MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2025-11-28 16:44:46+00:00
I only heard the Peanuts theme song as an adult. As a child in the UK, the The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show was on TV, not Peanuts, and it had the theme song Let's Have A Party With Charlie Brown and Snoopy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zKKAyLJP4
by gosub100 | 2025-11-28 16:46:01+00:00
"Stop the laundering of responsibility/liability" - the risk that you can run someone over with a software controlled car and it's not a crime "because AI" whereas a human doing the same thing would be in jail. Image detection leading to false arrests, etc. It's harder to sue because the immediate party can say "it wasn't us, we bought this software product and it did the bad thing!"

I strongly feel that regulation needs to curb this, even if it leads to product managers going to jail for what their black box did.
by imiric | 2025-11-28 16:46:38+00:00
This looks neat, thanks for building and sharing it.

I do agree that observability stacks are usually a deep pit of things to configure and services to run, but there are tools that simplify things considerably. I can personally vouch for OpenObserve, and I've heard good things about SigNoz as well. They're essentially a single-binary deployment, and all it requires is configuring otel-collector on each machine you want to send data from. I know that OpenObserve has a REST API as well, so you can just send the data via plain HTTP if you prefer to not use OpenTelemetry.

So while I'm sure your project is useful for very simple use cases, it will be difficult to support anything slightly more sophisticated. And you'll have to reinvent the wheel for most of this, of course. But good luck, regardless!
by andriamanitra | 2025-11-28 16:46:42+00:00
The list is clearly mostly machine generated but the name typo is an unlikely error for LLM to make. I'm guessing the "general editing pass" that introduced it was done by an actual human while trying to make the text flow better (less LLM-like).

https://github.com/a16z-infra/reading-list/commit/f8d149495a...
by epistasis | 2025-11-28 16:47:25+00:00
IMHO that missed big parts of the picture, because it's kind of like saying that because we have an ample supply of trees for punch cards, there's no need to invest in magnetic tape and hard drives. There are big differences in the fundamental capabilities and costs of renewables versus fuel based economies.

Not only is an electrified economy powered by renewables a far cheaper future, it is also the difference between renting your energy infrastructure and owning it. With fuel based systems, the US is still susceptible to global fuel prices, as long as we participate in the global market, which leads to highly unstable prices. With renewables, you buy and then own, and don't have to worry about price instability; you have 30 years of stability from a solar panel. And when it reaches end of life, it continues working, giving more than a decade of opportunity to buy at the most convenient time and price.

Countries that switch earlier will have advantages. Countries that base their economy on being providers for panels and batteries may or may not see similar benefits, but renewables, even when purchased from other countries, give cheaper and more secure energy supply than even oil fields in your own country.
by lateforwork | 2025-11-28 16:47:50+00:00
Most application's file formats are structured as a tree, not as flat tables. If your application's data is flat tables or name-value pairs then SQLite is an obvious choice. But if it is tree structured then it is less obvious. You can still save your tree in JSON format as a blob in a SQLite table but in this case the benefits are fewer. But if in addition to the JSON you have images or other binary data then once again SQLite offers benefits, because each of those binary files can be additional rows in the SQLite table. This is far easier to handle than storing them in ZIP format.
by fschuett | 2025-11-28 16:47:57+00:00
Not really, I mean I don't "complain" about companies using my code and I don't demand much. I'm happy if they're honest enough to send me patches back. But if I know that my code is being used by German companies, then, as a German, it's only fair to ask for some breadcrumbs back (about 40-50% of your income goes to the state in Germany, it's not like the US). We could make "everything private only", but then it becomes very hard for people to start their own startups as they have to pay for every little thing, like in the 90s.

I do take responsibility for the code I write, often way more than some company CEOs ("just sell it bro"). I try to make efforts, but in the end I have physical limits. And many open-source developers are like that. It's more "well if we would put some miniscule effort to supporting open source, we'd all be better of, more sovereign, more independent of Big Tech, more innovation, etc. etc." - sure, not every GH project is "innovation", but many are, so just make some org where you could more easily apply for public funding, problem solved.

What I do at least demand is that the Jobcenter stops bothering me to "get a real job" (thankfully they're very lenient at least where I live). Or that there are more opportunities for funding Open Source. There are initiatives like the Prototype Fund, which is at least a start, but they are only spending about €1.8 million per year, which is literal pocket change for the German government. Meanwhile literal billions go to weapons development for random foreign countries.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-11-28 16:48:00+00:00
Arguably AI-assisted/pair programming is a subset of what is usually attributed to vibe coding. It's different controlling the LLM to your own needs and "vaguely describing, accepting everything, explore correctness by experimentation" an LLM generates. Vibe coding usually refers to the later, and it isn't used mockingly but rather cautiously since something build like that potentially lacks longevity/safety/etc. If something also seemingly lacks effort ("Show HN: Made an awesome DNS resolver in Zig by prompting Claude to make an awesome DNS resolver in Zig. Didn't even tested it!"), then AI slop is used mockingly. You're saying "[t]he human still architects the system" and similar. Yet the many examples that somehow even end up here show that for projects build from ground up in this approach the human has no idea on the system's architecture, the human has no idea on correctness, and sometimes the human has no idea the code even works.

Also,

>Real devs use printf, not debuggers.

>TypeScript is just training wheels.

Ironically using a debugger over print statements and TS over JS requires more effort.
by crote | 2025-11-28 16:48:30+00:00
Looking at the graphs in the linked article, a more accurate title would probably be "AI adoption has stagnated" - which a lot of people are going to care about.

Corporate AI adoption looks to be hitting a plateau, and adoption in large companies is even shrinking. The only market still showing growth is companies with fewer than 5 employees - and even there it's only linear growth.

Considering our economy is pumping billions into the AI industry, that's pretty bad news. If the industry isn't rapidly growing, why are they building all those data centers? Are they just setting money on fire in a desperate attempt to keep their share price from plummeting?
by loginatnine | 2025-11-28 16:48:39+00:00
Send them a request to have Trusted publishers support at central-support (at) sonatype.com

I did that a couple of weeks ago and received an acknowledgment "Another request on Trusted Publishing option. Assigning to Product for review and further action." so this is a bit encouraging.

At least Maven dependencies don't execute scripts on install, but Maven plugins could have a big blast radius.
by groundzeros2015 | 2025-11-28 16:49:22+00:00
Paraphrasing: “My model was right up until… so it was pretty good.”

I would not draw any of the conclusions the author did. This 3 variable growth and decay model has nothing to do with what happened.

COVID was a good example to me of a “nerd trap” all these simulators, mapping tools, exponential graphs got built. Having access to data can give one an illusion of understanding or at least a distraction from what matters.
by incanus77 | 2025-11-28 16:50:08+00:00
I did this for MBTiles, for storing (at the time, raster) map tiles at Mapbox. I was working on the iPad wing of R&D early in the company and we were focusing on offline mapping for the iPad. Problem was, moving lots of tiny map tiles (generally 256px square PNGs) was tedious over USB and network. We had a thing called Maps on a Stick for moving things around by USB, but it just didn’t scale well to the iPad interface & file transfer needs.

Bundled the tiles into SQLite (I was inspired by seeing Dr. Hipp speak at a conference) and voila, things both easy to move and to checksum. Tiles were identified by X & Y offset at a given (Z)oom level, which made for super easy indexing in a relational DB like SQLite. On the iPad, it was then easy to give map bundles an application icon, associated datatype from file extension, metadata in a table, etc. At the time, I was fairly intimidated by the idea of creating a file format, but databases, I knew. And then making some CLI tools for working with the files in any language was trivial after that.
by jonhohle | 2025-11-28 16:50:25+00:00
Over a decade ago at Amazon, all third party dependencies needed to be manually imported. On the one hand, it makes importing new versions or packages slow. On the other hand, there is a very explicit intention and log of every external change that made it into internal projects.

At my previous company, I implemented staged dependencies with artifactory so that production could never get packages that had never gone through CR, or staging environments first. They just were never replicated. That eliminated fuzzy dependency matches that showed up for the first time in production (something that did happen). Because dev to production was about 1 week, it also afforded time to identify packages before they had a chance to be deployed. Obviously it was less robust than manually importing.

Maybe self-hosted package caches support these features now, but 6-7 years ago, that was all manual work.
by LocalH | 2025-11-28 16:50:29+00:00
It depends on the cat. My girlfriend and I have four cats between us. The youngest one was warmed up before she got here (by her choice it seems, she pounced on my girlfriend when she approached her cage in the shelter), and made herself at home within minutes.

Just like humans, cats have their own psychology and their own personalities.

I have to imagine that if a human consciousness were suddenly placed inside a cat body, the experience would rival even the deepest psychedelic experiences.
by bkrauth | 2025-11-28 16:50:32+00:00
Hi, Development plan:

1. Proof of concept (GPT-4o) 2. Owned LLM (control, less restriction) 3. Optimized LLM (built for signal work) 4. Post-LLM substrate (signal-native)

Step 3: This is buildable now. 6–12 months. With the right architect, right team, right funding. It’s a new shape of LLM, not a new paradigm.

Step 4: Step Four isn’t a better model. It’s a different class of intelligence. It doesn’t improve the existing system. It renders it obsolete.

The beta/demo works. But it’s at cap limit.

I’m complete outsider. At my technical limit. Need capital, right team + environment to build.

I know the architecture.
by mooglevich | 2025-11-28 16:50:45+00:00
I can't speak for firmretention, but I'm guessing it's the idea of a billionaire who's rightly lauded for his investment skill getting a little greenwashed with "donations" that aren't really no-strings-attached donations. It's also a little dystopian to have a dorm described as:

> “Munger Hall, in comparison, is a single block housing 4,500 students with two entrances,” McFadden said, and would qualify as the eighth densest neighborhood on the planet, falling just short of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

It is a good idea, but I am curious whether it's a fire hazard to have only two entrances for such a big and dense building? Maybe this is misreported, I don't know.

In general, though, I personally do think that donating money and micromanaging how that money is spent does come off weird and disingenuous. You have every right to do it, but it's not really in the spirit of a pure donation to me at that point.

Again, I can't speak for firmretention. Their comment just tickled this own natural reaction I had in myself to the linked article.
by elmerfud | 2025-11-28 16:50:52+00:00
I'm not sure, at the end of the day, it would have made that much difference. Those who are security and separation aware still are and plan9 would have been a much easier tool for those people.

Those people who are not, still would not be, and having that separation ability wouldn't help. You see this with apps and other things that have the ability to limit their access but you want the app and you just click through without reading what permissions it wants. So those who just want to use something without understanding the danger of it still fall prey to nefarious actors.
by kenjackson | 2025-11-28 16:51:12+00:00
At this point all tech is big business. Microsoft or Apple. Azure or AWS. Google Apps or Office. Even dealing with Red Hat feels like you’re dealing with big tech.

And the thing is 99.99% of the time everything works just fine. I think these governments often struggle with moving off of them because they find that making the common case worse is not a trade off that most of their users want.
by brandall10 | 2025-11-28 16:51:16+00:00
It's such an interesting arc. I starting university in Sept '94, super excited to try out Mosaic on a T1 class connection after suffering through my 14.4k home modem. And shortly after I arrived, Netscape dropped.

He was an absolute hero of that era, possibly the most admired 'geek' back then. Young, with hair, with no hints of his future Dr. Evil emergence.
by akerl_ | 2025-11-28 16:52:19+00:00
> Basically the topics you might see in mainstream news are usually out.

Well yea, that’s officially part of the guidelines: “ Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by myrmidon | 2025-11-28 16:52:48+00:00
For $800 you can get a complete 2kWh system, including cells, inverter and panels shipped to your home in Europe, so if you're paying more than that for half the storage either your government or contractor is fleecing you.

I can confirm that prismatic 1kWh LFP cells cost ~$60 in single digit numbers.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-28 16:52:56+00:00
> Not to mention, cold is an infectious disease too (it's literally the same disease, just a weaker variant caused by strains that evolved their potency away)

“The cold” is actually any of a wide variety of different viral diseases (caused by various forms of rhinovirus, coronavirus [0], and, I think, a few other kinds of viruses), none of which are flu (influenza virus). It is not a less potent flu.

[0] so calling COVID-19 “a bad cold” is correct from a certain point of view, despite being substantively misleading.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-28 16:53:15+00:00
As a reminder, Princeton did a study and found that public support for a bill has almost zero impact on whether or not that bill passes [1].

This government is bought and paid for by the ultra-wealthy and large corporations with a system of legalized corruption that began long before the disastrous Citizens United decision [2] but that decision put things into overdrive.

When this bubble bursts as I firmly believe it will, it's going to get much worse because Congress will launch into action... by bailing out those that invested billions into AI without any prospect of ever recouping that money.

[1]: https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem-tmp

[2]: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...
by FiloSottile | 2025-11-28 16:53:48+00:00
Ignoring the damaging and self-serving behavior of Bernstein for a moment, and focusing only on the technical claim at the core of the conspiracy theory: it makes absolutely no sense.

The assertion is that the NSA is subverting standards processes to push pure ML-KEM key exchanges, the same algorithm they are requiring for their own TS//SCI information in CNSA 2.0.

There is mathematically no place for a NOBUS backdoor in ML-KEM (see https://keymaterial.net/2025/11/27/ml-kem-mythbusting/), so the assertion is that the NSA wants the US Government to use broken cryptography for its most sensitive information. Broken in the sense that an adversary or academic could discover how to break it tomorrow (or yesterday), throwing the government signals handling in disarray, or silently causing a counter-intelligence catastrophe.

That's... ridiculous? Bernstein wraps this in a lot of words and emotionally charged gish gallop, but the core technical point doesn't hold. And it's getting tiresome, and getting in the way of actually important PQ rollout work.

Before anyone claims there's precedent: there isn't. Dual_EC_DRBG was a NOBUS backdoor (and anyway was not authorized for TS//SCI as part of Suite B, the predecessor of CNSA 2.0), and export ciphers were for everyone else not for USG data.
by seogrove | 2025-11-28 16:54:01+00:00
I’ve been building an AI automation tool for Shopify stores because a lot of merchants I work with struggle with basic SEO tasks they don’t have time for: rewriting product descriptions, fixing duplicate titles, generating collections, and optimizing images. SEO Grove connects to a Shopify store and automatically audits the catalog, then suggests (or auto-applies) fixes using AI. The goal was to replace the usual manual spreadsheet workflows with something merchants can run in a few minutes. Right now it can: • Identify duplicate or thin product descriptions • Generate SEO-optimized titles and meta descriptions • Rewrite product descriptions in bulk • Improve image alt tags automatically • Create consistent, brand-safe text across the store • Provide a simple dashboard for issues + recommendations I’d appreciate any feedback — especially from people who run or build for Shopify. This is an early version and I’m trying to figure out what features matter most before expanding the tool.
by KerrAvon | 2025-11-28 16:54:02+00:00
I think you’re overreacting, to be honest. Whatever the original intent of the term, “vibe coding” as used does not — in my experience — refer to using LLM assistance for coding in general.

No, “Vibe coding” is a pretty accurate descriptor for the AI slop code dumps a lot of people are putting into PRs now. Maybe it’s acceptable for web UI front ends, but anything people actually rely on needs to be held to a higher standard.

Very general rule-of-thumb: Doesn’t matter if the AI wrote some or all of the code. If you, personally, can explain every line in the PR, and justify its existence, it’s fine; it’s not vibe coding.
by jerome-jh | 2025-11-28 16:54:22+00:00
When I started working, more than 25 years ago, we had one team meeting per week (1 hour), very few other meetings. Cellphones were getting mainstream and people had these funny ringtones, but since communications were expensive, phones were not ringing often. The office phone was ringing even more seldomly. We had no ticketing system. Managers just trusted you for doing your work. When going to someone else desk we would start with "may I disturb you?", and the answer may have been "give me five minutes". We had like 2-3 emails a day. It turns out someone had the radio in the office. That was in Belgium and the radio was in Flemish. This was not a big deal since I do not understand Flemish. Despite being rather cramped, I remember this office as quiet. It was not a large open-space though.

I cannot remember the turning point. Of course "agile" did a lot of damage, then ticketing systems, the illusion that developers are swap-able, and now constant notification stream.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-28 16:54:37+00:00
In those past times of technological change, it was reasonably obvious where the puck was headed.

However, I feel like that has been changing over the past decade or two. I have met countless young people who have been willing and able to pick up a new skill to make a living. By and large, that has either turned out to be going into tech or going into gig work

AI is threatening both of those. It is not obvious to me what comes after. Frankly, these days if someone younger comes to me asking for career advice, I honestly wouldn't know what to tell them.
by Propelloni | 2025-11-28 16:54:41+00:00
I do volunteer work as a treasurer in a charity and I disagree on Ehrenämter being stupid and pointless, but otherwise I agree.

The petitioners seem to be blissfully unaware how civil service is recognized in Germany. Or they are all too much aware and want to undermine transparency requirements by asking for special treatment for open source developers. The charity principle requires to assume the former.
by ArtemGetman | 2025-11-28 16:55:04+00:00
Hey Ben - congrats on launching Zo. The vision of "personal servers with all your context" resonates deeply.

I built MindMirror for a similar problem: persistent memory across AI tools via MCP protocol. Your mom using Zo to manage her schedule with context from notes/files is exactly the use case.

What's interesting about cross-tool memory: users want context in Zo AND when they switch to Claude/Cursor for dev work. Same memory, different tools.

Would love to compare notes on the personal AI context problem - especially curious how you're handling memory persistence and context management at scale.

Congrats again on the launch!
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-28 16:55:05+00:00
"most good posts" don't die in newest, otherwise HN wouldn't be functioning/popular. Almost all of the top-top posts (save a few dupes) are fresh, original content that's popular with readers and/or generating lots of discussion. C'mon now. If anything, use /newest to see the actual mire of low-quality submissions and keep them there.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-28 16:55:20+00:00
Tell me more about that, while here in Germany people again and again vote against their own interest (AfD, CDU, SPD, and all the other corrupt and inept politicians and parties) and the mainstream parties have not managed to improve our situation for some 4-5 election cycles. Tell me more about that, while looking at the US. I am quite sure many other countries can be added to this list.
by simonw | 2025-11-28 16:55:47+00:00
Apollo published a similar chart in September 2025: https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rate-trending-down... - their headline for that one was "AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies".

I had fun with that one getting GPT-5 and ChatGPT Code Interpreter to recreate it from a screenshot of the chart and some uploaded census data: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/apollo-ai-adoption/

Then I repeated the same experiment with Claude Sonnet 4.5 after Anthropic released their own code interpreter style tool later on that same day: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/9/claude-code-interpreter...
by alexgotoi | 2025-11-28 16:56:03+00:00
Hey everyone, 9 weeks ago I started a validation process: 10 weeks, 10 issues of a newsletter which is simply a roundup of the most upvoted and most commented links AI-related. The success metric was simple: if I get 100 subscribers, I continue it.

Today I am at 145 subscribers, most got from a few reddit posts in AI subreddits, so I will go on. Here is the latest issue: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=227c8c62-cba0-11f0-baea-cd...