MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shaboinkin | 2025-11-28 14:59:57+00:00
From watching talks by the various US think tanks (CSIS, CFR, Hudson, etc), the common theme whenever the topic of AI is brought up is that the US is in strategic competition with China where it essentially boils down to economic superiority where the idea is to have US technology spread globally and not China’s. Oh and military application of AI.

I have a hunch the hyper won’t slow down anytime soon if these groups who have the eyes and ears of the government are suggesting to go full steam ahead in the technology.
by whstl | 2025-11-28 15:01:04+00:00
In Germany, as I understand it, civic service can only be performed if you are "hired" by a recognized host organization, and host organizations must be non-profit, public, or community-benefit organizations.

So most certainly wouldn't be just "committing to Github projects from home", it would require a host organization to actually the legwork and get itself approved as non-profit but also as a host of civic services.

And knowing German bureaucracy, the above is not easy. ;)
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-28 15:01:38+00:00
I had a similar thought, ideas are cheap. Loads of people are like "I have this GREAT idea for an app, I just need a developer to build it!"... as if the idea on its own has value.

Unfortunately and / or fortunately thanks to AI tech, anyone with an idea can now throw it at an AI and see it materialise.
by theobeers | 2025-11-28 15:02:22+00:00
Submission statement:

This was posted on Monday by the author and didn't manage to cut through the noise on a busy day. Thought I would give it one more chance.

It's a post by the founder/CEO of an edtech company offering courses on software development (where I also work), on the problem of connecting the dots between the software careers that people are looking to get into and the job openings that actually exist in the current market.

A few points that I found noteworthy:

- AI/ML has obviously been the growth field of the decade, but job-seekers' interest in getting into it seems to swamp the available roles.

- The point about fullstack devs getting low-ish compensation was new to me: it's probably because they tend to be jacks-of-all-trades at smaller companies that just pay less.

- Backend dev (the original focus of this company) still pencils out nicely, given what seems to be low interest from job-seekers relative to available roles, which also often pay well.

- It's unclear how or when the tech job market is supposed to correct. We can all feel that it's a broken market, on a fundamental level and to a severe degree; but diagnosing the specific problems is difficult, let alone suggesting fixes.

Direct link to the GitHub repo with the data that was gathered and analyzed for the post: https://github.com/bootdotdev/jobdata-november-2025
by sofixa | 2025-11-28 15:03:53+00:00
> I'd argue that "value creation" is already at a decent position considering generative AI and the usecase as "interactive search engine" alone.

> Regarding "value extraction": Advertising should always be an option here, just like it was for radio, television and online content in general in the past.

Not at the actual price it's going to cost though. The cost of an "interactive search" (LLM) vs a "traditional search" (Google) is exponentially higher. People tolerate ads to pay Google for the service, but imagine how many ads would ChatGPT need, or how much it will have to cost, to compensate an e.g. 10x difference. Last time I read about this a few months ago, ChatGPT were losing money on their paid tier because the people paying for it were using it a lot.

It's more likely that ChatGPT will just be spamming ads sprinkled in the responses (like you ask for a headphone comparison, and it gives you the sponsored brand one, from a sponsored vendor, with an affiliate link), and hope it's enough.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-11-28 15:03:54+00:00
You're implying that the Swiss government blames the American people for the decisions of the presidential seat, a seat with minimal actual power and three years left in office.

I disagree with your guess. This judge was making a statement about how it's wrong for Netanyahu to judge the people of Gaza by its political leadership. It wouldn't make sense then for the Swiss government to judge the people of America by its political leadership. Such a hypocrisy would make the opposite political statement.

I think it's most likely because of the recent AWS and Cloudflare outages having exposed the fragility of SaaS.

I don't see any reason to project anti American sentiment onto the article where there was none.
by a022311 | 2025-11-28 15:03:59+00:00
I'm here just under two years (I was browsing before creating an account) and I'm immensely grateful to have this in my life. HN is a tiny corner of the internet where I can consistently find high quality stories and learn something new every day. Not only that, I also get to interact with brilliant people and have meaningful conversations, unlike so many other internet forums that are just full of hate.

Thanks to the moderators, commenters and the whole community for building and maintaining this space of the internet and adding some value to my day!
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-28 15:04:27+00:00
AFAICT "AGI" is a placeholder for peoples fears and hopes for massive change caused by AI. The singularity, massive job displacement, et cetera.

None of this is a binary, though. We already have AGI that is superhuman in some ways and subhuman in others. We are already using LLM's to help improve themselves. We already have job displacement.

That continuum is going to continue. AI will become more superhuman in some ways, but likely stay subhuman in others. LLM's will help improve themselves. Job displacement will increase.

Thus the question is whether this rate of change will be fast or slow. Seems mundane, but it's a big deal. Humans can adapt to slow changes, but not so well to fast ones. Thus AGI is a big deal, even if it's a crap stand in for the things people care about.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-11-28 15:04:59+00:00
> I can empathise with this, but I still believe in an economic union in Europe.

I believe that EU countries having trading agreements, sharing technology and sharing intel would be good but what we have now as the EU is not that.

It has become a single point of failure that is too easily gamed by lobbyists.

Before the EU, you needed to have lobbyist in 27 countries to get all of them to agree to something, now you just send them to Brussels and only need to convince 15 countries to agree to something for it to be approved.

We basically made the system easier to game. And now we are paying the price.
by delichon | 2025-11-28 15:05:04+00:00
Arbitrary sorting can be really useful for relatively short lists, like a todo, but seems to me to be a lot less useful for thousands of items. And most cases where I would want that, like grouped by topic, is a better use case for tags, or the topic can be included in the title and work with alphabetical sorting.

But good news, niche requirements can be satisfied on both platforms by writing an extension!
by Fnoord | 2025-11-28 15:05:13+00:00
'Mean tweets' is such an empty meaning. Come with examples. It is on paper very easy to break the law via speech. If I post something here about how I want to reward a murder on a certain politician (or want to do it myself), I can guarantee you the police would be involved. And rightfully so.

Freedom of speech is about pre-moderation. It doesn't mean your actions do not have consequences. If you yell fire in a theatre while there is none, you should be held liable. See also the case of Gennaro P. (the Damschreeuwer) who at May 4 of 2010 yelled during two minutes of silence of Rememberance of the Dead.
by ben_w | 2025-11-28 15:05:16+00:00
> But the Greens have chosen to embrace their own form of populist lunacy.

Well, populist lunacy is how Reform got so popular, so I can see why it would be tempting for the Green party.

Main thing that's weird right now with the UK is that because it's first-past-the-post and the current polling is Reform:~29%, Lib/Lab/Con/Green:~16%, I would not be surprised by any of these parties forming a minority government nor any one of them getting a massive parliamentary majority.

That said I will find it very very funny if the Conservative party ends up last from that list.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-28 15:05:47+00:00
He mentions induction 'hot plates' towards the end, and says that they're limited to the same 1800W and 120V as kettles, but there are "commercial" portable induction stoves that are 220V and can go up to 3500 and 5000W; e.g.:

* https://www.vevor.ca/induction-cooktop-c_10592/vevor-portabl...

* https://www.trueinduction.com/Commercial-Single-Induction-Co...

Just need a NEMA 6 plug (GFCI/AFCI per code as well probably):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#Nomenclature
by hedayet | 2025-11-28 15:05:53+00:00
I love both names - ban-ray and ray-banned.

I have no experience in this area, so I’ll just ask a noob question: Can we make it so that if someone is looking at me through smart-glasses without my consent, my glasses respond with some form of interference that gives them a tiny headache?

And if I do grant someone consent to record me, I can just turn my glasses off.

And of course, my glasses don’t record anything, so they wouldn’t be hurting my own eyes.
by bgwalter | 2025-11-28 15:06:12+00:00
Several OpenAI people said in 2023 that they were surprised by the acceptance of the public. Because they thought that LLMs were not so impressive.

The public has now caught up with that view. Familiarity breeds contempt, in this case justifiably so.

EDIT: It is interesting that in a submission about Sutskever essentially citing Sutskever is downvoted. You can do it here, but the whole of YouTube will still hate "AI".
by juliangmp | 2025-11-28 15:06:18+00:00
I'm no lawyer or expert on these matters, but I know that Codeberg e.V. is considered charitable, so the people hired by Codeberg should be eligible for this already, I think.

I don't know if KDE e.V. is also considered charitable, but I assume they are, and they also hire developers. I'd be curious to learn how the tax reports in these situations work.
by rmonvfer | 2025-11-28 15:06:23+00:00
lmao, agent powered development at its finest.

Reminds me of the guy who recently spammed PRs to the OCaml compiler but this time the script is flipped and all the confusion is self inflicted.

I wonder how long will it take us to see a vibe-coded, slop covered OS or database or whatever (I guess the “braveness” of these slop creators will (is?) be directly proportional to the quality of the SOTA coding LLMs).

Do we have a term for this yet? I mean the person, not the product (slop)
by 0manrho | 2025-11-28 15:07:25+00:00
Oh I agree, but worrying about that in my opinion is stressing over things beyond my control as I can't verify that data is accurate before or after taking receipt of it, and it's kind of a moot point when buying a second hand consumable device as it's pretty much guaranteed to be used/worn. Also, devices can change hands multiple times before it ends up on the second hand market, with anyone in that chain potentially being responsible for fudging the numbers. It's why I start from the zero-trust assumption that the data is unreliable, always buy in quantity and always assume a non-zero failure rate of some kind (thus the reputable vendor with a return/refund policy). The failure rate is rarely actually that high in my experience, but it does happen from time to time and it sucks if you're trying to deploy for example a 4 device array, and you buy 4 devices but 1 doesn't work and as a result now the whole array can't be deployed.
Show HN: VidSbo – AI Storyboard Generator from Videos and Ideas
by lcorinst | 2025-11-28 15:07:33+00:00
I built VidSbo (https://vidsbo.com) to solve a specific pain point in video production: manually breaking down references is tedious.

The tool does two main things:

Video to Prompt: It analyzes camera angles, lighting, and pacing of existing videos (e.g., TikToks/Shorts) and reverse-engineers them into a shot list/script.

Idea to Storyboard: Converts text into visual boards for pitching.

It exports to JSON, which I found useful for feeding into AI video models like Sora or Veo to get more consistent results.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-28 15:07:52+00:00
These are different concepts. What you are describing is an organization not operating for profit, which Germany of course has too. This is about open source contribution being an "Ehrenamt", which is when an individual participates in certain volunteer activities without pay. E.g. being a volunteer firefighter would be such an "Ehrenamt".

This is about recognition for individuals (which is much if what an Ehrenamt even is). Besides some very minor tax benefits, only applicable under certain circumstances, where you earn some money from your Ehrenamt activities, all this is, is an participation award for volunteer work.
by pear01 | 2025-11-28 15:08:04+00:00
Odd, I've never seen a theory of state creation that starts with the benefits of scaling "electrical grids, public transit, and plumbing". Those are quite modern benefits, so seem like odd choices to illustrate your point.

I think the comment you were replying to has a better sense of things. Government becomes an entity onto itself, and prioritizes its own existence, far past the original mandate at its genesis. A constitution becomes acculturated as a default, not because each successive generation ratifies and legitimizes it anew, but simply because with its perpetuation comes power that is hard to displace.

This isn't merely cultural. The powerful interests as the head of the state have an interest in maintaining such a thing. Yes there are benefits, but your modern list ignores the true driver, which is far less luxurious. State formation is simply another form of human domination. Dressing it up as economic efficiency might make for good academic papers after the fact, but the reality is they arose out of the need to dominate others or be dominated. Feats of engineering in the ancient world were constructed to revere the state or benefit in wartime. The United States used the same rocket technology it contemplated annihilating the Soviet Union with to put men on the moon. In all cases some benefits do trickle down to the common man, but always the state itself ends up as the highest priority.

I think the issue today is, on balance if you look at the real equation between whose domination do I fear, increasingly it is your own state, there are less trickle down benefits occuring, and far more avenues for such "benefits" - like the phone in your pocket - to be deceptive, ie appear as a benefit while actually being another instrument of control.

Plumbing doesn't spy on you. And it solved a real problem and improved lives. Increasingly today in modern societies people see states with more contrived demand, "bullshit jobs", less external threats, and yet more and more state domination. Democratic checks may prove even more fatal - turn over the ancient apparatuses of domination over to a mob.

So anyway, I just ask you not ignore the obvious. People didn't want states to get cheap electrical grids. They submitted to it because they didn't want to be hacked and pillaged in their own beds. The true "natural needs" of our species are far more dire than any of those relative luxuries you have listed.
by supermanonipad | 2025-11-28 15:08:23+00:00
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by robocat | 2025-11-28 15:08:42+00:00
Explainer: Armillaria ostoyae first parisitises trees and after they die (or are killed) then it shifts to a saprophytic mode to decompose the tree.

My summary after wondering why you chose the word "consume".

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

rivals the aspen grove "Pando" as the known organism with the highest living biomass and perhaps rivalled by a colony of Posidonia australis on the Australian seabed that measures 200 square kilometres (edited)
by bachmeier | 2025-11-28 15:08:44+00:00
For many years, Emacs plus ESS was the standard workflow for R users. Vim users have their own plugin. On Windows, Tinn-R was impressive, and last I checked it was still going. Of course there is also Jupyter, PyCharm, and Eclipse, plus every text editor has support for R. If something were to happen to RStudio, there would be many fine alternatives for R.
by jswelker | 2025-11-28 15:09:05+00:00
It seems like you were just triggered by my initial phrase "scummy porn and social media platforms." That means porn platforms and social media platforms. Platform is the noun. Social media and porn are adjectives.

It seems like you are trying to put some kind of puritanical words in my mouth such that I think all porn should be illegal or something even though I have explicitly indicated otherwise in several comments. It does not seem like you are having a good faith discussion here, so I am going to let it go at this point.
by sofixa | 2025-11-28 15:09:15+00:00
Evidence-free? Did you even skim OP's list?

Healthcare/Social damage: we already have peer reviewed studies on the potentially negative impacts of LLMs on mental health: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10867692/ . We also have numerous stories of people committing suicides after "falling in love" or being nudged to do so by an LLM.

Energy/Resources: do I even have to provide evidence that LLMs waste enormous amounts of electricity, even leading to scarcity in some local markets, and even coal power plants being turned back on?

Those are just the ironclad ones, you can make very good data privacy and national security arguments quite easily as well.
by ivm | 2025-11-28 15:09:21+00:00
Yes, I've been indie for a decade, working remotely with small clients before that, and seclusion has always been a plus. If I need to socialize, there're plenty of spaces for it outside of work.

In fact, I've been actively volunteering for the past four years, and no way I could do that without my flexible schedule that lets me just pause my work for a week and dedicate all my time to my community instead.
by prompt2tool | 2025-11-28 15:10:25+00:00
Prompt2Tool is a collection of over 3500 browser-based utilities covering development, design, text processing, media conversion, SEO, analytics helpers, and many small workflow tools. All tools run client-side and require no login, installs, or data upload. Curious how this approach compares to traditional developer toolchains and whether people find large consolidated tool libraries useful or overwhelming.
by afr0ck | 2025-11-28 15:10:40+00:00
That's not how operating systems work. KVM is both an interface and a hypervisor. Just as we have different hypervisor implementations for amd, intel, arm and others all abstracted behind the same KVM interface, there is no reason the same can't be done for Gunyah. Userspace does not have to know anything about that. KVM already supports svm and vmx for amd and intel on x86. Why is something similar can't be done for Arm? Plus now there is pKVM.

I just don't understand this argument of a separate interface. The only reason you want to do that is to decouple from the KVM community, but that introduces a shit tone of duplicated effort and needless fragmentation to the virtualisation software ecosystem hindering your users from enjoying the existing upstream tools they already know about. In other terms, vendor locking and shitty downstream experience.
by sofixa | 2025-11-28 15:11:00+00:00
> If a country tries to "protect" jobs by blocking AI, it only puts itself at a disadvantage

Regulating AI doesn't mean blocking it. The EU AI Act regulates AI without blocking it, just imposing restrictions on data usage and decision making (if it's making life or death decisions, you have to be able to reliably explain how and why it makes those decisions, and it needs to be deterministic - no UnitedHealthcare bullshit hiding behind an "algorithm" refusing healthcare)
by hotsauceror | 2025-11-28 15:11:07+00:00
The way I see it is, it doesn't matter if I'm willing to pay for shit content/presentation or not. This discussion is not about what is good for customers, or for news consumers in general. It is about what is good for publicly-traded content providers' bottom lines. My opinions as a consumer of video-based news do not matter. They're going to give me what they want, regardless of what I think about it, and as they have done for the past 50 years.

It is no different than charging me for a channel package full of content I don't watch, cancelling my favorite shows, flooding their channels with unscripted reality garbage, or using "stunning" and "so-and-so just did such-and-such" on nominally serious news web sites. If I don't like it I can choose not to participate, but if I do choose to participate, I agree to accept whatever is offered to me; my opinion was neither requested nor required. So if the top three linear TV news providers chooses to go with an AI-based newsreaders that people initially don't like... so what?
by mtlynch | 2025-11-28 15:11:12+00:00
That version is more sensible. Opus generated:

> Warning: his endings are notoriously abrupt, like a segfault in the middle of your favorite function.

In commit e4d022[0], the wording changed to:

> Fair warning: most of these books famously don't have endings (they literally stop mid-sentence during a normal plot arc).

It's unclear what led to that change, as the commit message is just "stephenson".

It went through a few more minor edits to get to what's currently published.

https://github.com/a16z-infra/reading-list/commit/e4d022d592...
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-11-28 15:11:18+00:00
Calling a HN comment “intellectual property” is like calling a table saw in your garage “capital”. There are specific regulatory contexts where it might be somewhat accurate, but it’s so different from the normal case that none of our normal intuitions about it apply.

For example, copyright makes it illegal to take an entire book and republish it with minor tweaks. But for something short like an HN comment this doesn’t apply; copyright always permits you to copy someone’s ideas, even when that requires using many of the same words.