MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trjordan | 2025-11-09 12:33:02+00:00
I don't think we ever get away from the code being the source of truth. There has to be one source of truth.

If you want to go all in on specs, you must fully commit to allowing the AI to regenerate the codebase from scratch at any point. I'm an AI optimist, but this is a laughable stance with current tools.

That said, the idea of operating on the codebase as a mutable, complex entity, at arms length, makes a TON of sense to me. I love touching and feeling the code, but as soon as there's 1) schedule pressure and 2) a company's worth of code, operating at a systems level of understanding just makes way more sense. Defining what you want done, using a mix of user-centric intent and architecture constraints, seems like a super high-leverage way to work.

The feedback mechanisms are still pretty tough, because you need to understand what the AI is implicitly doing as it works through your spec. There are decisions you didn't realize you needed to make, until you get there.

We're thinking a lot about this at https://tern.sh, and I'm currently excited about the idea of throwing an agentic loop around the implementation itself. Adversarially have an AI read through that huge implementation log and surface where it's struggling. It's a model that gives real leverage, especially over the "watch Claude flail" mode that's common in bigger projects/codebases.
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-09 12:33:33+00:00
The thing is that he isn’t behaving like actual nazis from the 30s. He and people like him are doing and trying to accomplish something quite different (although also horrible). What’s happening today and its causes is only superficially similar to the situation in the 20s and 30s. Dismissing, ignoring and oversimplifying it (as appealing that is to some people) is counterproductive.

> And the Nazis didn't start with war and Auschwitz

No, but they were reasonable transparent about who they were well before that.

Problem is that the majority (or pretty close) of these “essentially decent” people never supported democracy or what it stood for. Weimar Republic never stood a chance in a society where most people supported rabid jingoism and authoritarianism in general.
by thesz | 2025-11-09 12:35:15+00:00
If you doing your own Forth CPU, make a barrel one [1] to hide any overhead. State of such individual CPU is small, you can easily have thousands of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_processor

If you do your implementation on regular CPU, do a software pipelined [2] interpreter, which also can do several threads of execution simultaneously.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_pipelining

Software pipelined stack machine interpreter was used to compress code for VLIW DSP.
by kobalsky | 2025-11-09 12:36:07+00:00
Well, it used to be justified but if they are lowering their rates it's in part because they are starting to get replaced by regional wallets.

Personally I think it's fantastic they are losing ground because it really rubs me the wrong way when they force their morals [1] [2].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/19/22632797/onlyfans-prohibi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-09 12:36:53+00:00
I mean Masa will make you a billionaire if you just have a shit business idea you’re enthusiastic enough about, no need to be a terrible person.

Compared to the amount of billionaires there are also relatively many lottery jackpots that will get you there if you just stick your winnings in an index fund.

Not to mention that there’s a decent amount of people who become billionaires by just working on relatively boring ”normal” business like real estate development, where some luck, good decisions and leveraging bank loans will get you there without having to be a slumlord or doing anything terrible.
by indolering | 2025-11-09 12:38:36+00:00
There is power in restricting access and air gapping helps a lot. A drone (for example) can fall back to basic cryptography to limit access.

Air gapping is a baseline requirement in most safety critical systems. Nuclear power plants in particular have lots of redundant layers of safety. AFAIK Russia hasn't physically tried to cause a meltdown, presumably due to the political blow back (although they have attacked Chernobyl's sarcophagus). I assume this limits their digital espionage attacks too.

We do get glimpses of the use of such malware, like when Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos' phone. But we don't hear about most of it because there is a benefit to keeping a hack secret, so as to keep access.

Finally, it's usually cheaper to social engineer someone into loading a PowerPoint presentation and doing a local privilege escalation. They burn those for things as petty as getting embarrassing political information.
by spwa4 | 2025-11-09 12:39:04+00:00
Isn't ssh -D + configuring a socks proxy in your browser a lot easier and faster? (using one of the many proxy switcher extensions) It would only work for the browser (although you do have socksify), but much quicker to set up and only ssh needs to work. No software install whatsoever. I mean, at least for VPSes, of course this won't work without an IP to connect to, or an IP behind NAT.

But: no software install.
by wqaatwt | 2025-11-09 12:40:48+00:00
> France is being kept alive by paying itself? Makes no sense.

Yes, by borrowing. Any meaningful reforms seems infeasible due to social and political reasons.

> Also arianespace group has 60% of their revenue from the development of the m51 nuclear launcher

Yes, so we agree its hardly much more than a government military contractor making its money from legacy products and not some sort of an innovative company.
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-11-09 12:41:42+00:00
Get them to install WordPress on a different second-hand computer. Other things exist to host but WordPress has a lot of resources out there, and going from bare metal to WordPress introduces a lot of staples of Linux systems administration while still being fairly easy to do.

FWIW this is what I recommend to adults wanting to get into the industry as well, I would just usually direct them from there towards automation, containerisation etc. For kids I would point out that they could host other things instead of WordPress, or even write their own..
by jhanschoo | 2025-11-09 12:41:49+00:00
> A comprehensive, technical guide to understanding Artificial Intelligence from first principles. Built for experienced engineers who want to deeply understand how AI actually works.

You are overselling this. Being able to read this site and nod along saying "I know this" says enables you to talk to your data scientist or AI engineer.

However, if you don't already know what the jargon means you aren't going to learn it from the site. The prerequisites don't mention probability, but probability isn't introduced anywhere. The sketch about attention in transformers is missing at least one very crucial ingredient. etc.
by nabla9 | 2025-11-09 12:41:50+00:00
It's irritating when journalists do not know enough basic economics or math to quantify anything. Author just lists numbers he picks from the articles but does not know what to do with them to get anything resembling conclusion.

You could do it even in exel, or you could find and summarize what others have done. No more than 2-4 hours of work.
by byronic | 2025-11-09 12:42:06+00:00
Seconding “YouTube ban.” I do it now at the network level. If at some point they alter parental controls to allow list channels I would consider adding it back, but the sheer quantity put forth onto the platform makes it impossible for any parent to moderate (or moderate effectively).

At least with streaming a TV show or movie there are defined breaks instead of an endless array of kid dopamine
by torginus | 2025-11-09 12:42:25+00:00
Do you use Rust in a professional capacity? Because I do, and I do because I chose it for a project over C++. Rust is much nicer in certain ways than C++ (like cargo or the whole ecosystem of packages), but it's core idea and assumption (which imo can equivalently stated as 'the borrow checker' or 'exact aliasing control') is flawed as it is, and programmers of all skill levels struggle with it for various reasons when writing programs of real-world complexity.

There are 3 kinds of ways people percieve Rust - those who see it as a cool piece of tech (which I agree with), those who see it as a practical tool, and those who see liking or not liking Rust as an ideological statement. I see it as a tool.

There's a lot of statements around Rust that are true in the strict factual sense, but clearly meant to be read differently.

'Free beer at the pub tonight' is a true statement even though the full truth would be 'Free beer at the bar tonight (entry fee $200)'.

'Fearless concurrency' is among these statements meant to be interpreted as making concurrent programming easier. The true statement would be 'fearless concurrency (but you might need to rewrite your program)'.
by dlisboa | 2025-11-09 12:42:55+00:00
Once in the Netherlands I saw the simplest solution to pigeons: they stretched a fishing line an inch or two over the balcony railing, so when pigeons would try to land they’d land on the fishing line and be off balance, flying away to a more stable place.

Seems it worked because the balcony was spotless. I’ve seen similar on European churches.
by nobody9999 | 2025-11-09 12:43:22+00:00
>The number of times this has happened has not been 0, but in terms of documented instances, you're not talking about a very large group of people.

"you're not talking about a very large group of people"? Does that make it acceptable? If so, what's the upper limit on an acceptable number of citizens being disappeared?

That's not a rhetorical question.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-09 12:43:32+00:00
>As a tech parent I think one of the best things I did for both my son and daughter was for their first computer to help them to build and setup their own Linux computer (It was Ubuntu back then but they’ve both moved themselves to Arch these days).

Of the important things my father, who definitely is a "tech parent", did for me none of them have anything to do with him teaching me some piece of technology.

To be very frank, if the best thing you have done for your children is getting them to use Linux you are a total failure as a parent. To be fair to you, I do not believe you at all when you say this.

>Now my friend wants the same for their daughter who is 8 years old.

One of the actually most valuable thing my father did for me, definitely in terms of education outcome and career. Was getting me interested and spending time with me and explaining me things. The particulars do not matter, I can not remember them. It is totally irrelevant whether what Linux distro you use or what you teach them. What matters is that the parent is there, explains and encourages.

>Linux with free and open software is the goal and focus.

This is about an 8 year old.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-11-09 12:44:24+00:00
Unfortunately, I wish it were that easy. But in reality, criminalizing certain speech does not suppress it or prevent people from holding those opinions.

Björn Höcke, the leader of Germany’s far right AfD party, was convicted of using Nazi slogans, and Germany has very clear laws preventing Nazi speech.

And yet, AfD is now the country’s 2nd most powerful party.

Sadly, criminalizing bad speech does not change the minds of those who hold those opinions, nor prevent their spread.
by miningape | 2025-11-09 12:44:51+00:00
> Now my friend wants the same for their daughter who is 8 years old.

Be careful - even the most obvious things (to us) won't be to a small child. They'll need a bit of a guiding hand and/or someone to ask questions to. Linux isn't obvious and I wouldn't be too surprised if they run into hard edges at some point (sound driver stops working), without someone to actually go to for help the computer just becomes a brick.

- Someone who installed Linux on his beat-up laptop when he was 12 (*), and faced endless frustration with it. (My parents confiscated the laptop because I started hitting it lmao - later got a Windows desktop that "just worked")

* - I don't remember if it stopped being able to run windows (hardware too weak) or, if the windows partition had corrupted itself and I couldn't afford a new copy of windows.
by ClawsOnPaws | 2025-11-09 12:44:52+00:00
Just as a quick datapoint here in case people get worried; yes, it is absolutely possible to program as a blind person, even without language models. Obviously you won't be using your eyes for it, but we have tried and tested tools that help and work. And at the end of the day, someone's going to have to review the code that gets written, so either way, you're not going to get around learning those tools.

Source: Am a blind person coding for many years before language models existed.
by pembrook | 2025-11-09 12:45:05+00:00
I’d start by not setting them up a Linux computer.

In both school and work it’s overwhelmingly likely they will either be asked to do things in MacOS or Windows only. Make sure they’re proficient there first.

Linux as a personal OS, regardless of how passionate you are about it, is still a hobbyist platform. If your child becomes super into computers, then you can help them dive deeper down the rabbit hole.

But I wouldn’t drop them at the bottom of the rabbit hole prematurely. Just because your kid liked listening to an AC/DC song doesn’t mean they will want to dive immediately into the world of Brutal Deathcore.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-09 12:45:48+00:00
Yup, but the number of "influencers," even making six digits, is small.

A couple months ago, I was at a stoplight, and this kid in an old beater was in the left-turn lane, to my left.

He had a steadycam rig in the passenger seat, and was nattering on about something.
by numpad0 | 2025-11-09 12:46:08+00:00
Isn't Airbus also just succeedingcompany to Sud Aviation and Aerospatiale? They've done Caravel jetliner, Exocet missile, Puma helicopter, early Ariane rockets, etc etc, by the time they started working on A300... Having such experiences would certainly help designing and delivering great airliners.
by jerkstate | 2025-11-09 12:46:13+00:00
seconded, Scratch is a wonderful learning environment. I would pair it with ChatGPT and supervision, LLMs will really help flesh out ideas and figure out how to implement them for kids who won't know how to start, and since you can't just copy-paste into Scratch, the kid will have to actually do the work of dragging the blocks around. We did some amazing stuff with Scratch - visualizing algebra and trig functions by drawing them as a graphing calculator would, we even made a binary tree based morse code decoder, a rocket simulator (using real-ish rocket equation physics, air resistance, etc). Now we have mostly moved onto Desmos (graphing calculator) and Python.
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-09 12:46:34+00:00
It is much harder to get consistent high speeds on a smaller sailboat than a larger one. Back in the “golden age of sail” the highest cargo capacity sailboats were also the fastest. It will absolutely require new boat designs and engineering to create massive modern shipping boats, but the fact that recreational boats can sustain high speeds across oceans at small scales proves it is possible at larger scales needed for shipping. There absolutely is a lot more energy in the wind than you need for this.

Even with old sail tech it was already closer than you might expect to modern container ships. Look up the Preussen, launched 1901. It could do over 20 knots and carry 8,000 tons of cargo. Although small by modern standards, there are economical viable smaller container ships operating today in that speed and cargo capacity range.

Even if you still had an old low tech boat like the Preussen nowadays, modern sail technology and hardware, plus better weather routing data would make it substantially faster, and require a tiny fraction of the crew that was initially required.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-11-09 12:47:21+00:00
> For me the goal would be forcing them to learn how this stuff works

Ignoring the hilarity of this comment, that's not really how kids learn.

- "Dad, I'd like to draw a house on this screen"

- "Ok kiddo, first we have to download stage1 tarball from FTP mirror I know the name of without looking it up"
by harleyk | 2025-11-09 12:47:23+00:00
A recent report from the American College of Cardiology emphasizes the prediction power of hsCRP:

"High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) is an inexpensive and widely available blood test. While there has been debate within the medical community regarding the utility of hsCRP, this statement details the data confirming its value in clinical decision making in primary and secondary prevention."

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2025/...
by nrjames | 2025-11-09 12:48:22+00:00
As a parent with two kids that used Scratch during 2020 or so… be cautious. The web community was an unregulated social network with follows, likes, comments, and a wide age range (apparently) of people interacting. Around that time, there was a lot of inappropriate content, some bullying, sketches about self-harm, sex, etc. Perhaps they’ve fixed the issue. If not, I would try to install it locally and keep them away from the official website.

Incidentally, I later came to believe that the visual coding impeded their ability to learn text-based coding. That was just my experience and I don’t have formal research to back it up, but I still wonder about it.
by jmpman | 2025-11-09 12:48:42+00:00
I subscribe to the $50 plan, and for the past day, my results have been laggy. Once the query actually starts, it’s as fast as normal, but time to first token wouldn’t even be the best way to describe the issue - it appears to be a problem with getting my request even into the hardware. Possibly an overloaded queue on the front end?
by stOneskull | 2025-11-09 12:50:24+00:00
antiX would be interesting, getting them used to config files..

maybe a USB stick with a few distros on it, experimenting with installing them, including dual-booting.. a mix of distros spanning debian/redhat types, and kde/gnome types.. maybe a couple of live distros on their own USB stick.. having a virtual machine in the main install and learning about installing into them..

scratch and python..
by nickserv | 2025-11-09 12:50:33+00:00
Yes, that's what I'm thinking of doing, blocking directly on the router.

It was somewhat manageable before with proper education (teaching them what to avoid, time limiting), but now with shorts and AI it's becoming a cesspool.

The main reason I allow it is to show them the dangers of it, of knowing to be careful. Otherwise I feel like as soon as they get access, they'll be completely unprepared... and of course as they get older they will definitely get access.
by crtasm | 2025-11-09 12:51:03+00:00
>Sky News collaborated with digital consultancy firm 411 to train a Large Language Model - an AI tool - to categorise the content into political and apolitical categories. The definitions for those categories were created in consultation with multiple computer science academics and social media experts. The 5,981 accounts we categorised accounted for 67% of all of the posts in our dataset. See our full methodology here[0].

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/how-sky-news-investigated-xs-algo...
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-09 12:51:07+00:00
All you answered was "Is WLTP representative of real world usage?", which was not a question I asked, I asked: "know someone else who did and know more or less how far they can go?".

Like anyone else, I'm aware that marketing material is difference from reality, which is exactly why I'm asking for other people's experience.

> It is also pointless to ask people about their experience

You know what's more pointless? Answering questions no one asked, that you don't know the answer to, and that aren't aimed at you in the first place. You don't have to answer, you can let others with the knowledge do instead.
by koolba | 2025-11-09 12:51:49+00:00
> Indeed, elections have consequences, so why are you so upset with the democrats? Aren't you going to fix things now?

The destruction I see is being done by the unreasonable Democrat Senators holding hostage hungry children and Federal workforce.

> This is your finest hour, and it will be remembered for a long time, how you acted and what drove you to keep on digging that hole when it was abundantly clear that the path chosen wasn't working at all.

The intransigence of the Democrats is what will be remembered here. They will eventually cave, their old guard that did so will be booted in the next primary, and their replacements will have their clocks cleaned in the next general elections.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-09 12:52:59+00:00
Right, seems we want the same thing, is this something you're afraid of if you would buy a BYD, I'm guessing since this is a reply to my comment?

Personally, seems they have workshops all over the country, and as one of the biggest EV brands, it won't be hard to find parts for the mainstream models nor to service it.

AFAIK, the car doesn't require OTA updates, any subscription or similar, or did I miss something went I went through what they actually offer?
by ogig | 2025-11-09 12:53:28+00:00
>Advertising companies are pushing DoH to remove control from you and give them the control, so be aware of that

True. My first naive attempt at content filtering for my kids was to use a family friendly DNS for the whole network. That's when I learned about chrome's secure DNS option, witch effectively bypasses my intended settings. I guess endpoint control is the only effective option. A mandatory http proxy could be used to filter by hostname too. None of them easy, and I'm supposed to be an expert. Normal people has little chance of implementing technical parental controls.
by BonitaPersona | 2025-11-09 12:53:41+00:00
I'm open to and interested in the thesis and discourse this website supposedly offers, but the medium forcefully expels me.

Perhaps there could be a static 1.0 version we can read or listen to?

edit: Okay, I get it now. It's an automatic aggregator! Only the style auto-change is egregious then, but the actual webapp is great!

another edit, sorry: The call-to-action button should be at the top, not the bottom. On mobile you have to scroll to see it and it can be missed.
by dsr_ | 2025-11-09 12:54:10+00:00
These days, I would start with ZFSBootMenu and Debian Stable.

Why ZFS? So that backups are easy, snapshots are cheap, and when the inevitable happens, it takes a few minutes to reboot and roll back.

Why Debian Stable? Because it will continue to work and get security updates for years, without changing out from underneath them without notice.

I would also recommend that any computer for an 8 year old be placed in the living room or a similar easy-to-watch-over place. Kids need guidance; if they didn't, they wouldn't be kids.

Adblocking, obviously. Everyone needs that.
by gryfft | 2025-11-09 12:54:10+00:00
> alive internet theory is a séance with this living internet. Resurrecting tens of millions of digital artifacts from the Internet Archive, visitors are immersed in a relentless barrage of human expression as they travel through the life of the web as we created it—every image, video, song, and text uploaded by a real person on the web.

I like this a lot. It sort of turns internet history into a lava lamp.

For those struggling with the styling on the splash page, the slider at the top lets you pick an era and stick with it.
by itsoktocry | 2025-11-09 12:54:13+00:00
From the article:

>"Specifically, the Sky News team ran a study where they created nine new Twitter/X accounts, three left-wing, three right-wing, and three politically neutral, and then tracked what content got dumped into their “For You” tabs on the Elon Musk-owned social media service during a one-month period in 2025"