MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simonw | 2025-11-12 22:15:55+00:00
Completely agree on your first point: software development is so much more than writing code. LLMs are a threat to programmers for whom the job is 8 hours a day of writing code to detailed specifications provided by other people. I can't remember any point in my own career where I worked with people who got to do that.

There's a great example of that in the linked post itself:

> Let's build a property-based testing suite. It should create Java classes at random using the entire range of available Java features. These random classes should be checked to see whether they produce valid parse trees, satisfying a variety of invariants.

Knowing what that means is worth $150/hour even if you don't type a single line of code to implement it yourself!

And to be fair, the author makes that point themselves later on:

> Agentic AI means that anything you know to code can be coded very rapidly. Read that sentence carefully. If you know just what code needs to be created to solve an issue you want, the angels will grant you that code at the cost of a prompt or two. The trouble comes in that most people don't know what code needs to be created to solve their problem, for any but the most trivial problems.

On your second point: I wouldn't recommend betting against costs continuing to fall. The cost reduction trend has been reliable over the past three years.

In 2022 the best available models was GPT-3 text-davinci-003 at $60/million input tokens.

GPT-5 today is $1.25/million input tokens - 48x cheaper for a massively more capable model.

... and we already know it can be even cheaper. Kimi K2 came out two weeks ago benchmarking close to (possibly even above) GPT-5 and can be run at an even lower cost.

I'm willing to bet there are still significantly more optimizations to be discovered, and prices will continue to drop - at least on a per-token basis.

We're beginning to find more expensive ways to use the models though. Coding Agents like Claude Code and Codex CLI can churn through tokens.
by donsupreme | 2025-11-12 22:16:02+00:00
I hypothesize that the appetite-suppressing effect of GLP-1 agonists contributes to the normalization of dopamine signaling in the brain. By mitigating the exaggerated dopamine fluctuations seen in food and sugar addiction, GLP-1 may promote a return to dopamine homeostasis, thereby reducing compulsive or addiction-like reward-seeking behaviors.
by eptcyka | 2025-11-12 22:16:30+00:00
Some people really don't want to spend time exchanging parts when the memory they buy turns out to be incompatible or that the GPU doesn't fit the sleek mITX case. There's a lot of research to ensure all parts are compatible and optimal when building a PC - for some it's time that could be better spent on using the PC instead of building one.
by coded_monkey | 2025-11-12 22:16:31+00:00
You are mistaken. Merchants are allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents and you can’t do anything about it (except pay by card). Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.

http://www.nederlandsemunten.nl/Artikelen_over_munten/De_cen...
by leawi | 2025-11-12 22:16:45+00:00
For members in the EU, EEA, Switzerland, Canada, and Hong Kong: On November 3, 2025, we started to use some data from members in these regions to train content-generating AI models that enhance your experience and better connect our members to opportunities. This includes data like details from your profile, and public content you post on LinkedIn; it does not include your private messages. We rely on legitimate interest to process your data for this purpose. You can opt out anytime in your settings if you’d prefer not to have your data used in this way.
by JohnTHaller | 2025-11-12 22:17:22+00:00
For a quick background, Apple doesn't allow the typical quarantine bypass of Gatekeeper for ARM64 binaries. It must be digitally signed to run. And Intel based Macs are a dead end with macOS Tahoe being the last OS released for them. So, brew is disabling the --no-quarantine switch in their next major release or so.

From the post: "What alternatives to the feature have been considered?

None. Macs with Apple silicon are the platform that will be supported in the future, and Apple is making it harder to bypass Gatekeeper as is."
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-11-12 22:17:24+00:00
...nobody? I didn't determine any such thing. What I was saying was that LLMs are dangerous and we should treat them as such, even if that means not giving them some functionality that some people "want". This has nothing to do with playing god and everything to do with building a positive society where we look out for people who may be unable or unwilling to do so themselves.

And, to be clear, I'm not saying we necessarily need to outlaw or ban these technologies, in the same way I don't advocate for criminalization of drugs. But I think companies managing these technologies have an onus to take steps to properly educate people about how LLMs work, and I think they also have a responsibility not to deliberately train their models to be sycophantic in nature. Regulations should go on the manufacturers and distributors of the dangers, not on the people consuming them.
by arbll | 2025-11-12 22:17:31+00:00
It used to be 100% runtime-level and it was the golden age of browser exploits. Each of your tabs are now a separate process that the OS sandboxes. They can only access a specific API over IPC for anything that goes beyond js/rendering (cookie management, etc...). An exploit in V8 today only gives access to this API. A second exploit is needed in this API to escape the sandbox and do anything meaningful on the target system.
by p1necone | 2025-11-12 22:17:31+00:00
If this gets enough adoption for gamedevs to prioritize support when testing games that's likely not going to be a huge problem. 16gb ram + 8gb vram is also similar to what all the current gen consoles have, although all three have the advantage of it being unified between the CPU and GPU so they can use more than 8gb vram if needed (16gb, 16gb, 12gb total system ram for PS5, XSX, Switch 2 respectively)
by sunshine-o | 2025-11-12 22:17:51+00:00
> A lot of your points are valid, however... some are taking some liberties. Are you actually running into usecases where FreeBSD is easier or faster to install than current release Fedora Server?

It is just that the Fedora installer is more complex... and also will fail often at partitioning or during install. I've done it hundreds of time and it failed dozens on time.

I would still recommend Fedora to Linux users but the FreeBSD installer much more simple and straightforward.

> You're seriously proposing end users run Linux VMs with PCIe Passthrough to get modern networking cards to work?

It is an Alpine running on the hypervisor you won't even notice it. It consumes less than web browser tab...

Plus it has benefits from a security point of view.

I would rather FreeBSD devs focus on other things than porting all wifi drivers.
by rkomorn | 2025-11-12 22:17:57+00:00
> That's been debunked. Every consumer just auto-rounds in their head.

Has it?

I'm searching around and not coming up with much that says that's the case.

On the other hand, here are some recent-ish links that suggest it still works:

- https://www.rd.com/article/why-prices-end-in-99/

- https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/pricing-psychology-s...

This one suggests it depends on the consumer, with "highly numerate" consumers being less likely to think the price is lower (but presumably also less common in the customer pool):

- https://business.missouri.edu/about/news/99-ending-prices-ar...

Edit: searching for "charm pricing" specifically suggests it does work, but I suppose maybe there's some bias on the context in which people use that term.
Ask HN: Realistic prospects of getting back to management later
by throwaway123198 | 2025-11-12 22:18:11+00:00
I currently manage a ML team in a startup. Been doing it for about 2 years now. Due to a number of changes including required relocation, I can't and won't stay. Let's say I get an offer as a Principal MLE at a much larger/better company (think Salesforce, Workday etc.), with bigger scale opportunity.

If I make this transition, is it realistic or even possible to make it back into a management track role later?
Show HN: The Prompt Engineering Bible – Complete Guide to AI Communication
by Cranot | 2025-11-12 22:18:13+00:00
Hey HN,

I spent the last 6 months creating what I wish I had when I started with AI: a complete guide to prompt engineering that goes beyond "be specific."

It's a comprehensive 30-chapter guide covering everything from basic prompting techniques to advanced AI agents and RAG systems. Includes 600+ copy-paste prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

What makes it different: each technique includes real examples you can use immediately, plus code implementations for building actual AI applications.

Built this because I was frustrated with scattered resources and wanted everything in one place.

Free to check out here: [https://dimitriosmitsos.gumroad.com/l/prompt-engineering-bib...]

Would love feedback from the HN community - what's your go-to prompting technique that consistently works?
by bouke | 2025-11-12 22:18:49+00:00
See the docs[1] where it mentions that 10 is supported, but not available in the built-in Ubuntu feed. It however is/should become available in the backports feed.

To make matters even more interesting the GitHub / Azure DevOps CI agent image Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't provide .NET 9, whereas 22.04 does[2]. .NET 10 appears to become available in both though[3].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/core/install/linux-... [2]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/12697 [3]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/pull/13295
by marmarama | 2025-11-12 22:19:00+00:00
That's the story the proponents of the AI bubble would have you believe, because they are sucking in all available funding to their enrichment, or because they've been huffing their own hype gas for so long that they have no brain cells of their own left.

It is, however, complete nonsense, and the next few years of failed promises on AGI will eventually bring people to their senses, if a market crash and sustained economic depression doesn't do that first. It would be funny if it wasn't going to cause suffering for millions of people, whether we succeed at AGI or not.

I _like_ AI, I find LLMs and many other aspects of useful, and I am optimistic for the long term prospects of AI. But the rush to try and get to AGI is completely out of control at this point, and the fallout from when the bubble pops will set AI, and our societies, back a long time.
by DonaldPShimoda | 2025-11-12 22:19:39+00:00
At the very least, I think there is a need for oversight of how companies building LLMs market and train their models. It's not enough to cross our fingers that they'll add "safeguards" to try to detect certain phrases/topics and hope that that's enough to prevent misuse/danger — there's not sufficient financial incentive for them to do that of their own accord beyond the absolute bare minimum to give the appearance of caring, and that's simply not good enough.
by giobox | 2025-11-12 22:20:18+00:00
I'm not sure most of us do anymore - see my 1080p/24 inch example.

No one who has bought almost any MacBook in the last 10 years or so has had PPD this low either.

One can get by with almost anything in a pinch, it doesn't mean its desirable.

Pixel density != PPD either, although increasing it can certainly help PPD. Lower density desktop displays routinely have higher PPD than most VR headsets - viewing distance matters!
by DiabloD3 | 2025-11-12 22:20:34+00:00
Because AI is pushing Ethernet standards exclusively for universal RDMA use.

The minimum to get into this party is already have 400gbE (QSFP 112) or 800 (QSFP-DD 112 and QSFP 224) and already working on 800 (QSFP-DD 112) or 1600 (QSFP-DD 224).

Broadcom doesn't belong to any of the AI-era SIGs, so they're trying to drag their networking fabric stuff up to speed to match, but they do belong to Ethernet Alliance and technically the IBTA (but the IBTA is no longer relevant since Nvidia bought Mellanox).

The SIG they need to belong to is the UALink Consortium, which is moving past simply RoCE/iWARP-style RDMA over Ethernet to CPU bus over Ethernet. In other words, Ultra Ethernet is trying to do multi-vendor super-computer stuff like how AMD did Hypertransport over Mellanox circa 2001-2015 (and this is why Nvidia bought Mellanox btw, they wanted to deprive AMD of an advantage that they no longer needed... they had already moved to external PCI-E fabric to replace Mellanox, and thus the brand switch to Infinity Fabric).

UALink is a socket-to-socket protocol that is PHY independent, and can use CXL (common with Intel-focused supercomputing), PCI-E (PCI over PCI-E, ie, normal non-CCNUMA hardware being babysat by the local CPU), InfinityFabric/XGMI (AMD CPU, AMD GPU), and others, while having native support for RDMA over Ultra Ethernet (200gbE and up) to glue clusters together across NUMA/UALink domains.

The UALink Consortium was founded by Alibaba, AMD, Apple, Astera Labs, AWS, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Meta, Microsoft and Synopsys... notice the lack of Broadcom in that list. Nvidia is also not a member of this, as they desperately want a moat to keep the rest of the industry out.
by AshleyGrant | 2025-11-12 22:20:44+00:00
Why is that? Do you speak from real-world experience?

Not trying to push back. We're planning to use it for some new projects we have coming up on our team of .NET devs who can't seem to grok Angular or React and the entire ecosystem of tooling required, so I'm looking for reasons we shouldn't use it aside from Blazor being rather unpopular compared to Angular/React/other JS libs
by girvo | 2025-11-12 22:21:07+00:00
> Despite the fact it uses a Qualcomm chip, I'm curious on whether it retains the ability to load alternative OS's like other Steam hardware.

I think it should: we have Linux support/custom operating systems on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 devices right now today, and the 8 Gen 3 has upstream support already AFAIK

https://rocknix.org/devices/ayn/odin2/
by tacker2000 | 2025-11-12 22:21:09+00:00
Homebrew is not really pro in any way: they force updates, deprecate old software that is still widely in use, the maintainers are always very combative and dont allow any discussions or other opinions.

In the end it's a package manager for consumers that hand holds you and is not really useful in a pro context.

I've been meaning to jump to macports anyway, maybe ill do it now...
by hadlock | 2025-11-12 22:21:14+00:00
Apparently Valve was able to use a true cell phone chip and get more raw performance out of it by using lower res monochrome cameras, whereas qualcomm's AR-capable chips use up a lot of the wafer for processing color AR video and DSP. Given it's built to a budget, and I don't ever use AR, monochrome AR seems like an acceptable tradeoff.
by JohnTHaller | 2025-11-12 22:21:23+00:00
Yeah, I noticed the same on my Macbook. I mainly use it for theater stuff (Qlab) and remoting into my main Windows desktop environment. I just stopped doing some of the workflows on Mac and do them on Windows because I didn't feel like trying to figure out why macOS wouldn't let GIMP open an image I downloaded from the internet. So dumb.
by krackers | 2025-11-12 22:22:03+00:00
Whatever idea yann has of JEPA and its supposed superiority compared to LLMs, he doesn't seem to have done a good job of "selling it" without resorting to strawmanning LLMs. From what little I gathered (which may be wrong), his objection to LLMs is something like the "predict next token" inductive bias is too weak for models to be able to meaningfully learn models of things like physics, sufficient to properly predict motion and do well on physical reasoning tasks.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-12 22:22:31+00:00
"Locking this thread. Not interested in arguing the merits of this. It's already been communicated to third parties."

Well!

Note: I think one problem of homebrew is called ... Apple. That is, they depend on whatever Apple decides.

Granted, this is similar to Microsoft; and to some extent to Linux, though people can make more modifications on Linux normally.

I am a Linux users so this does not affect me, and I also wrote my own "package" manager (basically just some ruby scripts to compile things from source), but at the same time I also think that at the end of the day, the user should decide what he or she wants. This is also why my scripts support systemd - I don't use/need systemd myself, but my tools should be agnostic, so I don't project my own opinion onto them.

There is of course a limitation, which is available time - often I just lack time to support xyz. But I keep that spirit alive - software should serve the human, not the other way around. (I have no substantial opinion on the feature itself here, that is to me it seems ok to remove it; the larger question is who dictates something onto users and what workarounds exist. Do workarounds exist? From reading the issue tracker, it seems the homebrew maintainers say that there are no workarounds, and thus it should be removed. If that is true then they have a point, but people also downvoted that, so perhaps there are workarounds - in which case these should be supported. I really don't know myself - to me apple is more like a glorified Windows, so basically the same. All software should be liberated eventually.)
by sheepscreek | 2025-11-12 22:22:52+00:00
Wow. My mind is truly blown.

For anyone else wondering, I learned that in order to naturally create bacteria that aren’t going to be labelled GMO, you can blast regular bacteria with UV, then look for the ones with the same mutations as the engineered ones (with desirable traits), and now you can legally use the “natural” bacteria in Non-GMO labelled products.

Putting my personal views (from a consumption pov) on this topic aside, that is some clever “engineering”.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-12 22:22:55+00:00
Sure:

Please maintain a strictly objective and analytical tone. Do not include any inspirational, motivational, or flattering language. Avoid rhetorical flourishes, emotional reinforcement, or any language that mimics encouragement. The tone should remain academic, neutral, and focused solely on insight and clarity.

Works like a charm for me.

Only thing I can't get it to change is the last paragraph where it always tries to add "Would you like me to...?" I'm assuming that's hard-coded by OpenAI.
by leobuskin | 2025-11-12 22:23:18+00:00
But here's the thing: most of your real audience doesn't have API keys (except a few enterprise-ish folks or startups who got credits). They already pay subscription(s) (and will continue to pay the maximum, which will keep growing). The entire token resale model creates a weird economy and interdependency that shouldn't exist in the first place. In the end, all the deals with top-tier labs will be changing, most middlemen will start manipulating the token exchange rate at some point, and there's no transparency or single source of trust. What's the Endspiel here?
by anticorporate | 2025-11-12 22:23:30+00:00
I work in admin for a retailer. We got a nastigram from USDA last week reminding us that we were in no circumstances to help SNAP recipients in any way. The current administration very much does not care what the intent of the law is, and is actively looking for trivial violations as an excuse to punish SNAP recipients and SNAP retailers. It would not surprise me at all to see a retailer banned from the program for how they round pennies.
by jrockway | 2025-11-12 22:23:35+00:00
That's fair. I understand why OpenAI wouldn't want to give anyone transcripts (as a user, I frankly wouldn't even want OpenAI to keep my transcripts), and I understand why the NYT doesn't want to give OpenAI all their articles.

Maybe the NYT needs to bloom-filter-ify their articles in 10 word chunks (or something, I don't know enough about linguistics to tell you what's unique enough for copyright infringement or to prove "copying"), have OpenAI search transcripts, and turn over the matches. That limits the scope of the search dramatically, but is still invasive.
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-11-12 22:23:54+00:00
We would begin by having a Prolog server of some kind (I have no idea if Prolog is parallelized but it should very well be if we're dealing with Horn Clauses).

There would be MCP bindings to said server, which would be accessible upon request. The LLM would provide a message, it could even formulate Prolog statements per a structured prompt, and then await the result, and then continue.
by tqi | 2025-11-12 22:24:00+00:00
> "There's automobiles that have gone from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles," says Drew Maloney, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents power companies around the country. "You're also seeing stoves being replaced from gas to electric. And the AI data center growth."

In other words, any usage of electricity is "partly to blame." But of course, "AI" gets clicks, and journalism is fundamentally the practice finding a boogeyman to pin the misfortune of the day on.
by to11mtm | 2025-11-12 22:24:04+00:00
> Moq has the appearance of free software but bundled some spyware stuff (seemingly "benign" "Sponsorlink" for getting donations).

Well they pulled back but the trust was broken in a lot of cases. I am still fine with it 'for now' but IDK NSubstitute always feels weird to me, maybe that's just how I was taught to use it tho.

> Masstransit went commercial recently

I mean good for them but thankfully it's also giving attention to other projects that are FOSS or Open Core...

As far as the other stuff, I've never seen AutoMapper used in a way that couldn't literally be handled with a static/extension method in 'real' code. Yes it can be useful but it is often grossly overused.

MediatR is cool but TBH I'd rather just reach for Akka.NET or MessagePipe instead; If you're abstracting out to keep processing backend 'swappable' you should be able to handle any of the above for the choice you make anyway.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-12 22:24:19+00:00
> Does this mean people won't be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source (and run it)? Does it mean that they'll be able to use Homebrew to compile software from source, but not download prebuilt binaries (and run them)?

No, and no. This only affects Casks, which are prebuilt .app bundles that Homebrew has no part in building (either locally or remotely). Formulae (source builds) and bottles (builds of formulae within Homebrew) are not directly affected by any of this.
by joering2 | 2025-11-12 22:25:02+00:00
I haven't mentioned anything about hallucinations. ChatGPT was solid on writing underlying logic, but to find caselaw I used Vincent AI (offers 2 weeks free, then $350 per month - still cheaper than cheapest appellant lawyer and I was managed to fit my response in 10 days).

That's fine, so Google sidestep it and ChatGPT did not. What point are you trying to make?

Sure I skip AI entirely, when can we meet so you hand me $35,000 check for attorney fees.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-11-12 22:25:11+00:00
I mean, theoretically they could backport the D3DMetal wine driver from the Game Porting Toolkit. Also I remember there was some early preliminary work done on stock wine a few years ago.

Honestly right now there is so much overlapping between all the wine "flavors" and forks available (Stock wine, Crossover, Proton/Proton-GE/Wine-GE, Game Porting Toolkit, winevdm, probably a few more I'm forgetting right now) I'm not entirely sure how many features have been independently implemented already multiple times.