MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iamevn | 2025-11-18 22:00:29+00:00
Pebble smart watches are tethered (to an android/ios device via bluetooth), do not talk to a cellular network, and have had an especially good battery life because of that and their low-power displays which are always on and visible with external light, only turning on the backlight when you are using it (e.g. hitting buttons or after giving the watch a little shake). afaik, every Pebble watch has had a significantly longer battery life than all of Apple's watches even though they're always displaying.

The newer Pebbles do have a better battery life, lasting multiple weeks maybe thanks of better battery tech.
by bilegeek | 2025-11-18 22:01:36+00:00
I wish things had gone differently too, but a couple of nitpicks:

1.) It's already a miracle Xerox PARC escaped their parent company's management for as long as they did.

3.) IBM was playing catch-up on the supercomputer front since the CDC 6400 in 1964. Arguably, they did finally catch up in the mid-late 80's with the 3090.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-18 22:01:55+00:00
Someone somewhere made this sheet of YCs s24 companies.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...

I found a few of the companies that YC invests in have two non technical founders looking for a “founding engineer” to build their product who they were going to pay $150K to and “equity”.

I guess there are people that gullible?
by jakub_g | 2025-11-18 22:02:18+00:00
> as reliable as you want

We self-host GitLab but the team owning it is having hard time scaling it. From my understanding talking to them, the design of gitaly makes it very hard to scale it beyond certain repo size and # of pushes per day (for reference: our repos are GBs in size, ~1M commits, hundreds of merges per day)
by pcthrowaway | 2025-11-18 22:02:35+00:00
His salary from Mastadon annual reports 2021-2023 were 28,800, then 36,000, then 60,000 euros annually (reports for 2024 and 2025 are not released yet), so unless he had side gigs or deals, I wouldn't expect he has a ton of savings at the moment. Glad he is getting a decent payout with his exit, though unfortunately a windfall like this in one year offers less take-home than if he was paid this over several years.

I really hope he's able to find success and better work-life balance in his future endeavours
by darkwater | 2025-11-18 22:02:44+00:00
Now I don't recall which issue I had, I think it was something related to CoreDNS config or passing through the /etc/hosts of the NixOS node, but I do remember having to touch the K3s YAML directly, and maybe having issues also persisting it. It's actually the only thing I fear would break if I had to reinstall NixOS from scratch...
by HDThoreaun | 2025-11-18 22:03:15+00:00
I wouldnt call them bozos, but they are largely ineffective. The goal of many NGOs is to raise money and sustain themselves, not maximizing impact. The ones that have their heart in the right place are commonly not effective at accomplishing their goals. This is plain to see and the entire reason the EA movement came to be. Homelessness NGOs in CA have largely made the entire situation worse by refusing to advocate for anything other than insanely expensive publicly paid for apartments. This is not an effective situation and actively harms the population they are trying to serve. This type of situation shows up over and over again in the NGO game
by swed420 | 2025-11-18 22:03:33+00:00
Exactly. The effects can include both "brain fog" as well as impaired judgement, since the brain areas affected have to do with executive function.

We can even see (measure) it in driving behavior patterns.

Another data point is how Hollywood has gone to great lengths to keep the whole thing hush hush, because such a downer is bad for business:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1ncmclw...
by nomel | 2025-11-18 22:03:39+00:00
I find this hard to understand. I have AI completely choke on my code constantly. What are you doing where it performs so well? Web?

I constantly see failures in trivial vectors projections, broken bash scripts that don't properly quote variables (fail if space in filenames), and near completely inability to do relatively basic image processing tasks (if they don't rely on template matches).

I accidentally spent $50 on Gemeni 2.5 Pro last week, with Roo, trying to make a simple Mock interface for some lab equipment. The result: it asks permission to delete everything it did and start over...
by ants_everywhere | 2025-11-18 22:03:53+00:00
Mastodon seems pretty unhealthy to me.

I logged in for the first time in months a few days ago and it was mostly angry memes, a surprising number of which were celebrating violence and murder. This is despite me aggressively muting people who post that sort of thing.

I hope they find a niche, but the cultural damage may already be done.
by nerdsniper | 2025-11-18 22:04:04+00:00
You explained yourself right. The issue is that you keep qualifying your statements.

> it suggests are extremely counterintuitive and it would be unrealistic to expect a human to find them...

> ... in tournament conditions.

I'm suggesting that I'd like to see the ones that humans have found - outside of tournament conditions. Perhaps the gulf between us arises from an unspoken reference to solutions "unrealistic to expect a human to find" without the window-of-time qualifier?
by recitedropper | 2025-11-18 22:04:05+00:00
Alright, I'm glad to hear you've had a successful and rich professional career. We definitely agree that engineers generally fail to document when they have competing priorities, and that LLMs can be of use to help offload some of that work successfully.

Your initial comment made it sound like you were commenting on a genuine apples-for-apples comparisons between humans and LLMs, in a controlled setting. That's the place for empiricism, and I think dismissing studies examining such situations is a mistake.

A good warning flag for why that is a mistake is the recent article that showed engineers estimated LLMs sped them up by like 24%, but when measured they were actually slower by 17%. One should always examine whether or not the specifics of the study really applies to them--there is no "end all be all" in empiricism--but when in doubt the scientific method is our primary tool for determining what is actually going on.

But we can just vibe it lol. Fwiw, the parent comment's claims line up more with my experience than yours. Leave an agent running for "hours" (as specified in the comment) coming up with architectural choices, ask it to document all of it, and then come back and see it is a massive mess. I have yet to have a colleague do that, without reaching out and saying "help I'm out of my depth".
by Two_hands | 2025-11-18 22:04:12+00:00
interesting, $10 per hour is pretty reasonable.

ha, thats probably why I noticed the EyesOff accuracy drops so much at longer ranges, I suppose two models would do better but atm battery drain is a big issue.

I'm not sure if it's important or not, but the app comes from my own problems working in public so I'm happy to continue working on it. I do want to train and deploy an optimised model, something much smaller.

Sounds great, once a POC get's built I'll let you know and can see about the clinical side.

Thanks for the tips! I'll be sure to post something and reach out if I get round to implementing such a model.
by MichaelBurjack | 2025-11-18 22:04:40+00:00
As someone who continues to mask in public shared-air settings for my own health, I am entirely unsurprised by that response and get it all the time.

Recently heard from a friend that also continues to mask when sharing air, they had arranged car pooling for one of their children. And just this morning the other parent texted saying "your child wearing a mask makes me uncomfortable so we can no longer car pool".

So … yeah. Entirely unsurprised by that attitude. "Every person for themselves but also not if it's something I personally dislike."
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-11-18 22:04:47+00:00
> One of the few things MAGA understands correctly is that AI is a job-killer

Trump (and by extension MAGA) has the worst job growth of any President in the past 50 years. I don't think that's their brand at all. They put a bunch of concessions to AI companies in the Big Beautiful Bill, and Trump is not running again. He would completely bail them out, and MAGA will believe whatever he says, and congress will follow whatever wind is blowing.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-11-18 22:04:57+00:00
> Sure, but that doesn't really help for user-facing services where people expect to either type a domain name in their browser or click on a search result, and end up on your website every time.

It does help. For example, at my company we have two public endpoints:

company-staging.com company.com

We roll out changes to company-staging.com first and have smoke tests which hit that endpoint. If the smoketests fail we stop the rollout to company.com.

Users hit company.com
by wlesieutre | 2025-11-18 22:05:43+00:00
You and me both. I have a Pebble Time 2 on order (said I'd buy one if they made it less ugly, and they did!) but what I really want is a Round.

The downside of the old one was the battery life, on the order of 2 days when the battery is new compared to a week with the larger models. But they've been talking about how the new bluetooth hardware is more efficient and should let them get the Pebble Time battery life up to 30 days this time. One imagines that efficiency would get a new PTR up to a week which is plenty. Frankly with monthly charging I'm a little worried I'll lose the charger between uses.

One thing I'm worried about is the thickness of the heart rate sensor, which could be even trickier with how small a Round should be. And that feels like table stakes for a wearable today, I'd buy one without it but I might be in the minority.
by keepamovin | 2025-11-18 22:05:55+00:00
I've had this idea since 2009: converting the integer factorization problem into a visual geometric constraint puzzle (based on Lattice/Gelosia multiplication). The idea is to see if we can spot symmetry-breaking patterns in the 'carry' bits, or constraints on the remainders/quotients over some radix based on divisibility implications of already selected units in the tableaux. In other words, the kind of domain-specific things that "domain-blind" SAT solvers miss.

It features:

- Arbitrary Radix support (Base-2 to Base-Infinity)

- Entropy Heatmaps to see constraints propagating

- Miller-Rabin prime generation

- It runs entirely in the browser.

Just somethng fun to play with to give you a feel for the puzzle. Definitely could improve a lot more!
by UniverseHacker | 2025-11-18 22:06:00+00:00
The "other side was doing X anyway, so we should do it to them" claim is always paired by first falsely accusing others of doing what they eventually intend to do. It's a deliberate strategy of manipulation that preemptively normalizes something that otherwise would look bad.

I don't know if there is a name for this tactic, but it appears to be fairly novel, and I suspect it was invented by Roy Cohn, who was a mentor to Donald Trump.

It's an incredibly effective manipulation strategy, and I am not sure how to counter it.
by chongli | 2025-11-18 22:06:09+00:00
Secondly, you're missing the point I'm making, which is why many people find EA distasteful: it completely focuses on outcomes and not internal character, and it arrives at these incomes by abstract formulae.

No, I did not miss that point at all. I think it is WRONG to focus on character. That leads us down the dark path of tribalism and character assassination and culture war.

If we're going to talk about a philosophy and an ethics of behaviour, we have to talk about ACTIONS. That's the only way we'll ever accomplish any good.
by sedatk | 2025-11-18 22:06:30+00:00
There are other examples. He single-handedly prevented quote tweets from being implemented in Mastodon because "they lead to toxicity", disregarding the benefits of quote tweets and the barrage of feedback supporting it.

Meanwhile, Bluesky implemented QTs in a perfect way: you can detach your post from quotes or prevent quoting entirely if you want, but the feature is there.
by tottenhm | 2025-11-18 22:06:39+00:00
Frequently use both `github.com` and self-hosted Gitlab. IMHO, it's just... different.

Self-hosted Gitlab periodically blocks access for auto-upgrades. Github.com upgrades are usually invisible.

Github.com is periodically hit with the broad/systemic cloud-outage. Self-hosted Gitlab is more decentralized infra, so you don't have the systemic outages.

With self-hosted Gitlab, you likely to have to deal with rude bots on your own. Github.com has an ops team that deals with the rude bots.

I'm sure the list goes on. (shrug)
by cweagans | 2025-11-18 22:06:52+00:00
I am neither an accountant nor a lawyer, but I have set up a 501c3 before.

I think you have a misunderstanding of how that works. In many cases, you need both the state and federal non-profit designation (i.e. a Michigan domestic non-profit corporation would not pay state income taxes on charitable income + that same corporation would need the 501c3 designation from the IRS to have the same benefit at the federal level).

Do you have positive confirmation that they are not filing as a 501c3?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-18 22:07:06+00:00
Honestly you are still off base. Having happy thoughts and “passion” don’t get you through the HR filters and how do you separate yourself from the literally hundreds of applications companies get as soon as they open a req?

I’m not bitter if it sounds like I am. I have a network, credentials and soft skills that open doors for me immediately when k was looking last year and the year before. But let’s not fill this guy either hopium and happy thoughts thinking “passion” will get him anywhere.
by bluGill | 2025-11-18 22:07:16+00:00
Retired people generally are a lot older and get income from things like Social Security. They also get medicare taking care of health insurance. Between those two you need a lot more money to retire before you turn 65 vs after.

Now I believe he is in Europe so different rules apply, but they have similar things there). I don't know the rules in his country (or even his country), some are more friendly than others, but still the money won't go as far when you retire before the system wants you to.
by ikr678 | 2025-11-18 22:07:36+00:00
I think it wasnt just reboot inconvenience, I feel like there was a period of time where some software updates would break or make your software experience worse.

I have vague memories as a teenager of running older versions of MSN messenger in compatability mode because after a certain version it was full of ads.

Android phone software is also very good at this now, I still hestate to update my pixel because each update somehow makes my phone worse to use.
by mrandish | 2025-11-18 22:08:06+00:00
The console business has matured in the last ten years. Due to platform lock-in and social spread (friends buy what other friends have), any significant lead now becomes iteratively compounding growth and the effect appears to be accelerating.

But the real reason why MSFT is no longer committed to the console hardware business is that hardware margins are much lower than software, subscriptions and cloud services. It brings down the corporation's blended gross margins. That's why they spent $100B buying game studios. Even giving Sony a cut, it still maths out better.

MSFT will continue to do console hardware but they're changing their strategy to still reach their margin and revenue goals with the #2 or #3 hardware platform. That means there's no reason for MSFT to go 'all-in' on the next-gen hardware (meaning they'll won't intentionally plan to incur tens of billions in losses in the first three years of a new generation and make it up in the last four years). But console hardware is still huge for Sony and existential for Nintendo - so they will go into deeper and longer hardware losses. XBox execs have already indicated that the form factor of their platform hardware is going to change for the next generation. Industry insiders interpret that mean they're giving up going head-to-head against Sony on the traditional console form factor.
by kazen44 | 2025-11-18 22:08:14+00:00
also, the availability of the routing and switching infrastructure of the internet must be atleast a factor higher then that of the world wide web.

Physical network equipment is redundant and reliant enough that getting 5 minutes of downtime or less per year is totally doable.

the web however... is a far different beast (and in my opinion, with an incentive which does not factor in reliability)
by pipes | 2025-11-18 22:08:17+00:00
Yes on your last point, I feel exactly the same way. If anyone told me I was driving too fast and they were uncomfortable I'd immediately be apologetic and slow down, and I'd genuinely feel bad about it.

As I get older I've realised that most people in my life react negatively if I express emotion that what they are doing is upsetting. It is only recently that I've realised my sample size is small and this kind of gas lighting behaviour is not ok. I've actually reached a point where I'm thankful that the internet popularised the phrase because it had helped me diagnose shitty behaviour that I've tolerated my whole life.
by rozab | 2025-11-18 22:08:32+00:00
The source of this claim, which you helpfully did not provide, is Rupert Lowe, a far-right UK politician and shite-merchant who is so toxic he got kicked out of Reform. He does not give any indication as to where his number came from.

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1987100209185181958

This reciprocal scheme only applies to certain countries: the EU/EAA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, etc.

I think when you are blaming things like headlight brightness on those bloody foreigners, it's time to do some self-reflection.
by alterom | 2025-11-18 22:08:43+00:00
> Even if you were 100% correct and the world is broken, fully causing ADHD as a disorder: Please fix the world FIRST and only once proven ADHD is caused by what once was the shape of western society and no longer applies, THEN you get to take the metaphorical wheelchair away. [...] You're just not presenting an attractive deal to anyone.

Thanks for writing this succinct counterpoint!

The argument of the commenter you're responding to reminds me of the "ADHD is a superpower!” vibe, which I perceive as toxic positivity, but couldn't rebuke quite as clearly [1].

"There's nothing wrong with you, it's literally the entire human society that's broken" has the same implication ("don't take meds, you're nOt bRoKeN”).

Of course it's the environment that causes our symptoms. Just like cold weather makes one feel cold.

It'd be rather silly to argue that winter clothes should be abandoned, that they exist only to make money for clothing manufacturers.

Some of us live in cold places. We need winter clothes. And we don't make the weather.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Superpower
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-18 22:08:47+00:00
Meh, the worst I see in this thread with show dead on is some tedious criticism, politics slop and one guy posting a racial slur. I can't imagine making decisions about the direction of my life over such mild nothings.

Then again, Mastadon is basically social media for people who can't handle normal social media, so I guess some elevated sensitivity goes with the territory.
by dang | 2025-11-18 22:08:48+00:00
Yes, we changed it in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

In this case, though, "Under the microscope: NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)" didn't seem right, so I used language from the opening paragraph instead. That's one valid place to look, when scouring a page for representative language suitable as a title.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by kaven1234 | 2025-11-18 22:09:21+00:00
Analyzing 285 million U.S. job ads, the study finds that after ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch, postings for occupations most vulnerable to AI substitution dropped 12 %—rising to 18 % by year three—with entry-level, administrative, and professional roles hit hardest, signaling early evidence of generative AI–driven job displacement
by Topfi | 2025-11-18 22:09:23+00:00
Tested it for roughly two hours now, far from ready for prime time, very buggy and clearly just quickly build on Windsurfs already rather issue laden code base. Essentially a less well thought out imitation of Trae's Solo mode, added in a second window on top of VSCode and not very well integrated, struggling with terminal commands and despite showing issues in the browser window and screenshot taken by the model, proclaiming the task to be completed. Tool calls also aren't as reliable as I would have expected considering their ownership of the code base, hard to tell whether that is underlying in the model (it was a major issue with 2.5 Pro) or simply Antigravity specific, hoping the latter.

Additionally, there are issues setting up accounts (Singapore VPN solved that for me), no support for Workspace users, only a free tier that requires data sharing, no additional rate limits for paying Pro or Ultra customers, etc. Even worse, Gemini CLI currently does NOT provide Gemini 3 Pro for Ultra Business customers despite paying over € 260,- per month, which is frankly ridiculous.

Will be honest, I was speculating that the reason for the multi month delay between the first A/B tests of Gemini 3 class models and the final release was so they'd have all their dugs in a row. Have some time to test everything, improve tooling, provide new paid subscriptions and/or ensure existing ones get access to everything day one, but they didn't.

Gemini 3 Pro seems very interesting (to early to say), but compared to every other recent launch by OpenAI (5, 5.1, Codex variants), Anthropic (Sonnet and Haiku 4.5), even Kimi (K2 Thinking) and Z.AI (GLM-4.6), this is by far the least organized launch of any frontier lab.

A buggy IDE which is unusable for paying customers, no CLI access for Ultra business (and none at all for Pro of any kind), etc. is frankly embarrassing when considering what competitors manage to provide the day a model launches.

What have they been working on these last two months besides going on X and posting "3" every couple of days? Why is there no paid Antigravity tier, no way to use Workspace accounts, etc? Before launching in this state, I feel it'd have been better to delay a bit more if it was absolutely needed.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the fourth or fifth IDE built by Google for LLM assisted coding? What happened to IDX and Firebase Studio and aren't they also based on VSCode?
by keybored | 2025-11-18 22:10:15+00:00
> I have so much passion for Mastodon and the fediverse. The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. And from my perspective, Mastodon is our best shot at bringing this vision of a better future to the masses. This is why I’m sticking around, albeit in a more advisory, and less public, role.

Wait ’til the masses hear about this one.