MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ninetyninenine | 2025-11-15 07:30:43+00:00
I'm skeptical because my entire identity is basically built around being a software engineer and thinking my IQ and intelligence is higher than other people. If this AI stuff is real then it basically destroys my entire identity so I choose the most convenient conclusion.

Basically we all know that AI is just a stochastic parrot autocomplete. That's all it is. Anyone who doesn't agree with me is of lesser intelligence and I feel the need to inform them of things that are obvious: AI is not a human, it does not have emotions. It just a search engine. Those people who are using AI to code and do things that are indistinguishable from human reasoning are liars. I choose to focus on what AI gets wrong, like hallucinations, while ignoring the things it gets right.
by DeathArrow | 2025-11-15 07:32:00+00:00
My idea of for fun is to release something people will use. I have more fun if I work on something useful. For me is less the journey than the end goal.

I love working on software, architecture, design but only if I see some use.

Of course, for other people, the journey is more interesting than the destination and they have fun hacking stuff just for the sake of it. They discover things and learn new stuff they wouldn't have learned otherwise. And this is a path at least as valid as the other.
by fainpul | 2025-11-15 07:34:05+00:00
This improves on one of the annoying problems of dark mode UI:

Usually (in light mode), windows have a drop shadow which makes it easy to see what's in front of what, and where the borders are. In dark mode, the drop shadow is barely visible and everything becomes one big dark mess.

What I don't like about this implementation is that inner borders (around UI elements inside the window) are also light – it creates too many confusing lines.
by porphyra | 2025-11-15 07:35:45+00:00
Interesting but federal tax credits for heat pump water heaters is ending next month [1]. It looks nice though.

For people wondering what's up with the "150 gal virtual" capacity, it's actually a 47 gal water heater but it heats water to a really high temperature (if needed) and mixes it with a thermostatic valve to output the desired temperature. For example if cold water was 15 degrees C and you want the hot water to be 40 degrees C, it can triple its "capacity" by heating it up to 90 degrees C and then mixing one part hot water with 2 parts cold water to give you three times as much hot water. Of course, this comes with a grave penalty to efficiency so you should only do it for "party mode".

[1] https://www.energystar.gov/about/federal-tax-credits
by Measter | 2025-11-15 07:36:50+00:00
For Rust vs C++, I'd say it'll be much easier to have a complete understanding of Rust. C++ is an immensely complex language, with a lot of feature interactions.

C# is actually fairly complex. I'm not sure if it's quite at the same level as Rust, but I wouldn't say it's that far behind in difficulty for complete understanding.
by edub | 2025-11-15 07:37:01+00:00
I was able to have AI generate an image that made this, but not by diffusion/autoregressive but by having it write Python code to create the image.

ChatGPT made a nice looking clock with matplotlib that had some bugs that it had to fix (hours were counter-clockwise). Gemini made correct code one-shot, it used Pillow instead of matplotlib, but it didn't look as nice.
by yokljo | 2025-11-15 07:37:56+00:00
I think most popular languages were started as an experiment in some feature, or to solve a specific problem someone had. Those are good reasons to make a language. I see no reason to make a language just to take attention away from other existing languages. Instead, make a language so you can understand how to make languages. It is 100% doable by one person. It's fun and educational.
by toast0 | 2025-11-15 07:38:17+00:00
> I'd estimate figuring out who has which rights would take at least a year and a couple hundred grand in legal costs to get each potential stakeholder's attorneys to locate, review and analyze the documents and issue a binding legal opinion.

If you just went ahead and did the release, the stakeholders might well do the research on their own dime. Of course, those that do have rights might not be interested in negotiating a license at that point. And, there's a chance of getting access to a development archive if you're doing an authorized release.
by user_7832 | 2025-11-15 07:39:04+00:00
Yeah, I'm (unfortunately) seeing a similar issue even in my case. I've studied engineering in my bachelor's with a niche (but very technically helpful) masters from a top EU uni. I suspect folks are just looking for someone who "fits the profile", because I've cleared every interview I've managed to get through to. But short of getting a foot in the door to get to that first interview, it honestly seems futile.

Self promotion, if anyone (especially from The Netherlands) is looking for a systems engineer with a "T" profile with multiple T's - mechanical/systems engineering, economics, please feel free to reach out via my profile email ID and I'll be happy to prove myself on any technical challenge.
by veidr | 2025-11-15 07:41:14+00:00
Yeah, I already maintain that base layer, and like being able to just run it on Debian, like I said. But, one of the awesome things about Incus is how easy it is to move instances around the LAN (or WAN, I suppose). I don't need super rigorous failovers for most things running at home, but just because it's so easy, I typically always do have a recent copy of every container I run (blogs, home automation servers, various web apps, etc) on a different machine, so when one machine goes down it's super easy to just start the equivalent instance on the other machine.

I run instances I need to interact with (e.g., do development in containers via SSH and remote-editors, with occasional Remote Desktop) on my very-fast Linux workstation — that also does other stuff like local development, web browsing, etc., but most instances that don't need power run on my old 56-core Xeon enterprise server (used, they are roughly as cheap as a Mac Mini).

Incus makes it super easy to move instances around, and from a skim of the announcement it looks like you could just put Incus OS on some machine you have lying around and drop it into an existing config like that with minimal effort.

I look forward to trying it out, even if my "main" Incus will probably remain on my actual manually-curated Linux desktop.
by csomar | 2025-11-15 07:41:39+00:00
1. The debtor probably need the motorbike, badly. He probably should have sold it to cover the debt but didn't think of that as an option. Not the smartest choice but again, he's there probably because of another set of similar choices.

2. The parent seems from the UK and I am not sure how things work there. But many auctions are "closed off" in shady ways. In one of the countries I (and some friends) have contemplated going, gangs with knives were putting people off. The gov. employees involved knew about it and do nothing.

> Whenever "the poor" are debated, it seems that people always assume they're totally incapable of helping themselves.

3. Many of the times, they are not exactly bad or lazy people but they might not have made the optimal choices. They should, probably, be penalized for it; but not by completely wrecking their life and sodomizing them for a good many years. Also back to 2, and the parent you are replying to, many times the system is designed to over-screw them in the process.
by artpar | 2025-11-15 07:43:38+00:00
I made a language for using in another project, so I'll answer your questions

https://www.npmjs.com/package/wang-lang

- this new language looks and behaves exactly like javascript, except it doesnt have "eval" and "new Function", so it is CSP safe. That's the only difference. I wanted to execute dynamically generated code in chrome extension

- llm did most of the work of creating a nearley grammar and associated interpreter (whole thing is bundled, nearley is not a final dependency), elaborate tests make this quite sane to handle

- took me about total of 1 weeks for the initial mvp to try out, and then have been fixing bugs and inconsistencies with javascript behavior, about 1 day a month of effort

- mostly 0

The only reason to create was I couldnt find something similar and it was low effort thanks to llm

I also created another even smaller DSL you can say

https://www.npmjs.com/package/free-text-json-parser

It parses json embedded in plain text
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-11-15 07:44:15+00:00
Week old story?

Related:

OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830380

Why Sam Altman Won't Be on the Hook for OpenAI's Spending Spree

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856883

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881116

Sam Altman's pants are on fire

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45853292
by hansmayer | 2025-11-15 07:44:45+00:00
Yeah, maybe read my first line. I said they are trying to make the humans irrelevant, and in the process also kill the joy of playing computer games. And nobody is stopping me from playing the computer games, just like I can write my e-mails without being bugged and begged to let the AI write it for me, because, WTF should I process my own thoughts and write my own e-mails, right?

I have no doubt that the oligpolists in charge of our tech landscape will at some point "infuse" this shit into the games or whatever the shitterm they use for coupling the text generators with perfectly fine and deterministic software in order to raise their DAU/MAU/WAU numbers and in the process make the outcomes of using the software less reliable, non-deterministic and absolutely frustrating.
by anal_reactor | 2025-11-15 07:49:13+00:00
From modern perspective it's obvious that simply upping the bandwidth allows streaming high-quality videos, but it's not strictly about "more bigger cable". Huge leaps in various technologies were needed for you to watch video in 4k:

- 4k consumer-grade cameras

- SSDs

- video codecs

- hardware-accelerated video encoding

- large-scale internet infrastructure

- OLED displays

What I'm trying to say is that I clearly remember reading an old article about sharing mp3s on P2P networks and the person writing the article was confident that video sharing, let alone video streaming, let alone high-quality video streaming, wouldn't happen in foreseeable future because there were just too many problems with that.

If you went back in time just 10 years and told people about ChatGPT they simply wouldn't believe you. They imagined that an AI that can do things that current LLMs can do must be insanely complex, but once technology made that step, we realized "it's actually not that complicated". Sure, AGI won't surface from simply adding more GPUs into LLMs, just like LLMs didn't emerge from adding more GPUs to "cat vs dog" AI. But if technology took us from "AI can tell apart dog and cat 80% of the time" to "AI is literally wiping out entire industry sectors like translation or creative work while turning people into dopamine addicts en masse" within ten years, then I assume that I'll see AGI within my lifetime.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-15 07:49:18+00:00
The pricing page does not make it clear how much the actual unit costs, just $6500 with installation. Never purchased a water heater, but going to Home Depot, I see traditional options priced $500-$2000.

Which says you are putting up a high upfront cost, hoping to recoup on increased efficiency. Which could be worthwhile, but you would have to run some simulations if the price is worthwhile. Seems potentially easier to get a dumb water heater to run extra hot using off-peak electricity.
by Firerouge | 2025-11-15 07:49:23+00:00
A heat pump water heater seems like a no brainer way to improve efficiency. They're not yet common, but there are many more options available over seas than in America.

This project seems emblematic of the challenges facing funding manufacturing initiatives in America. What's funded are the projects that appeal to tech investors, more of a focus on flashy presentation, luxury design, AI, and cloud app features, than the baseline functionality.

We get innovation as a side effect of convincing investors that the idea will disrupt industries and create app ecosystems that lock in consumer attention. Chasing the 100x unicorns and no longer training workhorses
by usr1106 | 2025-11-15 07:51:47+00:00
I only use the PWA. Typing is not keyboard friendly, you need to use the mouse for formatting. Some keyboard shortcuts exist, but some don't work if you don't have an English keyboard.

It cannot keep track of what messages you have read, often you need to read the same messages twice. The set of emojis is limited (could be deemed a childish problem, but with 100% remote team emojis are important to have some fun). The layout of threads sucks, sometimes you have only a small side panel to work with. When you want to delete old notifications, it sometimes just says "Cannot delete".

It't the worst application I have to use at work. As soon as I have the possibility I will join a company again hat uses Zulip. Unfortunately those are rare.
by jonathanlydall | 2025-11-15 07:52:07+00:00
I use Teams on Windows extensively at work (for chats, calls, meetings, screen sharing). And I have zero issues with it.

It’s been really solid for me since that major overhaul they did a couple of years back.

Not sure what issues you have, but I wonder if perhaps that us NOT running 3rd party security products is a factor (we only run Windows Defender).
by CallMeJim | 2025-11-15 07:52:13+00:00
$1,360 a year. Use it to buy higher quality goods that will save you more in the long run. Use the ongoing $1,360 a year PLUS the accumulating savings gained from the higher quality goods to repeat at higher levels.

A lot of the discourse about poverty reminds me of this:

> I do occasional work for my hospital’s Addiction Medicine service, and a lot of our conversations go the same way.

> My attending tells a patient trying to quit that she must take a certain pill that will decrease her drug cravings. He says it is mostly covered by insurance, but that there will be a copay of about one hundred dollars a week.

> The patient freaks out. “A hundred dollars a week? There’s no way I can get that much money!”

> My attending asks the patient how much she spends on heroin.

> The patient gives a number like thirty or forty dollars a day, every day.

> My attending notes that this comes out to $210 to $280 dollars a week, and suggests that she quit heroin, take the anti-addiction pill, and make a “profit” of $110.

> At this point the patient always shoots my attending an incredibly dirty look. Like he’s cheating somehow. Just because she has $210 a week to spend on heroin doesn’t mean that after getting rid of that she’d have $210 to spend on medication. Sure, these fancy doctors think they’re so smart, what with their “mathematics” and their “subtracting numbers from other numbers”, but they’re not going to fool her.

> At this point I accept this as a fact of life. Whatever my patients do to get money for drugs – and I don’t want to know – it’s not something they can do to get money to pay for medication, or rehab programs, or whatever else. I don’t even think it’s consciously about them caring less about medication than about drugs, I think that they would be literally unable to summon the motivation necessary to get that kind of cash if it were for anything less desperate than feeding an addiction.

From https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/25/apologia-pro-vita-sua/
by crazydoggers | 2025-11-15 07:52:29+00:00
First, do no harm. If a forum and group of people push even one person to commit suicide that would/could have been helped by a different approach, then that community has committed harm.

Doing no harm is a high bar, and that bar requires commitment that online communities and the companies that run them almost certainly cant provide without a lot of effort. The disregard for the possibility that those communities may have caused harm (even if you believe they helped you) is alarming.

> This search for "joy and happiness" is absurd

This is the problem when people with this viewpoint get together in forums, it can create a vicious feedback cycle that are not healthy for anyone.

I'm sorry you are suffering or have suffered. But searching and finding joy and happiness is not absurd. We only have one life to live, and it definitely doesn't need to be suffering. Every one of us has the power to change that (believing you cant is a thought trap, a type of delusion.)

> Nothing bad would happen to that person should they not be interrupted

This speaks volumes. You are saying that the death of a person is nothing bad. A life.. a loved one. A child going through a momentary suffering. That death is BAD. Not understanding that is delusional thinking.

> It doesn't delete these 10 years of suffering which you apparently see no problem subjecting people to

I'm not subjecting them to anything, nor are you by not talking or telling a person how to commit suicide. That persons suffering is not your or my responsibility. But the moment you do talk to that person about how they could commit suicide, then you have taken on a responsibility. And it is an immense one, not to be taken lightly.

Finally I'll say this, all your comments indicate to me someone who is suffering from depression. If you truly believe that not to be the case, I challenge you to read the following book cover to cover, do all the exercises, and once you have finished, look back on your words and ideas and see if you may have been stuck in some delusional thinking:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0380731762?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_u...

And finally, if you ever actually consider suicide, I urge you to question your thinking and consider the possibility you could make a choice that in another mindset you would regret. Imagine getting high on shrooms or LSD and jumping off a roof. Depression is like that... when you come to, you realize you were just on a bad trip.

And as my favorite Starship captain says... "Never give up. Never surrender!"
by latchkey | 2025-11-15 07:52:39+00:00
You're right, it is a much smaller ecosystem, but I think that is partly intentional as a way to focus efforts and not feed into the bubble, which I feel is a smart move. These are the official partners [0]. I'm Hot Aisle.

George was very smart, $500k in the $90's. I saw it coming even earlier than him, but that's cause I was already aware the hardware was good from my own experiences.

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct/eval-r...
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-15 07:53:14+00:00
I've been experimenting with making an IBM AT (the "braindead" 286) compatible with a real CMOS 25 MHz 286 and a real 287XLT with 16 MiB of RAM while shoving all of the BIOS ROM, bus, keyboard controller, and glue logic in an FPGA. This seems to be a more flexible and genuine approach rather than total emulation that's bound to be flawed in subtle, inauthentic, and incompatible ways. It's not completely authentic compared to a model 5170 type 3 but it aims to be most likely to offer the best performance, flexibility, and faithful reproduction of historical bugs. I try to stick to known good BIOS dumps and schematics to be sure the functionality is 1:1 identical, but may have to tweak things like wait states and such to make it work. 6 16-bit ISA and 2 8-bit ISA slots, fingers crossed. I'm thinking about using an external battery-backed RTC that's better than an MC146818 but the FPGA presents the functionality of it.
by thrance | 2025-11-15 07:54:39+00:00
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

No, this is just being pragmatic and realizing that against a sufficiently powerful authoritarian push, legal arguments fall short. Until you address the root causes of something like Chat Control being tried again and again until it passes, any victory is just a brief respite.

You need political will to ensure freedom is respected and wanted by all. After decades of media and reactionary propaganda about crime scaremongering, it's hardly surprising that politicians are able to draft such laws with a straight face.
by nextaccountic | 2025-11-15 07:55:54+00:00
What do you suggest instead?

I'm looking at OpenTelemetry because of broad tooling compatibility (both Rust tracing crates, tracing and emit, support it - for logs, tracing and metrics) and it seems like something that will stick around.

Also I'm not sure I will ever need actual performance out of an observability solution; it's a tiny app after all.
by 9rx | 2025-11-15 07:57:15+00:00
> When you have money, you can just buy the thing you need

What I need is time. Whereas buying things is stupidly time consuming, running completely counter to what is needed.

I don't have it all. Sometimes I have no choice but to go buy parts when a breakdown occurs, but that's never a welcome experience. You're looking at a good hour or more to source even if it is available locally, and often you have to travel far and wide to find someone who has it in stock. Worse, sometimes the only stock available is on the other side of the world in who knows where, leaving you down for days while you wait for it to show up...

Once someone invents a magical teleporter that can spit out what you need in a split second on demand, then money to spend when you need it becomes more powerful than already having what you need, but we're a long way from seeing that become reality.
by tialaramex | 2025-11-15 07:57:49+00:00
Ah, no. Most C++ programs that compile are not well-formed programs. This functions as an escape hatch for Rice's Theorem. You see, C++ even more so than C has semantic requirements - but Rice says all non-trivial semantic requiremnts are Undecidable. So, if you want what C++ says it wants it appears that compilers would be entirely impossible and that's awkward. To "fix" that C++ says it's fine if the compiler will compile your program even though it is not well-formed, the program doesn't have any meaning of course, only well-formed programs have meaning, but it did compile, so as a programmer you're happy...

C++ has a recurring phrase in its standard document "Ill-formed No Diagnostic Required" or IFNDR which carries this intent. The compiler can't tell you made a mistake, but you didn't actually write a valid C++ program so -shrug-

Because there's no way to tell for sure without exhaustive human examination we don't know for sure how many C++ programs aren't actually well-formed but experts who've thought about it tend to think the answer for large C++ software projects is all or most of them.
by swiftcoder | 2025-11-15 07:58:19+00:00
> The reason it's an absurdly good rate is because the thing they are looking for is so rare

If their 50% false positive rate resulted in 100,000 false positives among the German population of 85 million... it's not as rare as all that - you have greater than 1-in-1,000 odds of being a false positive.
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by arikchakma | 2025-11-15 08:00:10+00:00
I built StyleCast to parse inline CSS strings into JavaScript objects. It's lightweight and works in both browser and Node.js. Supports camel case conversion for React styles.

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