MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Redster | 2025-11-04 07:57:51+00:00
Yeah, that would be hard.

It sounds more like instead of learning a lesson about following too closely, he decided to turn the mix of anger or fear onto you. Hopefully, with time removed from the situation, he will realize that he should not follow as closely. And hopefully you won't be too affected by guilt-manipulation. (Obviously, it's a good idea when something behind you cannot slow quickly, to try not to brake too quickly, but in theory, a scooter should be able to stop very quickly.) With hard calls, you only can do your best with the information you had at the time.
by Sep142324 | 2025-11-04 07:57:55+00:00
Hi! You can find the detailed differences here: https://docs.timeplus.com/proton-oss-vs-enterprise

In short, Proton focuses on simplicity — it’s a single-instance engine powerful enough for most common streaming and analytics workflows.

Features like clustering, mutable streams, and S3-based stream storage/state checkpoints are part of the enterprise edition, while Proton keeps the core performance and streaming capabilities in an open-source form.
by 9rx | 2025-11-04 07:58:15+00:00
> Learn to use the tools.

Thing is, you wouldn't need to learn to use the tools if the tool was able to think. A thinking entity is able to adapt to other parties who lack learnings. This confirms that LLMs are little more than fancy RNGs.

> I use it daily and get meaningful, quality results.

That's what the tea leaf readers say too, funnily enough.
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by mnewme | 2025-11-04 07:58:30+00:00
The problem is that we use the same words for different things, which I think is risky. We often draw parallels simply because we use terms like “thinking,” “reasoning,” or “memory.”

Most of these comparisons focus on problem-solving or pattern recognition, but humans are capable of much more than that.

What the author left out is that there are many well-known voices in neuroscience who hold completely different views from the one that was cited.

I suppose we’ll have to wait and see what turns out to be true.
by davydm | 2025-11-04 08:01:38+00:00
I don't think I'm pro-bigtech or particularly anti-bigtech.

I'm pro-use-shit-that-works and I'm anti-exploit-people-to-fill-coffers. Unfortunately, BigTech seems to shift out of the first realm and firmly into the second fairly quickly. People so enamored with the fact that it could be done, that they don't bother to think if it _should_ be done. The current AI-industry-wide financial circle-jerk that is sure to end in tears. Shoving AI down everyone's throats in some attempt to draw a profit from the hugely inefficient (and rarely useful) ai blob. So many on-screen adverts that reading an article without uBlock should earn you some kind of reward just for being able to make it through all the distractions and page layout oddities. It's enshittification in the name of profit, and it sucks.

And it's completely lacking kindness, an essential virtue for the world. Reliability, Functionality, Kindness. These are my lowest bars for life.

(also, not SV - not even 'murican!)
by blikdak | 2025-11-04 08:02:48+00:00
What bugs me is the sheer number of people, and organisations, who still link to images and video or '1/20' long screeds on twitter, while the next article on their own site is bitching about how bad twatter/owner/politics etc is. Seriously if a site, blog, forum etc you know ever links to twitter then just stop interaction with them, they're lazy mofos need to do their own groundwork.
by colordrops | 2025-11-04 08:02:56+00:00
* use a prepackaged tmux config that makes it look nice and smooths out rough edges

* Spend some time learning keybindings and commands. Just an hour or two should be enough.

* Learn about the top plugins and install them. There's a plugin that saves and restores your session, I forget the name, but it's great

* If you use vim, set up both vim and tmux with the right plugins so that the same keybindings navigate across both vim and tmux splits seemlessly.
by bongodongobob | 2025-11-04 08:03:08+00:00
See my comment to parent. One example of many. You can say "Oh, well, it just sounds like your company needs better tools and processes, you don't really need AI for any of that. You should just invest in a tool for this and monitor that and have managment prioritize..."

Yeah, I know, yet here we are and it saves me boatloads of time.
by kyboren | 2025-11-04 08:03:27+00:00
You created an account about half an hour ago and have submitted nearly 1/6 of the comments on this post. You're more or less uncritically parroting the talking points of the special interest groups behind this while dismissing real concerns about liberty, censorship, and sexism.

Why are you so invested in this issue? Why did you create a throwaway account just to post on this topic? What relationship do you have to politicians, civil servants, and NGOs who have been involved in this campaign?
by watwut | 2025-11-04 08:03:50+00:00
I dont think HTML5 was supposed to make things easier. It is just that major players wanted to get rid of flash for own reason (some of them valid) and HTML5 was something they were able to point at. It was never easier or even half replacement, it was significantly more complicated and crappier experience for an average normal creator.

It never even got some convincing demo. All those I have seen at the time were the "spend a lot more time to produce something much less impressive" kind of anti demos.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-04 08:04:13+00:00
It's basic engineering principle: you do not do work amplification. e.g. debouncing, request coalescing, back-pressure are all techniques to prevent user from making server do lots of work in response to small user effort.

As example, you have made summarization app. User is try to upload 1 TB file. What you do? Reject request.

You have made summarization app. User is try upload 1 byte file 1000 times. What you do? Reject request.

However, this is for accidental or misconfigured user. What if you have malicious user? There are many technique for this as well: hell-ban, tarpit, limp.

For hell-ban simply do not handle request. It appear to be handled but is not.

For tarpit, raise request maker difficulty. e.g. put Claude Code with Github MCP on case, give broad instructions to be very specific and request concise code and split etc. etc. then put subsequent PRs also into CC with Github MCP.

For limp, provide comment slow using machine.

Assuming you're not working with such person. If working with such person, email boss and request they be fired. For good of org, you must kill the demon.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-04 08:04:32+00:00
>In our world however companies are free to gamble on the side as long as their owners don't mind.

> This constitutes an enormous systemic risk.

Tell me about it. 2008 crash was a result of exactly that. Banks instead of doing banking focused on gambling on risky assets and lost. Nvidia gamble is looking less obviously bad.
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by ZeroGravitas | 2025-11-04 08:04:58+00:00
Solar analyst Jenny Chase did her yearly "thoughts on solar" update recently and said:

> By 2030 most countries will have spot power prices of zero in sunny hours. This will be passed on to end consumers, to encourage them to shift power demand to sunny periods by electric vehicle and battery charging, preheating, precooling, etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/solarchase.bsky.social/post/3m3mdc5...

So Australia is just ahead of the curve, as it generally is with solar.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-11-04 08:05:08+00:00
I think it radically demystifies _language generation_ and it seems this is part of the brain’s function too.

So we know how to create a part of the brain using simple techniques, which suggests that intelligence might not be so magical as we think. But thinking, well we still don’t know what that is yet.

It feels like, hey, there is a route to machine intelligence.

The big question is how long is that route. Do we have the ingredients to build a brain with the right architecture? And I’d say “nope”. But I’m not so confident that with half a dozen breakthroughs we’d get there. How many years per breakthrough? Well, it’s been nearly a decade since the last one. So 60 years on that count. But more money is going in and there may be some compounding effect, but it should at least be unlikely someone suddenly produces AGI next year. More likely we stairstep and with each step the estimated window should tighten.

But I really don’t think we know what thinking is.
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-11-04 08:05:58+00:00
Thank you! I have been dreaming of building a similar app, with the addition that I wanted to track my heart rate at the same time. I would use it for HIIT gym sessions where the segments are asymmetrical (60 seconds vs 30)

I think you need a favicon for when installed on the homescreen. This tool provides all the necessary html: https://realfavicongenerator.net/
by smsm42 | 2025-11-04 08:07:56+00:00
> In the last week i've vibe-code (vibe-engineered?) a typescript project with 230+ commits, 64 typescripts files, with 27k+ lines of code. Too much to actually read.

Congratulations, you discovered that generating code is only part of software development process. If you don't understand what the code is actually doing, good luck maintaining it. If it's never reviewed, how do you know these tests even test anything? Because they say "test passed"? I can write you a script that prints "test passed" a billion times - would you believe it is a billion unit tests? If you didn't review them, you don't have tests. You have a pile of code that looks like tests. And "it takes too long to review" is not an excuse - it's like saying "it's too hard to make a car, so I just took a cardboard box, wrote FERRARI on it and sit inside it making car noises". Fine, but it's not a car. It's just pretending. If it's not properly verified, what you have is not tests, it's just pretending.
by dschuessler | 2025-11-04 08:08:11+00:00
There is XMPP. Messengers of Google and Facebook used it in the early days. From what I know, it failed for multiple reasons.

1. The various clients and servers implemented different subsets of the functionality, which deteriorated UX.

2. Service providers have an incentive to lock you in and the average user doesn't mind. So no one pushed for it.
by rmunn | 2025-11-04 08:09:00+00:00
I still have to submit the paperwork that says which country my income was earned in, which is basically the standard tax paperwork from country A plus an extra form or two. (And in years when I went to country A on business trips, it's non-trivial. Simple enough, but not as trivial as years when I was in country B the whole time). It's not extremely burdensome, but it's still one more piece of paperwork to keep track of than the tax paperwork that people who have never left country A have to deal with.
by piaste | 2025-11-04 08:09:26+00:00
Layman question: say you have a C codebase with a bunch of preprocessor macros and you want to get rid of a particular one that's too clever, and assume no other macros depend on it.

Is it possible to command the preprocessor to take the source files as input and print them out with that one particular macro expanded and no other changes?

Intuitively, it sounds like it should be possible, and then you'd end up with a code base with a bunch of repetition but one fewer too-clever abstraction - and refactoring to deal with repetition (if necessary!) is a far more approachable and well-understood problem.

(Kind of like how some fancy compiles-to-javascript languages have a literal 'mytool --escape' command that will turn the entire code base into a plain, non-minified javascript in case you ever want to stop using them.)
by boomlinde | 2025-11-04 08:10:00+00:00
I'm not questioning whether the Ipad can be used as a client in some capacity, or whether people tend to use it as a client. I question whether the Ipad is a thin client. The answer to that question doesn't lie in how many applications require an internet connection, but in how many applications require local computational resources.

The Ipad is a high performance computer, not just because Apple think that's fun, but out of necessity given its ambition: the applications people use on it require local storage and rather heavy local computation. The web browser standards if nothing else have pretty much guaranteed that the age of thin clients is over: a client needs to supply a significant amount of computational resources and storage to use the web generally. Not even Chromebooks will practically be anything less than rich clients.

Going back to the original topic (and source of the analogy), IOS hosts an on-device large language model.
by Daneel_ | 2025-11-04 08:10:27+00:00
The spiciest file I've ever had to deal with was an 18TB text file with no carriage returns/line feeds (all on one line). It was a log generated by an older Nokia network appliance. I think I ended up 'head'ing the first 2MB into another file and opening that, then I could grok (not the AI) the format and go from there.
by michaelt | 2025-11-04 08:10:54+00:00
> Complaining about regulation, [...] is also dumbfounding.

Regulation is often necessary, but it has a cost even though it's necessary.

If my country's regulations require nurseries to have one staff member for every three young children, there might be good safety reasons for that - but I'm going to have to spend a third of my salary to have one young child cared for.
by wltr | 2025-11-04 08:10:57+00:00
Have you considered syncthing? There’s shiny new and super cool Sushi Train (or Sync Train by other name) app for iOS (I wish the author would make it a paid app, so much I like it!): https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

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I mention iOS, because that was what I needed personally, as there was syncthing for Android since forever.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-04 08:10:59+00:00
(a) I'm complaining about the messed up syntax and symbol soup.

https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/2024/burton/...

This code is fairly easy to understand, too, then.

(b) No, it would definitely not look "pretty similar".

(c) So what? You talked about abstractions in cryptographic code. Abstractions are layers to hide things. That is bad in crypto code.
by johnisgood | 2025-11-04 08:13:43+00:00
Symbol soup and layers of hell that is abstractions. A language in which it is valid syntax to have 6 symbols next to each other is a bad idea.

You do not have to know what programming language I prefer either[1]. Why would you?

[1] If you are curious, I have talked quite a lot about it, along with why I dislike Rust.
by jcattle | 2025-11-04 08:13:53+00:00
Oh that's a fine example of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Read this comment first, went to read one of the other top links on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804377) and which Paradox shows up? Jevons'!

Was thoroughly confused which article this comment belonged to for a second.
by hatefulmoron | 2025-11-04 08:14:03+00:00
I don't really understand your point. It reads like you're saying "I like good code, it doesn't matter if it comes from a person or an LLM. If a person is good at using an LLM, it's fine." Sure, but the problem people have with LLMs is their _propensity_ to create slop in comparison to humans. Dismissing other people's observations as purely an emotional reaction just makes it seem like you haven't carefully thought about other people's experiences.
by SquareWheel | 2025-11-04 08:14:28+00:00
I find it a little overwhelming.

Like erikrthoff suggested, I'd drop the light mode toggle and just go with prefers-color-scheme. Then I'd move the X buttons to the top-right of their respective sections (timers, segments), and move the Add Timer button underneath.

Mockup: https://i.imgur.com/EcSHX7S.png
by mettamage | 2025-11-04 08:14:33+00:00
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by lordnacho | 2025-11-04 08:14:58+00:00
> When conversing with LLMs, I never get the feeling that they have a solid grasp on the conversation. When you dig into topics, there is always a little too much vagueness, a slight but clear lack of coherence, continuity and awareness, a prevalence of cookie-cutter verbiage. It feels like a mind that isn’t fully “there” — and maybe not at all.

Much like speaking to a less experienced colleague, no?

They say things that contain the right ideas, but arrange it unconvincingly. Still useful to have though.
by mertens | 2025-11-04 08:15:07+00:00
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by wiseowise | 2025-11-04 08:15:09+00:00
> A company that chose Visual Basic or Perl would have had a much harder road than one which chose C# or Python.

Based on what? Economics define where you go, not language. If company using Perl or VB has steady cash flow and their bottleneck is language - they’ll just rewrite when it makes sense. No amount of writing in C# or Python from scratch will save you if your product is garbage.
by MartijnHols | 2025-11-04 08:17:00+00:00
Telling a new contributor no thank you is hard. Open source contributors are hard to come by, and so I’ve always dealt with PRs like this (albeit before AI days but from people who had never written a line of code before their PR) by leaving a message that it’s a huge PR so it’s going to take a while to review it and a request to make smaller PRs in the future. A couple of times I ended up leaving over a hundred review comments, but most times they were all fixed and the contributor stuck around with many better PRs later.
by shinycode | 2025-11-04 08:17:09+00:00
Our problem is not coding. Our problem is knowledge. If no one reads it and no one knows how it works and that’s what the company wants because we need to ship fast then the company doesn’t understand what software is all about. Code is a language, we write stories that makes a lot of sense and has consequences. If the companies does not care that humans need to know and decide in details the story and how it’s written then let it accept the consequence of a sttastistically generated story with no human supervision. Let it trust the statistics when there will be a bug and no one knows how it works because no one read it and no one is there anymore to debug. We’ll see in the end if it’s cheaper to let the code be written and only understood by statistical algorithms. Otherwise, just work differently instead of generating thousand of loc, it’s your responsibility to review and understand no matter how long it takes.