MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OptionOfT | 2025-12-19 19:47:17+00:00
They can't. Universities will eventually catch up to the demand of companies, just like how the one I attended switched from C/C++ to only managed languages.

With that the students were more directly a match for the in-demand roles, but reality is that other roles will see a reduction of supply.

The question here is: Will there be a need in the future for people who can actually code?

I think so. I also believe the field is evolving and that the pendulum always swings to extremes. Right now we are just beginning to see the consequences of the impact of AI on stability & maintainability of software. And we have not seen the impact of when it catastrophically goes wrong.

If you, together with your AI buddy, cannot solve the problem on this giant AI codebase, pulling in a colleague probably isn't going to help anymore.

The amount of code that is now being generated with AI (and accepted because it looks good enough) is causing long-term stability to suffer. What we are seeing is that AI is very eager to make the fixes without any regard towards past behavior or future behavior.

Of course, this is partially prevented by having better prompts, and human reviews. But this is not the future companies want us to go. They want us to prompt and move on.

AI will very eagerly create 10,000 pipes from a lake to 10,000 houses in need of water. And branch off of them. And again.

Until one day you realize the pipes have lead in them and you need to replace them.

Today this is already hard. With AI it's even harder because there is no unified implementation somewhere. It's all copy pasted for the sake of speed and shipping.

I have yet to see a Software Engineer who stands behind every line of code produced to be faster on net-new development using AI. In fact, most of the time they're slower because the AI doesn't know. And even when they use AI the outcome is worse because there is less learning. The kind of learning that eventually pushes the boundaries in 'how can we make things better'.
by xp84 | 2025-12-19 19:47:20+00:00
Violent revolution isn’t a solution though. We have almost a whole continent (Africa) as a case study for what happens when people finally get fed up with corrupt, incompetent governments and stage coups. The scariest warlord takes charge for a while and (often with a lot of additional bloodshed) chooses different winners and losers, until the cycle repeats.

Sheltered Gen-Z Americans, who have never known a disordered society love to talk about revolution, but they are so ill prepared for something like that. It’s not even funny. To be clear, none of us in the “first world” are prepared for something like that.
by xpe | 2025-12-19 19:48:01+00:00
> It’s as if every researcher in this field is getting high on the small amount of power they have from denying others access to their results.

Even if I give the comment a lot of wiggle room (such as changing "every" to "many"), I don't think even a watered-down version of this hypothesis passes Occam's razor. There are more plausible explanations, including (1) genuine concern by the authors; (2) academic pressures and constraints; (c) reputational concerns; (d) self-interest to embargo underlying data so they have time to be the first to write-it-up. To my eye, none of these fit the category of "getting high on power".

Also, patience is warranted. We haven't seen what these researchers are doing to release -- and from what I can tell, they haven't said yet. At the moment I see "Repositories (coming soon)" on their GitHub page.
by toast0 | 2025-12-19 19:48:21+00:00
> Alas, most mobos only seem to hand out lanes in multiples of 4.

AFAIK, the cpu lanes can't be broken up beyond x4; it's a limitation of the pci-e root complex. The Promontory 21 chipset that is mainstream for AM5 does two more x4 and four choose sata or pci-e x1. I don't think you can bifurcate those x4s, but you might be able to aggregate two or four of the x1s. And you can daisy chain a second Prom21 chipset to net one more x4 and another 4 x1.

Of course, it's pretty typical for a motherboard to use some of those lanes for onboard network and what nots. Nobody sells a bare minimum board with an x16 slot, two cpu based x4 slots, two chipset x4 slots, and four chipset x1 slots and no onboard perhipherals, only the USB from the cpu and chipset. Or if they do, it's not sold in US stores anyway.

If pci-e switches weren't so expensive, you might see boards with more slots behind a switch (which the chipsets kind of are, but...)
by jacquesm | 2025-12-19 19:48:38+00:00
> There is no data you could provide beyond full transparency into your entire organization(obviously not happening) that would convince anyone that there isn’t influence that they have over communication here

Since you're in a subthread of my comment: I've been here for many years and have not seen any evidence that would convince me that you are right.

And I trust both Dan and Tom to speak truthfully on this matter, they are truthful in their interaction with the community and I see no reason why this would be any different. And if it were different and if you did find proof that it is different then I don't know of HN would be for me anymore.

It is always important to realize that when you write words like 'anyone' that you are speaking for yourself.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-12-19 19:48:45+00:00
> why isn't the west's own supply chain options as immense?

Because each city in China has become specialized. You want to have someone make hairdryers for your company to sell? Then go to Cixi. There are dozens of small suppliers making the parts that go into hair dryers. There are dozens of companies making small appliances (just like hairdryers) They're all "just down the street" from each other. This means that the knowledge and infrastructure and workers are all in one place. You don't have to ship a truckload of heater elements across the country to some factory that some CEO decided should be built in the lowest cost real estate. The same reason that all of the America IC manufacturers got started in Silicon Valley.

This sort of specialization/concentration used to happen in the US. That's why NYC had a "garment district" where you could get clothing made from design to ready-to-sell. Los Angeles used to be one of the major hubs for making aircraft because of the large number of small companies making stuff that the aerospace companies assemble into aircraft. Jacobs wrote about this sort of thing in Cities And The Wealth of Nations about how the Shah of Iran wanted a helicopter factory in Iran. It was a flop because none of the seats are made across town, they're made in America, like the blades or engine or windscreen or avionics. All the Shah got for his dream was an assembly plant. There was no transfer of technology so that the parts could be made in Iran.

Before shipping containers were invented, shipping goods was expensive enough that factories making things tended to be located close to their suppliers. That was why Detroit became a center of car manufacturing. Shipping containers made it cheaper to transport some item across an ocean than it costs to drive it across the city.
by lateforwork | 2025-12-19 19:49:36+00:00
He is protected by the most corrupt supreme court in history.

The New York Times has reported extensively on Justice Clarence Thomas’s acceptance of luxury travel, real estate transactions, and other gifts from Texas billionaire and GOP donor Harlan Crow.

A whistleblower complaint filed by Kendal B. Price, a former colleague of Jane Roberts at Major, Lindsey & Africa, revealed that she earned approximately $10.3 million in commissions between 2007 and 2014 for placing lawyers at top firms. [1]

The Times reported that Justice Samuel Alito has faced ethics questions related to his relationship with conservative donors and political allies. Although his 2025 disclosures claimed that he received no gifts during the previous year, prior reporting noted that he had accepted luxury travel and accommodations paid for by wealthy individuals with interests before the Court. He has defended such trips as falling within disclosure exemptions.

Justice Neil Gorsuch was the subject of a New York Times story in late 2024 that addressed his connections to billionaire Philip Anschutz, who helped steer him toward his earlier legal and judicial appointments.

[1] https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/wife-of-chief-justic...
by dfxm12 | 2025-12-19 19:49:50+00:00
Make no mistake this isn't about protecting US citizens, it's about consolidating power around conservative billionaires. It's not just limited to Tech. The Ellison family are media moguls. The Ellisons just want to gain more power, whether we're talking money or the ability to manufacture consent. They bought this opportunity from Trump: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/09/oracle-invested-mil...
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-19 19:50:02+00:00
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin similarly:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Cups_of_Tea#Controversy>

Specific allegations and refutations were raised by 60 Minutes and The Daily Beast:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20110416212133/http://www.cbsnew...>

<https://web.archive.org/web/20110424154702/https://news.yaho...>
by agoodusername63 | 2025-12-19 19:50:54+00:00
How?

Consoles don’t pay for online subscriptions with f2p games anymore, which is the overwhelming lions share of online play today.

Consoles also get to flip games you’re done with. I’m positive about 3 of my friends spend much less than I do on gaming these days because of all the games they buy, play once, then flip again on FB market place

And then you get to the rising entry level cost of PC gaming. If you want something better than a Steam deck you’re looking at 1K USD to start with an Intel dGPU

But I guess if you’re fine with a Steam deck it’s a bit cheaper than consoles to start

The best claim that PC gaming has today is that it has a much larger library with indies that don’t release on console
by tliltocatl | 2025-12-19 19:50:56+00:00
- Start accepting small individual donations solely for the Firefox team (rather than generalized Mozilla stuff that goes on anything but Firefox).

- Start crowdfunding for features.

- Go RedHat route, offer an enterprise version with centrally managed profiles and DLP feature. Not exactly free-as-in-freedom stuff but still better than adtech.

- Get some EU bureaucrats thru a FUD session against Chrome (does it counts as FUD if it's true?), then apply for some EU funding program. Dirty and messy, still better than adtech.

None of this is particularly lucrative or clean, but I don't see how AI would bring them any __revenue__ (do not confuse with investment) at all. There are too many players there already and many of them are more established - and what Mozilla have?

- Their engineering team? Maybe.

- The browser engine? Completely irrelevant (and that's exactly the problem).

- Their userbase? The userbase they have left seems extremely averse to value-added features in general, and the AI kind in particular.

Then assume they focus on integrating AI into the browser, how do they monetize it next? Sell data? Then there is no reason to choose them over Google. Charge for interference? No chance to compete against established hyperscalers there and would go against their local-first selling point.

The sad truth about platform-crucial software like a web browser is that monetizing it in any way inherently reduces it's value for users. And in case of Firefox it's a pretty small margin that keeps it competitive.
by simonask | 2025-12-19 19:51:17+00:00
You know, I actually sympathize with the opinion that people should be expected and assumed to be able to resist attempts to convince them of being nazis.

The problem with it is, it already happened at least once. We know how it happened. Unchecked narratives about minorities or foreigners is a significant part of why the 20th century happened to Europe, and it’s a significant part of why colonialism and slavery happened to other places.

What solution do you propose?
by xp84 | 2025-12-19 19:51:28+00:00
If they think capitalism is bad for Americans, they’d really dislike being part of some failed state version of the country. Again, China isn’t going to come redistribute all the billionaires’ wealth to the poor American zoomers. They don’t give a fk what happens to any Americans. They barely care about their own commoners. They represent the Party’s interests exclusively. Whatever enhances their power. Ideally if they can screw the US billionaires they will, but with the wealth all going to China.
Show HN: Taupy – fast Python desktop apps without Electron
by s1jor | 2025-12-19 19:51:33+00:00
I’ve tried building small desktop apps in Python multiple times. Every time it ended the same way: frameworks felt heavy and awkward, like Electron felt exrteamly overkill. Even when things worked, apps were big and startup was slow (most of them). so I started experimenting with a different approach and created my own, I tried to focus on performance and on making the developer experience as simple as possible. It's a desktop framework that lets you build fast native apps using Python as a backend (with optional React/Vite, python or just html/js/css for the UI)

I’m actively collecting early feedback. Would you try taupy in a real project?

Why or why not? I just really need your honest opinion and any advice you might have
by pjscott | 2025-12-19 19:51:33+00:00
I'm not too familiar with the JVM so perhaps I'm missing something here: how would that help? The file is tiny, just a few bytes, so I'd expect the main slowdown to come from system call overhead. With non-mmap file I/O you've got the open/read/close trio, and only one read(2) should be needed, so that's three expensive trips into kernel space. With mmap, you've got open/stat/mmap/munmap/close.

Memory-mapped I/O can be great in some circumstances, but a one-time read of a small file is one of the canonical examples for when it isn't worth the hassle and setup/teardown overhead.
by windowsrookie | 2025-12-19 19:51:34+00:00
Considering the final PCIe 4.0 spec was released in June 2017 that seems improbable.

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

AMD didn't even support PCIe 4.0 until 2019 with Zen 2, Intel in 2020 with tiger lake.
by synergy20 | 2025-12-19 19:51:37+00:00
I have 5 kindles at home and they're all collecting dusts along with some Alexa and Echo devices, the only thing I need Amazon for is its ecommerce shopping site. The phone just replaces all those gadgets and it probably has nothing to do with Amazon. Still it's a nice move to support ePub and PDFs on kindles.
by andybp85 | 2025-12-19 19:52:13+00:00
i probably don't understand. the main thought i have re: llm coding is, why i would want to talk to a insipid, pandering chatbot instead of having fun writing code?

but, as an engineer, i have to say if it works for you and you're getting quality output, then go for it. it's just not for me.
by linggen | 2025-12-19 19:54:22+00:00
Good question. Linggen itself always runs locally.

When using Claude Desktop, it connects to Linggen via a local MCP server (localhost), so indexing and memory stay on-device. The LLM can query that local context, but Linggen doesn’t push your data to the cloud.

Claude’s web UI doesn’t support local MCP today — if it ever does, it would just be a localhost URL.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-19 19:54:23+00:00
> No, it hasn't.

Yes, it has. They made it clear right when they launched the store.

> I couldn't care less what their ToS said about it

You're welcome to not care about whatever you feel - your concerns and reality are orthogonal.

This became big news a long time ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-ki...
by 6510 | 2025-12-19 19:54:57+00:00
Almost as good as my idea to have people pay me to work for me.

Had a great business idea just now: A tool for staged interviews! The subject and the journalist submit an equal length list of questions. Each round of the auction they bid on questions they want to include or exclude. The loser gets 50% of the points spend by the winner to be used in the next round. Both the subject and the journalists can buy additional points at any time. I keep all the money.
by paddleon | 2025-12-19 19:55:03+00:00
> I don’t think it’s any more true or insightful in the modern era

hmm, based on what evidence?

Or, if you prefer, based on what appeal to authority? Did you actually quote that authority properly or did you just wing it? Can you properly quote many authorities?

If you don't have good answers to those, then perhaps you have just proved the your opponents point?

Maybe there is a reason people need more compute in their key fob than what our parents/grandparents needed to pilot their ship to the moon?
by kakacik | 2025-12-19 19:56:15+00:00
Soviets winning space race during microchip era? I think you have mildly mixed up decades. Soviets were leaders till US put people on the moon, that was so far beyond what soviets were capable of this race stopped, and they just focused on ICBMs.

Soviet tech was sturdy and more primitive (thus more sturdy), much cheaper and they were willing to deliver it to anybody.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-12-19 19:57:11+00:00
I looked at some older Zyxel products and came to the same conclusion a while back. There's a whole industry of labeling generic hardware as being part of someone's else ecosystem

https://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/hacking-zyxel-ip-cameras-pt-...

https://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/hacking-zyxel-ip-cameras-pt-...
by mattio | 2025-12-19 19:57:11+00:00
Completely agreed. Used claude and codex both on highest tier next to each other for a month. On complex tasks where Claude would get stuck and not be able to fix it at all, codex would fix the issue in one go. Codex is amazing.

I did found some slip ups in 5.2 where I did a refactor of a client header where I removed two header properties, but 5.2 forgot to remove those from the toArray method of the class. Was using 5.2 on medium (default).
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-12-19 19:57:15+00:00
What I gathered is that Chomsky was genuinely friends with Epstein, even after the sex crimes had been revealed (which is disturbing), but that there's no evidence Chomsky himself did anything criminal or immoral beyond being friends with a monster. The charitable interpretation is that Chomsky is just as easily conned by fun-seeming extroverted people as anyone else. But maybe there's more to it.
by csb6 | 2025-12-19 19:57:41+00:00
Not sure how you could construe U.S. anti-trust actions as socialist. They prevented Amazon from acquiring iRobot. That is government intervention in the free market, but that is not the same thing as socialism. In fact you could argue a socialist administration would have wanted the merger (large firms tend to make labor organizing more tractable since there is only one employer to negotiate with).
by phire | 2025-12-19 19:57:58+00:00
It never stopped.

Just takes backwards steps from time to time with major architectural innovations that deliver better performance at significantly lower clock speeds. Intel's last backwards step was from Pentium 4 to Core all the way back in ~2005. AMD's last backwards step was from Bulldozer (and friends) to Zen in 2017.

7GHz is ridiculous and probably just a false rumour, but IMO; Intel and AMD are probably due for another backwards step, they are exceeding the peek speeds from the P4/Bulldozer eras. And Apple has proved that you can get better performance at lower clock speeds.
by blablablerg | 2025-12-19 19:58:19+00:00
> Automated snack vending machine is a solved problem since nearly a century.

Yes, but as stated by the Anthropic guy, a LLM/AI running a business is not. Or would you just let it run wild in the real world?

And I agree that there is a PR angle here, for Anthropic could have tested it in a more isolated environment, but it is a unique experiment with current advancements in technology, so why wouldn't that be newsworthy? I found it insightful, fun and goofy. I think it is great journalism, because too often journalism is serious, sad and depressing.

> None of the world class journalists seemed to care. They are probably too badly paid for that.

The journalists were clearly taking the piss.They concluded experiment was a disaster. How negative does the author want them to be about a silly experiment?

This was just a little bit of fun and I quite enjoyed the video. The author is missing the point.
by drysart | 2025-12-19 19:58:54+00:00
Falling behind on the browser core makes users leave Firefox because the one non-negotiable requirement users have is that the browser works on the websites they need it to work on. Literally nothing else Mozilla tries to do to diversify their revenue streams will matter if the browser they're trying to build it on top of is not sound and functional.

If they weren't slipping on the core browser as much as they have been, there wouldn't be nearly as many shouts as there are today when they instead spend resources on chasing the latest fad.
by cyberax | 2025-12-19 19:58:55+00:00
> I don't know how to explain to you that an increase in supply results in the price of a good decreasing.

You assume that the _demand_ is constant. It's not. And the supply increases can't feasibly outpace the demand increases.

> Yeah, because downtown office space costs more & goes disproportionately to higher-paying finance jobs. That has nothing to do with density—that's just finance bros wanting to work in the fanciest skyscrapers.

And why does this happen in Seattle, SF, Chicago?

> Your source refers to cars generally

New cars. An average car is now 13 years old.

> Even with your $500/month figure, transit is still much cheaper.

I literally provided you the source that proves that just the OPERATIONS budget is the same order of magnitude as the _total_ cost of car ownership, including capital expenses, insurance, and financing. This ensures that the total cost of transit will dwarf the cost of car ownership.

> Again, Manhattan is unique.

No, it's not. Seattle's failrail will cost about the same amount per track mile. It's so far projected to cost $120B, or over $120k for each and every houseshold.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-19 19:59:04+00:00
Their parent's generation toiled really hard and lifted the entire country out of poverty and everyone was pretty well rewarded for it.

They feel working hard brings benefits.

In America, working hard brings your manager benefits. We are multiple generations into this. Most people have learned to not work hard because it is just free benefit to your employer.

Sure, we could pressure Americans to work harder by making the entire country even more afraid of losing their jobs and terrified of not overworking themselves, but even then, all that hard work will just be captured by a spoiled managerial class playing bonus games and extracting all that wealth for themselves, not for American advancement.

Even in the shithole that is American managerial culture, you can still find young Americans working hard, often in spite of themselves, because they get into some project. In the past, projects were small and your team had substantial agency, so this sort of "The team really gets into the project" outcomes paid huge dividends, and resulted in a lot of success. Things like the IBM PC, lots of stuff at Bell Labs.