MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hamdingers | 2025-11-09 17:10:37+00:00
The party is MAGA and that party is pro-dictatorship. The behavior of republicans decades ago is irrelevant, and it's obvious that MAGA has learned lessons from Tumps first term.

Perhaps it's you who haven't been paying attention? I find older people have a lot of unfounded faith in these failing institutions, but if you try to keep up you'll see this isn't the same America you grew up in.
by rdiddly | 2025-11-09 17:11:03+00:00
And yet, what you are calling "the past" exists now in the present. It may be that some of those sites resemble "the past" simply because they value certain things, and those values just happen to have been prevalent then, and aren't now. Maybe to you those values look like the past because that's the last time we saw them. Or in other words, maybe they resemble the past coincidentally rather than intentionally. And maybe those values ARE the way forward. The future isn't always different from the past; in fact it seems history is usually cyclical. And it's not monolithic.

Think of a great jazz saxophonist in 2025. Practicing sax every day for years. Is he living in the past because jazz isn't popular like it once was? To some degree, sure, because his inspiration and source material is probably 60- and 80-year-old recordings. But is he cynical for appreciating craft, improvisation and organic individual expression over convenient digital production? And how should he advance his values? By trying to convert Taylor Swift into a jazz saxophonist? That's never going to happen. And it's not cynical to think so, it's just obvious. (Edit: To some degree it might even be wrong, because she would have to deny her inherent Taylorness.) No, the way he can advance those values is by living them himself. Which is the epitome of non-cynical, really. If there are enough of him out there, it'll be a movement, but popularity isn't necessary for it to be part of the present and future, especially his own present and future.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-09 17:11:09+00:00
The assumption I make is that "better benchmarks" are going to be 5% better, not 5000% better. LLMs are getting better capabilities faster than the benchmarks get better at measuring them accurately.

So, yes, we just aren't going to get anything that's radically better. Just more of the same, and some benchmarks that are less bad. Which is still good. But don't expect a Benchmark Revolution when everyone suddenly realizes just how Abjectly Terrible the current benchmarks are, and gets New Much Better Benchmarks to replace them with. The advances are going to be incremental, unimpressive, and meaningful only in aggregate.
by beefnugs | 2025-11-09 17:11:14+00:00
My entire 20 year career is filled with wordpress blunders, i could never ever trust php again, ever ever ever, even if they said it has been reimplented by completely different people in every other language.

there is something about "theme" code leading to complete control of servers that is fundamentally broken in every way, there is no coming back from this reputation
by farmeroy | 2025-11-09 17:11:55+00:00
We set my son up with a linux computer when he was 9 - he was always dragging broken electronics home off the street, so when he found an old beat up thinkpad we managed to get it running with a little tenderness and linux mint! He's been on linux ever since, constantly upgrading computers by getting second hand/free laptops (it helps that his uncle works in IT and can grab a nice Dell or two now and again). It's always fun to put linux on a new machine! In any case, for him it has been great - the desktops are super customizable. Like everyone who gets into linux, it's been fun for him to install pretty TUIs and silly command line interfaces (bob ross quotes was a recent one). There are so many fun hacking tutorials on youtube. Lots of hours on kdenlive and blender. When he was younger he LOVED minetest, which is a hackable version of minecraft. Some other commenters have said the libreoffice is a big issue for people making the switch. Obviously not a big deal for an 8 year old! But my kid is about to go into highschool now. His school uses google classroom for everything so it's still not an issue. so many games that kids play are just in the browser? thankfully my son thinks fortnite and roblox are stupid ways to spend his time. it seems like if they really _need_ to _game_ its another issue, but that shouldn't be a problem for 8 year olds?

There are have been so many benefits. He's been a great touch typer from a young age (compared to his peers especially, who mostly used phones). I mean, being on linux exposes you to using the command line, which makes you _want_ to hack, so he's learned about network. You also avoid the barrage of ads that microsoft is currently assaulting the rest of the world with in their start menu.
by infinet | 2025-11-09 17:11:56+00:00
As much as we want the next generation ships with less CO2 emissions, that nuclear cargo ship is not coming anytime soon. It will use a Thorium melting salt reactor, which although not new, is still in experiment. US first proposed melting salt reactor in the 1940s and had operated one briefly in the 1960s. China is building and testing an experimental Thorium reactor. It made the news earlier this month for been successfully converting Thorium to Uranium, perhaps means it is actually burning Thorium as compare to rely on Uranium in previous melting salt reactors. The news also states the plan has 3 stages: experimental reactor, research reactor, and demonstration reactor. The current one is at first stage. The third stage, demonstrator reactor, is scheduled to build in 2035. Therefor that nuclear cargo ship is at least another 10 years from now.
by _trampeltier | 2025-11-09 17:11:58+00:00
In sport, are such super-humans allowd to play with normal people.

In society, i guess, if such super-humans are designed to have a 500 year life, they have automatic adusted there pension age to something like 450 years.

In law, because such super smart super-humans allways know things better, the fines are 100 times higher.

On the other side, of course, who would not choose the best for the best for the own child. Why should a person wear glasses the whole life, if it is possible to switch a few genoms.

So many difficult questions ..
by alephnerd | 2025-11-09 17:12:37+00:00
Yes. (Still in process of generating the list)

Poland [0][8]

Ireland [1][2]

Czechia [3][4]

Canada [5][6]

Turkiye [7]

The expansion of Indian offices is a result of the reverse brain drain that accelerated during the early COVID layoffs along with the EB1/2 backlogs - a number of Staff and above Engineers, EMs and above, and Sr PMs and above who were on work visas were either cut or given the option to relocate to India and start a hub office.

A similar trend happened in other countries, but India being so large means they get overshadowed.

[0] - https://www.gov.pl/web/primeminister/google-invests-billions...

[1] - https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-6-20-amd...

[2] - https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/news-and-events/department-news...

[3] - https://www.itpro.com/business/cato-networks-announces-major...

[4] - https://www.onsemi.com/company/news-media/press-announcement...

[5] - https://www.reuters.com/business/lyft-open-toronto-tech-hub-...

[6] - https://www.connectcre.ca/stories/amazon-plans-toronto-offic...

[7] - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uber-invest-200-ml...

[8] - https://news.microsoft.com/pl-pl/2025/02/17/microsoft-announ...
by fwsgonzo | 2025-11-09 17:12:38+00:00
That's cool! I do have a habit of writing ELF post-processors as a part of the CMake build system I inevitably end up writing. There's a handy POST_BUILD you can attach to programs which I use very often for things like execute-only (XO) and apparently also to rewrite function entries for functions I can't --wrap.

Example: https://github.com/varnish/libvmod-riscv/blob/main/program/c...

chperm can change the permissions of a segment to just execute, instead of read+execute. Of course, you will need a custom linker script because the default linker scripts will merge .text and read-only data to save space.

Currently, I'm battling a Rust program that has a built-in function called __memcmpeq, which isn't a global, so I can't --wrap it.
by KronisLV | 2025-11-09 17:12:53+00:00
> Whether it was generated by human or AI is irrelevant.

No, some projects take fundamental issues with AI, be it ethical, copyright related, or raising doubts over whether people even understand the code they're submitting and whether it'll be maintainable long term or even work.

There was some drama around that with GZDoom: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/10/civil-war-gzdoom-fan-... (although that was a particular messy case where the code broke things because the dev couldn't even test it and also straight up merged it; so probably governance problems in the project as well)

But the bottom line is that some projects will disallow AI on a principled basis and they don't care just about the quality of the code, rather that it was written by an actual person. Whether it's possible to just not care about that and sneak stuff in regardless (e.g. using autocomplete and so on, maybe vibe coding a prototype and then making it your own to some degree), or whether it's possible to use it as any other tool in development, that's another story.

Edit: to clarify my personal stance, I'm largely in the "code is code" camp - either it meets some standard, or it doesn't. It's a bit like with art - whether you prefer something with soul or mindless slop, unfortunately for some the reckoning is that the purse holders often really do not care.
by mikewarot | 2025-11-09 17:13:01+00:00
Last I heard, the other Mike Warot was a guard at the British Museum. I'm sure there are more.

My brother in law, William Morris, got me more than one notice when his caller ID showed up at the marketing firm I used to work at. ;-)

A few years ago, I was trying to find fun things to show my friend Ward, and you wouldn't believe how many Ward Christensens there are mentioned in newspapers.com.

This must be some analog of the birthday paradox.
by arjie | 2025-11-09 17:13:08+00:00
My wife and I have a whole-genome sequenced embryo that we selected based on Orchid’s results. In our case, we were trying to avoid a specific kind of hearing loss caused by a mutation in GJB2.

People often try to bill these technologies as “trying to control everything” or “trying to make the perfect child” or all this business about “tech people think they deserve what they have due to their genetics” (paraphrasing Sasha Gusev) etc. but I don’t think that’s the driving impulse for most parents.

The reality is so much more complex than the headlines people chase. One couple who I spoke to who were considering this were afraid of the opposite of the intelligence chase. The mother was concerned that she’d pass on her Asperger’s Syndrome. Another friend of mine doesn’t want to have kids because her brothers (and other male relatives) have schizophrenia.

In my family’s case, we will not have boys (coincidence: all our female embryos are the ones unaffected) but that’s fine. Our baby girl is a beautiful happy child and even if she weren’t, she’d be mine and I’d love her as much. But being able to increase the chance she has the full sensory experience available to mankind brings me a bit of content.

I hope all of these people I have met who fear genetic disease will be able to mitigate the risks as well as we have. Ours is monogenic, but as polygenic prediction improves their chances will improve too.

People on the happy path don’t often realize what it’s like for those not on that path. In our family, a cousin had her child via her last embryo. That also happened to a friend. Imagine if the last one had a debilitating condition that could be edited out. Most parents would choose not to have that child and then they would simply be childless.

In some future world, those people could have the condition edited and they could have the child.

Finally, here are the notes I made throughout the process:

https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/IVF

And a view into my genome

https://viz.roshangeorge.dev/roshan-genvue/

And a link to my comment on an HN article on something similar: the potential for removing trisomy-21 (Down’s) from an embryo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44677834
by maxloh | 2025-11-09 17:13:11+00:00
It is a very reasonable choice: your plug-in project has grown to a scale you have never anticipated. Therefore, you built your own system from the ground up, one which you have total control over, instead of keeping to rely on someone else's system as you did before. This would make new features and bug fixes more easy to be implemented.

I am also very curious about what the MKDocs future would be like. Material has been the most popular theme for MkDocs. People are not using it because they have chosen MkDocs, but using MkDocs because they have chosen Material. With Zensical promising (some kind of) MkDocs compatibility, there will be fewer reasons to stay on MkDocs instead of migrating to the new project.
by sixdimensional | 2025-11-09 17:13:40+00:00
I do.

Not selling anything, but I am trying to figure out what to do to help support solo and micro entrepreneurs, very small businesses (2-3 people) and very small nonprofits.

I feel like there are a lot more people in this position now (me included), but I don't want to do things for the sake of doing them... I want to find out what solo folks really benefit from and help make sure you get more support.
by jdiff | 2025-11-09 17:14:13+00:00
I'm working part time at an appliance showroom, it's exactly as silly as it sounds. We don't sell fruits and veggies, but we did have some pumpkins around. Put one in, it's confident I just fed it either an apple, an orange, or an onion. Some bottled drinks? Clearly a mango. Maybe an eggplant.

And it can't register anything placed in the flex drawer, freezer, or fridge doors. In order to actually take advantage of its fridge inventory system, you still have to manually enter in or correct every single item you place into your fridge.

It's inconvenient for looking up recipes, since fridges are not placed for visibility from your countertop. It can be used for music but the speakers aren't worth the extra money. Videos and movies? The screen's the wrong aspect ratio for anything but big screen TikTok. And again, fridges are not positioned to gather around.

And that last bit is the crux of the issue. I've talked to our Samsung reps and they keep talking about fridges like they're gathering points. Like people congregate around their fridges. That was the guiding principle behind this fridge, and it's so disconnected from reality that the appliance itself can't help but be irredeemably pointless.
by fastball | 2025-11-09 17:14:17+00:00
So your argument is: people will get mad if we don't bequeath them employment. That's it?

What if they get mad because their wages aren't living wages? What then? Why shouldn't they be owed living wages or owed non-awful jobs?

Jobs do not grow on trees. They are not harvested from the ether. It is the responsibility of every individual to provide for their own needs. If that requires getting a job, so be it. But you can also create your own job(s). There is more than enough opportunity for every working age person to provide for the needs of others and get provision in return. That is what civilization should be ensuring, not pre-packaged "jobs".
by hexbin010 | 2025-11-09 17:15:05+00:00
What particular issues are you referring to?

You can top-up Oyster with cash at machines and counters. Oyster cards are better as they are ~500ms quicker when tapping !

Cash is still pretty viable in the UK. I can't think of a single place the past decade where they've not taken cash and I've been sad about it or massively inconvenienced - but then again I don't get out much ;)

If a restaurant thinks it can get away with just tiny text on a menu informing that it's cashless, you could give them a lesson in the law.
by nostrademons | 2025-11-09 17:15:07+00:00
Almost every personalized site does this. I just changed my VPN to Finland from the U.S. Results from a spot check of sites:

Google will automatically show me results in Finnish, personalized to what Finnish users typically search for. It does have a sidebar to prompt me to switch back to English, but that's because I put in an English query.

Netflix shows me the content that's available in Finland, along with recommendations for top movies in Finland. No option to switch back to U.S.

Reddit, when logged out, defaults me to content from r/arkisuomi, r/suomi, r/finland, and then the default subreddits. Also no indication that they've changed their recommendations.

Expedia defaults me to the U.S, but with a banner to switch to expedia.fi instead.

Zillow has no personalized content on their logged-out homepage, but if I try to search for "Current location" it will show me homes in Finland. Same with Redfin.

Yelp defaults my language to Finnish and shows me recommendations for Helsinki.

Isn't this a large part of why people get VPNs, so they can see what content looks like for visitors from other countries? I got one mainly so I could watch Canadian Netflix and so travel sites would stop charging me California prices (they often price-discriminate based on average incomes in your region).
by 4b11b4 | 2025-11-09 17:15:26+00:00
I really enjoyed the this one:

Some meditations on Advanced Programming

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD00xx/EWD32....

As I'm currently in a Functional Programming course in Haskell... This resonated.

I know that we'll always need to write programs which directly interface with memory.

However, when we don't need to do that... Maybe we shouldn't write programs in this style (i.e. imperative). Maybe we shouldn't even use an imperative language (I know, that's a stretch, many languages have incorporated functional aspects and we can utilize them instead of trying to avoid the language entirely).

---

Dijkstra ends EWB 32 with:

"Smoothly we have arrived at the third component of our tool, viz. the language: also the language should be a reliable one. In other words it should assist the programmer as much as possible in the most difficult aspect of his task, viz. to convince himself —and those others who are really interested— that the program he has written down defines indeed the process he wanted to define."

"As my very last remark I should like to stress that the tool as a whole should have still another quality. It is a much more subtle one; whether we appreciate it or not depends much more on our personal taste and education and I shall not even try to define it. The tool should be charming, it should be elegant, it should be worthy of our love. This is no joke, I am terribly serious about this. In this respect the programmer does not differ from any other craftsman: unless he loves his tools it is highly improbable that he will ever create something of superior quality."

At the same time these considerations tell us the greatest virtues a program can show: Elegance and Beauty."

---

Functional languages... help us achieve these aims.
by knallfrosch | 2025-11-09 17:15:30+00:00
Problematic is that ChatGPT gaslights users and claims NOT to know personal information it clearly does know.

Imagine it telling someone "picking cotton" is a fine job, with some hidden knowledge about that person's ethnicity – with ChatGPT denying it used that information even when asked.

Do you see now how easily this gets problematic?
by gethly | 2025-11-09 17:15:43+00:00
> Anyone else relate?

Silly question. That is literally every solopreneur's experience. Does it suck? Heck yes, it does. But there is nothing you can do about it. Road to success is lonesome and there is nobody waiting for you at the top of the success mountain either, if you make it. Maybe read about stoicism a bit, it might help you deal with it in some ways.
by xvector | 2025-11-09 17:15:55+00:00
> People aren’t allowed to mutilate babies what the hell are you going on about?

Circumcision is absolutely mutilation.

> Genetic tampering can lead to all kinds of unknowable nightmares.

You can "tamper with your kid's DNA" just by having kids with the wrong person and passing down a genetic disease.

There are plenty of unknowable things about life. You could die in a car crash. You certainly will die eventually.

Should we avoid taking risks entirely because they might result in bad outcomes? With this mindset, humanity would have never progressed. We would have never left our caves if we were paralyzed by our own fear.

Humanity is still early stage. We are not so different from those that once ventured out of their caves. To them, we owe everything. It is a disservice to all future humans that will ever live if we stop taking trajectory-changing bets because things could go wrong.
by jdiff | 2025-11-09 17:15:57+00:00
It would be. That was the original promise of the Family Hub+ fridges with AI Vision Inside™ technology.

But you won't find that here, and it's not going to be coming in an update. This fridge can't properly identify fruits and veggies, let alone anything in any sort of packaging.

As I demo the thing, it keeps taking snapshots of the back of my head and insists that the fridge is just packed full of kiwis.
by Jolter | 2025-11-09 17:16:00+00:00
I have very good experience of Samsung’s warranty support for a washing machine, actually.

The thing that makes corporations give better warranty support is not more money. Giving them more money does not incentivize them to suddenly give better service or make higher quality goods. The thing is consumer protection laws. In the EU, consumer goods have a minimum two-year warranty period. This incentivizes higher quality manufacturing.
by boulos | 2025-11-09 17:16:48+00:00
The article seems to hinge on the core assumption that revenue is much less than spending:

> Those expenditures may be approaching $1 trillion for 2025, while AI revenue—which would be used to pay for the use of AI infrastructure to run the software—will not exceed $30 billion this year

While it's clear that the author is summing up the spending from the big players, it's not clear to me that their math is right for revenue. Yes, OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines, SSI, etc. have pretty limited direct revenue (including zero!).

But this comparison assumes no revenue growth for other top computing users. Some companies are certainly saving money on some tasks and increasing revenue, particularly in fields like customer support. See the confusing figure in section 5 of https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo... .

That chart is by number of respondents and not weighted by revenue. Like the MIT study, it would not be surprising that "just pipe this to an LLM" isn't enough for most fields or companies. But a few have likely made material improvements.

10% of respondents saying they've seen a >10% revenue gain could be substantial, if they're bigger firms with high leverage in computing.

Edit to add: the comparison also makes a classic "GDP vs market cap" style mistake. Capital expenditure has multiple years of useful life. Revenue is annual. You'd want to compare depreciation vs revenue.
by eibrahim | 2025-11-09 17:17:14+00:00
OMG. It has changed everything from “plan me a trip to XYZ for 4 days” to “how do I address my son’s questions about XYZ topic” to “help me create a simple trust for my mom” to spiritual questions to history and philosophy and home automation etc…. I am a woodworking hobbyist and it helped me estimate wood quantities and cut lists and preferred species for different projects and different finishes etc…

The only one it has failed in answering is “how do I make my wife happy” lol