MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ggm | 2025-11-18 22:21:15+00:00
I think this may ultimately be a cultural issue. American documentary style of presentation increasingly uses the present tense to describe things in the past.

I am more used to historians with horn rimmed glasses and badly fitting tweed jackets talking in the past tense about past times so when they reflect on it's impact in the present time they can use present tense about past acts correctly.

"German Troops conduct a false flag against Poland as a result of which the British issue a final demand, the echoes of which continue to the present day" is really not better than "The German troops conducted a false flag against Poland as a result of which the British issued a final demand, the echoes of which continue to the present day" when it comes down to it.

And it leads to awkward sentences like "At the time, FDR believes that he can keep the war away from America, but Japan attacks pearl harbour and he has no choice but to declare war" when the use of "Believed" and "could" and "attacked" and "had" make it clear we, the owners of backwards looking syntax and historical documents, realise this all happened a very long time ago and can keep a hold of the sequencing.

I must say matches on "the eternal present" are a giant bag of mystical wank, no disrespect to yourself intended. Perhaps you get better responses than I do but my top returns were flooded with mindfulness and cod philosophy and christianity.
by tyg13 | 2025-11-18 22:21:18+00:00
Sure, you can ask the agents to "identify and remove cruft" but I never have any confidence that they actually do that reliably. Sometimes it works. Mostly they just burn tokens, in my experience.

> And it's not like any of your criticisms don't apply to human teams.

Every time the limitations of AI are discussed, we see this unfair standard applied: ideal AI output is compared to the worst human output. We get it, people suck, and sometimes the AI is better.

At least the ways that humans screw up are predictable to me. And I rarely find myself in a gaslighting session with my coworkers where I repeatedly have to tell them that they're doing it wrong, only to be met with "oh my, you're so right!" and watch them re-write the same flawed code over and over again.
by wat10000 | 2025-11-18 22:22:18+00:00
Billions of people are on social media platforms run by massive companies who spend enormous sums of money researching how to get and keep people addicted to their platforms. Vast teams of highly paid experts spend their days figuring out how to keep people coming back, and their happiness or well being are not a concern. Conflict and rage get engagement, so they push conflict and rage.

It's everything previous generations feared about the "boob tube" but a thousand times worse, since it's precisely personalized and backed by analysis and data that TV executives wouldn't have even dreamed of having.

Mastodon is the only social media I pay attention to, because it's the only one that doesn't constantly shovel addictive shit in my face. The fact that approximately nobody uses it, but most of the planet uses the big corporate addiction factories, is in my eyes well worth the quoted statement.
by burnte | 2025-11-18 22:22:21+00:00
> sadly, the world we live in means that you can't build a product and hold its release until it works. you have to be first to release even if it's not working as advertised.

You absolutely can and it's an extremely reliable path to success. The only thing that's changed is the amount of marketing hype thrown out by the fake-it vendors. Staying quiet and debuting a solid product is still a big win.

> I'm still amazed at the number of people that do not know that the output is still not 100% accurate.

This is the part that "scares" me. People who do not understand the tool thinking they're ACTUALLY INTELLIGENT. Not only are they not intelligent, they're not even ACTUALLY language models because few LLMs are actually trained on only language data and none work on language units (letters, words, sentences), tokens are abstractions from that. They're OUTPUT modelers. And they're absolutely not even close to being let loose unattended on important things. There are already people losing careers over AI crap like lawyers using AI to appeal sanctions because they had AI write a motion. Etc.

And I think that was ultimately the biggest unforced error of these AI companies and the ultimate reason for the coming bubble crash. They didn't temper expectations at all, the massive gap between expectation and reality is already costing companies huge amounts of money, and it's only going to get worse. Had they started saying, "these work well, but use them carefully as we increase reliability" they'd be in a much better spot.

In the past 2 years I've been involved in several projects trying to leverage AI, and all but one has failed. The most spectacular failure was Microsoft's Dragon Copilot. We piloted it with 100 doctors, after a few months we had a 20% retention rate, and by the end of a year, ONE doctor still liked it. We replaced it with another tool that WORKS, docs love it, and it was 12.6% the cost, literally a sixth the price. MS was EXTREMELY unhappy we canceled after a year, tried to throw discounts at us, but ultimately we had to say "the product does not work nearly as well as the competition."
by gitarre | 2025-11-18 22:22:21+00:00
It doesn't, really. It labels a person a "social media poster who identifies as a reader" based on them passing negative judgment on difficult books ("fundamentally fraudulent") and those who read them ("anyone who would read such a book must be pretentious, phony brodernist snob").

Sure, there is the middle part ("books are supposed to be fun and the world is so awful why would you want to suffer"), but I took the bit about negative judgment to be the main thing the author was complaining about.
by JacobAsmuth | 2025-11-18 22:22:23+00:00
50% of the CLs in SWE-Bench Verified are the DJango codebase. So if you're a big contributor to Django you should care a lot about that benchmark. Otherwise the difference between models is +-2 tasks done correctly. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just try it out yourself and see if its any better.
by Zak | 2025-11-18 22:22:29+00:00
The thing I really don't love about ATProto is its decision, or that of its dominant implementation to enforce a schema ("lexicon") on content, limiting interoperation between disparate software. This violates the Old Internet idea of software being liberal about what it accepts.

For a concrete example, I tagged a Lemmy community in a Mastodon post today. Lemmy is Reddit-like and Mastodon is Twitter-like, but it displays reasonable on Lemmy using the first line of the post as a title and expanding to the attached image when clicked in the default Lemmy UI. I can also post a long-form article on Wordpress (with a plugin) and have it show up in Mastodon even though it has a short character limit by default.
by kazen44 | 2025-11-18 22:22:35+00:00
its a shame DANE never took off. If we actually got around to running a trusted DNSSEC based DNS system and allowed clients to create certificates thanks to DANE, we would be in a far more resilient setup compared to what we are now.

But DNSSEC was hard according to some, and now we are running a massive SPOF in terms of TLS certificates.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-18 22:22:48+00:00
Like the other poster said, there's nothing worth losing sleep over in the comments here. Some people trying to start flame wars about politics, and a guy who thinks it's funny to drop racial slurs. None of those is good (and they are all flagged to death which is good), but neither do they make this comment section some kind of cesspool that would show why one is correct to distance oneself from Mastodon.
by arjie | 2025-11-18 22:23:07+00:00
Strongly agree. The future is what we used to call "share autos" in India. It's a small vehicle that can transport some 6-8 people. Currently these aren't feasible for the public because driver operational cost dominates, but once driver operational cost is near zero, we can bring much more public transit online. One of these vehicles is 4x-8x as dense as a car, and with America's relative lack of density, it's the only realistic way to have widespread public transit.

Particularly useful with dynamic dispatch and dynamic routing is that the vehicle's stopping can be much more infrequent, leading to lower total trip time and greater frequency. San Francisco is very dense but is also very old, so large 40-60 person busses stop every block forcing low throughput high latency rides. As a consequence, I prefer an e-bike over a bus everywhere in SF.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-11-18 22:23:23+00:00
> Rebble does not claim to "own" your app, they only claim to have done a lot of work saving and patching abandoned apps and recreated a whole service for managing and distributing them, wrote new apps, published new apps along with the old, to support watch owners that Pebble abandoned.

Because they never had the right to redistribute it.

This is like YouTube shutting down and me offering a bunch of videos I download for free, claiming that setting up a portal was a lot of work so I get rights.

I’d get sued to high heaven and the only reason Rebble is getting away with it is that the watch face developers aren’t big outfits with lawyers.
by intelfx | 2025-11-18 22:23:54+00:00
> post exposure vaccination is a thing?? does it work for everything

I believe in this discussion the context is specifically rabies.

> and why is it called vaccination not treatment?

It's both, really. You get a shot of rabies immunoglobulin (at the site of potential infection, i.e., bite) _and_ an extended course of vaccine at the same time.
by plagiat0r | 2025-11-18 22:24:04+00:00
Windows 10, 11 and most major OSes have ipv6 enabled and it is preferred. There is also a Happy eyeball algorithm browsers use to connect - RFC 8305.

However, the most important thing you need to understand are fundamentals. Today we have two independent internets. One is IPv4, other is IPv6. Your server/virtual machine must be connected to both internets at the same time - we call it dual stack. Those networks are independent of each other, so make sure you're connected to both, or face the consequences of not being connected to one of them. There is not one Internet, there are two Internets nowadays.
by rmoriz | 2025-11-18 22:24:15+00:00
You can claim the opposite of the fediverse. The fediverse became an ultra left-wing (in terms of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism, not human rights). If you write one positive thing about AI/LLM based coding and you will be tarred and spring-loaded. People use Fediverse for venting, less for creating and sharing original content. Some creators on TikTok provide much more insightful content than most of the Fediverse users (searchable users/tags/posts).

IMHO social networks, centralized or decentralized, are doomed to be exploited (financially, politically) or die in boredom and self-policing. If you can find and maintain a productive niche inside the cr*p , it may work.
by palmotea | 2025-11-18 22:24:34+00:00
>> They fear being replaced/made irrelevant after Core builds their own infrastructure using Rebble's work. They want guarantees that if they give Core access to the app store data, Core won't build a proprietary/walled garden that cuts Rebble out.

> It's understandable that Rebble fears someone doing this, since this is what Rebble did.

That's an extremely uncharitable take. It's not like Rebble drove Pebble out of business. What I gather is basically Pebble fell apart on its own, and Rebble picked up the pieces to keep things working.

It seems what Core wants do here is take what Rebble build/maintained and drive Rebble into irrelevance.
Tell HN: Gemini 3 with Gemini CLI Is a Game Changer. Impressions with Rust/CUDA
by mmaunder | 2025-11-18 22:24:51+00:00
I've been using Gemini 3 in Codex CLI all morning and confirming I'm on Gemini 3 through my usage stats. I'm using Codex to do a very heavy Rust/CUDA lift that has around 40 stages. I'm having Gemini 3 review the stage docs and code and act in an advisory role.

Within a minute Gemini 3 via Gemini CLI had picked up major architectural performance issue. I had it write it to a doc, had Codex review it, codex pushed back saying it's a non issue. Gave the pushback to Gemini 3, and it was insistent. Fed that back to codex and it completely caved, agreed, and pointed out that yes, it's a major issue, yes we need to deal with it right now in this stage of implementation, and yes the entire plan that Gemini 3 produced is rock solid. Implemented it and it's a huge win.

A few minutes later, same thing again. Another huge win from the pure cognitive horsepower that is Gemini 3. Again validation from Codex, which is impressive considering Codex came up with the design and plans that we're working off.

The wins keep coming. It's incredibly powerful. It has some silly bugs, like it'll just YOLO into actually implementing the doc it's supposed to be strategizing about. But these are cosmetic issues that are far outshone by the raw cognitive horsepower of this model. It's like a new kind of super powerful jet engine attached to an outdated airframe. The engine is an absolute game changer, but the entire system needs some work to hum along the way codex does.

Congrats to the Gemini team. I think you've moved the state of the art forward in a meaningful way with this one.
by wk_end | 2025-11-18 22:25:13+00:00
The nice thing about this compared to generating tests in advance is that, if your app changes in non-material ways that would otherwise break a test, you don't need to regenerate - the AI will "adapt".

It's also, arguably, a form of fuzzing, maybe? I guess? Having it be non-deterministic means it might test the same thing in different - ideally all correct - ways, helping to uncover bugs.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-18 22:25:18+00:00
I don't have time to be precise, but I'll do my best to be more specific.

New system better at organizing human behavior -> increases prosperity -> more capacity for invention -> new technologies disrupt power dynamics -> greed and power-law dynamics tilt system away from broad prosperity (most powerful switch from win-win to win-lose) -> majority become unsatisfied with system -> economics break down (too much debt, not enough education, technology increasingly and disproportionately benefits wealthy) -> trust break down -> average pattern of behavior tilts towards lose-lose dynamics -> technology keeps advancing -,> new technologies disrupt old power structures -> restructuring of world-powr order at highest levels (often through conflict) -> new system established, incorporating lessons learned from the old (more fair, more inclusive) -> trust reestablished, shift back to win-win dynamics (cycle repeats)

In reality it's more messy than this. Also the geographical location of this cycle and the central power can move around. Some places may sit out one or more cycles and get stuck.
by Izkata | 2025-11-18 22:25:37+00:00
No, it may be intended as a fine of sorts, but the explicit number turns it into a cost that people are willing to pay.

First example I heard of this shift was with daycares that had trouble getting parents to pick up their kids on time, so they put a fine on it for having to stay late. This ended up increasing the problem because now there was compensation instead of guilt, and parents could make the decision that the cost was worth it.
by pndy | 2025-11-18 22:25:37+00:00
I see bots that import from/link to other sources, bots that are clearly someone's attempts at automation. Then "classic" ad spam bots and countless porn/drawn lewd content profiles and even instances that contain nothing else.

Normal people are getting buried beneath all of this trash and if you actually want to have some conversations you need to either look up by particular tags or comment in trending posts.
by oxag3n | 2025-11-18 22:27:04+00:00
It's ignorance from consumer side and lost engineering culture from manufacturer.

In addition, people became aggressive and lack empathy - I was followed by a Jeep Wrangler the other day, still dark in the morning, his headlights lit my car interior via the back window to the level where I had to slow down and almost stop. Once he overtook I blinked as fast as possible just to let him know his headlights were high beam. The guy aggressively drove behind me and turned his high beams, which yes, were even brighter, but still same angle.
by jitix | 2025-11-18 22:27:09+00:00
> Except for free/subsidized healthcare, didn't the US already have those things during the post-war boom?

Yes, but education system is being dismantled piece by piece at all levels. I work in edutech and our goal is to cut costs faster than revenue. Enrolments are down, students are over burdened with student loans, and new grads can't compete in the market.

Also, do you think kids going to K-12 in the US can compete with kids who go to international schools in China and India? High end schools in those countries combine the Asian grind mindset with western education standards.

> Wages high enough to raise a family on a single income, allowing for stay-at-home moms to provide childcare.

This was a special period of post war prosperity that I mentioned. It was unnatural and the world has reset back to the norm where a nuclear family needs societal/governmental support to raise kids, or need to have two 6 figure jobs. "It takes a village to raise a child" is a common western idiom based on centuries of observations. Just because there was 20-30 years of unnatural economic growth doesn't make it the global or historical norm.
by stupidarkptrn | 2025-11-18 22:28:06+00:00
I'm a physician with a very rare name and recently discovered a fake profile with "my exact name, MD" with 75 friends from one (very foreign) country, some fake pictures of someone likely AI generated....all made in the last week or two, clearly a prelude to some form of scam or reputation ruining extortion attempt...and it's impossible to take it down. I've tried. And if you Google me this profile is on the first page.

Someone stole my likeness to harm me or gullible innocent's, this is going to come back to burn me, and there's nothing I can do.

Cool dystopia!
by verdverm | 2025-11-18 22:28:13+00:00
That's an incorrect assessment

Lexicon schema are not enforced, they are a tool for social coordination, and most implementations are very liberal in what they accept

https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance

> isTool: true; isRule: false; meaning: undefined

ActivityPub by contrast lacks such social coordination and many apps are reusing the same schema for very different concepts, leading to its own form of over-complexity
by risyachka | 2025-11-18 22:28:52+00:00
Yeah iPhone was the end of Blackberry but Google Pixel was not the end of iPhone.

The new Gemini is not THAT far of a jump to switch your org to a new model if you already invested in e.g. OpenAI.

The difference must be night and day to call it "its over".

Right they all are marginally different. Today google fine tuned their model to be better, tomorrow it will be new Kimi, after that DeepSeek.
by kragen | 2025-11-18 22:28:54+00:00
The Aircraft Reactor Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Reactor_Experiment, yielding 2.5 megawatts, was about two meters tall and one meter in diameter; the fuel was 15kg of U-235, but I think the reactor as a whole may have weighed several hundred kg. (It couldn't have been more than about 40 tonnes, just because no material would be dense enough, but I think it was much lighter than that.

Oh, here it is: https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/openmsr/msr-archiv... page 24/139 budgets 48400 "pounds" for "reactor and reactor shield", which is 22 tonnes, about 110kW/tonne.

The smallest nuclear submarine was NR-1, which had a total displacement of 400 "tons": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_submarine_NR-1 so the reactor must have weighed less than that.

The 10MW version of SSTAR was supposed to weigh 200 tonnes, 50kW/tonne, while the 100MW version was 500 tonnes, thud 200kW/tonne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small,_sealed,_transportable,_...

A 4.95-kg americium thermal reactor design outline has been published: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239521070_The_Small...

Arleigh Burke class destroyers have 80MW of propulsion and displace 8300 to 9700 tons, compared to which the SSTAR's 500 tonnes is almost insignificant. So weight isn't an issue for ships, and weight doesn't get ridiculously high until you're down below the megawatt scale.

So, you may be right that existing proven reactors won't scale down to a single truck or tank. There isn't a known physical reason it's impossible, or even impossible to do safely, but it hasn't been achieved.

Probably you are right that many small reactors would be more dangerous, but warships exist so that they can go into dangerous situations. You have to weigh the risk of a reactor problem against the risk of being unable to fight because you have no fuel. And we've certainly seen that many militaries have little concern for sailor safety.

Despite all this, no navy has switched all their ships to nuclear fuel. The only explanation I can come up with is that it's unsustainably expensive.
by hackthemack | 2025-11-18 22:29:01+00:00
I am a fan of immutability. I was toying around with javascript making copies of arguments (even when they are complex arrays or objects). But, strangely, when I made a comment about it, it just got voted down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771794

I made a little function to do deep copies but am still experimenting with it.

function deepCopy(value) { if (typeof structuredClone === 'function') { try { return structuredClone(value); } catch (_) {} } try { return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(value)); } catch (_) { // Last fallback: return original (shallow) return value; } }
by iLemming | 2025-11-18 22:29:02+00:00
> then that'd be perfect.

There's no such thing as "perfect" for everyone and for every case.

> feels like jumping through unnecessary hoops for little gain really.

I dunno what you're talking about - Apple runs their payment backend; Walmart their billing system; Cisco their cybersec stack; Netflix their social data analysis; Nubank empowers entire Latin America - they all running Clojure, pushing massive amounts of data through it.

I suppose they just have shitload of money and can afford to go through "unnecessary hoops". But wait, why then tons of smaller startups running on Clojure, on Elixir? I guess they just don't know any better - stupid fucks.
by xp84 | 2025-11-18 22:29:15+00:00
Another one of those quirks of law that appears to be there to help avoid burdening the legendary smallholding farmer whose teenagers are hardworking farmhands towing around 8 head of cattle in the work truck, but which mostly just enables a bunch of idiots driving around surburbs in gleaming-clean four-door pickups that have never carried anything in the bed but a couple bikes or a little camping gear.

I'd be all for exemptions to any rules for anyone who proves ownership of a working farm or ranch but you can bet that no regulation of any kind will ever be enacted to curb the disaster that CAFE rules caused to "car" size.
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-18 22:29:33+00:00
It's irrelevant to the definition of "scraping." Scraping from a website is grabbing data, in bulk, not through the website's own interface. It doesn't matter if you save the data, use it in RAM, or just download directly into `/dev/null`. Just like scraping paint off of a wall is still "scraping" whether you're letting it fall onto the floor, collecting it into a trashcan, or sweeping it out the door afterwards.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-18 22:29:41+00:00
Ease of writing and testing extensions is actually the cause why Electron won IDE wars.

Microsoft made a great decision to jump on the trend and just pour money to lap Atom and such in optimization and polish.

Especially when you compare it to Microsoft effort for desktop. They acumulated several more or less component libraries over they years and I still prefer WinForms.