MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joestrouth1 | 2025-11-26 16:19:00+00:00
Your reading of the addiction angle is much different than mine.

I didn't hear the author criticizing the character of their colleagues. On the contrary, they wrote a whole section on how folks are pressured or forced to use AI tools. That pressure (and fear of being left behind) drives repeated/excessive exposure. That in turn manifests as dependence and progressive atrophy of the skills they once had. Their colleagues seem aware of this as evidenced by "what followed in most of them, almost like a reflex, was a self-justification of why the way they use these tools is fine". When you're dependent on something, you can always find a 'reason'/excuse to use. AA and other programs talk about this at length without morally condemning addicts or assigning individual blame.

> For most of us, self-justification was the maker of excuses; excuses, of course, for drinking, and for all kinds of crazy and damaging conduct. We had made the invention of alibis a fine art. [...] We had to drink because at work we were great successes or dismal failures. We had to drink because our nation had won a war or lost a peace. And so it went, ad infinitum. We thought "conditions" drove us to drink, and when we tried to correct these conditions and found that we couldn't to our entire satisfaction, our drinking went out of hand

Framing something as addictive does not necessarily mean that those suffering from it are failures/weak/immoral but you seem to have projected that onto the author.

Their other analogy ("brainworm") is similar. Something that no-one would willingly sign up for if presented with all the facts up front but that slips in and slowly develops into a serious issue. Faced with mounting evidence of the problem, folks have a strong incentive to downplay the issue because it's cognitively uncomfortable and demands action. That's where the "harmful coping" comes in: minimizing the severity of the problem, avoiding the topic when possible, telling yourself or others stories about how you're in control or things will work out fine, etc.
by omaewabaka | 2025-11-26 16:19:09+00:00
As a Japanese, I will mention that I've seen Japanese people correct each other on this, both in private and in public. Its because we might get the meaning by context, but if you pronounce it wrong, it sounds very strange in that context where its clearly wrong... To default to an assumption that this is due to racism / cultural gatekeeping says a whole lot about your world view and perception about Japanese people and culture than it does my people.

For example, examine your own words when you say that where you come from its a subtle form of discrimination. Well, you are saying it yourself that an action is deemed discriminatory according to the standards of your own culture, not to the standards of the other culture. You realize that could be cultural misunderstanding? There is a word for evaluating another culture by the standards of one's own culture: ethnocentrism.

If you are actually living in Japan, you should self-reflect a bit about what problems you face that you attribute subconsciously in your head to malicious intent, rather than cultural misunderstanding.

Anyways, I'm often disappointed by the comment section on this website when its anything about Japanese people. This is just another reminder for me to avoid the comments.
by pydry | 2025-11-26 16:19:27+00:00
There was a previous study that said 47% by 2033: https://fortune.com/2015/04/22/robots-white-collar-ai/

It predates LLMs so they werw predicting that poets and artists would be the last jobs to be automated. Which is kinda funny.

Economists' predictions about investors' wet dreams have always been a little bit whimsical.
by api | 2025-11-26 16:19:37+00:00
I wonder if AI also reveals unnecessary parts of the workforce by demonstrating that what they do is actually pretty trivial.

There are a ton of basically BS office jobs that could probably be replaced by AI, or in some cases just revealed as superfluous.

We need to just stop pretending we still need a 1:1 connection between employment and income and do UBI. Useless jobs help us preserve the illusions of a pre-post-industrial civilization. Instead of just paying people, we pay people to do work we don't need.
by majormajor | 2025-11-26 16:20:16+00:00
I don't really see it any different than the Windows/Unix, Windows/Mac, etc, flame wars that boiled even amongst those with no professional stake it in for decades. Those were otherwise serious people too, parroting meaningless numbers and claims that didn't actually make much of a difference to them.

If anything, the AI takes are more much more meaningful. A Mac/PC flame war online was never going to significantly affect your career. A manager who either is all-in on AI or all-out on it can.
by grayhatter | 2025-11-26 16:20:18+00:00
> It wasn't caught in review because the file that was changed didn't require my teams review (because we ship more slowly, they removed us as code owners for many files recently).

I've lost your fight, but won mine before, you can sell this as risk reduction to your boss. I've never seen eng win this argument on quality grounds. Quality is rarely something that can be understood by company leadership. But having a risk reduction team that moves a bit slower and protects the company from extreme exposures like this, is much harder to cut from the process. "Imagine the law suits missing something like this would cause." and "we don't move slower, we do more than the other teams, the code is more visible, but the elimination of mistakes that will be very expensive legally and reputationally is what we're the best at"
by tracker1 | 2025-11-26 16:20:25+00:00
I've been using .Net since late 2001 (ASP+) including in govt and banking and rarely have had issues getting timely updates for my local development environment, and in the past decade it's become more likely that the dev team controls the CI/CD environment and often the deployment server(s).... Though I prefer containerized apps over bare metal deployments.
by spot5010 | 2025-11-26 16:20:41+00:00
"I personally don’t touch LLMs with a stick. I don’t let them near my brain. Many of my friends share that sentiment."

Any software engineer who shares this sentiment is doing their career a disservice. LLMs have their pitfalls, and I have been skeptical of their capabilities, but nevertheless I have tried them out earnestly. The progress of AI coding assistants over the past year has been remarkable, and now they are a routine part of my workflow. It does take some getting used to, and effectively using an AI coding assistant is a skill in and of itself that is worth mastering.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-11-26 16:20:56+00:00
I feel like in a sci-fi world with robots, teleportation and holodecks these people would decide to stay at home and hand wash the dishes.

If an amazing world changing technology like LLMs shows up on your doorstep and your response is to ignore it and write blog posts about how you don't care about it then you aren't curious and you aren't really a hacker.
by ericmay | 2025-11-26 16:21:21+00:00
> I'm not sure why you bring up UBI?

In the American context that's the generally agreed upon "alternative". There's no appetite for, say, all of the existing welfare programs and also handing out cash. I don't think there's a meaningful distinction between "handing out cash" and "UBI", but of course I want to acknowledge that cash paid or services rendered (healthcare, etc.) can be a mix in an overall scheme and that UBI typically refers to a specific program. To me it's all the same thing with just a mix of how you want to do it but it's not fair of me to suggest that you think of it the same way so I apologize for that.

> Not sure that will get me past the gate you are keeping here.

If you haven't personally deal with or lived with crackheads, homeless, hustlers, etc. you have little to no insight into how to effectively work with people who are experiencing those issues or lifestyle challenges and you just make the problem worse in general while also wasting money.

It's not gatekeeping to suggest one must have more experience with something in order to make informed decisions or create helpful and fair programs. But if you want to call that gatekeeping I'm happy to gate-keep.

Last Tuesday I called the local police because a homeless guy was standing on the side of the road with a good chunk (the size of an average hand or so) of his leg missing, out in the rain at night, in 40 degree weather. He's not doing that because he just needs some UBI or healthcare, and there's no clinic or pamphlet that will "fix" that person's problems.

The ivory tower will tell you we just need to get that person help, a safe place to live, etc. but they're wrong. I'm sure you see a lot of that in Germany too? What do you guys usually do when you see a homeless person in such circumstances? Do you give the money and does that fix the issues?

> Someone has to pay the taxes to finance the redistribution. The average person can't get more out of the system than they pay in (by definition of how averaging works).

That doesn't make any sense at all. Plenty of people in the United States at least get more than they pay in, even if it's not exactly a cash reimbursement. Not that I have a problem with that.

> In any case, what you want to really avoid are sudden cliffs, where an extra dollar in gross income costs you more than a dollar in net income. And ideally, you also want to avoid unduly high marginal rates (even if they are still below 100%) from phasing out multiple, uncoordinated welfare payments.

Right and we can just avoid those by not having restrictions on the income. It doesn't matter if Bill Gates gets a $2,000 UBI check, he's going to more than make up for it in overall taxes (ideally, unfortunately our government is all too happy to tax anyone but the ultra wealthy). I think the same is true for many other folks too and don't think it's a worthwhile concern.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-26 16:21:26+00:00
It's interesting that this is a similar criticism to what was levelled at Ruby on Rails back in the day. I think generating a bunch of code - whether through AI or a "framework" - always has the effect of obscuring the mental model of what's going on. Though at least with Rails there's a consistent output for a given input that can eventually be grokked.
by wey-gu | 2025-11-26 16:21:38+00:00
I was reading an article earlier today, and it brought me back to a question I’ve heard over and over again in real data/infra teams: Do we just accept vendor lock-in because it’s convenient, or do we take the pain and build an open, multi-engine metadata stack? For context (not my product, not promotional — just what triggered the thought): https://medium.com/p/35cc5b15b24e I’m not trying to argue Gravitino vs. UC here — I’m more interested in the architectural mindset behind these two approaches. On the vendor-integrated side, the upsides are obvious: smoother UX one place for lineage/policies fewer moving parts But so are the downsides: cost keeps creeping up you end up tied to one engine/format migrations basically don’t happen in real life And on the open/composable side: Spark/Trino/Flink/Ray all first-class Iceberg/Hudi/Delta can actually coexist Metadata isn’t tied to compute But again: inconsistent metadata models everywhere no unified governance layer someone eventually owns a pile of glue code forever So I’m curious: what actually works in practice? If your company had to make this choice: Did you go all-in on a vendor, or build something open? Did the decision age well after a year or two? Has anyone actually avoided metadata sprawl without getting locked in? Where do lineage, ACLs, policies, and the “source of truth” actually live in your setup? Really interested in what folks think, especially if you're juggling multiple engines, table formats, and clouds.
by pdimitar | 2025-11-26 16:21:55+00:00
Highly irrelevant. Not my role as an individual contributor to hone and fine-tune their job description.

Fact on the ground is that they usually optimize the entirely wrong indicators and never ever optimize for avoiding future problems.

In my consulting and contracting stints I made it a habit to write down what crisis is looming on the horizon and making bets with my wife which one is going to arrive first. A fun little game.

Watching train wrecks in slow motion stopped being fun with time.

What PM's job is is above my pay grade. I want them to enable me and the team, not be a mouth piece of people with zero understanding of product _and_ of engineering. They are just there to ask you how is stuff going.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-26 16:22:13+00:00
Read the project and its key paper before commenting:

arxiv.org/abs/2510.25137

The key takeaway buried between technical jargon is that these figures aren’t measuring workforce replacement, but task replacement. They aren’t saying AI can replace 12% of the workforce, rather that AI can replace 12% of the work performed, and its associated wage values, expected concentrations, and diverse impacts (across the lower 48). There does not seem to be a more user-friendly visual available to tinker with, at least that I could readily find on mobile.

They try to couch this conclusion at the end, stating that workforce displacement isn’t going to happen by AI so much as by decision-makers in government and enterprise. It’s entirely possible to use AI tools to amplify productivity and output and lead to smaller work weeks with better labor outcomes, but we have ample evidence that, barring appropriate carrots and sticks, enterprises will fire folks to keep the profit for themselves while governments will victim-blame the unemployed for “not being current on skills”. This creates a strong disincentive for labor to cooperate with AI, because it’s a lose-lose Prisoner’s Dilemma for them: cooperation will either result in a boost in productivity that hurts those around them through displacement and an increased workload on themselves, or cooperation results in their own replacement in the midst of a difficult job market and broader economy. Cooperation is presently the worst choice for labor, and the authors do a milquetoast job highlighting this reality - but do better than most of their predecessors, at least.

Really, it comes back to what I spoke about in 2023 when it comes to AI: the problem isn’t AI so much as a system that will hand its benefits to those of already immense wealth and means, and that is the problem that needs solving immediately.
by philips | 2025-11-26 16:22:14+00:00
I love the OPDS feature to serve ebooks to my families ereader devices. Many of the other OPDS servers are rather complex by comparison and as a bonus I can use it from a web browser for my devices that don’t speak OPDS.

https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#opds-fe...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-26 16:23:10+00:00
I dunno. It seems straightforwardly analogous to the fake medical marijuana clinics you see in places where recreational use isn't legal, or the countless online pharmacies with doctors on retainer to prescribe Ozempic and Viagra. It's not how I would design the medical system if I were in charge, but these aren't addictive substances like opioids.
by cesarb | 2025-11-26 16:23:30+00:00
> Or it could use an RFLAGS bit or a bit in MXCSR or a new register, etc.

> Almost anything would be better than an MSR that is only accessible to privileged code.

ARM does that: their flag (DIT) is accessible by non-privileged code. If you know the architecture has that flag, either because your -march= is recent enough or because the operating system told you so through the hwcaps or the emulated id registers, you can use it freely without needing to switch to privileged mode through a syscall.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-11-26 16:23:39+00:00
I don't want to serve the traffic at all. It's a popular forum that I run out of charity.

I would have to upgrade my infrastructure to serve 30x the traffic just for bots. And it's traffic that busts my cache because it hits all over my forum at once, like deep into page 64 of topics made years ago.

Or, I can use CloudFlare to block the bots.

I was referring to web hosts offering DDoS protection. Basically all of them null route you if you receive a big enough volumetric attack, even the ones that claim to offer DDoS protection.

Also, whether AI is behind specific DDoS current events isn't relevant to the point of AI bots multiplying automated internet traffic.

These work against the claim that the internet without CF would be a mere difference in captchas which is dismissive of real challenges faced by the modern internet.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-11-26 16:23:41+00:00
Personally I'm watching people I used to respect start to rely on AI more and more and their skills and knowledge are declining rapidly while their reliance is growing, so I'm really not interested in following that path

They seem just as enthusiastic as many of the pro AI voices here on HN, while the quality of their work declines. It makes me extremely skeptical of anyone who is enthusiastic about AI. It seems to me like it's a delusion machine
by Tepix | 2025-11-26 16:23:41+00:00
Indeed. I think the main reason to send thousands of probes is increasing the odds that they will survive the trip and also be in the right position to gather usable data to transmit back.

Also once you have created the infrastructure of hundreds or thousands of very powerful lasers to accelerate the tiny probes to incredibel speeds, sending many probes instead of a few doesn't add much to the cost anyway.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-26 16:24:04+00:00
It’s true. You can even go on Reddit and find anecdotes and guides about which clinics to call and what to say to get prescribed with minimal hassle.

Some of the clinics were even prescribing anabolic steroids intended for terminal cancer patients.

If you want to read about something even crazier, look up the services that were started during COVID to be prescription mills for Adderall or Xanax. The relaxed COVID prescribing rules allowed telehealth providers to give schedule II prescriptions to new patients remotely, so services were created to advertise on TikTok and give prescriptions for a monthly fee. The FDA cracked down on these, though.

There’s even a famous story of a whistleblower who worked at one of these clinics and got reprimanded for not prescribing Adderall enough. There was a leaked memo where they pushed providers to prescribe Adderall over other options because their data showed the highest customer retention rate that way.
by financltravsty | 2025-11-26 16:24:59+00:00
As an experienced polysubstance researcher, that's not exactly accurate.

TRT cessation does not inherently cause men to have suppressed hormone levels after. With precautions and extra steps like HCG to maintain leydig cell/testicular function, preventing atrophy, one may safeguard against that risk.

Coming off TRT, yes you will have lower levels as your HPTA has been suppressed by exogenous hormones. One may speed up this recovery using "PCT" (post cycle therapy), which involves taking a SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator, e.g. enclomiphene) to resensitize and restart your HPTA. However this is not always necessary, and if one takes a look at the HARLEM study, most users return to their baseline levels within a year of going cold turkey.

In the cases of true permanently lowered levels of hormones, I believe the two most common reasons are: using other AAS besides testosterone (1) and lifestyle or health factors that correlate with the need to be on TRT (2).

With 1, this can be seen in users of decadurabolin (deca), which notoriously has hormone receptor active metabolites that last around for atleast a year, continuously suppressing the system. Or trenbolone (tren/cattle bulking hormone) which is inherently neurally and endocrinically otherwise toxic.

With 2, you hop on TRT because there is some reason your hormones are not at healthy levels. Whatever the reason is, it is still there, and once you've stopped bandaiding the issue its effects resurface.

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I have also used many GLP-1s (semaglutide, tirzepatide, and retatrutide). No there is no off-ramp, but the only effects I've noticed are a return to my baseline of appetite, and neurological state.

N.B. GLP-1s are good for impulse and behavioral disorders like ADHD, which it did help. However, I have decided to not take it due to the negative effects on personality and reward seeking behavior.

They are neuro-active in the brain, and their effects I've decided are not worth it.
by DuffmanCC | 2025-11-26 16:25:02+00:00
I know there are already several React challenge platforms, but most of them feel the same: a Sandpack-based IDE with client-side tests and no real TypeScript support. I wanted to improve that experience while keeping things simple.

So I built ReactChallenges — a challenge platform with a more realistic development workflow. It still uses Sandpack, but with a much more complete environment thanks to Monaco and server-side execution.

Here’s what’s different:

All challenges include TypeScript for real-world coding practice

Optional Vim mode for people who prefer a power-editor workflow

Pre-styled UI in every challenge so you can focus entirely on logic, not layout

See both the code and the fully working solution live

Code only re-evaluates on Ctrl+S (like VS Code), avoiding the constant preview breakage on every keystroke

Tests run on a real server (full Node/Jest), not limited client-side sandboxes

Monaco Editor with a real TypeScript worker (type checking, autocomplete, IntelliSense, diagnostics, etc.)

I’d love feedback from the HN community on:

The usability of the IDE

Whether the server-side tests are clear and helpful

Whether the challenges feel genuinely useful and realistic
by IshKebab | 2025-11-26 16:25:03+00:00
I don't touch dishwashers with a stick. No matter how well they work. I find it particularly disillusioning to realize how deep the dishwasher brainworm is able to eat itself even into progressive cleaning circles.

Edit: Ha I see you edited "empty the dishwasher" to "hand wash the dishes". My thoughts exactly.

There's no hope for these people.
by Y-bar | 2025-11-26 16:25:04+00:00
Yes! It doesn’t work at all. This is, as I wrote, that the YouTube app on Apple TV has a custom keyboard on-screen input without any way to put actual focus on the text/password field to trigger the Remote app on the iPhone to enable input such as pasting anything.

For example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254761316?sortBy=rank
by 542458 | 2025-11-26 16:25:13+00:00
Honestly, this is huge for people like me who tend to over-research and over-think the hell out of product choices. "Find me a top-fill warm-mist humidifier that looks nice, is competitively priced against similar products, and is available from a retailer in $city_name. Now watch for it to go on sale and lmk."

If they can figure out how to get the right kickbacks/referrals without compromising user trust and really nail the search and aggregation of data this could be a real money-maker.
by bill3389 | 2025-11-26 16:25:27+00:00
unfortunately, it will be less and less purely human generated content any more. it will be more and more AI generated or AI assisted content in the future.

We are angry because we grow up in an age that content are generated by human and computer bot are inefficient. however, for newer generation, AI generated content will be a new normal, like how we see people from a big flat box (TV)
by pdimitar | 2025-11-26 16:25:28+00:00
Absolutely not, barely anyone is okay with it -- only the most naive and fresh of young workforce, and then not even half of them by my observations chatting with many people 20+ years younger than me. It's just that people have too much at stake to risk it. Families, mortgage, basic respectful existence even. Nobody wants to live under a bridge.

It's extremely sad. I did not want to live in such times but oh well, good thing anyone asked us, right?