MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jszymborski | 2025-11-10 22:03:09+00:00
Much as is the case in the US and Canada, families and friends transcend the borders of Ukraine and Russia. That wasn't enough to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While Americans enjoy much, much broader freedoms of expression (albeit that's also under great threat), I wouldn't imagine the reaction from our American "brothers" would be much different from Russian when it invaded its "brother".

Your use of "brother" is apt. There's a Ukrainian joke that goes something like:

"A Ukrainian man and a Russian man are walking together. They happen upon a $20 bill on the sidewalk. The Russian man says, 'Let us share it as brothers'. The Ukranian man says 'No, let us share it equally'".
by jmkmay | 2025-11-10 22:03:22+00:00
Something not mentioned in the article which has changed the way I interact with git repos (and the reason I will never not use LazyVim until something better comes along) is just how well the system plays with tmux floating panes.

I have it so that anytime I press ctrl-g in a git repo, I open a floating tmux pane in my current working directory. This might sound "whatever", but it means I don't have to actually be inside neovim or "switch" to the LazyGit UI. It just overlays it on top of whatever I'm doing at the moment in the terminal.

Makes for the most fluid, streamlined git experience ever if you primarily live in the terminal.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-10 22:03:27+00:00
It has but you need spark too to avoid the runtime overhead. And I haven’t seen adoption of Ada in the broader industry so I wouldn’t pick it based on that. I would need to understand why it remains limited to industry’s that mandate government certification.

> A skilled C++ programmer wouldn't be using unordered_map so it is unfair to point out you can use something bad.

Pretending defaults don’t matter is naive especially in a language that is so hostile to being easy to add 3p dependencies (even without that defaults matter).
by mattmaroon | 2025-11-10 22:03:31+00:00
Unfortunately it isn’t that simple. The opposite of our media landscape is countries that think they have free speech but really don’t, like most of Europe.

I’ll take having all the information in the world (true or false, purposefully curated for propaganda or organically reported) over any society that locks people up for social media posts deemed “fake”.

I have faith both in the marketplace of ideas leading to the best outcomes, and that the ability to lock people up over false speech will be weaponized eventually.

The American media landscape is the only possible result of true freedom of speech combined with the internet. It’s faaaaar from perfect but I do believe it’ll be the best in the end.
by bigyabai | 2025-11-10 22:03:33+00:00
That would have been an impressive piece of technology in 2015, when WSL was theoretical. To release it in 2025 is a very bad trend, and it reflects Apple's isolation from competition and reluctance to officially support basic dev features.

Container does nothing to progress the state of supporting Linux on Apple Silicon. It does not replace macOS, iBoot or the other proprietary, undocumented or opaque software blobs on the system. All it does is keep people using macOS and purchasing Apple products and viewing Apple advertisements.
by mbesto | 2025-11-10 22:04:05+00:00
> I don't consider this my project, and I have no sense of acomplishment or growth.

Trigger warning incoming... if you are in a for-profit company, does the business really care whether you feel accomplished as long as you are producing code? As an analog - the assembly line worker on a highly automated Tesla assembly line is essentially a replaceable commodity at this point.

> The main issue is taste, when I write code I feel if its good or bad, as I am writing it, I know if its wrong, but using claude code I get desensitized very quickly and I just can't tell, it "reads" OK, but I don't know how it feels. In this case it happened when the code grew about 4x, from 1k to 4k lines. And worse of all, my mental model of the code is completely gone, and with it my ownership.

Does the code work? If so, why does any of this matter?

In an age of automated manufacturing, I've noticed more and more independent wood workers. This is okay - but you aren't going to supply the world's furniture needs with thousands or hundreds of thousands of artisan wood workers.
by greycol | 2025-11-10 22:04:29+00:00
Out of interest what are the positives? Other than cultural, in flagrant displays of excess, I can't think of anything they couldn't accomplish by them existing as poorer business leaders and having competent national wealth funds empowered to lend/give grants.

What I'm saying is you may be defending billionaires when you mean to be defending a system you believe is optimal but still has the negative outcome of billionaires (not to imply the billionaires themselves are intrinsically bad as people but the concentration of wealth in their hands is).
by laladrik | 2025-11-10 22:04:29+00:00
Yeah, that's a pity that D didn't gain the popularity. It brought some features which were borrowed to mainstream languages. However, the features didn't help D to become popular. I have a hunch that templates from D were the inspiration for the comptime in Zig. Also, Reading D is almost easy as reading Zig. I remember I couldn't get my head around async/await from Python 3.5. I knew it was based on generators. However, the stack switch was absolutely mysterious to me. I understood it only from the implementation of fibers from the D's standard library.
by eric-burel | 2025-11-10 22:05:32+00:00
I am thinking of building an association of AI consumers so we can organize to praise or boycott whatever we collectevily find acceptable or not. I'll spend some time reading this in details later on, but whatever it states or imply, positive or negative, it's not for businesses to set the rules as if they owned the place. Consumer associations are powerful and can't be fired when striking, since the customer is always right.
by fleventynine | 2025-11-10 22:05:42+00:00
Rigid ABIs aren't necessary for statically linked programs. Ideally, the compiler would look at the usage of the function in context and figure out an ABI specifically for that function that minimizes unnecessary copies and register churn.

IMHO this is the next logical step in LTO; today we leave a lot of code size and performance on the floor in order to meet some arbitrary ABI.
by Muromec | 2025-11-10 22:05:44+00:00
The comparison is spot on -- if you smoke sigs and pay somebody who doesn't, you will still get cancer and the other person can get it too if you breath it out into their face.

Until there is no commercial carbon capture, it's all scam and accounting tricks. Sure, paying somebody else to decarbonise instead of yourself works in decarbonisign somebody else, but the emissions should drop across the board all the way to zero.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-10 22:06:16+00:00
I read your comment and just see the typical web developer.

I can’t count how many times developers have tried to school me with their expert wisdom. It’s typically garbage, complete Dunning-Kruger. The causes are two-fold.

On one hand most of these people’s capabilities are an inch wide. Maybe they are really good about JSX, but you take that away and wisdom becomes empty hostility. I don’t want anything to do with JSX or React, so it that’s all you got you are probably just blowing smoke.

The other cause is no experience at all. For example somebody might think they are super knowledgeable on WebSockets because they used a package off NPM. They have no idea how it really works, can’t understand RFC6455 even with Cliff Notes, and can’t write original code.

If you want to be an expert at least start with your own implementation of the thing you want to be an expert about, but most of the people doing that work can’t program.

I can’t help but wonder if the DK coming out of LLMs is really any worse.
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-10 22:06:16+00:00
> Why wouldn’t you want law enforcement to be able to observe public spaces (which these cameras are monitoring) and identify or track suspects?

Yeah, why wouldn't I want that? Or Flock "helpfully" proactively flagging AI-generated "suspicious vehicle movements" to LE for investigation? What could wrong there?

> We all want safe cities and neighborhoods, right?

Was it hard not to end that paragraph with a "Won't somebody think of our children?"?
by simonw | 2025-11-10 22:06:17+00:00
"Generated material is temporary and not part of the final deliverables" sounds like they are not looking to generative AI for content that they will air to the public.

Later on they do have a note suggesting that the following might be OK if you use judgement and get their approval: "Using GenAI to generate background elements (e.g., signage, posters) that appear on camera"
by Teever | 2025-11-10 22:06:37+00:00
If the United States tries to seize Canada they will do so after a protracted blockade in winter that coincides with air strikes on Canadian infrastructure.

A lot of Canadians talk big talk about some sort of insurgency like Iraq, Afghanistan or Vietnam but all those places have borders with other countries that can enable smuggling of supplies to the resistance.

Canada will be blockaded and after a period of cold and hunger the Canadian people will give up.
by EB66 | 2025-11-10 22:07:02+00:00
I don't know why you're being downvoted. I've lived in the area for nearly 20 years and I agree that his description is far exaggerated. It was true in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic (when any eviction or forcible displacement of people was prohibited), but not since then. Today, the visibility of homeless encampments in Seattle is roughly the same as it was 20 years ago.
by Infernal | 2025-11-10 22:07:05+00:00
Oh man, my grandmother was like this with finding four leaf clovers. She would just find them constantly, all the time, on command, or maybe while standing around having a conversation. Her description of it was "it's like they're just jumping up and waving at me" which somewhat fits with the author's description of motion. Never heard of anyone else like this though, neat to see others in the comments.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-10 22:07:53+00:00
> The US invading Canada isn't a realistic possibility

Of course it is. Troops would just be moved to “temporarily” occupy shit we want. (Or move to liberate Alberta.) Hell, you could probably do it with ICE agents.

> Any attempt to do so would trigger a civil war within the US

You’d take up arms against the U.S. because it invaded Canada?

Of course you wouldn’t. Neither would others. It would be brushed way as an another atrocity.

> 300,000 poorly trained reservists aren't going to seriously change the calculus

It’s people you have to shoot through. Hong Kong versus Ukraine. Raises the costs from a low-effort political gambit to a real military campaign.

This comment reminds of one on HN from Kharkiv on the eve of the invasion. If you assume something can’t happen or cannot be opposed, that’s indistinguishable from an invitation for an autocrat.
Show HN: Clarion: An AI-powered news curator emphasizing clarity over chaos
by radiusvector | 2025-11-10 22:07:54+00:00
I built Clarion to fight the sense that staying informed has to feel dreadful. It’s a news app that parses stories from 2,000+ global sources and uses frontier models to surface journalism with clarity, context, and progress — not panic. Built with Vite + React + TypeScript + Tailwind. Live at https://clarion.today — would love feedback on the curation logic, ranking heuristics, or model tuning ideas.
by stansler | 2025-11-10 22:08:08+00:00
A new open source UI Toolkit to facilitate LLM-generated UIs. A2UI is built with A2A protocol and allows an A2A agent to send interactive components instead of just text, using a high level framework-agnostic format that can be rendered natively on any surface (starting with examples for web and mobile).

- Based on A2A - Streamable JSON Lines (JSONL) - Truly Framework-Agnostic
by ordu | 2025-11-10 22:08:17+00:00
> did this do you any better than if you had searched a youtube video or some other source?

Yes. With LLM it is easy to explore the domain from ground up, and it is interactive. You don't wait for some random guy in a video to come to a point, you are asking questions, consuming the information at your speed.

When I do this, I switch constantly between a search engine and LLM. I copy words of LLM into search box, and asking LLM questions about things I've found. It is the way to explore things. Search engines alone are not. Not anymore. At least you need to ask LLM for some starting points, because when you search google, you get results that are LLM slop. The same thing you can get from LLM, but not interactive, so it can go and go for multiple screens of a wall of a text, while delivering exactly zero useful information.

> I'm trying to gauge whether LLMs are truly expanding our capabilities in a fundamental way or are really just another way to search for answers without going to google or a library.

They just another way to search. And you should strike Google, it doesn't work anymore. 15 years ago google was good enough, but now it is useless.
by littlestymaar | 2025-11-10 22:08:25+00:00
> Not even remotely close to 2020-21 though

Yes it has, and you show it right below:

> By 2021 it had increased by same % as 2009 to 2015.

It increased faster but the money supply variation was in the same ballpark, when the CPI evolution definitely wasn't (you can compare CPI between 2009 and 2015 and 2019-2021 you'll see that there's no link between inflation and the money supply).

> Not massive inflation in asset prices. All that money had to go somewhere, so stocks are now significantly overvalued and housing is unaffordable.

This has nothing to do with “inflation” (which, by definition is the evolution of CPI).

And the solution to this problem is actually quite simple: tax the rich (who got their free central bank money from nothing in exchange).
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-10 22:08:27+00:00
A big caveat of this is that the author is just looking at a ranking of open models? It's just buried in a little sentence in there but makes a big difference to model quality. Kokoro in the overall rankings is only 15, so if #15 is what you consider the "best model" you need to be cognizant that you are leaving performance on the table.

I've heard a lot of Substacks voiced by Eleven Labs models and they seem fine (with the occasional weirdness around a proper noun.) Not a bad article but I think more examples of TTS usage would be more useful.

I guess the outcome is, open weight TTS models are only okay and could be a lot better?
by 1313ed01 | 2025-11-10 22:08:38+00:00
QEMU does a pretty good job at pretending to be a 1997 computer, or a 2025 computer, and it seems to work well to run QEMU inside of QEMU already, so should be somewhat likely that old virtual machines can be kept alive by running inside of increasingly deep levels of virtual machines running inside of newer virtual machines.

Legal, non-free, operating systems to install in those virtual machines is trickier. No old freeware version of Windows (yet?). Installing a minimal Linux distribution with WINE, for games that can be made to run in WINE in QEMU, might be the most stable way to preserve a 1997-era game. Except for 1997 DOS games (there were surprisingly many still being published in 1997!) that run so well in DOSBox(-X).
by ylee | 2025-11-10 22:09:28+00:00
>Unfortunately for HP, its workstations (the ones OP acquired) weren't nearly as popular with universities and developers as Sun Microsystems', so you tended to find HP-UX in commercial production—larger servers, more workload, but smaller numbers. And thus smaller ability to promote its innovations or be selected because of them.

Columbia University during the 1990s was a SunOS/Solaris shop (and, before then, VAX <https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/>). My first year, AcIS (Academic Information Systems, IT for faculty/students) set up a single computer lab in the engineering building <https://cuit.columbia.edu/computer-lab-technologies/location...> with HP workstations. Although they booted into HP-UX and its Motif window manager, MAE provided Mac emulation and, in practice, was usually used because most students were unfamiliar with X Window, of course.

The boxes used the same Kerberos authentication as the Sun systems, so I presume I must have been using context-dependent filesystems for binaries when logging into the systems locally, or when I chose to remote log into one specifically from elsewhere (just for novelty's sake; I preferred the Sun cluster, or the Sun box dedicated to staff use).

MAE—the raison d'etre for the HP boxes—was slow and unstable, and by the time I graduated Macs, I believe, replaced HP, which made the lab consistent with what most of the other computer labs had.
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-10 22:09:34+00:00
I was there during the 2010s and here is what happened:

- I have been at a lot of public debates/consultations in Brussels on the GDPR as early as 2012. I have seen first EU people there screaming at US/BigTech lobby groups trying to influence the debate in their favor.

- When we started to understand what the regulation would look like everybody started to panic about what it would cost to comply in the public and private sector. Everybody started to appoint a Chief Data Office or Chief Data Protection Officer. Consultancy firms were hired everywhere.

- At the same time "The Cloud" was starting to creep up in those organizations, first as what we were calling "shadow IT". But the decisions maker didn't wanted to hear about "The Cloud" or loosing control of their infrastructure.

- After usually a year of study on the GDPR issue the decision makers were told that:

1/ Our infrastructure and software stack will need deep work to comply and it is gonna cost a fortune. 2/ The business is asking for agility and is already using the cloud. 3/ Look Google, AWS and Azure have a "GDPR compliant" certificate from EY (the same firm who is usually hired for compliance study and work).

- So I have seen dozens and dozens of organizations deciding their migration to the cloud between 2016 and 2019. Then of course COVID and homeworking came and it accelerated everything.

So GDPR pushed everybody to hyperscalers ironically, because Big Tech is playing chess and know how decisions are made and how to work the system.

Also I have never seen a big company centering or even using a Hertzner, OVH or Scaleway.

What is probably going on is Big Tech went back to the Commission and explained the new legislation they have to pass.

And my guess is it is not gonna help any EU based AI company stay competitive or get any significant market share.

The EU will give them pennies to compete with OpenAI and Google and tell them that Europeans are smarter than Americans so David should be able to beat Goliath. Also the EU AI models have to be trained on renewable energy or whatever.

Washington is rotten but Brussels is about the same (or worst).
by Muromec | 2025-11-10 22:09:50+00:00
> what technology capacity do they lack?

Giving money to random tech schmoocks and seeing the valuation of their thing gettign to 1B, then lobbying for laws to make it monopoly. This kind of thing.

That and selling icecream flavor preferences of 1B people to guess who is more susceptible to brainwashing, so you friends can get reelected.

All very nice technology, including the one which destroys entire solar system to make a sacrifice big enough to summon Cthulhu.
by hereme888 | 2025-11-10 22:09:53+00:00
My IQ is not 300, but it's sufficient to understand reality:

- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: operated under the Communist Party's centralized control, with state ownership of production, suppression of dissent, and looked more like communist authoritarianism than democratic socialism.

- CCP, Cuba, North Korea: they call themselves socialists while being led by communist parties.

- Democratic socialism like Sweden, Norway, Denmark: very different from the above.
by cmpalmer52 | 2025-11-10 22:10:23+00:00
I haven’t done any serious web coding in years, so when I needed a little web page dashboard, I thought I’d do it 100% vibe coded.

Problem statement: We have four major repos spanning two different Azure DevOps servers/instances/top-level accounts. To check the status of pull requests required a lot of clicks and windows and sometimes re-logging in. So we wanted a dashboard customized to our needs that puts all active pull requests on each repo into a single page, links them to YouTrack, links them to the Azure DevOps pages, auto-refreshes, and flags them by needing attention for approval, merge conflicts, and unresolved comments. And it would use PATs for access that are only stored locally and not in the code or repo.

AI used: I began by describing the project goals to ChatGPT 5 and having it suggest a basic architecture. Then I used the Junie agent in JetBrain’s WebStorm to develop it. I gave it the ChatGPT output and told it to create a Readme and the project guidelines. Then I implemented it step by step (basic page layout, fill with dummy data, add Azure API calls, integrate with YouTrack, add features).

By following this step by step iteration, almost every step was a one-shot success - only once that I remember did it do something “wrong” - but sometimes I caught it being repetitive or inconsistent, so I added a “maximize code reuse and put all configuration in one place” step.

After about 3 hours, some of which was asking it code to my standards or change look and feel, I had a very full featured application. Three different views - the big picture, PRs that need my attention, and active PRs grouped by YouTrack items. I gave it to the team, they loved it and suggested a few new features. Another hour with the Junie Agent and I incorporated all the suggestions. Now we all use it every day.

I purposefully didn’t hand edit a single line of code. I did read the code and suggested improvements, but other than that, I think a user with no programming experience could have done it (particularly if they asked chatGPT on the side, “Now what?”). And it looked a helluva lot better than it would have if I coded it because I’m rusty and lazy.

Overall, it was my biggest success story of AI coding. We’ve been experimenting with AI bug triage, creating utility functions, and adding tests to our primary apps (all .NET Maui) but with a huge code base, it often missing things or makes bad assumptions.

But this level of project was near perfect capability to execution. I don’t know how much my skills helped me manage the project, but I know that I didn’t write the code. And it was kinda fun.
by echelon | 2025-11-10 22:10:24+00:00
> it's not for businesses to set the rules as if they owned the place.

This is for studios and companies that are producing content for Netflix.

If you want to sell to Netflix, you have to play by Netflix's rules.

Netflix has all kinds of rules and guidelines, including which camera bodies and lenses are allowed [1].

[1] https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
by notatoad | 2025-11-10 22:10:30+00:00
i don't think they're really expecting people to serve a useful role in the military. it's a "supplemental reserve", meaning a level below ordinary reservists.

it sounds like basically if the country was ever in a situation dire enough that they were calling on ordinary citizens to help with defense, an ordinary citizen with a week's training would be better than one with no training.

or more cynically: it's a way to make a whole bunch of voters feel like they're involved in the military, to make military spending more palatable to voters.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-10 22:10:49+00:00
> The details emerged from an internal memo sourced by the newspaper. In the memo, Akaysha CEO Nick Carter acknowledged that one of the three 350 MVA high-voltage transformers, supplied by Wilson Transformer Company, suffered a “catastrophic failure” during testing over a weekend in November.

Failure at the storage facility, not of the battery storage system.