MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-11-17 12:30:03+00:00
idk if that argument really makes sense. A lot of AI chatbot companies have terrible or broken webapps and backend servers because it's not what they really care about. They put billions into their AI models, not their search features. I think the shittiness of their search features is symptomatic of the company's incentives, not necessarily the difficulty of the problem.
by Simulacra | 2025-11-17 12:30:11+00:00
So the real problem is fly tipping, I was trying to understand where is all this waste coming from. That's an enormous amount of trash to just be floating there. I've never considered myself that much of an environmentalist, but this is ridiculous and the solution may be significant fines and jail time.

And before there's any talk of unfair waste disposable taxes or costs, it cost money to run a landfill. Maybe it's expensive to the most person, but simply dumping on the side of the road is not an excuse nor solution.

This is no different than the massive piles of clothing in the desert of Chile, the rivers of Southeast Asia that have more trash than water, or any other place. We can burn it, bury it, recycle it, but if we don't do something it's going to eventually overwhelm and sicken everyone.
by civam | 2025-11-17 12:33:36+00:00
One of the recent project that I shipped.Try to login and see features like social graph. Right now notification system is slow. Locally am re-building the notification system using redis and workers thread and have brought down latency to p95~550ms

I am skilled in Javascript,typescript and can learn anything given some time. if there is a place at your company for me to join please comment
by lazide | 2025-11-17 12:35:31+00:00
It’s an enforcement and public cleanup issue everywhere, but some are worse than others.

Anytime the cost is > $0 (and it always is! Even if the actual cost at the dump is $0, transport takes time and money), there is an incentive to be lazy and just dump stuff wherever. It’s not uncommon in rural areas that someone even has a dump ‘hole’ on their property in many places, due to the time and cost of making a trip to the actual dump.

Fines often help (digging through trash to find out whose stuff it is has real benefits if you can turn around and fine someone for it!), as does social pressure. It never completely stops happening though, which is why public cleanups also are important sometimes (see broken window theory, which isn’t completely wrong!).
by CalRobert | 2025-11-17 12:36:33+00:00
It’s not a foregone conclusion though, in addition to higher and blunter hoods there’s just more cars (over ten million now), and the EU may recognise US safety standards in trade negotiations. Not that the latter matters when you can import violating vehicles (like Dodge Rams) under individual vehicle approval.

The Netherlands is in danger of resting on its laurels and getting complacent. Some places (Hilversum comes to mind) are still quite mediocre.
by cpursley | 2025-11-17 12:37:00+00:00
France, Netherlands, Denmark, former commie block come to mind. It was one of the things that really stuck out to me: how mature/well behaved and independent/confident the children were there (for the most part). There's even books on the topic (Raising Bebe, The Danish Secret to Happy Kids) which I was not aware of until after spending a lot of time in those places. At lot of it has to due with the built environment - kids can literally walk out the front door to parks and stuff unlike in suburban places, but also culture.
by netsharc | 2025-11-17 12:39:49+00:00
Man, the missing quote marks around the word "revolting" made me think Sky was being disgustingly editorial with their titles.

Reminds me of Deus Ex, where the newsreader reports the news with a slant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpK9DusUy_I .. Although of course way too many TV "news"-readers in real life do it too.

For the unaware, the accepted standard is that using quote marks in titles make it fine, because it means the news article is quoting someone's words.
by somenameforme | 2025-11-17 12:40:07+00:00
Bog iron most certainly isn't low quality. There's some variability, but it's generally rather pure with relatively low rates of undesirable impurities, trivial to reduce, and it's a renewable resource. The main issue is in immediate quantity. Bog iron is 'decentralized' and not appropriate for setting up a massive scale centralized iron production facility, but is more than appropriate for village to town level production, maintenance, and even weaponry needs.

And none of this stuff is faked, there is nothing to fake. The Townsends (and other similar groups) are just historical reenactors who happen to have some amazing skillsets. Watching the Brandon guy from that channel work with a wood lathe, blacksmithing, or pretty much anything you can do with your hands is part of the reason I won't be teaching my children to code, but will be nudging them towards wood and metal working. What you can do in the real world is just so much more inspiring than anything in the digital world.

These sort of little sub-cultures generally make revenue from these videos and by selling merch, either produced by their group, or by providing relevant stuff that's otherwise difficult to find, like historically accurate 18th century costumes, gear, etc for the Townsends group.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-17 12:40:42+00:00
Where's the truck gonna dump it? The reason this stuff was dumped here in the first place is because waste disposal is so absurdly regulated or administered that it was "cheap enough to be worth the risk" to do it this way than the right way.

This isn't a problem that municipalities with "better in the landfill than the river" policies have. This is the kind of problem you get when a bunch of the let them eat cake crowd run amuck. It's literally the "why is our city covered in trash". "I don't know Karen, maybe because you voted to have everyone pay per bag so nobody picks up litter the blows into their yard because it literally costs them" problem but in truck sized increments.
by nstart | 2025-11-17 12:43:32+00:00
Welp. I wish I had read the comments first to discover that this is AI generated. On the other hand, I got to experience the content without bias.

I opted to give it a try instead of reading the comments and the book was arranged in a super strange way where it's discussing concepts that a majority of programmers would never be concerned with when starting out with learning a language. It's very different to learn about some of these concepts if you are reading a language doc in order to work on the language itself. But if you want to learn how to use the language, something like:

> Choose between std.debug.print, unbuffered writers, and buffered stdout depending on the output channel and performance needs.

is absolutely never going to be something you dump into chapter 1. I skimmed through a few chapters from there and it's blocks of stuff thrown in randomly. The introduction to the if conditional throws in Zig Intermediate Representation with absolutely no explanation of what it is and why it's even being discussed.

Came here to comment that this has been written pretty poorly or just targets a very niche audience and now I discover it's slop. What a waste of time. The one thing AI was supposed to save.
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-17 12:44:48+00:00
In municipalities run by non-idiots able to think more than "yeah that sounds good" steps ahead there is little black market for disposal of anything beyond the most genuinely hazardous waste because it's not prohibitively expensive to do it right.

Do you want tires and TVs in the river and woods? Charging $20 a pop at the dump is how you get tires and TVs in the woods.

This is the same problem but in larger increments.
by hansmayer | 2025-11-17 12:45:02+00:00
Hold down your horses mate, we don't really know what the "goal" here is as the Google themselves explicitly markets this as something to literally "make ai play games", as you put it. So yes, if they honestly push out a technology that plays a computer game instead of the player, yes they have bloody lost the plot. Everything else is just a bunch of guessing by people who would really want really hard for the LLM-fairy-tales to come true. And seeing as how full of shit the whole LLM-ecosystem is especially with regards ot resources invested so far vs. low returns (and not just financially), at this point, honestly, they should set the bar far, far, far lower than "thousands of worlds intelligence emerges blahblahblah". I genuinely believe the GenAI-porn which the OpenAI CEO suggested a while ago, maybe their best bet to achieve something meaningful. The tech is sure good at throwing around huge amounts of text and a bit of inconsistency and sloppines won't matter to their readers...at least past a certain point ;)
by bearsandsalmon | 2025-11-17 12:45:11+00:00
Some more ideas that might work:

- Explosives. Drop large explosives deep into the lake periodically. It may kill a lot of life, but if you need to stir up organic matter at the bottom, it’s more efficient than attempting to stir it.

- Migrate life from similar depths at other lakes. If it’s going to die if you don’t, maybe it’s worth the effort.

- Drill. Just drill a deep hole until you get to a water source or heat.
by lazide | 2025-11-17 12:45:54+00:00
The issue I’ve heard with sodium-ion is that the voltage curves make the power electronics much more expensive for a given efficiency/power level.

[https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/sodium-ion-battery-ev...]

Lithium’s curve is nearly flat, which allows for a pretty easy consistent power production (albeit nearly impossible to tell state of charge!) since you only need to target a pretty narrow voltage band.

Overall, that means sodium-ion has to be even cheaper to be competitive, and it makes even less sense in areas where power density matters like electric cars, as you’ll end up with far less power and/or needing much heavier motors and more expensive electronics to compensate when on the lower end of charge.

I don’t want to think of what it would cost to do a 100kw buck-boost power supply that can handle +- 25% (or more!) voltage differences. In reality, I don’t think anyone would try.
by zetanor | 2025-11-17 12:46:46+00:00
To make a comment like this, I imagine that you've set up BIOS security (password, case intrusion detection...), that you check your keyboard wire end-to-end daily, that you use a USB device whitelist, that you regularly check for hidden cameras spying on your keystrokes, etc., otherwise you're equally "easy to pwn" using equally-quick and roughly-as-cheap attacks.
by safety1st | 2025-11-17 12:47:10+00:00
This mostly sounds like a good thing to me from a utilitarian standpoint. Getting all your utility classes from somewhere like npm and creating dependencies on 20 different people and organizations who may or may not maintain their software has been a security nightmare with many highly public examples. If a LLM writes a utility class for me then my supply chain is smaller, meaning less surface area to attack plus I probably benefit from some form of security through obscurity for whatever non-trivial amount that's worth. "Downside" is I don't have some rando, probably unpaid labor out there updating a piece of my app for me...
by lazide | 2025-11-17 12:47:52+00:00
You can discharge the battery to power the heaters, at significant cost in energy. The temperature becomes a serious problem when charging (will physically destroy the battery through dentrite formation!), and under very high power draws (battery can’t keep up chemically).

It can be solved, but at a cost, and makes the tech much more dangerous - you could end up in a situation where you freeze to death somewhere more easily in the climates it is a problem.

It’s similar reasons why diesel isn’t a great idea in Alaska and the like too, and people tend towards gasoline even in situations where it is more costly and less efficient (like industrial trucks). It can be mitigated with chemical additives (‘heat’), tank and block heaters, etc. but has similar risks.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-17 12:48:22+00:00
Great C interop, first class support for cross-compilation, well suited for arena allocators.

You can use Rust in kernel/embedded code, you can also use C++ (I did) and even Java! but most prefer to use C, and I think that Zig is a better alternative to C for those in the field.

There is still one huge drawback with Zig and that's maturity. Zig is still in beta, and the closest you get to the metal, the more it tends to matter. Hardware projects typically have way longer life cycles and the general philosophy is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Rust is not as mature as C by far, there is a reason C is still king, but at least, it is out of beta and is seeing significant production use.

I remember when I talk about Zig to the CTO of the embedded branch of my company. His reaction was telling. "I am happy to hear someone mention Zig, it is a very interesting language and it is definitely on my watch list, but not mature enough to invest in it". He was happy that I mentioned Zig because in the company, the higher ups are all about Rust because of the hype, even though we do very little of if BTW, it is still mostly C and C++. And yeah, hype is important, customers heard about Rust as some magical tech that will make the code bug-free, they didn't hear about Zig, so Rust sells better. In the end, they go for C anyways.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-17 12:48:31+00:00
There was, at least towards the end. FED chair at the time described it as 'irrational exuberance'. Warren Buffett made an excellent speech in front of most Silicon Valley titans at the time - telling them that their wealth is about to be blown up.

This isn't rocket science - do anybody sane believe that OpenAI will spend what, 1.5 Trillion $ they project ? Quite a big chunck of Oracle, Nvidia and others projections are based on this 1.5 Trillion $. They are loosing money and their revenue is 1% of this figure.
by lnsru | 2025-11-17 12:48:48+00:00
The scenario is shit. I know. I don’t paint it pink. But it is as it is today somewhere between Munich and Alps. The today’s challenge is the demographics. The kids are rare. Retirees live in the majority of houses around us. The few kids of the street were divided between 3 school types in 4 different locations. They meet occasionally, but friendships were lost. There are simply no other kids around to go out together. Some parents are really desperate to organize (paid!!!!) play dates.

I am not scientist of society dynamics, but I don’t see any positive aspects of Bavarian school system. Producing lots of factory workers from “Real-“ and “Mittelschule”? Last factories are disappearing. Early separation of kids and continuous shuffling bewteen classes brings no positive effects for kids. Can a 10 year old boy have any idea what he wants to do in 15 years?.. Can a 10 year old boy know his strengths and weaknesses? I really doubt it. Sometimes I think Bavarian school system was CIA psyop after WW2 to cripple German society development. No close friends, no bonds in the society.
by aki237 | 2025-11-17 12:48:57+00:00
I have no idea what issues folks are talking about. I use vanilla gnome for my work and personal use case (given with well supported GPUs, read: no Nvidia). All the features work. Zoom/screen share/obs etc.,

Multi touch gestures work on laptops as smoothly as they were on a mac. HDR has started working recently even in my browser. VRR has been working for almost a couple of years.

It doesn't break, most mem leaks that gnome was known for all gone. Almost all the cli X specific tools I use (mostly clipboard stuff) are all available. Initially when I switched I did see like a 10~15% increase in battery usage albeit being smooth.
by squigz | 2025-11-17 12:49:52+00:00
Can someone explain how it's "censorship" that a company doesn't want their service used in particular ways?

If you don't like it... don't use it? Encourage others not to use it? I just don't see how this is as big a deal as many in this thread are implying...

(To say nothing of bias vs censorship, or whether balance for its own sake is truthful or just a form of bias itself)
by lynx97 | 2025-11-17 12:50:18+00:00
I didn't just wave this argument around, I am blind myself. I didn't try to trigger you, so no, you are not supposed to be angry. I get your point though, what companies offer is pretty much their choice. If there are enough diversified offerings, people can vote with their wallet. However, diversity is pretty rare in the alignment space, which is what I personally don't like. I had to grab a NSFW model from HuggingFace where someone invested the work to unalign the model. Mind you, I dont have an actual use case for this right now. However, I am off the opinion: if there is finally a technology which can describe pictures in a useful way to me, I dont want it to tell me "I am sorry, I cant do that" because I am no longer in kindergarden. As a mature adult, I expect a description, no matter what the picture contains.
by apexalpha | 2025-11-17 12:50:44+00:00
>When I was growing up in the 80's in the US, I walked to school alone; but there was institutional support for that. There were adults paid to help kids cross major roads, and there were older children ("safetys") who wore an orange sash, trained and assigned to help younger kids walk to school.

This still exists in the Netherlands: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkeersbrigadier
by potato3732842 | 2025-11-17 12:51:31+00:00
I live in a poor shithole (by HN standards, I think it's fine) of a city and we don't have litter or dumping problems.

You know why? Because if it fits in the bin the truck takes it. And every address gets one bin paid for via property taxes. It literally costs nothing at the point of use to "do the right thing"

You only get problems like this when a bunch of habitually compliant "let them eat cake" people either intentionally craft policy or through ignorance let nefarious interests dig their claws in and rent seek and just assume that people will bend over and take it rather than throwing their old tires in the river.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-11-17 12:52:02+00:00
Interesting: the entry for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) indicates it used integrated circuits—I had remembered hearing it used RTL (resistor-transistor logic).

It turns out both are true [1]. The "integrated circuits" were sort of "flat-packs" of RTL circuits. I had forgotten that early IC's were not quite what we envision today. Regardless I suppose ICs were RTL before they were TTL (before they were CMOS, etc.).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer#Logic...
by kstrauser | 2025-11-17 12:52:14+00:00
I ran it locally and it flat-out refused to discuss Tiananmen Square ‘88. The “thinking” clauses would display rationales like “the user is asking questions about sensitive political situations and I can’t answer that”. Here’s a copy and paste of the exact conversation: https://honeypot.net/2025/01/27/i-like-running-ollama-on.htm...
by mapt | 2025-11-17 12:52:54+00:00
A million times this.

The point of a hypothetical suggestion is to direct a specific course of action. I am simultaneously amazed at how complex the 'hypothetical' construct is, and also how many people aren't able to reason around them... since this is basically what our big brains are for.

If you assume everybody involved just stops responding to their current incentives, you can solve any coordination problem, in a manner of speaking. But it's useless as a battle plan. Operationalizing a change demands that you pick a party you're talking to, and with full view of their capabilities and limitations, modify their current course of action in the smallest possible way that accomplishes a change.
by api | 2025-11-17 12:53:40+00:00
The data is easy to find. Five second search turns up:

https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/US-coal-20...

This ends mid 2024, but I don’t see any evidence of a coal renaissance. I suppose we could be seeing some old dinosaur burners kept online a few years longer, but coal peaked in the early 2000s and has been in decline since.
by goku12 | 2025-11-17 12:53:43+00:00
> And while I don't have enough experience with Rust to claim this first hand, my understanding is that writing correct unsafe Rust code is at least an order of magnitude harder than writing correct Zig code due to all of the properties/invariants that you have to preserve.

How do you make such boldly dismissive assertions if you don't have enough experience with Rust? You are talking as if these invariants are some sort of requirements/constraints that the language imposes on the programmer. They're not. It's a well-known guideline/paradigm meant to contain any memory safety bugs within the unsafe blocks. Most of the invariants are specific to the problem at hand, and not to the programming language. They are conditions that must be met in any language - C and Zig are no exceptions. Failure to adhere to them will land you in trouble, no matter what sort of safety your language guarantees. They are often talked about in the context of Rust because the ones related to memory-unsafe operations can be tackled and managed within the small unsafe blocks, instead of being sprawling it throughout the code base.

> So it comes with serious drawbacks, it's not just a quick "opt out of the safety for a bit" switch.

Rust is not the ultimate solution to every problem in the world. But this sort of exaggeration and hyperbole is misleading and doesn't help anyone choose any better.
by LatteLazy | 2025-11-17 12:53:49+00:00
I have a tradfi background but work in crypto with trading software.

The whole industry (except deribit) is a shit show of barely working apis that aren’t reliable or accurate in any way. It’s completely routine to not be able to get an order status for minutes at a time. Or to get fills after an order has been rejected. Or a week after a cancel confirmation message.

Coinbase is actually one of the worst offenders for this. Coinbase Prime, their supposed institutional grade offering especially so.

So it doesn’t surprise me at all that the same issues are happening more widely.

To be clear: deribit have always been efficient, accurate, reliable and generally excellent. If you must trade crypto, do it there so you’re Ops and Support people don’t have to suffer.
by Borg3 | 2025-11-17 12:54:15+00:00
Yeah, kids like to waste time to make C more safe or bring C++ features. If you need them, use C++ or different language. Those examples make code look ugly and you are right, the corner cases.

If you need to cleanup stuff on early return paths, use goto.. Its nothing wrong with it, jump to end when you do all the cleanup and return. Temporary buffers? if they arent big, dont be afraid to use static char buf[64]; No need to waste time for malloc() and free. They are big? preallocate early and reallocate or work on chunk sizes. Simple and effective.
by filearts | 2025-11-17 12:54:40+00:00
What I've started experimenting with and will continue to explore is to have project-specific MCP tools.

I add MCP tools to tighten the feedback loop. I want my Agent to be able to act autonomously but with a tight set of capabilities that don't often align with off-the-shelf tools. I don't want to YOLO but I also don't want to babysit it for non-value-added, risk-free prompts.

So, when I'm developing in go, I create `cmd/mcp` and configure a `go run ./cmd/mcp` MCP server for the Agent.

It helps that I'm quite invested in MCP and built github.com/ggoodman/mcp-server-go, which is one of the few (only?) MCP SDKs that let you scale horizontally over https while still supporting advanced features like elicitation and sampling. But for local tools, I can use the familiar and ergonomic stdio driver and have my Agent pump out the tools for me.