MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by input_sh | 2025-12-10 14:27:56+00:00
Because it's the TV yelling at you something along the lines of "Hey look, we replaced the creativity of dozens of people with this shitty result from a prompt, your job is next."

The fact that it's so bad that it obviously doesn't adhere to any sort of quality standards we expect from humans is just adding an insult to injury. It tells people "AI doesn't even need to be better at your job than you to replace you."
by hyperjeff | 2025-12-10 14:28:34+00:00
One can make Spaces deterministic by turning off Automatically rearrange Spaces. Add keyboard shortcuts for quick access to each. On multi-display setups, you can have the whole group of displays work in lock-step on a project by turning off Displays have separate Spaces. These are the first two things I uncheck on a new system. Each Space can be dedicated to different projects using any number of apps instead of trying to correlate Spaces with specific apps. (Sadly, you can only have up to 16 Spaces.)

Side plug, I have a utility that lets you associate names with each Space: https://github.com/hyperjeff/NameSpace (Apple should’ve made naming Spaces standard, but no.)
by VonTum | 2025-12-10 14:28:36+00:00
Printing the hash of the result is a nice trick I've used a couple of times myself, but jumping through the hoops of making the inputs parametrizeable (a la env vars) is only going to make your benchmarks less reliable, not more. It could be that the request for the env var gets moved past you let start = now() call, and therefore you're now partly benchmarking std::env::get().

Instead, stick with std::hint::black_box for both inputs and outputs. Your benchmark will have no overhead from them, and you're benchmarking exactly what you intend. For low-level benchmarks, use repeats (again with std::hint::black_box on independent loops, or a proper microbenchmarking framework
by rsynnott | 2025-12-10 14:29:06+00:00
> As quoted in Futurism, she said the production process took "seven weeks" where the team "hardly slept" and created "thousands of takes - then shaped them in the edit just as we would on any high-craft production".

This isn't really a field where you get points for effort. The end product was extremely bad, which is ultimately what matters.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-12-10 14:29:25+00:00
In the US about twenty years ago, there was a minor movement for a flat sales tax that would replace all other taxes. I lived in Georgia at the time, which was the epicenter of support for the idea. Proponents got themselves stuck in a metaphoric tarpit when they wouldn't accept that most people's way of calculating sales tax was different than what they promoted. At least in the US, if there's a 7% sales tax, it means if you buy something for a dollar, you pay seven cents in tax. Their flat sales tax would have been 30% using this method, but they wanted to promote it as being only 23% since $0.30 is 23% of $1.30.

I'm sure there were other reasons why it failed, but for the people I knew who supported it, claiming it to be a 23% sales tax instead of a 30% sales tax was a hill they were willing to let the whole thing die on (and it did die). Lots of people who casually supported it at first when they heard 23%, lost interest when it was clarified what that really meant. The difference between 23% and 30% isn't all that great but if you're going to overhaul the tax system, trust in those who are doing it is needed.
by GrinningFool | 2025-12-10 14:29:34+00:00
The animations don't seem to be retained across nodes, which seems to make the animations pretty noise more than a means to convey useful information.

For example in this simplified chart:

flowchart LR subgraph Inputs A B end subgraph Middleware M end subgraph Outputs X Y end A --> M B --> M M --> X M --> Y G --> L end

```

The input animation colors are pink and green, but the next step (M->output) is blue and orange.

I'd expect to see actual flow of usage/data (and if it included diagram syntax to specify message rates, etc that would be even better). So if there's a blue dot on the input side, I should be able to track that on the output side to its final destination.
by toss1 | 2025-12-10 14:30:01+00:00
Yup, check my home neighborhood and it is good coverage, but checked a rural area I know has houses around a lake (not just tiny fishing shacks, full-sized 200+m^2 houses) with addresses and electrical and telecom/internet service, but there there are no buildings shown. Plus, even though there is a lot of tree coverage, many of the houses are clearly visible in Google Satellite View, so it is unclear why they wouldn't have been picked up.

Cool stuff, but they still have work to do.
by jacquesm | 2025-12-10 14:30:11+00:00
I'd say no, access to a larger pool of programmers is an important ingredient in the decision of what you want to write something in. Netscape pre-dated Java which is why it was written in C/C++ and that is why we have rust in the first place. But today we do have Java which has all of the rust safety guarantees and then some, is insanely performant for network code and has a massive amount of mindshare and available programmers. For Go the situation is a bit less good but if you really need that extra bit of performance (and you almost never really do) then it might be a good choice.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-12-10 14:30:27+00:00
GDP per capita has been declining in the UK and this is indeed a big issue (people are getting poorer) hidden behind the marginal growth of the overall GDP created by high immigration. This is linked to a long-standing productivity problem.

Some of the ideas bring us back to the Brexit debate. Being outside the EU allows a freedom of action but, depending how far deregulation and law taxes are taken, that also means retaliatory barriers from the EU, which is still the largest trading partner (41% of exports, twice the volume to the 2nd export market, which is the US).
by iamnothere | 2025-12-10 14:30:31+00:00
I don’t know what to tell you if you require research to explain that the intended function of the government is to serve the needs of the people, that this is the right thing to do, and that voters will respond positively if it looks like you will make an honest effort to do this.

It sounds like you would rather claim a lack of agency (it’s all up to the big bad Republicans) rather than even attempt to implement a pragmatic, common sense strategy. And this is why the Democratic Party finds itself rudderless.
Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search
by fcavallarin | 2025-12-10 14:30:43+00:00
Hi HN!

I'm building a JavaScript debugger called Wirebrowser. It combines network inspection, request rewriting, heap snapshots, and live object search.

The main experimental feature is BDHS (Breakpoint-Driven Heap Search): it hooks into the JavaScript debugger and automatically captures a heap snapshot at every pause and performs a targeted search for the value or structure of interest. This reveals the moment a value appears in memory and the user-land function responsible for creating it.

Another interesting feature is the Live Object Search: it inspects runtime objects (not just snapshots), supports regex and object similarity, and lets you patch objects directly at runtime.

Whitepaper: https://fcavallarin.github.io/wirebrowser/BDHS-Origin-Trace

Feedback very welcome, especially on whether BDHS would help your debugging workflow.
by graemep | 2025-12-10 14:31:12+00:00
The problem with the UK tax system is not that it is progressive. In fact, once you add NI it is not all that strongly progressive.

The problem is that complexity of tax law, the number of loopholes, incentives, refunds....

The really big problem is that people on low incomes do not have an incentive to work because the loss of benefits means they are barely any better off from working. That is a strong argument for UBI, or at least a much slower rate of loss of benefits so people keep more of their income.

There are a lot of imprecise and misleading claims made here, for example:

> people who are talented, people who are wealthy, people who have capital, people who have entrepreneurial skills, they can move.

Talent, wealth, and entrepreneurial skills are not the same thing. Wealth is often inherited, talented people may be employed and not all talents are all that portable. While capital can be moved the assets that it is tied up in cannot - you can see your business and move, but that just means someone else buys your business. A wealthy person does not have to live where their investments are.
Ask HN: Is there a "good" (non-privacy horror) aftermarket HUD for your car?
by xrd | 2025-12-10 14:31:16+00:00
I was surprised to see these kind of things on Amazon at $50-$100.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=android+auto+screen&i=electronics&crid=1VL1XF920KHXS&sprefix=android+auto+screen%2Celectronics%2C109&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

I have an older car (2018 Mini Countryman), and the lack of Android Auto is problematic. When I rent a car I realize how much easier life is with a fully integrated experience, especially for maps.

Are there any HUDs that people have found success with, which also respect privacy and aren't a support nightmare. I'm worried I will buy one and find out the integration is terrible, or that it is sending my data back to a Myanmar based call center.

Has anyone tried to build one using an android tablet?
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-10 14:31:51+00:00
The point of the article as I see it is that incremental improvements lead to sudden changes, when equivalence is reached in a specific domain.

It's a bit like rising water in a lake or river. You're fine, until you aren't, though the specific "aren't" moment will depend on your elevation relative to the body of water, of the height of any protections (levees, dams, storm walls), and any mitigating mechanisms (e.g., flood control pumps).

Up until the point that your defences are overtopped, your feet are dry. Once overtopped, you're wet.

Same with AGI (again, presuming that the present LLM/GD approach continues to provide returns): a slow but gradual increase in capability can subsume more and more human intellectual / cognitive tasks, and for each individual task, that moment is fairly likely to be rather sudden.
by dfxm12 | 2025-12-10 14:32:16+00:00
I'm not sure what from my comment suggested pausing technological progress, unless you assume technical progress can only be achieved by exploiting workers. While that is happening, I don't think this it is a requirement.

What we see happening in the workforce with AI isn't reducing labor. We see firms making fewer workers do more work and laying off the rest, as in this case, where workers are talking about "hardly sleeping". Similarly, in my org, workers aren't expected to do any less work since adopting AI tools. This case suggests quality is down as well, but maybe that's subjective.
by clusterhacks | 2025-12-10 14:32:28+00:00
Sorry, I don't much track or keep up with those specifics other than knowing I'm not spending much per week. My typical scenario is to spin up an instance that costs less than $2/hr for 2-4 hours. It's all just exploratory work really. Sometimes I'm running a script that is making a call to the LLM server api, other times I'm just noodling around in the web chat interface.
by agentultra | 2025-12-10 14:32:42+00:00
From a safety perspective there isn't a huge benefit to choosing Zig over C with the caveat, as others have pointed out, that you need to enable more tooling in C to get to a comparable level. You should be using -Wall and -fsanitize=address among others in your debug builds.

You do get some creature comforts like slices (fat pointers) and defer (goto replacement). But you also get forced to write a lot of explicit conversions (I personally think this is a good thing).

The C interop is good but the compiler is doing a lot of work under the hood for you to make it happen. And if you export Zig code to C... well you're restricted by the ABI so you end up writing C-in-Zig which you may as well be writing C.

It might be an easier fit than Rust in terms of ergonomics for C developers, no doubt there.

But I think long-term things like the borrow checker could still prove useful for kernel code. Currently you have to specify invariants like that in a separate language from C, if at all, and it's difficult to verify. Bringing that into a language whose compiler can check it for you is very powerful. I wouldn't discount it.
by crote | 2025-12-10 14:33:10+00:00
Trademarks are industry-specific. Ordinarily, a painting company called Stripe isn't going to cause confusion with the payment platform Stripe, so there's no reason to deny the trademark.

It's how you end up with both Apple Corps (the Beatles' record label) and Apple Computer (the tech company). They've been involved in quite a few lawsuits over the years, mostly because the tech company decided to expand into the multimedia business.
by floundy | 2025-12-10 14:33:14+00:00
The quality of discourse on HN has been nearing the bottom of the barrel (read: mostly indistinguishable from Reddit) since the pandemic. It’s very rare these days to see citations or even arguments that explain personal reasoning. Just like Reddit and Facebook, commenters mostly write what they think or feel as if it were unyielding fact, and the most common denominator (read: boring, derivative, often oversimplified assumptions) rise to the top via the voting system.
by lucideer | 2025-12-10 14:33:24+00:00
This seems like a really odd take. What you're effectively advocating for here is for people not to see information about publicly funded services, because ultimately centralised for-profit services own user attention, & therefore govern what the majority of people see.

> why not use a free social media outlet?

This would be fine if people used free social media outlets. They don't. Short of banning private social media, I don't see what governments can do to change that.
by toprerules | 2025-12-10 14:33:42+00:00
I switched to mutt, started getting through my email in half the time in took me using a GUI, and never looked back.

Being able to write simple expressions to filter email, mass delete, and avoid embedded javascript are killer features. I can run all html through w3m and still have nicely rendered emails.

I still use a phone app for on the go browsing, but during work hours I have mutt open alongside neovim all day long.
by cogman10 | 2025-12-10 14:34:19+00:00
The constructive criticism is that this has been the economic policy of the US for the last 40 years.

It's been a disaster that's lead to wealth consolidation not seen since the gilded age while bringing back old terrible concepts (such as company towns [1]). It's wrecked the middle class.

The fact is, tax isn't what gets in the way of company growth and innovation. It shockingly is actually the opposite. When you have buybacks, low taxes, and easy mergers and acquisitions, it encourages companies to behave in manners not good for the company but good for the owners of the company. That means sending money to stock buybacks, buying out competition, suppressing wages, and cutting corners which overall kill quality. That's because the name of the game is capturing as much money as possible.

High tax and strong corporate regulations like we had in the 50s, 60s, and 70s changes the perspective of companies. If you give a company owner the choice to spend a dollar in taxes or spend it on employee benefits, they'll spend it on employee benefits. But leave a loophole for how they can circuitously capture that dollar for themselves and they'll do that every time.

The tax cut and deregulation era of Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden has been a trainwreck that has lead us right up to the problems we have today. Nothing is affordable and the unrestrained capitalism has made it more expensive than ever just to live with everything getting worse year over year.

This guy pretends like the economic policy he's proposing isn't what we've been running and that's why it's so laughable dumb.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera
by vidarh | 2025-12-10 14:34:33+00:00
> Claude: "Provide me links to <precise description of what you actually want". Result: 4 or 5 directly relevant links, most of which are useful, and it happens on the first query.

Which, as I pointed out, is not the point, as you're advocating exactly the kind of prompting I said wouldn't be a problem. It's not how she uses it.
by throw0101d | 2025-12-10 14:34:42+00:00
> It’s core argument is simple: in a world where talent and capital move easily […]

I'm not sure about the talent part: unless you're strictly talking about remote work, going to a new country is not what I would think of as "easy".

> Doug explained why a staged path to a 20% flat tax […]

It seems to me that flat taxes ignore the marginal utility of every new dollar of income.

What exactly is having the top income earners keep more money gotten society? It seems like not much besides more inequality (which has probably helped fuel political dissatisfaction):

> This paper uses data from 18 OECD countries over the last five decades to estimate the causal effect of major tax cuts for the rich on income inequality, economic growth, and unemployment. First, we use a new encompassing measure of taxes on the rich to identify instances of major reduction in tax progressivity. Then, we look at the causal effect of these episodes on economic outcomes by applying a nonparametric generalization of the difference-in-differences indicator that implements Mahalanobis matching in panel data analysis. We find that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income. The effect remains stable in the medium term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth and unemployment.

* https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
by netsharc | 2025-12-10 14:34:54+00:00
Well, I've called Trump a crook plenty enough times, including here, to qualify as having "Un-American thoughts", that I've excluded myself from being allowed to enter his fascist state.

I'm reminded of thumbing through a friend's copy of Lonely Planet Guide to USSR, and reading about needing to be careful when being questioned by the border guards...
by rsynnott | 2025-12-10 14:34:56+00:00
Companies generally want their ads to not be horribly off-putting.

> They could have filmed it with real actors (or just reprised a spot from 15 years ago) and it wouldn't make any difference.

I mean, it was conceptually bad to start with, but also it has a lot of unsettling AI video stuff (in particular, broken physics) that you wouldn't get with a real ad.
by blitzar | 2025-12-10 14:35:16+00:00
> In 2015, Douglas McWilliams of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, which is based on Old Street, authored The Flat White Economy: How the Digital Economy Is Transforming London & Other Cities of the Future.

> Now, let me just quote some statistics. We have the most successful tech sector in Europe. The reason why is we are outside the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, and the AI Act, which are three European acts which heavily constrain tech growth in the EU. As a result, the thing that I call the flat-white economy ...

Digital Markets Act (2022), Digital Services Act (2022) and AI Act (2024) - these regulations are obviously totally different to the UK versions - Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (2024), Online Safety Act (2023).

The reason why something was worthy of a book in 2015 is something that happend in 2022 / 2024, the car in the car section must be a delorean. There are a lot of good reasons, making stuff up makes me wonder about the validity of the remainder of the arguments.
by llm_nerd | 2025-12-10 14:35:26+00:00
While the 5 variant isn't yet available outside of the preview, you can of course spin a 4 up and run geekbench yourself. Plenty of people have and you can find them in the GB DB. And of course most people spin up their specific workload to see how it compares.

Core per core it pales compared to Apple's superlative processors, and falls behind AMD as well.

But...that doesn't matter. You buy cloud resources generally for $/perf, and the Graviton's are far and away ahead on that metric.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-12-10 14:35:52+00:00
> Like if there was a country that called Toblerone a sugar-scarecrow, or BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer, and everyone thought that was normal? It kind of makes it hard to take quite seriously!

In my opinion German society is insanely polarized between many rather isolated groups which are often quite strongly opinionated.

In this sense, a slightly less exaggerated version of

> BMW a pedestrian-serial-killer

is actually not that far off from the formulations that committed bicyclists would actually use in their daily conversations (I know such people). I would say that the Calvin & Hobbes comic

> https://imgur.com/new-traffic-safety-slogan-kXQhaoz

> https://lede-admin.la.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sit...

is basically a pure description of such discussions.

Addendum: in the USA anti-cyclist slogans like "If you break any traffic rules while on a bike, you deserve to be horribly crippled or maybe even paralyzed." are sent in TV:

> https://la.streetsblog.org/2008/04/01/la-city-channel-36-tak...

Exactly the same rhetoric in the opposite direction. Considering this, I'm rather surprised that in the USA cyclists are so indulgent.

---

I have not yet heard anybody use a formulation such as "Toblerone [is] a sugar-scarecrow", but from the aspect of surprisal, I would say I'd say I would be hardly surprised to hear such a formulation (I'd rather actually aspect much more strongly worded formulations from anti-sugar health activists :-) ).
by throw0101d | 2025-12-10 14:36:06+00:00
> Couldn't you at least provide some constructive criticism why the argument falls short in your mind […]

For the flat tax, which is tax cut for the rich:

> This paper uses data from 18 OECD countries over the last five decades to estimate the causal effect of major tax cuts for the rich on income inequality, economic growth, and unemployment. First, we use a new encompassing measure of taxes on the rich to identify instances of major reduction in tax progressivity. Then, we look at the causal effect of these episodes on economic outcomes by applying a nonparametric generalization of the difference-in-differences indicator that implements Mahalanobis matching in panel data analysis. We find that major reforms reducing taxes on the rich lead to higher income inequality as measured by the top 1% share of pre-tax national income. The effect remains stable in the medium term. In contrast, such reforms do not have any significant effect on economic growth and unemployment.

* https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
by kyledrake | 2025-12-10 14:36:21+00:00
> Finally to perhaps lighten the mood, rather than the usual book recommendations, the three of them discuss their favourite cars.

I'm sure they're talking about the 8 million dollar Porto Embargo or whatever, but I would love one day to hear a podcast discussing the genius of the Toyota Corolla. Safe, affordable, available, reliable. I've had friends with Toyotas that were about to fall off their base from road salt rust but the engine and transmission still worked perfectly.

Pretty amazing that you can be of modest or lavish means and still own a really solid car that everyone can fix. A lot funner than hanging out in the repair shop waiting for a specialist to fix a blown turbo headgasket.