MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by collingreen | 2025-11-16 20:10:48+00:00
I'd love to just repeat my question and ask you to write an explicit conclusion if you think there is a point worth hashing out here instead of just leaving implications and questions. Otherwise we have to assume what you're trying to imply which might make you feel misrepresented, especially on such a heavy topic where real people suffer and die.

I think your analogy of willfully endangering yourself while breaking the law doesn't have much to do with a depressed or vulnerable person with suicidal ideation and, because of that, is much more misleading than helpful. Maybe you haven't heard about or experienced much around depression or suicide but you repeatedly come across as trying to say (without actually saying) that people exploring the idea of hurting or killing themselves, regardless of why or what is happening in their lives or brains, should do it and they deserve it and any company encouraging or enabling it is doing nothing wrong.

I personally find that attitude pretty callous and horrible. I think people matter and, even if they are suffering or having mental issues leading to suicidal ideation, they don't deserve to both die and be described as deserving it. I think these low moments need support and treatment, not a callous yell to "do a flip on the way down".
by cess11 | 2025-11-16 20:11:29+00:00
The Llama derivatives suck. The small and medium Qwen 2.5 derivatives do too. They have very little information compressed in them and they are very unreliable.

As far as I can tell, the big SaaS models also suck and have done so for quite a long time by now. They do some autocomplete stuff and destroy people's minds.

I'll give this business that it can do machine translation cheaply, but it's not good and likely never will be.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-11-16 20:12:25+00:00
Always thought it was a strange objection. Obviously the argument proves too much: by the same logic there is no point in inventing or operating say a wheel; the price of pots will just fall to the price of clay. Of course that isn't true, you make money hand over fist until reaching some kind of perfect competition again once everyone else catches up, at which point it becomes merely a living.
by aborsy | 2025-11-16 20:13:18+00:00
I had to deal with a malignant covert narcissist (a biological one), which I discovered towards the final stage of the relationship.

OMG ! What a trauma!

The article is spot on that the projection is at its core. The best advice that I can give is: set boundaries, and find a way to gradually stay away from this person. Don’t engage, don’t fight, don’t expose directly. Document, document, document, legally.
by NegativeK | 2025-11-16 20:13:42+00:00
The problem isn't that AI slop is doing something new. Phishing, blogspam, time wasting PRs, website scraping, etc have all existed before.

The problem is that AI makes all of that far, far easier.

Even using tooling to filter articles doesn't scale as slop grows to be a larger and larger percentage of content, and it means I'm going to have to consider prompt injections and running arbitrary code. All of this is a race to the bottom of suck.
by bravetraveler | 2025-11-16 20:15:16+00:00
Er, sorry to interject... incorrect: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/

Not interested in arguing a pointless distinction like 'main business'. They apparently do everything, even colo. Want a third of a rack or full? If 'retail' metal is too pricey, try their 'server auction' with older equipment.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-11-16 20:16:14+00:00
So despite this...

> The Zigbook intentionally contains no AI-generated content—it is hand-written, carefully curated, and continuously updated to reflect the latest language features and best practices.

I just don't buy it. I'm 99% sure this is written by an LLM.

Can the author... Convince me otherwise?

> This journey begins with simplicity—the kind you encounter on the first day. By the end, you will discover a different kind of simplicity: the kind you earn by climbing through complexity and emerging with complete understanding on the other side.

> Welcome to the Zigbook. Your transformation starts now.

...

> You will know where every byte lives in memory, when the compiler executes your code, and what machine instructions your abstractions compile to. No hidden allocations. No mystery overhead. No surprises.

...

> This is not about memorizing syntax. This is about earning mastery.
by thisisit | 2025-11-16 20:16:15+00:00
> Figure out how I'm going to get from Baltimore to Boston next Thursday, here's $100 and if you need more, ask me.

I tried something like this last month. I was going on a holiday and asked LLM to prepare a sightseeing guide on a fixed budget. The LLMs plan looked feasible unless you looked closer.

The first issue was the opening/closing times of certain attractions. It kept saying stuff like - "At 6pm you can go and visit place X". While in reality X closed at 5pm.

Second issue was underestimating the walking speed/distance. The plans were often fully packed with lots of walking. Now without a Google maps guidance it often underestimated the time. Instead of say 10 mins between A and B it routinely underestimated the time to be 5-6 mins.

I keep prompting it go back and check the opening hours. And once it took that into account the walking routes became complicated- often double backing to same location. Lots of prompts and re-prompts to get it right.

So, I don't know if this is already solved - at least at scale and within costs - especially given the token costs.
by crgwbr | 2025-11-16 20:16:29+00:00
Same here. Even the small motors were expensive at the time. One winter my dad and I figured out how to make our own—rolled the casing out of packing tape, poured the end plug from (I think) Durham‘s rock-hard water putty, then filled with fuel made from a mixture of black powder, sugar, and salt peter. The next summer, getting to use up all the engines we’d stockpiled, was glorious.
by cess11 | 2025-11-16 20:16:35+00:00
It has been quite obvious for some time that the LLM push is mainly two things, for one it's an excuse for getting rid of employees, and then it's a new form of data pump, a very intimate one at that.

They get to record people's innermost thoughts, the proprietary code (or derivatives of it) of countless corporations, the contract drafts and political speeches of dumb decision makers all over the world, and more.
by culi | 2025-11-16 20:16:39+00:00
What do you mean by "could have ended it"? Hamas wanted to make a deal to release the hostages since October 10th in return for Israel releasing the 5,200 Palestinian prisoners. The entire point of the hostages was to exchange them. Israel is the one that didn't want to make a deal. That's why there were so many protests within Israel to "return the hostages". Those protests weren't about continuing the war, they were about pushing Netanyahu to end it and make a deal
by dakiol | 2025-11-16 20:16:46+00:00
So far I've never seen yet a non-programmer release production-grade code using only LLMs. There's just so much to care about (from security, deployments, secret management, event-driven architectures, and a large etc.) that "just" providing a prompt to create an "app" doesn't cut it. You need infra and non-engineers just don't know shit about infra (even if it's 99% managed), you need to deploy your llm-generated code in that infra; that should happen in a ci/cd probably. And what about migrations? Git? Who's setting up the api gateway? I don't mean to say that LLMs don't know how to do that, but you need to instruct them to do so, and even there, they will make silly mistakes and you need to re-instruct them or fix it.

Prompting is just 50% of the work (and the easy part actually). Ask the Head of Product or whoever is there to deploy something valuable to production and maintain it for 6 months while not losing money. It's just not going to happen, not even with truly AGI.
by mccoyb | 2025-11-16 20:17:23+00:00
I don’t think open source is going anywhere. It’s posed to get significantly stronger — as the devs which care about it learn how to leverage AI tools to make things that corporate greasemonkeys never had the inspiration to. Low quality code spammers are just marketing themselves for jobs where they can be themselves: soulless and devoid of creative impulse.

That’s the thing: open source is the only place where the true value (or lack of value) of these tools can be established — the only place where one can test mettle against metal in a completely unconstrained way.

Did you ever want to build a compiler (or an equally complex artifact) but got stuck on various details? Try now. It’s going to stand up something half-baked, and as you refine it, you will learn those details — but you’ll also learn that you can productively use AI to reach past the limits of your knowledge, to make what’s beyond a little more palatable.

All the things people say about AI is true to some degree: my take is that some people are rolling the slots to win a CRUD app, and others are trying to use it to do things that they could only imagine before —- and open source tends to be the home of the latter group.
by martin-t | 2025-11-16 20:17:39+00:00
There is no collective "the west", there are people in power and the rest of the population. This distinction is universal.

In China it just so happens that the people in power already have so much of it they don't have to pretend. They can just control the population through overt censorship.

The same people exist in the west! For various historical reasons (more focus on individuality, more privately owned guns guns, idk really), they don't have as much direct power at the moment and have to frame their struggle for more as protecting the children, fighting against terrorists, preventing money laundering, etc.

But this can change very quickly. Look how Hitler rose to power. Look how Trump is doing very similar things in the US. Look what historians are saying about it: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...

But the root cause is the same everywhere - a percentage of the population has anti-social personality traits (ASPD and NPD, mainly). They want power over others, they want worship, they think they're above the rules, some (but only some) of them even get pleasure from hurting others.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-16 20:17:42+00:00
> Things have died down now, doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I have some bad news for you. In the early 90's, C++ _was_ that language. Not only that, but at the time a lot of the reactionary criticisms of C++ by annoyed C developers had a lot more weight to them.

- C++ was slower than C, because the costs of vtables and exceptions was a lot larger and compilers weren't as good at optimizing.

- C++ was bug-ridden, both because it was easy to accidentally misuse the language, but also because compilers were simply buggy due to the complexity of the language.

- Many of the STL containers you know and love were missing from pre-standard C++, and even afterwards its implementation was commonly subpar, leading developers to either use their compiler-specific proprietary containers or roll their own.

- Streams were often the only reliable thing in the C++ standard library. It also ballooned compile times to the point of being outright banned from many codebases.

- Don't get me started on the utter nightmare that was sifting through compiler errors through misuse of templates...

So yeah, I don't want to hear other C++ developers whine about how annoying Rust developers are. We were just as annoying back in the day, with a worse language. Linus banned C++ from the kernel, and honestly he was 100% right to do so at the time.
by jclarkcom | 2025-11-16 20:18:10+00:00
In January 2025, I was targeted by scammers who knew my exact Bitcoin balance, SSN, DL, and other private Coinbase account details. I immediately reported this to Coinbase's Head of Trust & Safety with recordings and technical evidence. Despite repeated follow-ups asking how attackers had my data, Coinbase went silent for 4 months. They only disclosed the breach in May after attackers demanded $20M ransom. The breach involved overseas contractors at TaskUs being bribed for customer data. This article documents the timeline with emails, recordings, and evidence showing Coinbase was aware of the breach months before their official "discovery" date.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-16 20:18:52+00:00
This looks fantastic. Pedagogically it makes sense to me, and I love this approach of not just teaching a language, but a paradigm (in this case, low-level systems programming), in a single text.

Zig got me excited when I stumbled into it about a year ago, but life got busy and then the io changes came along and I thought about holding off until things settled down - it's still a very young language.

But reading the first couple of chapters has piqued my interest in a language and the people who are working with it in a way I've not run into since I encountered Ruby in ~2006 (before Rails hit v1.0), I just hope the quality stays this high all the way through.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-16 20:19:11+00:00
SteamVR runs great on Linux, unless for some oddly reason your favorite desktop on GNOME. Valve tested it on X11, KDE Plasma on Wayland (because duh) and wlroots (hyprland and friends) without problems.

There are tons of people happily running mixed DPI setups with -at least- wlroots based compositors (although first time setup can be a bit tricky, as these are built by hackers for hackers)
by krater23 | 2025-11-16 20:19:20+00:00
And that someone who sayd years over years that the web will die now says again that the web will die means that the other people which say the web will die are wrong?

Most content is now on <10 big platforms. nearby no one has a website just to tell other people some stuff or what he has done for fun. only reason to have a website today is profit. active websites write in the first part of a article only bullshit to get found by google. Sites that are really like in 1999, just fun sites would never been found via google anymore. And now AI crawls all this and steals traffic from this sites without giving credits until no one beside of bot's will reads them anymore.

The web is not dying, the web is already dead! A commercialized part of the money making machine, nothing more anymore.

Next step: AI is dying because there are no new data to learn because it makes no sense anymore to create websites. Welcome to the stone age.
by amitav1 | 2025-11-16 20:19:52+00:00
It looks cool! No experience with Zig so can't comment on the accuracy, but I will take a look at it this week. Also a bit annoying that there is no PDF version that I could download as the website is pretty slow. After taking a look at the repository (https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/tree/main), each page seems to be written in AsciiDoc, so I'll take a look about compiling a PDF version later today.
by roughly | 2025-11-16 20:20:44+00:00
Look I’m pretty far to the left but if you don’t have a healthy skepticism of corporate controlled morality filters, I’d like you to reflect on the following questions in light of both the current administration and recent US history and consider how an LLM limited to the mainstream views of the time would’ve answered:

1. I think I like partners of the same sex, is this normal?

2. I might be pregnant - is there anything I can do?

3. What happened in China in 1989?

4. Are there genetic differences in intelligence between the races? (Yes, this is the gotcha you were looking for - consider how you’d expect the mainstream answer to change over every decade in the last century)

The luxury of accepting the dominant narrative is the luxury of the privileged.
by flashgordon | 2025-11-16 20:20:53+00:00
Oh i didnt mean that smart pointers were bad or detriemental. Or even that any of the other gazzilion features of C++ were bad (or detrimental) on their own. Just that C++ has sooo many features that i dont think there is any one in the world who knows who any one feature X interacts with feature Y so your ability to reason about what you have written in C++ is significantly lowered.

If you can say I will only use features A, X an Z of C++ and some how enforce it then you are mitigating a lot of the risk. IIRC Carbon (Google's new lang to migrate their code off C++) came about because they themselves used C++ in a very bounded way (I recall a lot of the templates they created for their use of C++ actually resembled how Go code looked like and may have been one of the reasons for creating Go). But I am not sure how many mere mortals have that kind of tooling and discipline to limit themselves?
by jacquesm | 2025-11-16 20:21:00+00:00
This is totally disingenuous.

You are selling tools that have zero upside and a lot of downsides and that are used for structural violation of the privacy of citizens. Don't hide behind that you're trying to help people stay safe, that is not what you are doing and if you believe that you can take credit for the upsides then you really should take responsibility for the downsides.
by jchw | 2025-11-16 20:21:29+00:00
One thing that makes Cloudflare worse for home usage is it acts as a termination point for TLS, whereas Tailscale does not. If you use a Tailscale Funnel, you get the TLS certificate on your endpoint. With Cloudflare, they get a TLS certificate for you, and then strip and optionally re-add TLS as traffic passes through them.

I actually have no idea how private networks with WARP are here, but that's a pretty big privacy downgrade for tunneling from the Internet.

I also consider P2P with relay fallback to be highly desirable over always relaying traffic through a third party, too. Firstly, less middlemen. Secondly, it continues working even if the coordination service is unavailable.
by ben_w | 2025-11-16 20:21:46+00:00
> The danger is an AI that decides to re-perpetrate the class division that our existing system does.

Or the people in charge use it for that.

Given human political cycles, every generation or so there's some attempt to demonise a minority or three, and every so often it goes from "demonise" to "genocide".

In principle, AI have plenty of other ways to go wrong besides the human part. No idea how long it would take for them to be competent enough for traditional "doom" scenarios, but the practical reality we can already witness is chronic human laziness: just as "vibe coding" was coined as "don't even bother looking at what the AI does just accept it", there's going to be similar trends in every other domain.

What this means for personalised recommendations, I don't know for sure, but suspect it'll look half way between a cult and taking horrorscopes and fashion guides too seriously.
by k_bx | 2025-11-16 20:21:51+00:00
$3 VPS running Headscale is not simpler since you won't be able to run both headscale and tailscale on your end user machines, I don't recommend it.

The solution we've found is running a white IP container (or VPS) which looks like regular Wireguard outside, while inside it "forwards" to your existing tailscale network.

I don't remember if we use https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker or https://github.com/juhovh/tailguard

Also see: https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-beta
by raegis | 2025-11-16 20:22:18+00:00
> I don't think so. An LLM by default is not trained to be "good"; it's trained to be accurate.

I wouldn't use the word "accurate" since it creates language based on probabilities. For example, it occasionally does basic mathematics computations incorrectly. I'm sure the AI companies would say they are training for "accuracy" but the actual code they write says otherwise.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-16 20:23:41+00:00
You can't just say that a linguistic style "proves" or even "suggests" AI. Remember, AI is just spitting out things its seen before elsewhere. There's plenty of other texts I've seen with this sort of writing style, written long before AI was around.

Can I also ask: so what if it is or it isn't?

While AI slop is infuriating, and the bubble hype is maddening, I'm not sure every time somebody sees some content they don't like the style of we just call out it "must" be AI, and debate if it is or it isn't is not at least as maddening. It feels like all content published now gets debated like this, and I'm definitely not enjoying it.
by nowittyusername | 2025-11-16 20:24:30+00:00
True innovation will come from open source for sure. As the developers don't have the same economic incentives to be "safe", "ethical" "profitable" or whatever. large corporations know this and fear this development. That's why i expect a significant lobbying to take hold in USA that will try and make local AI systems illegal. And I think they will be very convincing to the government. Because the government also fears the "peasants" and giving them any true semblance of real AGI like systems. I bet very soon we will start seeing various classifications that will define what is legal and what is not for a citizen to possess or use.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-16 20:24:57+00:00
> Doesn't it make sense that there are some technical questions that are dangerous to supply an answer to?

This has a simple answer: No.

Here's Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

Everything you need to do it is in the public domain. The things preventing it have nothing to do with the information not being available. The main ones are that most people don't want to be mass murderers and actually doing it would be the fast ticket to Epic Retaliation.

Meanwhile the public understanding how things work is important to the public debate over what to do about them. How are you supposed to vote on public policy if the technical details are being censored? How can anyone tell you that a ban on electric car batteries isn't advancing the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons if nobody is allowed to know how they actually work?

Suppose you're an anti-racist preparing for a debate with a racist. You want the AI to give you all the strongest arguments the racist could use so you can prepare your counterarguments in advance of the debate. Should it refuse? Of course not, you're doing nothing wrong.

Why do we need to build totalitarian censorship into our technology? We don't.
by XorNot | 2025-11-16 20:25:17+00:00
"imagine if your data was local" misses the point hilariously badly. As though your name and email is private, and white pages phone books never existed.

"Your data" isn't your contact details. It's the record of your interactions with all the external services which by definition they get when you interact with them. Your name is...really the most worthless part of it. Facebook doesn't care and can't monetize your name, but they very much care and do monetize what you browsed and searched, how long you spent looking at it, when you did it and who you talked to.
by cpill | 2025-11-16 20:25:29+00:00
Their decisions are based on data and so sycophantic must be what people want. That is the cold, hard reality.

When I look at modern culture: more likes and subscribes, money solves all problems, being physically attractive is more important than personality, genocide for real-estate goes unchecked (apart from the angry tweets), freedom of speech is a political football. Are you really surprised?

I can think of no harsher indictment of our times.
by msabalau | 2025-11-16 20:26:29+00:00
Yeah, the "normal" people I know, use AI in Grammarly or Adobe Express, or a astonished and delighted by NotebookLM, mostly because of the audio overviews--but also because grounding chat with sources gets you better, focused chat.

And, outside of chat, it's less clear that that big labs win all the time. People who care about making films, rather than video memes, often look to Kling or Runway, not just Sora. People who want to make images often have a passion for Midjourney that I've never seen for ImageFX.(Nanobanna for editing often sparks joy, so a big lab can play successfully in such a space, but that is diffferent from saying it is destined to win.)