MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghurtado | 2025-11-27 18:19:04+00:00
> I get a lot from seeing the person talk vs reading a summary

And some people simply have the opposite preference. There's lots of situations where sound is simply not an option. Some people are hearing impaired. Some people are visually impaired, and will definitely not get much from watching the person speak. Some ESL people have a hard time with spoken English. Even some native English speakers have a hard time with certain accents. Some people only have 5 minutes to spare instead of 50.

All of those problems are solved by the written word, which is why it hasn't gone away yet, even though we have amazing video capabilities.

You can have a preference without randomly label everything you don't like as AI slop.
by renewiltord | 2025-11-27 18:19:26+00:00
In general, I agree. You don’t want silent failures. They’re awful and hard to reason about.

> By doing this, you're opening up for the possibility of showing a UI where the name is "". Is that really a valid state for the UI?

But as a user, if I get a white screen of death instead of your program saying “Hi, , you have 3 videos on your watchlist” I am going to flip out.

Programmers know this so they do that so that something irrelevant like my name doesn’t prevent me from actually streaming my movies.
by skybrian | 2025-11-27 18:19:39+00:00
The conflict resolution guide seems quite clear:

https://github.com/Dancode-188/synckit/blob/main/docs/guides...

But I’m a little confused about why it says “Zero data loss with automatic conflict resolution” on the top level page and “data loss possible” under the disadvantages of last-write-wins conflict resolution. It makes sense that you have to start somewhere, but to my mind, last-write-wins isn’t really conflict resolution? What does using this library solve?

I guess it means edits to different fields don’t conflict. But if it’s the same field, it will get clobbered.
by superjose | 2025-11-27 18:19:47+00:00
I can see this.

I learned from a friend to use Zod to check for process.env. I refined it a bit and got:

```

const EnvSchema = z.object({

NODE_ENV: z.enum(['development', 'production', 'staging']), DATABASE_URL: z.string(), POSTHOG_KEY: z.string(),

});

export type AlertDownEnv = z.infer<typeof EnvSchema>;

export function getEnvironments(env: Record<string, string>): AlertDownEnv { return EnvSchema.parse(env); }

```

Then you can:

```

const env = getEnvironments(process.env);

```

`env` will be fully typed!

Definitely, I need to do some improvements in my frontend logic!
by shevy-java | 2025-11-27 18:20:00+00:00
Well - voice is ultimately coupled to a person. LLMs thus fake and pretend being a person. There are, however had, use cases for LLMs too. I saw it used for the creation of video games; also content generated by hobbyists. So, while I think AI should actually die, for hobbyists generating mods for old games, AI voice overs may not be that bad. Just as AI generating images for free to play browser games may not be solely bad either.

Of course there are also horrible use of AI, liars, scummy cheaters and fake videos on youtube, owned by a greedy mega-corporation that sold its soul to AI. So the bad use cases may be higher than the good use cases, but there are good use cases, and the "losing our voice to LLMs" isn't a whole view of it, sorry.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-11-27 18:20:46+00:00
For example, I deleted my account a month or so ago after discovering that the CEO of a popular cloud database company that I admired was following an account who posted almost exclusively things along the lines of "blacks are all subhuman and should be killed."

It seems like you're better off knowing that. Without Twitter, you wouldn't, right?

A venue that allows people to tell you who they really are isn't an unalloyed Bad Thing.
by krapp | 2025-11-27 18:21:40+00:00
Most people on HN who advocate regulating social media don't only want to prevent those platforms from showing targeted inflammatory content, they want to make all algorithmic feeds other than strictly chronological illegal, as well as moderation of any legal content.

From that point of view, Hacker News is little different than Facebook. One could even argue that HN's karma system is a dark pattern designed to breed addiction and influence conversation in much the same way as other social media platforms, albeit not to the same degree.
by kingstnap | 2025-11-27 18:22:02+00:00
The hardest possible demand to meet is random, reasonal, and spikey demand spread diffusely over a large area. Which is more or less homes.

Conversely the easiest possible demand to meet is localized constant and high demand. Basically AI datacenters or industrial users. These guys are basically paying for the grid and residential have it as a subsidy.

The supermajority of the price of electricity is fixed costs related to installing and maintaining capacity. The marginal problem of increasing generation or utilization is cheap. I believe it's like under 20% even for gas power where you have to buy gas. For grid solar it would be even crazier because marginally its basically free they really don't care how much you use it even goes negative but the fixed costs are everything.

So what causes a lot of social problems is when wealthy people get their own private solar because the whole current pricing structure revolves around wealthy people using a lot of electricity and paying down the connection costs for poor people. If they have solar the poor people are fronting the maintainence cost which destabilizes everything.
by synergy20 | 2025-11-27 18:22:20+00:00
I must be missing something, we had kernel source browsing online for years, e.g. https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.17.9/source/fs, this is another one, what extra features it provides. in fact the bootlin one provides some search functions but I did not spot that here. I was expecting some LLM explanation for the code, or dependency graphs etc in the AI era for a new kernel navigator...
by shevy-java | 2025-11-27 18:22:21+00:00
I eliminated twitter when a certain rich guy took over.

Actually, I deleted my account there before, as twitter sent me spam mail trying to lecture me what I write. There was nothing wrong with what I wrote - twitter was wrong. I can not accept AI-generated spam by twitter, so I went away. Don't really miss it either, but Elon really worsened the platform significantly with his antics.

> Just because I said to someone 'Brexit was dumb', I don't expect to get fed 1000 accounts talking about it 24/7. It's tedious and unproductive.

Yeah, I can relate to this, but mostly what annoyed me was that twitter interfered "we got a complaint about you - they are right, you are a troublemaker". I don't understand why twitter wants to interfere into communication. Reddit is even worse, since moderators have such a wild range of what is "acceptable" and what is not. Double-standards everywhere on reddit.
by xxdd2ea | 2025-11-27 18:22:50+00:00
Thanks! I suggest to have a look at a 'live' debugger session video here: https://github.com/dmkskd/linux-kernel-debugging-on-mac?tab=... given your interest

if you have an ARM64 mac (sorry for only supporting this OS at the moment) it should be easy to set this up on your end
by Atheros | 2025-11-27 18:22:59+00:00
Bad audio and bad foley doesn't get mentioned enough. I think it's why people are watching things with subtitles: the actors are on a blue stage that is completely silent having a quiet conversation and then the war happening around them gets added later. In noisy environments people slow down and enunciate and directors aren't helping actors know what to do.

Ideas on how to fix it:

• actors should wear tiny headphones behind their ears (or wherever is not visible) to make noise that approximates the environment they will be shown in. They'll have to act over it.

• Foley artists should not be given video of the final scene to foley. They should be given only one single continuous very wide shot. This will solve the problem where foley artists keep doing ludicrous things like adding the sound of a pin dropping and hitting the ground (since it's shown on screen) in the context of a space ship that is in the process of exploding.
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 18:23:02+00:00
This is a silly reason to hold back if that was their plan. You can buy, for $20 and up, little USB-sticks that allow wired-CarPlay cars to do wireless CarPlay. Apple could manufacture 100 million of those, at a cost of $5 for the boards and maybe $8 in glass and aluminum, and sell them at a huge profit for $79.99 and advertise them as a revolutionary breakthrough they invented.

Wired CarPlay is not holding Apple back. I think they just figure it’d be harder for them to repair partially-bricked iPhones if they had no port to do DFU or whatever. That or they actually have done the market research and customers said they’d hold off on buying a portless iPhone because it’s a stupid idea.
by trinsic2 | 2025-11-27 18:23:14+00:00
Thanks for this. I didn't realize until you said it why this issue might not be observable to a certain group of people. I think this is a cognitive awareness issue. You cant really see it until you have an awareness of it through experience. I came from a drug abuse background and my wife was never involved in the level of addiction I was involved in and she has a hard time seeing how algorithms like this effect behavior
Show HN: EasyDictate – Offline Voice Dictation for Windows
by chux52 | 2025-11-27 18:23:19+00:00
Free Windows app for voice-to-text. Hold a hotkey, speak, release – text is copied to clipboard. Runs OpenAI's Whisper model 100% locally. No cloud, no API keys, no subscription. Your audio never leaves your machine.

Uses Whisper Base for speed (~1-2 sec on CPU). Accuracy is good for everyday dictation.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-11-27 18:23:29+00:00
i used the UTM app from the App Store, and when creating a new instance, i select the Linux icon, which exposes the selection to enable Apple Silicon hypervisor rather than Qemu. it works perfectly. and it's fast. just great. I had used Asahi before, dual booting, which was a pain in the neck. this meanwhile is perfect.
by tptacek | 2025-11-27 18:23:48+00:00
If you care about voice, you still can get a lot of value from LLMs. You just have to be careful not to use a single word they generate.

I've had a lot of luck using GPT5 to interrogate my own writing. A prompt I use (there are certainly better ones): "I'm an editor considering a submitted piece for a publication {describe audience here}. Is this piece worth the effort I'll need to put in, and how far will I need to cut it back?". Then I'll go paragraph by paragraph asking whether it has a clear topic, flows, and then I'll say "I'm not sure this graf earns its keep" or something like that.

GPT5 and Claude will always respond to these kinds of prompts with suggested alternative language. I'm convinced the trick to this is never to use those words, even if they sound like an improvement over my own. At the first point where that happens, I get dial my LLM-wariness up to 11 and take a break. Usually the answer is to restructure paragraphs, not to apply the spot improvement (even in my own words) the LLM is suggesting.

LLMs are quite good at (1) noticing multi-paragraph arcs that go nowhere (2) spotting repetitive word choices (3) keeping things active voice and keeping subject/action clear (4) catching non-sequiturs (a constant problem for me; I have a really bad habit of assuming the reader is already in my head or has been chatting with me on a Slack channel for months).

Another thing I've come to trust LLMs with: writing two versions of a graf and having it select the one that fits the piece better. Both grafs are me. I get that LLMs will have a bias towards some language patterns and I stay alert to that, but there's still not that much opportunity for an LLM to throw me into "LLM-voice".
by shevy-java | 2025-11-27 18:24:39+00:00
It seems really so small compared to reddit.

I think I never downvoted anyone on hackernews yet - it just does not seem important.

On reddit on the other hand, I just had to downvote wrong opinions. This works to some extent, until moderators interfere and ban you. That part made me stop use reddit actually, in particular since someone made a complaint and I got banned for some days. I objected and the moderators of course did not respond. I can not allow random moderators to just chime in arbitrarily and flag "this comment you made is a threat", when it clearly was not. But you can not really argue with reddit moderators.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-27 18:26:56+00:00
>If any game had anything like a scoreboard, or a reward for input, he'd say "it's crack points!"

I don't think it's exactly wrong, you just have to look at it on a spectrum of minimal addictiveness to meth level addiction. For example in quarter fed games getting a high score displayed to others was quite the addictive behavior.
by denisstp | 2025-11-27 18:28:32+00:00
Not OP but I have extensive experience with it. I used it often in college (10+ years ago), both with and without theanine and other similar substances in my stack. The effects were noticeable and much less jittery than from nicotine.

Positive: My working memory felt faster and less error-prone. I've always been good at mental math. Speed is my strength but I make lots of mistakes and things sometimes seem to "pop" out of my WM against my will. This seemed to (qualitatively) happen less often. I remember that I had some quantitative metrics on two-digit by two-digit multiplication that showed positive results, but the data is long lost to time.

Negative: Mild to strong nausea and light-headedness. It often felt like I had vaped too much. This was never bad enough to negate the positive effects.

Overall I think it's a useful performance enhancer for time-sensitive intellectual work, but I'm afraid it may be too strong for daily use. You will see rapid desensitization if using more than sporadically.
by tome | 2025-11-27 18:28:50+00:00
> It’s an extremely facile work and reads exactly like a high school essay: “In having his character consider execution to protect his and his family’s reputation, Doyle explored the societal expectations of Victorian masculinity and how men struggled with such pressures.”

Not to mention that that the character in this particular story is not actually struggling with debt, he simply discovers, somewhat incredibly, whilst researching for a newspaper story, that he can earn far more money begging than in his job as a reporter. There simply is no pressure, he just lacks integrity.
by mettamage | 2025-11-27 18:28:58+00:00
Wasn't Thanksgiving a practice before people came to the US? The US now does it, but they didn't start it. I only know it because I'm Dutch and I wanted to see if the Dutchies were somehow involved (because they are way more often than they should be). Here's a source I quickly found but there are many sources on it [1].

There's more to Thanksgiving than only the US.

[1] https://www.iamexpat.nl/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/how-netherl...
by 6thbit | 2025-11-27 18:29:14+00:00
It's a little odd for a capitalist society that values outputs so highly to also value process as much.

We've proved we can sort of value it, through supporting sustainability/environmental practices, or at least _pretending to_.

I just wonder, what will be the "Carbon credits" of the AI era. In my mind a dystopian scheme of AI-driven companies buying "Human credits" from companies that pay humans to do things.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-27 18:29:23+00:00
I think most places the service is priced under the assumption that usage is enough to pay for the grid…

I’ve only ever rented though. Are connection fees something that homeworkers think about?

Possibly we will have to see changes to account for this sort of stuff at a more granular level, as the grid becomes more dynamic. But, that’s a future we should be actively looking to design for, as the energy supply mix is going to change whatever anybody thinks about that. Can’t beat energy falling from the sky, on price…
by saltcured | 2025-11-27 18:29:29+00:00
I missed that earlier post to ask a question that always bugs me... do SSDs, when powered on, actually "patrol" their storage and rewrite cells that are fading even when quiescent from the host perspective?

Or does the data decay there as well, just as a function of time since cells were written?

In other words, is this whole focus on "powered off" just a proxy for "written once" versus "live data with presumed turnover"? Or do the cells really age more rapidly without power?
by moooo99 | 2025-11-27 18:29:46+00:00
I generally agree with the sentiment, but I can't help but feel like we're attributing to much of this change to LLMs. While they're certainly driving this change even further, this is a trend that has already started way before LLMs became as widespread as they are today.

What personally disturbs me the most is the self censorship that was initially brought forward by TikTok and quickly spread to other platforms - all in the name of being as advertiser friendly as possible.

LinkedIn was the first platform where I really observed people losing their unique voice in favor of corporate friendly - please hire me - speak. Now this seems to be basically any platform. The only platform that seems to be somewhat protected from it is Reddit, where many mods seem to dislike LLMs as much as everybody else. But more likely, its just less noticeable
by th3tekllc | 2025-11-27 18:29:47+00:00
Gene Kim was right in "Vibe Coding" the implementation bottleneck is gone. What he didn't say out loud? The organizational bottleneck is next.

Just published: "The Death of the Traditional Product Owner" In it, I argue that 90% of Fortune 500 Product Owner roles as practiced today will cease to exist within 24 months.

Not because AI is cruel. Because they were always a workaround for a broken system.

The best POs? They're about to become the most valuable engineers on the planet. The rest? They're about to discover what Ops teams learned in 2015.

After 20 years of transforming engineering organizations (Pearson, Aetna, AWS ProServe, Comcast), I've seen this pattern before: 2014: "Containers will never replace Ops" 2016: "Serverless is just a fad" 2025: "Product Owners are essential"

We know how those movies ended.

OutcomeOps makes it safe, auditable, and compliant for engineers to own outcomes directly - even in regulated environments.

No more telephone games. No more 12-18 handoffs per feature. No more requirement translators.

Just engineers shipping business value.

P.S. If you're a Product Owner feeling uncomfortable right now - good. That feeling is your starting line.
by papercrane | 2025-11-27 18:30:02+00:00
When Doyle wrote most of the Holmes stories cocaine was a popular and novel new drug, it wasn't until later that it's risks became widely known. In one of his later stories, "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter", Doyle portrays it as an addiction that Watson weaned him of, but is still concerned that his friend may fall back into.

"For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug-mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus, but I was well aware that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holmes’ ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes. Therefore I blessed this Mr. Overton, whoever he might be, since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life."

- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Sherlock_Holmes...
by unkulunkulu | 2025-11-27 18:31:15+00:00
Hey, community! Thank you for this opportunity to connect and feel closeness to the best parts and people in our industry.

Thank you for your open mindedness, smarts, stupid fun and lovable nerdiness.

I feel at home here.

One thing that makes me sad are dystopian fears. Not sure if this is warranted or not, but certainly get my dose of dread from HN. But thank you for being so sensitive and caring in this.

Happy thanksgiving.
by pixl97 | 2025-11-27 18:31:25+00:00
Algorithm driven social media is a kind of pollution. As the density of the pollution on those sites increases it spills out and causes the neighbors problems. Think of 4chan style raids. It wasn't enough for them to snipe each other on their site, so they spread the joy elsewhere.

And that's just one type of issue. You have numerous kinds of paid actors that want to sell something or cause trouble or just general propaganda.
by cj10driver | 2025-11-27 18:31:32+00:00
Three techniques I’ve used to handle floating point imprecision/error:

1. Use storage that handles the level of scale and precision you need.

2. Use long/integer (if it fits). This is how some systems store money, e.g. as micros, but even though it’s sensical, there is still a limit and a wild swing of inflation may lead you to migrate to different units, then another wild swing of deflation may have you up-in-arms with data loss. Also it sounds great but could be a pita for storing arbitrary scale and precision.

3. Use ranges when doing comparison to attempt to handle floating point error by fuzzy matching numbers. This isn’t applicable for everything, but I’ve used this before; it worked fine and was much faster than BigDecimal, which mattered at the time. Long integers are really the best for this sort of thing, though; they’re much faster to work with.

4. BigDecimal. The problem with this is memory and speed. Also, as far as we know yet, you couldn’t store pi fully in a BigDecimal, and doing calculations with pi as a BigDecimal would be so slow things would come to a halt; it’s probably the way aliens do encryption.
by xp84 | 2025-11-27 18:31:38+00:00
So, your position is that some users whined about that… so what? Apple knew those users were, quite frankly, wrong, the 30-pin was fragile and one-way. And the cables themselves were never expensive, and used scarcely more resources than many disposable items we throw out every day.

Apple never apologized for the changeover, the iPhone 5 sold like hotcakes, everyone quickly loved having a reversible and small cable that was less fragile than 30pin, and everyone lived happily ever after. The whiny boomers annoyed that they had to finally replace a dock they bought in 2004 for an iPod made zero difference to anything. People whining online are not a problem at all unless they stop buying — and nobody stopped buying. After all, switching to Android would have necessitated buying a new cable anyway, at any point prior to 2023!
by ryandv | 2025-11-27 18:31:51+00:00
> commoditizing bland, HR-approved opinions. If you want to sound like a human on the internet, for better or for worse the easiest way is to say something that would make Anthropic’s safety team have a heart attack.

I agree.

LLMs are like blackface for dumbfucks: LLMs let the profoundly retarded put on the makeup and airs of the literati so they can parade around self-identifying as if they have a clue.

If you don't like the barbs in this kind of writing prepare for more anodyne corporate slop. Every downvote signals to the algorithm that you prefer mediocrity.