MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-11-07 05:18:11+00:00
Fair point, though I'm not entirely sure the shape that Judaism took in its relatively early days. But one thing I'd say is that the same remains true to this day. The people suffering for lack of meaning and direction, and casting aside religion, are not the people working the fields. Such work provides a sort of meaning and comfort all its own, as the work is inherently virtuous. It's people with relatively leisurely and highly compensated but completely meaningless and unnecessary (and even socially detrimental) work, that are left to search for meaning in it all.
by icefunc | 2025-11-07 05:19:29+00:00
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by csmantle | 2025-11-07 05:20:12+00:00
From the paper [0], they're using a specialized model structure, so at least they are not part of the LLM hype. That's good. But I still wonder how this compares to existing rule- and manual heuristics-based approaches like github/linguist.

[0]: https://securityresearch.google/magika/2025_icse_magika.pdf
by jacquesm | 2025-11-07 05:23:48+00:00
> I like it, I will be formatting all my years to 5 digits from now on.

Please don't, it's highly irritating and usually just serves as a way to get people to discuss the leading zero rather than the subject they were really interested in in the first place. Leading zeros aren't a thing for a reason. It's about as useful as expressing the temperature in Kelvin.
by user_7832 | 2025-11-07 05:24:02+00:00
> I find it generates the most natural-sounding output of any of the LLMs

Curious, does it do as well/natural as claude 3.5/3.6 sonnet? That was imo the most "human" an AI has ever sounded. (Gemini 2.5 pro is a distant second, and chatgpt is way behind imo.)
by DocTomoe | 2025-11-07 05:26:29+00:00
And still some of IT's biggest trends right now are LLMs, which essentially make shit up on an industrial scale.

What is going to be lost is more than an old book for old people: It's the folklore associated with it, the - and I mean that in the most positive meaning of the word - myths. The same kind of old magic that vanished when 'Weekly World News' stopped publication, or when MAD stopped being published monthly.
by musicale | 2025-11-07 05:28:35+00:00
"I'm sorry for how you feel about this" (we won't admit that we harmed you with our bad behavior, and it's probably your fault for feeling pain.)

"your struggles" (it's your fault that you were harmed by our bad behavior.)

"Hop on a call" (we are the boss, you aren't, and your concerns are trivial.)
by cosmicjoe | 2025-11-07 05:29:59+00:00
As a non-scientist I've always found the Cosmic Distance Ladder as likely to be inaccurate due its assumption about the constant brightness of Standard Candle stars over their lifetime, and the compounding of error at each rung of the ladder. Direct measurement of the CMB seems to be simpler with less chance of error.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_distance_ladder
by roncesvalles | 2025-11-07 05:30:08+00:00
>will spend most of their time surrounded by people they can't really relate to.

But society tends to bring together like-minded people e.g. in schooling, professional work, sports teams, art school, or whatever other community.

Also, I think social compatibility is less about matching IQs and more about matching senses of humor. If someone finds your jokes distasteful or downright bland, it's never going to work out. My friends are my friends because we laugh at the same things.
by amatecha | 2025-11-07 05:32:24+00:00
Right, I get that. That's their opinion, and I was expressing a differing opinion (that's why I said "I think of it a bit differently" lol)

I have recorded hundreds of songs using digital audio production software since ~1999. Switching to Logic Pro unlocked the opportunity for me to work WAY more effectively than a shareware tracker software I was using before (and Fruity Loops after that), in fact allowing production techniques that are literally impossible with a tracker. Not just large-scale features, but minutiae in how the interface works, "intuitiveness", ease of access like a single key-press to enter a certain editing mode, things like that.

When I am working with my mind and trying to be creative, every millisecond spent thinking about stupid UI quirks/peculiarities takes away from the part that actually matters: creating.

If the UI is obtuse, and I can't figure out how to employ a certain technique, the tool is hampering my progress. Conversely, a thoughtful feature in a tool can boost productivity and boost the success rate of reaching a "flow state"[0]. One example of this: there's a common technique to record multiple takes of the same segment of instrumental performance or vocals, and then layer those multiple recordings together to give more dynamism and depth to the sound. Infected Mushroom uses this technique a lot[1]. In Logic Pro 10 or so, they added built-in support for doing this, making it super easy to quickly/successively record multiple takes[2]. I don't know what other DAWs did this at the time, but if you're just learning, this is a really nice production process surfaced in a very low-friction way. Otherwise you are making a new track, recording, trying to line it up properly, making a new track, recording again, lining it up again, etc. It's also not even obvious that this is something you could do, but because Logic made it an actual built-in feature, its very existence also acts as a form of "tutorial" if someone is just exploring the UI or reading the documentation.

So, yeah, as a pretty amateur studio producer at the time, the "best tooling" allowed my skills to improve by a gigantic margin, compared to the slow progress I was making with inferior tools before that. I can't agree for a second that tooling doesn't matter or only matters for people at the top of their game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)

[1] https://www.prosoundweb.com/exclusive-interview-production-t...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/logicpro/lgcpb19806af/...
by necovek | 2025-11-07 05:33:56+00:00
> then sack your API designer.

Or do not use SemVer?

All I am saying is that they are a communication tool regardless of the product, and there is no one single answer to which is best based on the type of software being built.

You seem to want to encode good API design practices into a versioning scheme, and I claim it does not work that way ;)
by crystal_revenge | 2025-11-07 05:34:07+00:00
The problem with statements like these is that I work with people who make the same claims, but are slowly building useless, buggy monstrosities that for various reasons nobody can/will call out.

Obviously I’m reasonably willing to believe that you are an exception. However every person I’ve interacted with who makes this same claim has presented me with a dumpster fire and expected me to marvel at it.
by mrtksn | 2025-11-07 05:34:30+00:00
You don't need to split into two equal sides to have a civil war. You can start having terrorist organizations that are able to obtain weapons with help from these billionaires to do acts that serve their agenda. They can fly people to private military companies for warfare training. Not necessarily everyone will be fighting everyone, you can end up having an organization doing very bad things and some of the population that has grievances(real or induced through information shaping) supporting it. At first the non-supporting side will demand to suspend some liberties to fix the security issues which very easily(the every bit of controversy or imperfection will do that) can deepen the divide and increase the support for the other side. The tenser it gets the more extreme politicians will raise and a feedback loop will be formed that will tear down the country.

For now they are just shaping the information landscape to convince people that certain very bad things are happening and that they need to take action but let's say they start providing the material and the training, who's going to stop them? They happen to be close allies of a much larger country's administration that built a reputation for disdain towards the rule of law. If a Billionaire finances the shipping a few thousand rifles and explosive to UK in drug induced rage night, will the UK politicians and law enforcement or the intelligence services be able to do anything about that?

So IMHO the premise isn't implausible at all. These things happen all over the world, all those civil war torn countries are fighting with real military grade weapons being shipped to them from Europe, Russia and USA. At this very time CIA is apparently trying to orchestrate something like that in Venezuela, it's not even secret, Trump recently authorized covert CIA operation in Venezuela and Trump's claim that Venezuela is doin something similar in USA isn't implausible either: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-covert-...

Once you have enough distrust in the society, others can do a lot of things to that society.
by nsm | 2025-11-07 05:35:29+00:00
> But at present, there is a big gap in the workflow: You leave your editor, open a browser, navigate to some page or tab, then navigate to the exact same place in the code you were just looking at, click on a line to open a text box, and finally you can write your comment.

Jetbrains can review GitHub PRs right in the IDE.
by nsonha | 2025-11-07 05:37:12+00:00
Huh? Please post the definitely proof you know to exist. Because it doesn't and that's one of the accusation toward the CCP, that they covered it up.

It's funny that when the Israel government posted some photos of the Oct 7 massacres, people are very quick to point out that some seem staged. But some bloody photos that look like Tiananmem Square from the 80s is considered definite proof.
by furyofantares | 2025-11-07 05:37:32+00:00
I didn't address the comment about how some startups are operating at a loss because it seems like an irrelevant nitpick at my wording that "none of them" is operating inference at a loss. I don't think the comment I was replying to was referring to relying on whatever startups you're talking about. I think they were referring to Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI - and so was I.

That seems like a theme with these replies, nitpicking a minor thing or ignoring the context or both, or I guess more generously I could blame myself of not being more precise with my wording. But sure, you have to buy new GPUs after making a bunch of money burning the ones you have down.

I think your point about knowledge cutoff is interesting, and I don't know what the ongoing cost to keeping a model up to date with world knowledge is. Most of the agents I think about personally don't actually want world knowledge and have to be prompted or fine tuned such that they won't use it. So I think that requirement kind of slipped my mind.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 05:38:44+00:00
Most LLMs have tool patterns trained into them now, which are then managed for you by the API that the developers run on top of the models.

But... you don't have to use that at all. You can use pure prompting with ANY good LLM to get your own custom version of tool calling:

Any time you want to run a calculation, reply with: {{CALCULATOR: 3 + 5 + 6}} Then STOP. I will reply with the result.

Before LLMs had tool calling we called this the ReAct pattern - I wrote up an example of implementing that in March 2023 here: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern
by musicale | 2025-11-07 05:43:08+00:00
I suppose some people must enjoy being woken up by an explosion of jet engines in the middle of the night. Victims are blamed for having ears and living within 50 miles of an airfield. Some airports do seem have "curfews", say from 1 to 5 a.m., so you can get 4 hours of sleep. How generous.

While we're cutting budgets, I'd like to cut the budget for constant and unnecessarily loud sirens for emergency vehicles as well. "Oh great, there's another emergency.... somewhere..."

It is a shame that the EPA doesn't actually enforce any noise pollution regulations.
by tonymet | 2025-11-07 05:43:24+00:00
they're fighting the wrong enemy. News content is such low quality, archive.is is the only enjoyable way to consume them. Their articles aren't worth wading through relentless popups.

IF I'm curious about a fact or story, it's chatgpt. if someone sends me a link , it's archive.is . When archive.is goes way, I'm never going to see a CNN, NYT, LAtimes/etc logo again.
by cyberpunk | 2025-11-07 05:44:31+00:00
We have gpt-5 and gemini 2.5 pro at work, and both of them produce huge amounts of basically shit code that doesn’t work.

Every time i reach for them recently I end up spending more time refactoring the bad code out or in deep hostage negotiations with the chatbot of the day that I would have been faster writing it myself.

That and for some reason they occasionally make me really angry.

Oh a bunch of prompts in and then it hallucinated some library a dependency isn’t even using and spews a 200 line diff at me, again, great.

Although at least i can swear at them and get them to write me little apology poems..
by WorldMaker | 2025-11-07 05:45:02+00:00
It's more practical than you may think. Just needs about 40 GBs right now. I did it a couple years back in a fit of peculiar paranoia, downloaded the full hash list and checked all my KeePass-stored passwords at that time against it.

https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 05:45:32+00:00
> Leading zeros aren't a thing for a reason.

If they aren't a thing, why are we talking about them? Clearly they're a thing. And not even an obscure thing. If you've ever used commonly used representations like ZIP codes, bank account numbers, or serial numbers you'll no doubt have encountered it before. And that even goes for dates. ISO 8601, for example, requires leading zeros, including for the year component. "1" is not considered a valid year under that standard. It must be represented as "0001". Granted, ISO 8601 only requires a minimum of four characters to represent the year, but expecting at least five characters is conceptually just as valid.
by cruffle_duffle | 2025-11-07 05:45:32+00:00
Bingo. People who think science is fact dont understand science.

The actual fact is, we humans really don’t know much about the universe and indeed there may be truths and knowledge that we’ll never know the answer to. Like… why the fuck are we here? Where did all this stuff come from. Sure we have theories and have logical conclusions but at the end of the day… we are tiny and the universe is mind bogglingly huge. It is peak human arrogance to think we truly know anything at all.

It’s very humbling to realise how little we actually know. What we do know… we know. We are masters of electro-magnetism, chemistry, etc… but when it comes to the big questions it’s all a shot in the dark.
by richardfeynman | 2025-11-07 05:47:02+00:00
Earlier cholantesh failed to accept the bedrocks of western jurisprudence. I would be happy to debate cholantesh if he first accepts: (1) the western concept of presumed innocence; (2) that while the video from Sde Teiman does show suspicious circumstances, the allegations must be tested in court; (3) the accused are innocent until proven guilty; (4) there is also certain potentially exculpatory evidence undermining the accusations (a hospital report that doesn't show rape; a grainy and edited video, where the alleged sex act cannot clearly be seen, among other things)

In the meantime, what I will say for other readers is that just as cholantesh ignores the foundations of western jurisprudence, cholantesh also ignores one of the foundational principles of the enlightenment, and the motto of the royal society: nullius in verba - take nobody's word for it. One doesn't make a case by appealing to authorities like the Church of England or agencies with three-letter acronyms, but thinks from first principles to generate good explanations. Various evidence-free circular theories, like "kids look starving due to prenatal nutritional deficiencies" sound incredibly stupid (really, 10 year olds? kids with cerebral palsy?), and classifying arguments as belonging to forbidden categories ("hasbara talking points") is a dollar store technique for throwing reason out the window.
by ridgeguy | 2025-11-07 05:47:20+00:00
Fair point, and one of particular interest to me, age 76.

I find my short-term memory is in decline, magnitude depending on specific circumstances. This annoys me, and to a lesser degree, my wife as well. Really, where did I put that damned can opener?

But I also find my ability to find connections among phenomena in my technical field has markedly increased. In addition to my subjective perception, there's an outside measure, the annual rate of patent applications my employer files on my disclosures, and consequent cash bonuses. About a factor of 4x compared to when I was 60. As well (per my wife's telling), I'm better at remembering anniversaries and other significant dates in our lives and those of our family & friends. Anecdata, of course.

I'd say my age-related 'decline' has been uneven regarding details of cognition/memory, and at the moment provides me and my loved ones a better quality of life - certainly not what I expected decades earlier. It's complicated, and I'll be interested to see what more the posted research leads to.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-07 05:48:01+00:00
> And leverage the C ecosystem, by transpiling to C

I heavily doubt that this would work on arbitrary C compilers reliably as the interpretation of the standard gets really wonky and certain constructs that should work might not even compile. Typically such things target GCC because it has such a large backend of supported architectures. But LLVM supports a large overlapping number too - thats why it’s supported to build the Linux kernel under clang and why Rust can support so many microcontrollers. For Rust, that’s why there’s the rust codegen gcc effort which uses GCC as the backend instead of LLVM to flush out the supported architectures further. But generally transpiration is used as a stopgap for anything in this space, not an ultimate target for lots of reasons, not least of which that there’s optimizations that aren’t legal in C that are in another language that transpilation would inhibit.

> Rust is fast, uses little memory, but us verbose and hard to use (borrow checker).

It’s weird to me that my experience is that it was as hard to pick up the borrow checker as the first time I came upon list comprehension. In essence it’s something new I’d never seen before but once I got it it went into the background noise and is trivial to do most of the time, especially since the compiler infers most lifetimes anyway. Resistance to learning is different than being difficult to learn.
by ehnto | 2025-11-07 05:48:23+00:00
For hiring purposes, and standing on top of the legacy built before you. Same reason people still build stuff in PHP and Wordpress.

Is it wise? Depends! Does your team have strong technical guidance, and a long term outlook on the strength of the platform you are building? Great, you can probably hire any good developer and have time to train them to build within your less common framework or boutique platform. Choose whatever tools you think are actually best.

Are you a startup with no developers who needs a product fast? Well shoot, you are absolutely swimming in React dev resumes, seems like a great place to start! Maybe it won't be the best outcome, but a good outcome will still do the trick.
by shagie | 2025-11-07 05:48:48+00:00
RFC 2550 Section 3.1 has years from 0000 to 9999 as four digit but zero padded (so the fall of Rome was 0476). It then gets appropriately weird as it was published April 1, 1999.

You might also enjoy the Kurzgesagt human era calendar - https://youtu.be/29pN-2KM2DI - https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/calendar
by fulafel | 2025-11-07 05:50:34+00:00
As C# SIMD had a such a long head start in Mono (your linked MS blog post has their timeling starting only in 2014) it should probably get a bit more credit.

It was after all enabling games to use SIMD with C# (with MonoGame and Unity), even if their interface wasn't the winning one in the end.
by tomhow | 2025-11-07 05:51:56+00:00
It was a shit-show of a thread of the worst kind on HN. I know you didn't start it, and I agree the commenter you were replying to started things with a generic ideological tangent. But we need everyone here to have enough restraint and poise to refrain from escalating and perpetuating flamewars.

It doesn't matter who starts something, everyone who plays a role in continuing it has some responsibility for it, and some of your comments were needlessly abusive. Commenting like that doesn't make things better on HN, and indeed they make things much worse.

When you see comments on HN that seem harmful to the health of the community, the first thing to do is flag them and if they're particularly bad, you should email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can take a look. We can very easily address such issues quickly, well before they turn into hellish flamewars like this.
by vlovich123 | 2025-11-07 05:54:17+00:00
I don’t think Fil-C supplants Rust; Rust still has a place for things like kernel development where Fil-C would not be accepted since it wouldn’t work there. But also Rust today has significantly better performance and memory usage so makes more sense for greenfield projects that might otherwise consider C/C++. Not to mention that Rust as a language is drastically easier and faster to develop in due to a modern package management system, a good fast cohesive std library, true cross platform support, static catching of all the issues that would otherwise cause Fil-C to crash instead in addition to having better performance without effort.

Fil-C is an important tool to secure traditional software but it doesn’t yet compete with Rust in the places it’s competing with C and C++ in greenfield projects (and it may never - that’s ok - it’s still valuable to have a way to secure existing code without rewriting it).

And I disagree with the characterization of Graydon’s blog. It’s literally praising Fil-C and saying it’s a valuable piece of tech in the landscape of language dev and worth paying attention to as a serious way to secure a huge amount of existing code. The only position Graydon takes is that safety is a critically important quality of software and Fil-C is potentially an important part of the story of moving the industry forward.
by ehnto | 2025-11-07 05:54:22+00:00
> Also started a project to make a new client using video and segmentation, gen AI to recreate initial game engine entities as Godot scenes to have full control.

That sounds fascinating, I've been working in godot for a few projects now. I'd be interested to know how you would integrate the Godot scenes into the current engine, or if it would be an entirely new client.