MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by llmslave2 | 2025-12-30 21:25:58+00:00
I think the reason for the varying claims and predictions is because developers have wildly different standards for what constitutes working code. For the developers with a lower threshold, AI is like crack to them because gen ai's output is similar to what they would produce, and it really is a 10x speedup. For others, especially those who have to fix and maintain that code, it's more like a 10x slowdown.

Hence why you have in the same thread, some developer who claims that Claude writes 99% of their code and another developer who finds it totally useless. And of course others who are somewhere in the middle.
by a3w | 2025-12-30 21:26:32+00:00
Depends on the thread model, which one is worse.

State actor? Gets into data centre, or has to break into a privately owned apartment.

Criminal/3rd party state intelligence service? Could get into both, at a risk or with blackmail, threats, or violence.

Dumb accidents? Well, all buildings can burn or have an power outage.
by mpeg | 2025-12-30 21:27:09+00:00
very nice, it'd be good to see a feature comparison as when I use mupdf it's not really just about speed, but about the level of support of all kinds of obscure pdf features, and good level of accuracy of the built-in algorithms for things like handling two-column pages, identifying paragraphs, etc.

the licensing is a huge blocker for using mupdf in non-OSS tools, so it's very nice to see this is MIT

python bindings would be good too
by banbangtuth | 2025-12-30 21:27:11+00:00
Ah, I actually did flip burgers. So I know.

I also did dry cleaning, cleaning service, deli, delivery guy, etc.

Yup I now have enough money to survive without working.

But I also am very low maintenance, thanks to my early life being raised in harsh conditions.

I am not scared to go back flipping burgers again.
by bawolff | 2025-12-30 21:27:25+00:00
I think the argument is subtley different (sorry if this is nitpicky)

1. Palestine is a state, whose territorial extent includes the gaza strip (the most controversial proposition)

2. Under international law, a soveriegn state has the right to prosecute any crime that takes place on their territory. In many ways this is kind of the definition of soveriegnty - the ability to control and make decisions in your territory (in the caee of war, subject to the restrictions imposed by the geneva convention)

3. Soverign states can delegate this power to anyone they chose

4. Palestine delegated this power to the ICC, subject to the provisions of the Rome statue.

> So, according to the ICC, you don't need to be apart of the Rome Statute for the ICC to have jurisdiction

The idea that courts have juridsiction over foreign nationals who commit crimes in their territory is very standard and is generally true for all courts.

E.g. if you are a tourist visiting another country and murder someone, you still get arrested by local authorities. There is no get out of jail free card because you are a foreigner. What is relavent is where the crime took place not who comitted it.

In the case of the ICC, the ICC is acting on behalf of Palestine. So its juridsiction would be the same as whatever Palestine's would be minus any additional restrictions imposed by the rome statue.
by trelane | 2025-12-30 21:27:55+00:00
> it can be a really fun experiment and I would be interested to see how that would pan out.

It would fail, and just be another corpse in the desktop OS graveyard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Flora_Prius

https://www.osnews.com/story/136392/the-only-pc-ever-shipped...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

Unless you ship your own hardware or get a vendor to ship your OS (see the above), and set up so the user can actually use it, you have to get users to install it on Windows hardware. So now your company is debugging broken consumer hardware without the help of the OEM. So that hopefully someone will install it on exactly that configuration for free.

This is not a winning business model.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-30 21:27:57+00:00
If you want to reduce imports and boost exports a plummeting USD is what you want.

Yes, that is an advantage... of people losing faith in your
government and currency.

Who are these more reliable trading partners you are talking about ?

The regions of note are
Canada, Mexico, China, and the EU. Probably most nations. Think back to Trump's 'Liberation Day'... who wants to deal with that kind of... diplomacy?

Fed does not seem to do what Trump wants.

Powell does as much of what Trump wants as he can without looking like a clown (and maybe for that reluctance, has stepped down).

AI stuff is privately held investments with the exception of Google and Nvidia

Wall Street considers Microsoft, Google, Tesla, Meta, Nvidia, Palantir - even Apple - to be AI plays now. Those companies have private equity in Open AI, Anthropic, etc.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-12-30 21:29:01+00:00
> Considering that the top 1% of taxpayers pay more in income taxes than the bottom 90% combined I would say the rich are already taxed.

There are multiple errors of omission in the above statement, I won't address all of them, but the easiest to understand (but unfortunately the least informative) is this:

Individual income taxes provide only 49% of all tax revenue, so you are arguing only about a minority portion of all federal tax revenue. Another 3% come from corporate income taxes. Yeap, that's right, only 3%!

The rest come almost exclusively from Social Security and Medicare taxes and there, the top 1% provide about 1% because their contributions are capped at a very low level.

That omission alone makes your statement look like an attempt to deceive by hiding half of the real numbers.
by logicprog | 2025-12-30 21:29:10+00:00
That's the Ask Tog "study"[1]. It wasn't programmers, just regular users. The problem is he just says it, and of course Apple at the time of the Macintosh's development would have a strong motivation to prove mousing superior to keyboarding to skeptical users. Additionally, the experience level of the users was never specified.

[1]: https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html
by nilegreen | 2025-12-30 21:29:26+00:00
One thing I’m unsure about and would love input on:
In long-running agent setups, how are people here thinking about reset semantics vs persistent internal state?
Most examples I see either reset between runs or rely on external memory. This demo tries to isolate what happens if neither reset nor unbounded writes are allowed—but I’m curious how others are approaching this in practice.
by troupo | 2025-12-30 21:29:30+00:00
In the end it's still an .md file pointing to a script that ends being just a prompt for the agent that the agent may or may not pick up, may or may not discover, may or may not forget after context compaction etc.

There's no inherent magic to skills, or any fundamental difference between them and "just feeding in different prompts and steps". It literally is just feeding different prompt and steps.
by dcrazy | 2025-12-30 21:29:40+00:00
I’m curious why the author chose to model this as an assertion stack. The developer must still remember to consume the assertion within the loop. Could the original example not be rewritten more simply as:

const result: ast.Expression[] = [];
p.expect("(");
while (!p.eof() && !p.at(")")) {
subexpr = expression(p);
assert(p !== undefined); // << here
result.push(subexpr);
if (!p.at(")")) p.expect(",");
}
p.expect(")");
return result;
by yesfitz | 2025-12-30 21:29:56+00:00
There are 164,121 vacant housing units in the Bay Area[1].

While that's only ~6% of total housing units, it's still a lot of opportunity for both squatters and these businesses.

Generally though, this situation only feels possible due to compounding systemic failures. In some order: Not building enough housing, income inequality, homeless support, and law enforcement (or lack thereof).

Fixing problems further up the chain solves the problems further down, but is more difficult and probably creates other unintended consequences.

1: https://census.bayareametro.gov/housing-units?year=2020
by tasty_freeze | 2025-12-30 21:30:24+00:00
Yup, and I played it back when it was new. at an arcade, not in my car.

To me it is like someone saying, "Honey, I'll be on the garage watching Football in my Tesla all afternoon." Yeah, you can do it, but is a car really where you want to do that? The second aspect is it is a game glorifying Elon's "genius". What is next, a FPS for your Tesla where you have a chainsaw and you run through federal buildings trying to get the highest body count?
by cpncrunch | 2025-12-30 21:30:40+00:00
From what I can gather from the article, it does seem to be entirely legal. He never forcibly removes the squatters, just makes their life annoying and difficult, and they usually choose to leave. He also doesn't attack anyone, and only uses the weapons for self defence.

I think any property owner could do the same, but it's just a risk that they don't want to take. Who wants to get up close to a (potential) knife wielding meth addict?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-12-30 21:30:53+00:00
I guess I would say that you've illustrated the problem precisely. Dynamically linking to a GPL library in your program clearly does not combine your program with the library: the library's still there, you can see the .so/.ddl file sitting separately on your computer, it hasn't been merged with your program and your program didn't modify it. Yet the FSF still claims it's a combined derivative work.

Am I misunderstanding something about the analogy?
by SilentM68 | 2025-12-30 21:31:37+00:00
Interesting that you blame Trump for this especially since facts speak for themselves.

US manufacturing employment peaked in June 1979 under "President Jimmy Carter (D)."

Key World leaders during major events:

1979 peak →
*US: Jimmy Carter.
*China: Deng Xiaoping (paramount leader).

China's WTO entry (2001) + PNTR (2000) →
*US: Bill Clinton (D) signed PNTR into law (October 2000).
*China: Jiang Zemin (CCP General Secretary).

Decline accelerated post-2000 due to globalization, offshoring by US corporations, and policies under multiple administrations (Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr.).

Job losses stem from corporate cost-cutting and systemic economic forces, not one politician. If you're going to blame a politician, then at least list the ones that contributed to the chaos not the ones you don't like because it's affecting you personally.

On a side note, I am one of those natives that has not been able to find a stable job, for the past 30+ years until Trump came in, but then lost it after Job Biden arrived. This is how life has been here in the US, at least for me, after graduating high school. I for one, I'm glad someone is doing something about this mess :)
by gpm | 2025-12-30 21:31:40+00:00
That looks cool, which might just be the point of your comment, but I don't think it actually changes the argument here.

You still have to trust the app store to some extent. On first use, you're trusting f-droid to give you the copy of the app with appropriate signatures. Running in someone else's data-center still means you need to trust that data-center plus the people setting up the app store, instead of just the app store. It's just a breach of trust is less consequential since the attacker needs to catch the first install (of apps that even use that technology).
by hckr1292 | 2025-12-30 21:31:50+00:00
I’m curious about the authors experience with monorepo for marketing. I’ve found that using static site generators with nontechnical PMs resulted in dissatisfaction and more work for engineers that those PMs could handle independently in Wordpress/Contentful. As a huge believer in monorepo, I’d love to hear how folks have approached incorporating nonengingeers into the monorepo workflows.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-30 21:31:53+00:00
> Why? The solution thus far has been to turn off what the kernel does, and, do those things in userspace, not move everything in the kernel? Where are these performance gains to be had?

There's all sorts of jankin' about trying to squeeze ounces of performance out of the kernel's page management, specifically for buffer pools.

e.g. https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/fileadmin/w00cfj/dis/_my_direct_up...

Page management isn't really a thing we can do well "in user space". And the kernel has strong ideas about how this stuff works, which work very well in the general case. But a DB (or other system level things like garbage collectors, etc) are special cases, often with special needs.

LeanStore, Umbra, etc. do tricks with VM overcommit and the like to fiddle around with this, and the above paper even proposes custom kernel modules for the purpose (There's a github repo associated, I'd have to go look).

And then, further, a DB goes and basically implements its own equivalent of a filesystem, managing its own storage. Often fighting with the OS about the semantics of fsync/durability, etc.
by saltcured | 2025-12-30 21:32:20+00:00
Yeah, but soap opera effect also isn't only framerate either.

Earlier video cameras exposed the pixels differently, sampling the image field in the same linear fashion that it was scanned on a CRT during broadcast. In the US this was also an interlaced scanning format. This changes the way motion is reproduced. The film will tend to have a global motion blur for everything moving rapidly in the frame, where the video could have sharper borders on moving objects, but other distortions depending on the direction of motion, as different parts of the object were sampled at different times.

Modern digital sensors are somewhere in between, with enough dynamic range to allow more film-like or video-like response via post-processing. Some are still rolling shutters that are a bit like traditional video scanning, while others are full-field sensors and use a global shutter more like film.

As I understand it, modern digital sensors also allow more freedom to play with aperture and exposure compared to film. You can get surprising combinations of lighting, motion blur, and depth of field that were just never feasible with film due to the limited sensitivity and dynamic range.

There are also culturally associated production differences. E.g. different script, set, costume, makeup, and lighting standards for the typical high-throughput TV productions versus the more elaborate movie production. Whether using video or film, a production could exhibit more "cinematic" vs "sitcom" vs "soapy" values.

For some, the 24 fps rate of cinema provides a kind of dreamy abstraction. I think of it almost like a vague transition area between real motion and a visual storyboard. The mind is able to interpolate a richer world in the imagination. But the mature techniques also rely on this. I wonder whether future artists will figure out how to get the same range of expression out of high frame rate video or whether it really depends on the viewer getting this decimated input to their eyes...
by hrdwdmrbl | 2025-12-30 21:32:42+00:00
I love the idea. It's bold. But, I hate it from an information architecture perspective.

This is something that is, of course, super relevant given context management for agentic AI. So there's great appeal in doing this.

And today, it might even be the best decision. But this really feels like an alpha version of something that will have much better tooling in the near-future. JSON and

Markdown are beautiful simple information containers, but they aren't friendly for humans as compared with something like Notion or Excel. Again I'll say, I'm confident that in the near-future we'll start to see solutions emerge that structure documentation that is friendly to both AIs and humans.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-30 21:32:42+00:00
Romney was a fairly purple-ish candidate. As governor of Massachusetts, he introduced the forerunner of the ACA. He was popular in a deeply blue state. He’s been deeply critical of some of Trumps actions.

So what went wrong? He was smeared as a racist misogynist. (On popular leftist sources like ‘The View’.). No doubt that hurt his chances in 2012.

Both charges are false, of course. Romney is a gentle Mormon bishop with a Black grandchild. His guidance has fomented great careers for many female colleagues and employees.

One has to wonder what might have been had Romney won in 2012. It may have brought the right further left, and may have changed the Republican nominee in 2016. But that’s not the way things unfolded.
by toss1 | 2025-12-30 21:33:16+00:00
Nonsense. The amount of wealth hoarded by the top 0.1%, 1%, and 10% has vastly expanded in the past decades, while the percent of all income and wealth held by workers has been gutted.

That alone shows the top earners are not being taxed enough.

If they were losing wealth and portion of income, you might have an argument. But they are not and you do not.

The top 1% earn 22.4% of ALL income (AGI). [0]

The top 1% held 30.8% of all US wealth in 2024. That amount has grown from 22.8% in 1989.[1]

>> the top 0.1% of households in terms of wealth held 8.5% of the nation's wealth in Q3 1989. By Q2 2025, that had risen to 13.9% For the rest of the top 1%, the percentages rose from 14.3% to 17.1% over the same period. So the wealthiest top 1% now holds more than 30% of all wealth. Those gains came at the expense of the less-wealthy household categories, all of which lost ground on a percentage basis. The bottom 50%, for example, saw their share fall from an already low 3.5% down to 2.5%. [0]

NONE of this is because workers have somehow become worse

ALL of it is because those at the top have become more greedy, and have been enabled by craven politicians of a particular party who support that.

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-1s-share-of-...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/income-to-be-in-top-1-percen...
by ajanuary | 2025-12-30 21:33:30+00:00
The point is that the realities of not being able to deploy in lockstep erode away at a lot of the claimed benefits the monorepo gives you in being able to make a change everywhere at once.

If my code has to be backwards compatible to survive the deployment, then having the code in two different repos isn’t such a big deal, because it’ll all keep working while I update the consumer code.
by SllX | 2025-12-30 21:33:51+00:00
The insular part was a very small, maybe too subtle of, joke.

That’s also not a viable option for the EU, or more specifically: the constituent nations of the EU. They’re as dependent on trade as we are, maybe even more so, and so we are stuck in this relationship where we constantly piss each other off in various ways, and believe me when I say it goes both ways.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-12-30 21:34:01+00:00
I am all in on uv as well, and advocating for its use heavily at $dayjob. But I think having as much as possible of these things encoded in standards is good for the ecosystem. Maybe in a few years time, someone will make something even better than uv. And in the meantime, having things standardised speeds up adoption in e.g. syntax highlighting in editors and such.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-30 21:35:02+00:00
Hm I see the confusion, what I was proposed was for something like loss32 to have a window manager / desktop environmnet which looks like windows 7

Loss32 is itself a linux distro and thus there should technically be nothing stopping it from shipping everywhere

I think you were assuming that I meant create a whole kernel from scratch or something but I am just merely asking a loss32 reskin which looks like windows 7 which is definitely possible without any of the company debugging consumer hardware or even the need of company for that matter I suppose considering that I was proposing an open source desktop environment which just behaved like windows 7 by default as an example.

I don't really understand why we need a winning business model out of it, there isn't really a winning model for niri,hyprland,sway,kde,xfce,lxqt,gnome etc., they are all open source projects who are run with help of donations

There might be a misunderstanding between us but I hope this clears up any misunderstanding.
by m132 | 2025-12-30 21:35:33+00:00
I think it's fine if you do it for yourself. It's a bit of a poor-mans Linux-turned-microkernel solution. In fact, I work like this too, and this extends to my Apple Silicon Mac. The separation does have big security advantages, especially when different pieces of hardware are exclusively passed to the different, closed-off "partitions" of the system and the layer orchestrating everything is as minimal as it gets.

What worries me is when this model escalates from being cobbled up together by a system administrator with limited resources, to becoming baked into the design of software that you want to use; the appropriation of the hypervisor layer by software developers who are reluctant to untangle the mess they've created at the kernel level and instead start building on top of hardware virtualization for "security" to then go on and pollute the hypervisor. I don't want to lose the ability to securely run VMs as the interface between the host and the guest OSes grows just as unmanageable as that of Linux and BSD system calls and new software starts demanding that I let it use the entirety of it.
by NotGMan | 2025-12-30 21:35:45+00:00
Why not both? You could be both depressed and don't like your partner.

Though depression could just as well be a side effect of not liking your partner: that is not wrong: it's a normal reaction when you don't move on. Treat depression as a signal to "move on".

In general when a person asks a question like this they have already made their mind and are just looking for external validation: for someone to say "find someone else".

Find someone else.

You just have to "spam" a lot. That's perhaps the ugly truth that romatic movies don't tell you: you can't know what all is out there unless you experience many people.

You obviously don't like this relationship. Sex is more important than people think, and no amount of talking will fix you not being sexually attracted to your partner (assuming you are a guy).
by abnercoimbre | 2025-12-30 21:36:08+00:00
> Sexual energy and desire ebbs and flows in a relationship over time

While I agree with this, the fundamental attraction which ostensibly brought you two together should never really dissipate. If that core desire has left the building, that's the biggest issue here, and MUST be confronted head on. I suggest talking to the partner lovingly but with full honesty, and focus on solving the attraction problem first.

Things may be rekindled (better dates, roleplaying, and so on) or they may not. If not, you have to move on.
by worksonmine | 2025-12-30 21:36:56+00:00
To me that sounds like claiming Arduino IDE is a "crucial extension". Their website[1] lists a bunch of IDEs where it can be integrated, so I wouldn't call it missing. That said both of these are hobbyist toys to make it more approachable and embedded development was fine long before VSCode, they're in no way "crucial".

[1]: https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/integration/ide/index....
by simonw | 2025-12-30 21:37:23+00:00
There was a UK government GitHub repo that did something interesting with this kind of trick against S3 but I checked just now and the repo is a 404. Here are my notes about what it did: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/sqlite-s3vfs/

Looks like it's still on PyPI though: https://pypi.org/project/sqlite-s3vfs/

You can see inside it with my PyPI package explorer: https://tools.simonwillison.net/zip-wheel-explorer?package=s...