MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saghm | 2025-11-29 20:46:50+00:00
> I say that because you (and everyone else who seems upset) clearly understand it's just his opinion.

I genuinely don't understand whether it's the case or not, and I've tried to be clear about that. I am not able to tell whether it's their opinion or if they actually feel like they're objective facts; both are plausible to me, and I'm arguing that if they want people to understand which they mean, they need to be more specific. Otherwise, people will draw conclusions that may not align with their intent, and that's something they could avoid if they put more care into how they expressed it.
by ktpsns | 2025-11-29 20:47:15+00:00
I think the title deserves a (2018), which I estimated by explainxkcd history https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1987:_Pytho...

Recently, people report that uv (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) really makes a difference in Python tooling and puts poetry and of course anaconda unnessecary.
by ghm2180 | 2025-11-29 20:47:35+00:00
I wonder when will there be something more rigorous on what works clearing house https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/Search/Products?searchTerm=AI&&&...

I am actually hoping someone there studies such interventions the way they did with CMU's intelligent tutor — which if I recall correctly did not have net strong evidence in its favors as far as educational outcomes per the reports in WWC — given the fall in grade level scores in math and reading since 2015/16 across multiple grades in middle school. It is vital to know if any of these things help kids succeed.
by xandrius | 2025-11-29 20:47:44+00:00
Interesting how many people in a hacker forum seem to be so pro-establishment and instead try to denigrate the goals of this initiative because of the chosen character. I guess that's how many earn their dollar after all?

Sure, if it had been today, Clippy would have been evil but that's the point, it wasn't back then. Why are we so accepting of the change?
by dmazin | 2025-11-29 20:48:12+00:00
Ask ChatGPT to generate product or business names for you. A lot of them contain the word “loom”. I know someone who recently vibe coded a thing and had an AI name it and it also has “loom” in it.

I’m not suggesting that that’s what happened with this project. I have no idea how much AI they used for any of it. But “loom” seems to appear in a lot of ChatGPT generated product names lately.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-29 20:48:34+00:00
I've never seen a good number on this. Is it money losing per vehicle, or because of the amortized R&D included in the cost? The problem from my perspective is that it hasn't turned out as popular as they hoped -- truck buyers are a hard to convert bunch of people. Which is too bad, because my Lightning is my favorite of all the pickups I've owned over the years. It's a fantastic truck.
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-29 20:48:59+00:00
This is a neat idea, but it's extremely light (no pun intended) on real details. Translating a simulation into real hardware that can do real computation in a reliable manner is properly hard. As much as I'd love to be an optimist about this project, I have to say I'll believe it when I see it actually running on a workbench.

If it does work, I think one of the biggest challenges will be adding enough complexity to it for it to do real, useful computation. Running the equivalent of GPT-2 is a cool tech demo, but if there's not an obvious path to scaling it up, it's a bit of a dead end.
by philjohn | 2025-11-29 20:49:06+00:00
My claim is the documentation about the ICO investigation and the resulting fine.

It's an entirely different piece of regulation to the "horror" of the OSA.

It's not hard - you're not allowed to target adverts for children - if Imgur aren't able to agree to that, they are within their rights to decide they don't want to properly safeguard the private information of children and withdraw from the market. That many other providers haven't thrown their toys out of the pram and complied with the law would show they decided if they can't tailor ads to children they wouldn't be able to turn a profit in the UK.
by array_key_first | 2025-11-29 20:49:08+00:00
The problem is housing, in general, is a an inelastic good - we can't just apply free market thinking to it, it doesn't work. For a few reasons:

1. It takes a really long time to develop housing in a meaningful way, like on the order of decades to build communities.

2. People don't actually really choose where to live, it's a lot like hospitals. You live where your job is, which means the more economically strong a place is (city) the more housing you need. Which is why cities are dense. It might sound obvious, but it's not like choosing which brand of cereal to buy.
by electroly | 2025-11-29 20:50:28+00:00
Sadly I have lots of code that exclusively uses the dereference operator because there are older versions of macOS that shipped without support for .value(); the dereference operator was the only way to do it! To this day, if you target macOS 10.13, clang will error on use of .value(). Lots of this code is still out there because they either continue to support older macOS, or because the code hasn't been touched since.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-29 20:50:48+00:00
As others mentioned, it is an achievement from Half Life episode 2. Player has to carry a garden gnome to the end of the game. Which is not too bad, minus the extensive driving sections (sometimes under fire) where the gnome is bouncing around the vehicle.

It is a fun feather in your cap, but definitely not suitable for a first run through of the game.
by canyp | 2025-11-29 20:50:53+00:00
Yes, I see the same flaw in the argument. Retrospectively looking back and saying it was good because it didn't do any of the shit companies do today; but, really, it wasn't as bad as it could be because the technology just wasn't there to begin with. Counter-factual either way, but calling it "good" is a stretch.

Not to take away from the movement, though. I think it's great.
by everydaydev | 2025-11-29 20:51:28+00:00
Good question! Svix does offer similar things - they’re the established player with enterprise customers. Key differences: • Pricing: Svix’s professional tier starts at $490/month. Relae’s Launch plan is $35/month for 100K events ($0.00015 per additional), Scale is $65/month for 500K events ($0.0001 per additional) • Scope: Svix offers a full platform (sending, receiving, testing, compliance). Relae is focused specifically on reliable receiving for now • Market: Svix is enterprise-focused with SOC 2, HIPAA, 99.999% SLA. Relae is targeting developers and smaller teams Honestly, if you need enterprise compliance or you’re processing millions of webhooks, Svix makes sense. I’m trying to offer a simpler, more affordable option for indie devs and smaller teams who just need reliable webhook receiving without the enterprise price tag.
by idopmstuff | 2025-11-29 20:51:39+00:00
I have always found writing documentation to be incredibly helpful for clarifying my thinking. It prevents me from doing mental hand-waving around details, and often times writing down a process that I have done a thousand times is the thing that makes me realize how I can cut steps or improve it.

I'm now in the process of trying to hand off chunks of the work I do to run my business to AI (both to save time but also just as my very broad, practical eval). It really is all about documentation. I buy small e-commerce brands, and they're simple enough that current SOTA models have more than enough intelligence to take a first pass at listings + financials to determine whether I should take a call with the seller. To make that work, though, I've got a prompt that's currently at six pages that is just every single thing I look when evaluating a business codified.

Using that has really convinced me that people are overrating the importance of intelligence in LLMs in terms of driving real economic value. Most work is like my evaluations - it requires intelligence, but there's a ceiling to how much you need. Someone with 150 IQ points wouldn't do any better at this task than someone with 100 IQ points.

Instead, I think what's going to drive actual change is the scaffolding that lets LLMs take on increasing numbers of tasks. My big issue right now is that I have to go to the listing page for a business that's for sale, screenshot the page, download the files, upload that all to ChatGPT and then give it the prompt. I'm still waiting for a web browsing agent that can handle all of that for me, so I can automate the full flow and just get an analysis of each listing sent to me without having to do anything.
by amarant | 2025-11-29 20:52:56+00:00
Clippy was pretty universally hated back in it's day though. The way it just refused to let you do anything without it's help was annoying.

People complain about getting AI shoved down their throats. Clippy was worse in this regard. At least AI doesn't have a dancing animated character that eats up half your processing power with it's silly animations.
by jasonsb | 2025-11-29 20:53:29+00:00
Tariffs might keep Chinese EVs out of the US, but they don't stop US influence from fading everywhere else. South America is voting with their wallets, and 'buy American' doesn't work when the price is double and the tech is the same.

Unless the US intends to sanction every country that prioritizes value over US geopolitics, this battle is already lost.
by Abod | 2025-11-29 20:55:06+00:00
Hey there,

I've personally wasted countless hours brainstorming names, checking domain availability, and then getting stuck when the perfect .com was already taken. I figured there had to be a better way, so I decided to build one!

It supports:

Infinite Feed of Ideas: Just keep scrolling for an endless stream of unique, AI-generated name suggestions. No more hitting "generate" repeatedly!

TLD Control: Filter by your preferred Top-Level Domains (like .com, .io, .dev, .app, etc.) so you only see what's relevant to you.

Style Filtering: Want something "techy," "playful," "professional," or "abstract"? You can guide the generator to match the vibe of your project.

Domain Variations: Found a name you love but the .com is gone? My tool can help you find variations of that name that do have better domain availability. No more compromising on a great name just because of a domain!

Instant Availability Check: It checks domain availability in real-time as you browse.

You can check it out here: https://proicon.ai/app/name-generator

I’m really curious to hear what you all think!
by mindslight | 2025-11-29 20:56:23+00:00
That is still too kind. The insurrection was planned by the same types of corpo-fascist lobbyists that orchestrated the push of "woke", DEI, advocating for illegal immigration, etc. Take legitimately understandable frustrations, radicalize both sides with a culture war of feel-good half solutions that revolve around blaming their neighbors, smash the divided people into one another, and no matter which "side" "wins" the unaccountable corporate power structure ends up advancing.

Online message boards were merely places for recruiting foot soldiers and getting them riled up.
by Animats | 2025-11-29 20:56:30+00:00
Indeed. "Just one more roll of the dice and I'll be ahead."

Worse, this guy isn't trying to get a job. He's just trying to get into grad school. Which is no longer a guarantee of a good career, but may be a guarantee of a big debt. Remember that "I did everything right" post on HN a few weeks ago? CS degree from a good school, but nobody wants junior CS people any more.
by twohaibei | 2025-11-29 20:56:41+00:00
I had similar problem. They demanded some documents for KYC, and my "address of operation" did not match "address of registration", or something similar. It took me over a month of writing with their support to even get any info WHAT is wrong, then couple of days on chats with them to straighten it out. Terrible system demanding a lot of my energy and time to get back access to MY MONEY. Because of course they blocked withdrawal/payments from my account.
by ColinWright | 2025-11-29 20:56:44+00:00
I can certainly explain it more, a question of "better" is debatable!

Here's the process:

(A) You give me a graph to 3-colour;

(B) I claim I can 3-colour it;

(C) You demand that I prove it;

(D) I colour it with colours ABC and cover the vertices;

(E) You point at an edge;

(F) I reveal the colours of the vertices at the ends of the edge;

(G) If I have coloured the graph then the colours revealed will always be different;

(H) We repeat this process with a permutation of the colours between each trial;

(I) If I'm lying then eventually you'll pick an edge where either the vertices are not coloured, or the have the same colour.

(J) This process reveals nothing about the colouring, but proves (to some level of confidence) that I'm telling the truth.

So ... what's unclear?

Instructions on how to email me are in my profile if you prefer ...
by ClayShentrup | 2025-11-29 20:57:55+00:00
have you ever worked with pivotal Labs? One of my biggest faults I guess is that I worked with femme and they have such an incredibly high bar for understanding, design patterns and cyclomatic complexity and solid and test driven development principles and so forth that once you've worked with them, anywhere else you go is going to feel like a dumpster fire. so then you'll just pull your hair out thinking everyone's an idiot, even if it's really just a lot of bad incentives.
by kakacik | 2025-11-29 20:58:03+00:00
This is a bit out of touch with reality, presumably you don't have a car and seemingly are against any normal sized cars or bigger. A very narrow use case should change the world we all live in?

Tiny cars can't do longer distances (aka higher speeds) safely, physics of car collisions won't let you. They have been around for quite some time and popularity is as it is. If you are hit by 50kmh car as a cyclist (seems like frustration/fear of yours thats behind your words), whether car weights 600kg or 1300kg doesn't make much difference to your resulting state. Personal cars have specced brakes according to their weight so breaking distance is cca same regardless of weight.

Where I live (also went through kids birthday party today back & forth few times) - somebody with ebike would freeze their ass in windchill of fast moving bicycle would be below -10C (situation 5 months of a year), slip on partially frozen road could be fatal, moving around on rather narrow roads that have very little room for anybody but cars (Switzerland here but no high altitude) would be literal playing russian roulette with rest of traffic, triple that with wide cargo ebike. Alas, all parents came to the party in forest hut just above our village in their ICE or hybrid cars.
by legerdemain | 2025-11-29 20:58:03+00:00
You've been trying for a long time.

What do you do if the job that makes you an offer doesn't excite you? What if the house that feels like home needs more repairs than you can afford? What if the program that accepts you has crappy funding? What if the person who chooses you has red flags?

Do you say "screw it," cross your fingers, and walk through the door that kind of sucks? Or do you keep looking as long as your resources last you?
by pastel8739 | 2025-11-29 20:58:09+00:00
I think it’s the original quote that is unclear:

> a digital signature proves your possession of a private key without revealing that key.

Signatures do not themselves do this; but they can be used to construct a protocol that does (e.g. the provee provides a random challenge that the prover must sign). But still this is not AFAIU a zero-knowledge proof as the signature is itself “knowledge”.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-29 20:58:25+00:00
Clippy was annoying for the same reasons a lot of software today is annoying. It was one of the O.G. poster children of the industry's "flipping the narrative" around computing: In the good old days, the user commanded the computer, and the computer obeyed, and then waited for the next command. Instead of the user being the sole operator, Clippy "suggested" and "recommended" and intruded into your computing. It inserted itself into your work in a way that computers hadn't really done before. This is why it was deeply hated.

No longer was computing a stream of commands from the user, telling the computer what to do: Now the computer itself had an opinion about what you should be doing on your computer. And the opinions kept getting stronger and stronger throughout the years. This was the beginning of the long, horrible march towards what we have today: Notifications, alerts, suggestions, "discovery," pop-ups, "did you mean...," forced upgrades, hundreds of processes running in the background that you never ran (but the computer manufacturer or OS vendor decided on their own to run). Now our computers are mostly just running what other people tell them to run, and occasionally loop the user in or offer them a token choice. The user is more of a passenger than the driver now.

This is Clippy's legacy: A computer you barely own, running software you barely have a choice in running, force-feeding you what the computer manufacturers, OS vendors, and 3rd party apps want you to be fed.
by EliteGadget | 2025-11-29 20:58:53+00:00
> The only reason why cars are the size and shape they are is because ICE engines couldn't be made smaller. Electric engines on the other hand are small enough that I can have the chassis of a fully functioning car be light enough to lift by one man.

You have seen a motorbikes/mopeds, scooters and micro-cars surely?

An electric bike is essentially a moped which have existed for like 70-80 years now? A small cars have been around since the 1950s.

Cars are the shape they are because normally you want the option of carrying 1-5 people. 5 people is 2 adults and 3 children. BTW cars in the past were much smaller. Compare the size of any car from the 1930-40s in the UK to a modern European car and you will notice it is much smaller they are.
by impossiblefork | 2025-11-29 21:00:10+00:00
For a while maybe, but cheap EVs are being manufactured in Europe as well, and while this could reduce petrol prices, it's also going to reduce the need for petrol stations, and I think makes petrol basically dead even in a cheap-petrol scenario.

A Renault Twingo is going to cost something like 20,000 euros. That's twice the price of a Dacia Sandero, but a Dacia Spring is 16,900. The difference is only 4000, which could easily be a year's petrol.
by flatline | 2025-11-29 21:01:45+00:00
We job hop, have multiple hustles. Many people on this board have started multiple companies, sometimes at once, on an ongoing basis. Do you only want just one friend? People tend to have multiple romantic/sexual entanglements, sometimes at once, but generally more than one over a lifetime.

I think this can be a useful maxim to get you to the next day, but in reality it takes a lot more than one of anything for a fulfilling life. We grow and change and need novelty. We are held in a web of interdependent, ever-shifting relationships - with people, businesses, material goods, ecology. I think that generally people are seeking connection in a broader sphere. To be held in community, to have multiple significant identities (mother/wife/boss), to live in richness and abundance where any one thing is not make or break.
by lostlogin | 2025-11-29 21:02:24+00:00
> Ford has said unequivocally that they'll never make an all-electric muscle car

What’s the thinking here? Pandering to some market segment? It sounds like they are organising the deck chairs in the titanic.

Edit: I tried looking into the comment. It seems he was referring to Mustangs specifically, which is weird as they do make an electric one (assuming you agree it’s a ‘real’ mustang).

I’m confused.
by gnabgib | 2025-11-29 21:02:52+00:00
7 months ago: After Reddit Thread on 'ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis', Update Rolled Back (6 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43892291

6 months ago: Man Killed by Police After Spiraling into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis (24 points, 39 commments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275551

6 months ago: Let's Talk About ChatGPT-Induced Spiritual Psychosis (95 points, 87 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285426

5 months ago: People Are Being Involuntarily Committed After Spiraling into ChatGPT Psychosis (63 points, 86 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44405464

5 months ago: OpenAI investor suspected to fall into ChatGTP-induced psychosis (51 points, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598052

3 months ago: First Murder-Suicide Case Associated with AI Psychosis (42 points, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45088651
by keeda | 2025-11-29 21:02:53+00:00
Not sure about market studies, but I don't think the data is going to be very encouraging for this case either. E.g. in early 2024 Amazon introduced ads in Prime Video, which people were already paying for. I couldn't find more recent data, but from this source at least it seems growth hasn't stalled much: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/amazon-prime-video-stati...

This is not a clear cut example because Prime comes with a lot of other benefits which is a confounding factor. Might be worth looking at cable TV subscription numbers after they introduced ads, but I couldn't find any data with a quick search.
by jerlam | 2025-11-29 21:03:11+00:00
Even if measurement was perfect, people would have incentive to ignore it. Who wants to be told they can't do something, based on some claim that it might be bad for them in the very long term? People still smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol despite those being known to be bad for decades.

Air pollution, like numerous other things like water quality and medical care, is too big to be made into a individual decision.
by galangalalgol | 2025-11-29 21:03:14+00:00
The issue with safer c++ and modern c++ is the mirror of the problem with migrating a code base from c++ to rust. There is just so much unmodern and unsafe c++ out there. Mixing modern c++ into older codebases leaves uncertain assumptions everywhere and sometimes awkward interop with the old c++. If there was a c++23{} that let the compiler know that only modern c++ and libc++ existed inside it would make a huge difference by making those boundaries clear and you can document the assumptions at that boundary. Then move it over time. The optimizer would have an advantage in that code too. But they don't want to do that. The least they could do is settle on a standard c++abi to make interop with newer languages easier, but they don't want to do that either. They have us trapped with sunk cost on some gaint projects. Or they think they do. The big players are still migrating to rust slowly, but steadily.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-11-29 21:04:11+00:00
I think none of those blanket statements here work.

Really it's just odds of finding success vs effort / time spent. And whether that's worth it.

Any of the blanket statements could be true depending on what the exact odds are.

There could be near 0% chance of finding success and it would be better idea to rethink and spend time elsewhere, or yes, there's 10% chance of finding success and it's significant enough that trying 20 times is enough.

If we are talking about e.g. finding a house, if you are not finding any it could very well be that your expectations vs budget is unlikely to find anything and you have to reconsider strategy.

Someone could be repeatedly trying to find work, and thinking it's just a matter of time, but really time would be better spent on improving their strategy, resume, or other means.

These statements to me seem like motivational non-sense which misrepresent how real world works or what the patterns really are like. At best they just give someone a false understanding of how the world works, at worst they make someone spend all their time in the wrong direction.