MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-22 10:56:21+00:00
I strongly suspect that a number of HN members have been training LLMs on HN headlines, then using these LLMs to recommend stories and times for submission. Maybe they have even set up the scripts to post submissions automatically.

That’s how we roll.

The results are likely to be that all HN front page stories will eventually be LLM-sourced.

I’m not entirely against that, if the scripts do a good job of selecting stories.
by handoflixue | 2025-11-22 10:57:14+00:00
> They are the same pressures. They occur in the same proportions.

That's one hell of a claim to make:

Have you really had work environments where half your co-workers refused to talk to you? For months, if not years?

Have you ever been shoved down to the ground and punched repeatedly?

Have you ever had a co-worker chase you with a knife?

Have you ever had a co-worker set off a bomb to get out of work early?

Have you ever had a co-worker steal your wallet?

I can safely say I saw all of these going to public school, and have never encountered any of that behavior in the office.
by austin-cheney | 2025-11-22 10:58:31+00:00
What happens when this bubble pops? I am trying to avoid any time or financial investment in AI as I look around the corner. I am also looking back at the last big bubble. I got my first house for $129k at 2800sqft when the housing bubble popped. There were just so many empty houses available.

So now I am wondering what will be available once the AI investment implodes. I am thinking about computer hardware, available cloud infrastructure employees for hire on the cheap, and more.

I am also looking at the consequences for the incumbents reliant on both AI and cloud that either cannot pay their bills or who fail because their service providers no longer exist. I can’t help but see lots of opportunity on the horizon.
by reactordev | 2025-11-22 10:58:56+00:00
As someone who has done this since DX7, what you’re looking for is WebGPU either Dawn (Google) or wgpu-native (Firefox). WebGPU works. It’s 99% there across platforms for use.

There’s another wrapper abstraction we all love and use called BGFX that is nice to work with. Slightly higher level than Vulkan or Metal but lower than OpenGL. Works on everything, consoles, fridges, phones, cars, desktops, digital signage.

My own engines have jumped back and forth between WebGPU and BGFX for the last few years.
by Garlef | 2025-11-22 10:59:04+00:00
This is not a good article.

An example:

- The numbers on reported satisfaction are taken at face value. But they are influenced by some biases.

-- Survivors Bias contributes to the satisfaction rates of homeschooling; It's hard to get into homeschooling but easy to get out of. As a result, those satisfied keep doing it while those dissatisfied with the public system are less likely to change.

etc etc
by barrkel | 2025-11-22 10:59:20+00:00
If the observable behavior is bad Linux performance, it's a Linux problem.

There's a saying in motorcycling: it's better to be alive than right. There's no upside in being correct if it leaves you worse off.

There are ways to make things better leveraging the Linux way. Make more usable tools for fixing ACPI deficiencies with hotloadable patches, ways of validating or verifying the patches for safety, ways of sharing and downloading them, and building a community around it.

Moaning that manufacturers only pay attention to where their profits come from is not a strategy at all.
by Mawr | 2025-11-22 11:00:53+00:00
That doesn't track at all to me as a European also. You must have hit an edge case with the car app. First time customer discount or something.

The cost of a comparable single trip for me would be on the order of 5x more expensive, in favor of public transport.

If we take into account monthly tickets, it'd be on the order of 10x.

This isn't a fluke either, there is simply no way a single occupancy taxi service could ever cost less than mass public transport. You just got lucky.
by noitpmeder | 2025-11-22 11:01:03+00:00
To say nothing of the Roblox situation, anyone else having a hard time reading this piece of "reporting"?

It reads, to me, as so obviously slanted and opinionated against Roblox from the outset. It's not trying to portray facts, it's clearly trying to make the reader interpret the situation in an anti-roblox light, instead of letting the reader arrive there on their own.
by philjw | 2025-11-22 11:01:48+00:00
The lack of vegan options — and Trump flexing his one-day McDonald’s internship — finally pushed me to boycott McDonald’s altogether. Also it became slow with all the delivery drivers queuing up as well. Burger King might be raising prices too, but at least their deals are still decent, and every burger has a vegan option (which is supposedly even cheaper for them to produce).

My actual favorite “fast food” is IKEA — surprisingly good as a coworking spot, and their vegan Köttbullar are great. And honestly, in Germany who needs McDonald’s when there’s a good Döner place around? It’s basically a 5-in-1 burger: real bread, salad, sauces, and your choice of meat/halloumi/seitan.

From what I see here, McDonald’s mostly survives in low-density areas or as car-dependant late-night junk food where alternatives don’t exist. But if people go out less, or can’t afford a car anymore, that model gets shaky fast. There are simply too many better options now.

It reminds me of the same shrinkflation/bloat cycle we see with American pickup trucks: beds get smaller while prices balloon, and then people act surprised that these wank-tanks fail in Europe where efficient vans just work better. “Free market” also means that bad products eventually lose.

Same story with phones: everything keeps getting bigger, heavier, and more bloated with features nobody asked for. Bring back the iPhone Mini — not everything needs to be Super-Size Me.
by kotaKat | 2025-11-22 11:02:54+00:00
How many low income customers are going to sit there and figure out how to min-max the McDonald's App(tm) to get the best possible deal for their money?

They're not. They're priced out from the efforts and hoops required to get the deal.

And while there's deals in the app, not every deal is the best deal (leading to the min-max situation).

(I live somewhere super-rural where McD is one of the only lunch options. I've figured out that depending on promos, one of the 'cheapest' options is to take advantage of the "buy one get one for $1" double cheeseburger every day offer, then check the 'deals' section to see if there's a cheap fry offer (because fries are always expensive). Drink offers are never worth it when the sodas are always $1-$1.49 for a large soda, but sometimes there's a "free medium fries with purchase of drink" that definitely maximizes the value offer here. Combined, this 'meal' is often less than even the new Extra Value Meals they offer at below $6-7 depending on deal applied.)
by vintagedave | 2025-11-22 11:03:16+00:00
I don't have children, but friends and family do, and I had always heard Roblox presented as kid-friendly and kid-safe. This meant I heard about someone's child playing Roblox and, thinking it was kindof an electronic construction set, ie a great learning and play tool,[0] I felt no concerns at all.

To describe this interview as a 'car crash' is almost underselling it. I feel terrified.

Most of all, what are my friends' and relatives' kids getting access to that they don't know about?

[0] Wikipedia says, 'allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.' That was the extent of my knowledge. It sounds great: very happy for kids to learn how to build things! Sure, I'd prefer they used Lego, but if they have to use mobiles then something where things are built and created is about as healthy as using mobile apps at a young age can be, right?
by yreg | 2025-11-22 11:03:41+00:00
It goes the other way as well. It is dumb to run away from police when they stop you for minor infraction and face a very high chance of getting caught and getting into a major problem. At least I would hope that the penalties for running away are very serious.

The police officers don't know why you are running away and can reasonably expect that there is something wrong other than an unbuckled seat belt -> a kidnapped person, tons of drugs in the trunk, a wanted murderer driving, etc.

Well at least in my country where chases are rare. I understand in US it is difficult since people are more eager to run away.
by the8472 | 2025-11-22 11:03:50+00:00
There are several layers of translation between public regulations, a company's internal security policy and the processes used to enforce those policies.

Let's say the reg says you're liable for damages caused by software defects you ship due to negligence, giving you broad leeway how to mitigate risks. The corporate policy then says "CVEs with score X must be fixed in Y days; OWASP best practices; infrastructure audits; MFA; yadda yadda". Finally the enforcement is then done by automated tooling like sonarqube, prisma. dependabot, burpsuite, ... and any finding must be fixed with little nuance because the people doing the scans lack the time or expertise to assess whether any particular finding is actually security-relevant.

On the ground the automated, inflexible enforcement and friction then leads to devs choosing approaches that won't show up in scans, not necessarily secure ones.

As an example I witnessed recently: A cloud infra scanning tool highlighted that an AppGateway was used as TLS-terminating reverse proxy, meaning it used HTTP internally. The tool says "HTTP bad", even when it's on an isolated private subnet. But the tool didn't understand Kubernetes clusters, so a a public unencrypted ingress, i.e. public HTTP didn't show up. The former was treated as a critical issue that must be fixed asap or the issue will get escalated up the management chain. The latter? Nobody cares.

Another time I got pressure to downgrade from Argon2 to SHA2 for password hashing because Argon2 wasn't on their whitelist. I resisted that change but it was a stressful bureaucratic process with some leadership being very unhelpful and suggesting "can't you just do the compliant thing and stop spending time on this?".

So I agree with GP that some security teams barely correlate with security, sometimes going into the negative. A better approach would to integrate software security engineers into dev teams, but that'd be more expensive and less measurable than "tool says zero CVEs".
by mattlondon | 2025-11-22 11:07:40+00:00
I suspect what the CEO was trying to convey was that this was a "small problem" given the number of users etc, "no need to worry share holders and investors! Not a big deal!"...

But I don't think that argument really works for paedophilia. Society does not want to allow it at any scale (zero-tolerance - and rightly so), so even if it is a "small" proportion of the entire platform, it's still bad especially if they're basically only paying lip service to any protections.

This person didn't seem to really understand that though and was trying to spin it as some sort of "business is great! We're doing great! Look at all these users and engagement! Growth growth growth!" type typical hype bullshit, but totally misread the situation.
by nirui | 2025-11-22 11:07:47+00:00
It's not really that weird.

People who uses dating apps are on a very specific mission (to get laid, a.k.a "to meet more interesting people"). They'll optimize their profile to specifically archive that goal.

TikTok accepts wider range of interest-based (instead of goal-based) contents, and have much wider demographic spread. On that platform, you show more aspect of you and your life to your viewers, and that creates a degree of trust and maybe even empathy, both are beneficial in creating a closer relationship.

And it's not just on TikTok, I first noticed the effect in online games. For example, people who act kindly often get a lot of friends, etc.
by laylower | 2025-11-22 11:09:03+00:00
I'm typing this from a snapdragon x elite HP. It's fine really but my use is fairly basic. I only use it to watch movies, read, browse, and draft word and excel, some light coding.

No gaming - and I came in knowing full well that a lot of the mainstream programs don't play well with snapdragon.

What has amazed me the most is the battery life and the seemingly no real lag or micro-stuttering that you get in some other laptops.

So, in all, fine for light use. For anything serious, use a desktop.
by binsquare | 2025-11-22 11:10:21+00:00
Here's the source of that interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIXRgMlPo4

The CEO was NOT prepared for the questions in this interview, quote: `I was hoping to come here and talk about fun stuff`.

It's insightful how a genuine question about hindenburg's research into Roblox's decrease in safety immediately pushed the CEO to fury starting 23:29.
by tomaytotomato | 2025-11-22 11:11:43+00:00
Reminds me of this scene in Silicon Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjtr64ZQUWA

I've not got kids yet, but I do wonder if the best way to prepare them for the internet is by teaching them the many dangers by navigating it with them (scams, grooming, bullying, hacking)?
by zknill | 2025-11-22 11:12:10+00:00
Anyone who's built, run, evolved, and operated any reasonably sized event sourced system will know it's a total nightmare.

Immutable history sounds like a good idea, until you're writing code to support every event schema you ever published. And all the edge cases that inevitably creates.

CQRS sounds good, until you just want to read a value that you know has been written.

Event sourcing probably has some legitimate applications, but I'm convinced the hype around it is predominantly just excellent marketing of an inappropriate technology by folks and companies who host queueing technologies (like Kafka).
by rcxdude | 2025-11-22 11:13:16+00:00
The CRA, unfortunately, also has language along the lines of "don't ship with known vulnerabilities", without defining who determines what is a vulnerability and how, so I fully expect this no-thoughts-only-checkboxes approach to increase with it (there's already a bunch of other standards which can be imposed on organizations from various angles which essentially force updates without any consideration of the risk of introducing new vulnerabilities or supply-chain attacks).
by ajuc | 2025-11-22 11:13:58+00:00
I'm from Poland. Homelessness is not solved maybe, but it's nowhere near to the level of US.

The solution seems to be public healthcare, education, transport, safety net and cheap housing.

Addiction and mental illness are excuses. Eastern Europe has more mental ilness (generational trauma from WW2 is still alive) and alcoholism than US and yet it has less homeless people.

In early 90s my parents were earning 20 USD per month each. It was about average. There were still almost no homeless people.

It's a solved problem.
by thinkingemote | 2025-11-22 11:15:55+00:00
I'm also interested in this question, am not interested in profiting just curious about the future. Other HN users gave these answers:

"If the price of inference drops through the floor all the AI wrapper companies become instantly more valuable. Cursor's agents suck ...but their position would get much better with cheap inference." (edited)

"Buy the application layer near winners. When computing costs shrink, usage expands."

"massive Oracle Crypto Farm"

So the answer seems to be: 1. look at what is being priced out now, as this will be cheaper later. 2. Assume the big players will shrink and the smaller players will grow.

If crypto fills the gap I think we could also see a devaluation in coins?

If the data centres stop using so much electricity, will supply of electricity increase and so the costs will decrease?

Personally I'm looking forward to cheaper consumer GPU cards.
by prmoustache | 2025-11-22 11:15:57+00:00
Cars spend a significant amount of time outside and they depreciate so quickly it just doesn't matter. One shouldn't expect a paint to stay perfect the same way we expect our skin to wear and age over the years.

I don't even know what a 5 stage detail means but I can safely say you are overreacting. A car is just a tool and a rando putting a fridge magnet or leaning against your car once in a while is just completely negligible compared to the amount of shit a paint is exposed to when driving it. Sand and dirt do not ask for your permission either.
by arximboldi | 2025-11-22 11:16:56+00:00
I have a theory (actually I wanted at some point to write more seriously about it) about how GDP also expands by consuming life itself. If you're burnt out, or don't have time to see friends and are depressed have to pay for therapy, GDP grows. If you don't have time to care for your children so you have to keep them busy with million classes, or paid for caretaking, GDP expands. If you don't have time or confidence to meet people IRL and have to pay for Tinder, GDP expands. If you don't have time to cook (even if you enjoy it) so UberEats all the time, GDP expands. When you replace public services by extractivist and more inefficient private ones (see healthcare, education) GDP often grows. The list goes on and on. The more every aspect of human existence is replace by a transaction in the market place, the more GDP grows. We replace a variety of motivations to do and to be based of human relationships and affection, by cold self-interested exchanges between strangers.

GDP is a fucked up way to look at life. It's go to way to look at whether a country is doing good, but it's consuming our environment and our own sanity in so many ways.

That's one of the reasons why I think that actually limiting the working hours (bringing it down to 30, and eventually to 20 hours a week) should be one of the main agenda points for this coming century. It's important for our environment, but also for our own sanity.

One could argue that given a sufficiently large GDP, one can make the individual choice to earn less and have more time. But that's sadly not how things work, since having more workforce available also devalues work relative to subsistence goods (e.g., you can't afford a roof without a full time job). Also, individualism is such a powerful ideology in a market driven economy. Maximizing individualism itself can help you get ahead in the marketplace, and spreads through society via marketing, private media. At some point, we even stop seeing how to behave differently than to maximize our own profit. We need democratic instruments outside of the marketplace to steer our society in a way that improves our lives, regardless of what that does to GDP.
by libertine | 2025-11-22 11:17:14+00:00
There's this new sentiment in the society of finding something rare with high value to flip it and make a bank. But the way it's being pursued... It just doesn't feel right.

It almost feels like it's gambling, because it's a sentiment that leaks into modern collectibles, like card games.

I'm not saying people don't value collectibles, or value nostalgia, or that some of these things should be limited to niches - the reality is that I can't quite put it into words, but a lot of it seems propped up... Or it's a false game everyone is knowingly playing, like a big Ponzi scheme.

These superman copies, or the first editions of mtg, or even some modern vintage games, were never intended to be collectibles - people used them and played with them, created memories, and the production runs were really limited in comparison to modern day production runs, that make those items actually rare... Like few hundreds or thousands have survived in good condition - which is an achievement for toys, games and comics that get used a lot.

Nowadays people buy stuff with high production runs, they never even create memories with the stuff... They slab stuff into a "hermetic" container right away, and get it graded...

It just feels fake.

Again I don't doubt people see value in this stuff, I just feel like they're valuing for the wrong reasons, and I can't wrap my head around how is that even sustainable.

Who is going to value the memory of "remember when I bought 5 booster boxes and pulled card X from the pack, with gloves on, put it in a sleeve and sent it to be graded straight away? Now those were the days!"

It's like people want to compress the randomness of time and social behavior into a predictable cicle of months, with minimal effort and to extract the maximum value out of it.

Am I overthinking this?
by actionfromafar | 2025-11-22 11:17:28+00:00
Interesting thought experiment - making a Nintendo approved version would put the finger on exactly all problems of "real" Roblox. (But strictly speaking, the logic only works in one direction "If Nintendo, then Safe". But "if not on Nintendo, then unsafe" is not strictly true but maybe good shorthand.)

The interview makes me think of Dupont and Tǝflon. "You are giving thousands of people cancer in your community."

"That's alright, think of the millions who love our products."

"Carry on, sir."
by immibis | 2025-11-22 11:17:39+00:00
The market failure results from those people having way more money than logic and economic principles dictate they should. A person would normally have to make a lot of good decisions in a row to get that much money, and would be expected continue making good decisions, but also wouldn't live long enough to reach these extreme amounts. However, repeated misallocation by the federal government over the last several decades (i.e. excessive money printing) resulted in people getting repeatedly rewarded for making the right kind of bad economic decisions instead.
by Mawr | 2025-11-22 11:17:43+00:00
Raising your kids is your responsibility, not mine. Don't push the consequences of your decisions onto me.

> But there are these giant faceless corporations pushing unrestricted, often depraved content to minors and people stand up for them. And this content often includes anonymous uploaded content with underage girls.

...right. You got a little too into the hyperbole here. All the remotely popular websites you may think of are restricted and are compliant with the law as far as monitoring for and removing CSAM content is concerned.

And this does not really need to be said, but nobody is standing up for anything related to such content.

Also quite obviously, people who upload such content are not going to be deterred by whatever regulation you can possibly think up.

> I'm sure this will get downvoted, but help me understand what the visceral reaction is.

"Here's a dead kid, now give up your rights."

> I've heard people argue that this kind of adult content isn't harmful, but it seems obvious that it is, especially to children.

Yeah, and I'm all for parental controls. So far as they do not infringe on my rights to say, privacy.

Why exactly can't we force phone manufacturers to engineer phones with the option to turn on "child mode" that gives parents full control and insight over everything the child does? Only whitelisted apps are allowed and there's a special web browser that only allows whitelisted websites. The parent gets to see a full audit of what the child has seen, including URLs visited. Done. No need to burden every single already existing OS and internet-facing software with this nonsense.

Oh, and take some responsibility for raising your own kids. I'm tired of increasingly being forced to do it for you.
by Findecanor | 2025-11-22 11:18:08+00:00
They already have, and they are in Chromebooks. Last week, another HN:er posted that he uses a Lenovo Chromebook with a Mediatek SoC as his daily Linux dev machine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45938410

BTW. I don't think Qualcomm SoCs running Windows was just about performance but more of a time-limited exclusivity deal with MS.