MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bashmelek | 2025-11-20 15:17:05+00:00
I like the Bible too. It is unfortunate but not unexpected that it set off such a firestorm in the replies.

I would even go so far to say that even nonbelievers would find much value in it, just reading at least the top stories and passages the Old and New Testaments. These are foundational cultural texts that bridge centuries of peoples. And if you are a nonbeliever who wants to read beyond the popular well known parts, please do! But read with a mind to connect with others, not divide.

There are other good things to read too. Plato, Shakespeare, the Chinese Classics, Greek Mythology, folktales. Things that people share with those around them as well as their ancestors
by koakuma-chan | 2025-11-20 15:17:50+00:00
> According to Yoo, by the time he was 1, her son learned both the Korean alphabet and 1,000 Chinese characters by studying the Thousand Character Classic, a sixth-century Chinese poem.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Ung-yong

Is that true? How is that even possible? Like, biologically.
by cmiles8 | 2025-11-20 15:18:20+00:00
IQ and EQ are two different things often not found in the same individual. IQ is being smart enough to know that something is happening. EQ is being smart enough to be able to convince other humans to do something about it.

High IQ low EQ folks often struggle in careers and life because they’re “right” but can’t get anything done.

The most successful tend to be high-ish IQ but with enough EQ to get things done. Those folks are unstoppable.
by jwineinger | 2025-11-20 15:19:08+00:00
Calvin and Hobbes was the only comic I ever truly loved and collected. All of the books are well-worn from my childhood. They sat on a shelf for a couple of decades, and now I get to enjoy watching my kids fall in love with them too.

I don’t think I fully appreciated the range of humor and topics Bill Watterson explored when I was young. Plenty of strips are perfect for my 9 year old; she was in fits of laughter just yesterday at Hobbes’s physical comedy and the elementary school drama with Susie and Mrs Wormwood. But other strips are much more intellectual, touching on politics, life, and morality. I appreciate these more now as well, because they often spark deeper conversations with my kids when they ask me to explain them.

I doubt he’ll ever see it, but thank you, Bill, for giving multiple generations so much laughter.
by bee_rider | 2025-11-20 15:19:22+00:00
It does bring to mind the concept of history’s smartest person, though:

* Ug, the hunter gatherer

* Definitely could have invented fire-cooking if it didn’t predate homo-sapiens

* Can design novel knots and traps from scratch

* Second best stone knapper in the tribe without even trying (Og is better at knapping but that is all he does)

* Predicts movements of roaming antelopes faster than anyone else, and his extrapolations are accurate for days longer

* Can handle 200 social contacts (this skill is useless because the tribe is only 40 people big).
by programjames | 2025-11-20 15:19:23+00:00
You're quite literally babbling. If a word has no good definition, it ceases to be a word. All you really mean is you use the word "intelligence" very loosely, without really knowing what you mean when you use it. You just use it to point at a concept that's vague in your head. That does not mean you could not make that concept more precise, if you felt inclined to be more introspective. It also does not mean that the precise idea I think of when I use the word "intelligence" is the same as your idea. But they'll often be close enough or even equivalent mathematically, as long as we both have precise definitions in mind.
by arthurjj | 2025-11-20 15:19:32+00:00
I've definitely watched repair videos on tiktok. And one of my favorite (indie) tv shows was only on YT for some reason instead of Hulu or Netflix. My kid watches videogame playthroughs on YT, not twitch. And that's completely disregarding you can listen to music on YT.

When defining a monopoly you can't just say "only this subset of the market is the market we're considering" you have to look at everything it does. As the FTC just learned
by meowface | 2025-11-20 15:19:44+00:00
>China applied protectionist policies to its own Internet companies, and it’s hard to argue that this has been economically devastating for them.

China has 1.4 billion people in one country while the combined population of Europe is around half of that, so that's one difference.

But, yes, both US and Chinese technology companies would likely be better off than they are now without China's protectionism and authoritarianism. To the Chinese state, protecting Chinese citizens from harmful things (like knowing full details about atrocities perpetrated by their government, or organizing to criticize the government) outweighs other concerns.
by turnsout | 2025-11-20 15:20:07+00:00
I had a similar experience. It was so disappointing to watch them bike shed Perl 6 endlessly while Python was gradually taking over.

Even as a die-hard mod_perl fan, I never even tried Perl 6. The language had gone from the most concise and efficient way to process text streams to an incredibly complex OOP language that for some reason had an experimental Haskell implementation, its own custom VM and multiple compilers.
by yabones | 2025-11-20 15:20:41+00:00
Chopping the plug is a very good idea, everybody should practice that.

I once had a recurring problem with patch cables between workstations and drops going bad, four or five in one area that had never had that failure rate before. Turns out, every time I replaced one somebody else would grab the "perfectly good" patch cable from the trash can beside my desk. God knows why people felt compelled to do that when they already had perfectly good wires, maybe they thought because it was a different colour it would make their PC faster... So, now every time I throw out a cable that I know to be defective, I always pop the ends off. No more "mystery" problems.
by fn-mote | 2025-11-20 15:20:41+00:00
The title of the article is obnoxious.

The first part of the article puts down a person whose IQ is in the 140-180 range. If you read about the person, that part makes sense as an opinion.

The second part of the article explains that the person referred to in the title, the alleged 210 IQ, has chosen a middle manager job because it makes them happy.

> I'm trying to tell people that I'm happy the way I am.

The author never explains the problem they have with this person.

Instead, I think the title should be more along the lines of "an IQ of 176 does not make you a good person". I guess people would not engage if the conclusion was obvious? The baiting title is totally misplaced.

Actually, the whole treatment of Kim Ung-yong is even worse than I make out in this comment. I am left with a really negative impression of the author.
by calibas | 2025-11-20 15:20:51+00:00
I see an enormous threat here, I think you're just scratching the surface.

You have a customer facing LLM that has access to sensitive information.

You have an AI agent that can write and execute code.

Just image what you could do if you can bypass their safety mechanisms! Protecting LLMs from "social engineering" is going to be an important part of cybersecurity.
by pron | 2025-11-20 15:21:27+00:00
Sure, but other forms of memory management are costly, too. Even if you allocate everything from the OS upfront and then pool stuff, you still need to spend some computational work on the pool [1]. Working with bounded memory necessarily requires spending at least some CPU on memory management. It's not that the alternative to barriers is zero CPU spent on memory management.

> The Parallel GC is still useful sometimes!

Certainly for batch-processing programs.

BTW, the paper you linked is already at least somewhat out of date, as it's from 2021. The implementation of the GCs in the JDK changes very quickly. The newest GC in the JDK (and one that may be appropriate for a very large portion of programs) didn't even exist back then, and even G1 has changed a lot since. (Many performance evaluations of HotSpot implementation details may be out of date after two years.)

[1]: The cheapest, which is similar in some ways to moving-tracing collectors, especially in how it can convert RAM to CPU, is arenas, but they can have other kinds of costs.
by zephyrthenoble | 2025-11-20 15:21:27+00:00
Reading the text of the article, and not just reacting to the title, I do think this article has a kernal of truth to it that resonates with me. It's not really talking about intelligence, but MEASURES, and how individuals contort themselves into what they believe is valuable.

But at the end of the day, we do not have an inherent value. I wonder if people that get hung up on these metrics and what value they seemingly hold either that a person is a whole person, not just some measurement about them. The world's tallest man also has a favorite food, favorite color, and hobbies. He has friends and family. The metric you assigned to him is not the totality of the man.

I say this because recently I've been struggling with work and I feel like I have to say to myself sometimes, I am more than just a source of income and health insurance to my family. To someone who isn't in my situation, it might seem silly, but it has been scary and stressful and in some ways I did say to myself, you have value because you provide. But we have money saved, and are in a stable situation, and I could always find a new job, but my ego assigned value to the job regardless despite my best efforts at pretending that I don't play games with corporations. The stress that keeping a 9 to 5 causes in my mind is entirely self-inflicted by me.

I guess what I'm saying is that I should value other things about myself more highly, or maybe even not value anything about myself if that makes sense. What value is there in in measuring my success, as long as I am honest about my efforts and happiness?

I will never conquer the entire world by 25, or have a billion dollars, so maybe I need to learn to measure less and focus on true personal accountability and happiness instead. Hopefully that's a simple task...
by the_gipsy | 2025-11-20 15:21:43+00:00
To be fair: signal means everybody trusts one central authority. Doesn't matter that it's a foundation or non-profit or whatever.

And: a phone number is still required, a PIN is not, so by default it's susceptible to phone/SIM spoofing attacks. This one really boggles my mind, it's not that I personally am afraid of this vector, but I don't understand why they would insist on phone numbers at this point.
by NYCNews | 2025-11-20 15:21:45+00:00
Subway Slasher Attacks 2 Commuters in Kew Gardens Station

By Dan Gesslein Queens Voice November 20, 2025

QUEENS LOCAL NEWS - Two subway riders were viciously slashed across the face in a random attack at the Kew Gardens station, cops said.

The NYPD released surveillance photos of the suspect who is alleged to have attacked two people during a slashing spree inside the Queens subway station. The attacks took place on the southbound E Train platform at the Union Turnpike–Kew Gardens station.

At around 3:15 pm on November 19, a 42-year-old was waiting on the platform when he was approached from behind by a man dressed all in black. The man took out a sharp object and slashed the commuter across the forehead.

Cops said a few minutes later, the suspect attacked a second victim. A 50-year-old man waiting on another platform was approached from behind. The attacker slashed him across the face and then ran off.

EMS responded quickly, taking the 42-year-old victim to New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital and the 50-year-old victim to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst. Both victims are listed in stable condition.

Investigators describe the suspect as a male with a dark complexion, last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants, and black shoes.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's

Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @ NYPDTips.

All calls are strictly confidential.
by hajile | 2025-11-20 15:22:04+00:00
There seem to be very real differences between x86 and ARM not only in the designs they make easy, but also in the difficulty of making higher-performance designs.

It's telling that ARM, Apple, and Qualcomm have all shipped designs that are physically smaller, faster, and consume way less power vs AMD and Intel. Even ARM's medium cores have had higher IPC than same-generation x86 big cores since at least A78. SiFive's latest RISC-V cores are looking to match or exceed x86 IPC too. x86 is quickly becoming dead last which should be possible if ISA doesn't matter at all given AMD and Intel's budgets (AMD for example spends more in R&D than ARM's entire gross revenue).

ISA matters.

x86 is quite constrained by its decoders with Intel's 6 and 8-wide cores being massive and sucking an unbelievable amount of power and AMD choosing a hyper-complex 2x4 decoder implementation with a performance bottleneck in serial throughput. Meanwhile, we see 6-wide

32-bit ARM is a lot more simple than x86, but ARM claimed a massive 75% reduction in decoder size switching to 64-bit-only in A715 while increasing throughput. Things like uop cache aren't free. They take die area and power. Even worse, somebody has to spend a bunch of time designing and verifying these workarounds which balloons costs and increases time to market.

Another way the ISA matters is memory models. ARM uses barriers/fences which are only added where needed. x86 uses much tighter memory model that implies a lot of things the developers and compiler didn't actually need/want and that impact performance. The solution (not sure if x86 actually does this) is doing deep analysis of which implicit barriers can be provably ignored and speculating on the rest. Once again though, wiring in all these various proofs into the CPU is complicated and error-prone which slows things down while bloating circuitry, using extra die area/power, and sucking up time/money that could be spent in more meaningful ways.

While the theoretical performance mountain is the same, taking the stairs with ARM or RISC-V is going to be much easier/faster than trying to climb up the cliff faces.
by codingdave | 2025-11-20 15:22:12+00:00
The most successful products I've worked on have had the worst codebases. Seriously scary brittle legacy piles of janky code, but that met the market need perfectly and had quite a bit of success.

The best codebases I've worked on have had brilliant teams making sure they code was elegant and as close to perfection as I've seen, but that also got thrown in the trash because they were just coding for its own sake, without bringing any actual value to the end users.

I'm sure there are projects out there that do both product and engineering well. I just haven't seen it.
by nonethewiser | 2025-11-20 15:22:30+00:00
That's right. If the event has a 1 in 390B chance, and there are 8B tries, you would expect to observe the event 2% of the time you conduct the 8B tries. So if you did 8B tries 50 times you would expect it to happen once. And its something higher than 8B - current population isn't the correct sample size.
by ModernMech | 2025-11-20 15:22:31+00:00
This is why the first day of every semester I ask my students "why are you here, in this room with all these other people, spending $$$, instead of sitting at home at YouTubeU watching this content better produced in 4K resolution with graphics and animations?"

You always get the typical "because I was told to" or "I need it for my degree" answers, but ultimately students will bring up:

- they tried that already and they couldn't pay attention past a few lectures

- they didn't have anyone they could ask questions to. This is less true with the advent of AI but still, many students are very skeptical of AI (as they should be).

- they appreciate having a local community of peers to study with

- they are motivated when competing against other students for a top grade

- they are motivated by showing off their abilities to their peers

- they are looking for mentorship and guidance from someone in the field, whether that be in research directions or professional career advice.

- they are looking to build a network with peers and researchers which they can leverage in the future

My takeaway is that the students attend university for their education differ from those who would be fine just watching YouTube videos in that they view their education as a sort of team sport or collective activity; rather than an individualized goal they are achieving for themselves, they approach their education as a journey they are on with their friends.
by VladVladikoff | 2025-11-20 15:22:54+00:00
Super important for Google as a search engine so they can filter out and downrank AI generated results. However I expect there are many models out there which don’t do this, that everyone could use instead. So in the end a “feature” like this makes me less likely to use their model because I don’t know how Google will end up treating my blog post if I decide to include an AI generated or AI edited image.
by BurningFrog | 2025-11-20 15:23:11+00:00
When I was at Google a long time ago, the hiring criteria were simple: Smart, and gets things done.

A lot of people are smart, but don't get much brilliant work done. Even more people do a lot of work, but aren't very smart about it.

To be a genius with important contributions, you need to have both the brains and the work ethic.
by 7777777phil | 2025-11-20 15:23:12+00:00
Good question on the USDCNY trajectory. I think it’s fair to assume that they manage this through capital controls rather than market forces, so the adjustment might play out differently than typical reserve diversification scenarios. The GDP growth question is the interesting one: are they trading some growth for strategic autonomy, or betting they can maintain growth through domestic consumption + non-Western trade? Probably find out in the next 5-10 years.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-20 15:23:32+00:00
See perhaps recent session at IETF 124 (Montreal; Nov 2025) of the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking Working Group (DTN WG):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hbZSwvXpZ4

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/dtn/about/

Various other sessions / meetings:

* https://www.ietf.org/meeting/124/

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC86T-6ZTP5hpTncHTKkY...
by iLemming | 2025-11-20 15:23:37+00:00
> slowly get over the "must coexist with other software"

I dunno, as a Lisper I don't even have to think very hard - virtually any platform available to me, I can write almost anything in Lisp - for JVM and .Net - with Clojure; for Lua with Fennel; for Flutter with ClojureDart; Python - libpython-clj; C/C++ - Jade, CL, Carp and Jank; BEAM - Clojerl and LFE; Shell-scripting - babashka; For targeting js there are multiple options - clojurescript, nbb, squint.

Knowing some Lisp today is as practical as it gets. I really feel like a true polyglot coder - switching between different Lisps, even for drastically dissimilar platforms incurs virtually zero overhead while jumping even between JS and TS is always a headache.
by Filligree | 2025-11-20 15:23:48+00:00
It’s not necessarily harder than other aspects. However:

- It requires an AI that actually understands English, I.e. an LLM. Older, diffusion-only models were naturally terrible at that, because they weren’t trained on it.

- It requires the AI to make no mistakes on image rendering, and that’s a high bar. Mistakes in image generation are so common we have memes about it, and for all that hands generally work fine now, the rest of the picture is full of mistakes you can’t tell are mistakes. Entirely impossible with text.

Nano Banana Pro seems to somewhat reliably produce entire pictures without any mistakes at all.
by ok123456 | 2025-11-20 15:24:05+00:00
The existence of CAD/CAM/engineering software cartels like Dassault and Hexagon suggests that more rent-seeking than innovation is occurring, actively stifling innovation.

It would be like if Oracle, Broadcom, and Computing Associates owned 99.9999% of the software market.

Give good open-source tools to the people who are actually making the hardware, and there will be supply-chain-wide positive externalities.
by AJ007 | 2025-11-20 15:24:10+00:00
The "decentralization" of Matrix is true in some respects, and false in others. Which would be ok, but if all of the complex architecture and issues are in the support of being decentralized, then this seems like an early planning failure.

My suspicion is the real problem that exists now originated from the bifurcation of desktop and mobile. Mobile broke the true p2p decentralization which was easy on desktop, and the split between Android and iOS makes it worse. Users expect an experience on iOS and Android which has parity with desktop. And the entire thing has to be as good as Discord.

I've taken a hard look at all of the truly open source alternative messaging options, and almost nothing handles multi-platform very well. Even when you expand it to commercial options, for a very long time, all of the Slack clones had mediocre mobile apps -- which basically was a death sentence if you weren't Microsoft. This is true today, but I expect it will change in 2026 and onward with the rapid increase in software development driven by AI agents.
by Arch-TK | 2025-11-20 15:24:59+00:00
This is a weird argument.

First off, we don't have a good way to actually measure an individual's intelligence. IQ is actually meant to correlate with g which is a hidden factor we're trying to measure. IQ tests are good insofar as you look at the results of them from the perspective of a population. In these cases individual variation in how well it correlates smooths out. We design IQ tests and normalise IQ scores such that across time and over the course of many studies these tests appear to correlate with this hidden g factor. Moreover, anything below 70 and above 130 is difficult to measure accurately, IQ is benchmarked such that it has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Below 70 and above 130 is outside of two standard deviations.

So, in summary, IQ is not a direct measure of intelligence. What you're doing here is pointing at some random guy who allegedly scored high on an IQ test and saying: "Look at how dumb that guy is. We must be really bad at testing."

But to say we don't know what intelligence is, is silly, since we are the ones defining that word. At least in this sense. And the definition we have come up with is grounded in pragmatism. The point of the whole field of research is to come up with and keep clarifying a useful definition.

Worth also noting that you can study for an IQ test which will produce an even less correlated score. The whole design and point of IQ tests is done with the idea of testing your ability to come up with solutions to puzzles on the spot.
by DarrenDev | 2025-11-20 15:25:32+00:00
Have you considered slashing features in order to speed up your MVP release? Our own "must have" features are often not must haves for users. I was in the same boat a few years back and released a cut down version missing what I thought were must have features. Many years and 1,000+ users later no one has ever requested the missing "key features."
by yoz-y | 2025-11-20 15:25:47+00:00
The curse of intelligence is being able to see the world as it is. And (as TFA points out) the benefits is that then you also have the choice of what to do about it.

But talking about intelligence always brings visceral reactions. While we readily admit that someone can be stronger, or taller, the need to somehow negate that people can be genuinely smarter is somehow evil.

Also I disagree with comments saying we don’t have a good definition of intelligence. We have several but to me the most important is to plan ahead, and then be able to successfully improvise when the plan goes wrong.