00
I'm surprised - I haven't gotten anywhere near as dark as this, but I've tried some stuff out of curiosity and the safety always seemed tuned very high to me, like it would just say "Sorry I can't help with that" the moment you start asking for anything dodge.

I wonder if they A/B test the safety rails or if longer conversations that gradually turn darker is what gets past those.
by skinkestek | 2025-11-07 13:33:01+00:00
> Telephone number? There used to be phone books. And I still instinctively think they should be public.

I used to think the same. Around here I feel until a few years ago most people I knew with secret phones were people I would prefer to have fewer interactions with: people who frequently got into trouble, tried to scam others etc.

These days I’m more in the camp of layered security. Whatever I can do to make it harder for an attacker, the better.

> I have used https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/ a couple of times to search for people's addresses and it really works.

Tangential:

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access fastpeoplesearch.com

(Safari on a stock iPhone, mobile broadband from the biggest and most well known telecom company in my country, ipv6 address.)
by ericd | 2025-11-07 13:33:22+00:00
To be clear, no one in this thread said this is replacing all senior engineers. But it is still amazing to see it work, and it’s very clear why the hype is so strong. But you’re right that you can quickly run into problems as it gets bigger.

Caching helps a lot, but yeah, there are some growing pains as the agent gets larger. Anthropic’s caching strategy (4 blocks you designate) is a bit annoying compared to OpenAI’s cache-everything-recent. And you start running into the need to start summarizing old turns, or outright tossing them, and deciding what’s still relevant. Large tool call results can be killer.

I think at least for educational purposes, it’s worth doing, even if people end up going back to Claude code, or away from genetic coding altogether for their day to day.
by sgerenser | 2025-11-07 13:33:44+00:00
Bosch dishwashers are NOT heat pump dishwashers! They have a pump that also heats the water. They call it a “heat pump” but I find that terminology a bit strange, as its clearly not a heat pump (which is a term of art in appliances and HVAC). It’s just a resistive heater that is no more efficient than any other dishwasher heating element.
by voidUpdate | 2025-11-07 13:33:52+00:00
> While some have traced Wordle to Lingo, a game show that started in 1987, they’ve missed an earlier implementation: WORD was published in 101 Computer Games by Digital Equipment Corp. in 1973

Which comes after the board game Mastermind, which was created in 1970 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(board_game))
by jacquesm | 2025-11-07 13:33:54+00:00
It's the combination with concurrency that makes this a hard problem.

And OCaml excels at solving that sort of problem. OCaml and Erlang are the only two languages that I'm aware of that have a really clean way of doing this, in most other languages there is always some kind of kludge or hack to make it work and at best you're going to do something probabilistic: it seems to work, even under load, so it probably is good now. Until six weeks later on an idle Tuesday the system deadlocks and you have no idea how it happened.
by getnormality | 2025-11-07 13:33:55+00:00
As my children become old enough to have more unfettered internet access, I plan to tell them the lessons of my experience: that all online ads are for products that range from disappointing to fraudulent, so do your best to completely ignore them. I would hope that every parent does the same and we end up with a generation that dries up the revenue for this sick racket.

I suppose the next move by advertisers will be corrupting all the other metrics of quality that I rely on. At that point, paywalled services like Consumer Reports (which has its own massive limitations) may be the only relatively authentic signals of quality left in the digital world.

A convergence to that equilibrium can be predicted based on it having already happened in the financial advice industry. The dictum that "if it's free, you're the product" is just as true of old-school in-person finance as it is of the digital world, except in finance the exploitative free system has been carefully carved out by decades of industry-honed regulation.
by astrobe_ | 2025-11-07 13:34:14+00:00
Video games can alter the perception of reality. TFA is about the "Tetris Effect", which is nothing new per se.

Perhaps the new elements is that studies confirm its existence, and that it could be leveraged to prevent or mitigate PTSD.

On a side note, this works even with chess. At some point I played Chess a lot, and I noticed I started to interpreting people's movements, behavior, intentions even, as chess piece moves and tactics. Must be weird for actual chess GMs.
by HelloUsername | 2025-11-07 13:34:19+00:00
> playing it for an inordinate amount of time

I think I disagree. I've had this phenomenon happen to me with a card game, 'Set' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(card_game)). I for sure did not play this game for an inordinate or excessive amount of time, yet I started to combine everyday objects around me to compose a 'set' in my mind. I think during the game you can just enter this hyperfocus state and try to be faster than your opponents; a 'skill' easily leaked to outside the game itself.
by ben_w | 2025-11-07 13:34:35+00:00
> Common forms of anti-competitive behavior: price fixing, predatory pricing, cartels, abuse of dominant position to exclude rivals, etc.

I agree that "became head of what was simultaneously de-facto and also not-de-jure government department, abused it for personal gain" is fairly un-common.

> Tesla's competition are carmakers

My claim (Note: I'm not techblueberry) is about Musk, not about Tesla.

That said:

Tesla's competition should be carmakers. The CEO (and his board, and his shareholders) seem to be all on the same different page to you and I, that they're all about AI and robotics now.
by wjhypo | 2025-11-07 13:34:51+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!

> I'm hearing this for the first time. Having a video demonstrating this would be nice.

You're absolutely right! I actually made one showing how you can attach an NFC tag to a physical book and have it trigger BookPace to toggle the reading timer associated with the book or navigate to the book detail page. It's also on the website (the light green "Watch Demo" link). Here’s the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aALOsXeD-AA

> I currently get a very productivity/measure all things vibe from the marketing site. Given how many readers read for pleasure, I would alter the site to position this as something that helps users become aware of their reading habits, not necessarily something to measure, and optimise their reading habits.

You’ve raised a good point! It’s subtle, but it actually aligns closely with my original intention behind BookPace. The app is meant to help build your own pace — to be in a quiet game with yourself. It’s about being mindful of how small bits of progress can compound into something meaningful over time, like compound interest, which works well for readers reading for pleasure. Slowly but surely, reading becomes more natural. The tracking, stats, etc. the app offers should be just tools not the end goal. I'll think about how to convey this better to users!
by d-us-vb | 2025-11-07 13:34:56+00:00
The mind is much more sensitive to writing it didn’t produce itself. If it produced the writing, then it is at least somewhat aware of the emotional state of the writer and can contextualize. If it is reading it from an outside “observer” it assumes far more objectivity, especially when the motive for seeking the observer perspective was for some therapeutic reason, even if they know that at best they’ll be getting pseudo-therapy.
by notahacker | 2025-11-07 13:35:02+00:00
Certainly puts the £3m lawsuit settlement with Martin Lewis (UK consumer financial advice guru who sued because he's the go-to fake endorsement of any scam product targeting Britons using Facebook ads) into perspective.

No wonder scammers are still spamming his likeness all over Facebook paid ads even though it's technically trivial for them to algorithmically flag it
by pas | 2025-11-07 13:35:15+00:00
the problem is not simple either, and the same (or very similar) SDKs are used by the very fancy platforms too, no?

compared to dumping logs to a file (or a single instance Prometheus scraping /metrics) everything is frustrating, because there are so many moving parts anyway, you want to query stuff and correlate, but for that you need to propagate the trace id, and emit and store spans, and take care to properly handle async workers, and you want historical comparisons, and downsampling for retention, and of course auto-discovery/registration/labeling from k8s pods (or containers or whatever) and source code upload and release tagging from CI, and ...
by nijave | 2025-11-07 13:35:25+00:00
Not sure about preferred but Jaeger is pretty simple for tracing only. Hyperdx looks interesting but brings in both Mongo and Clickhouse which imo is pretty heavy

Native k8s logs + Prometheus is probably more on the lighter weight side but you don't get traces. You could find some middle ground using the otel collector to extract trace metrics so you get RED metrics but you wouldn't have full traces
by hardwaregeek | 2025-11-07 13:35:25+00:00
I like OCaml and have written the "why we chose XYZ language" posts. Most of the time the real answer is "we like it and it makes us feel good to use it". Like the answers aren't wrong per se but they're more post-facto justifications. And that's perfectly fine! I think we should normalize saying that tech stack choices are subjective and preference-based. We're not robots. The social and aesthetic parts of a stack matter to people
by jbstack | 2025-11-07 13:35:53+00:00
I'm not sure that's still correct. There was an uplift because of Covid and people having more spare time, but whatever more recent (2024 - 2025) sources I can find suggest the trend has reversed.

It's worth also considering demographics. If you narrow the focus to just younger generations (who, we can guess, are more addicted to smartphones) then the numbers look pretty bad. E.g.:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/05/report-fall-in...