MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmiles8 | 2025-12-18 11:46:54+00:00
In the US a lot of these are pseudo postings for immigration applications. They are technically posting the job, but in pt 3 for on page 72 of a random newspaper in a hope that nobody sees it and applies so they can say “we couldn’t find anyone so we need a visa/green card.”

That’s starting to get cracked down on, but it’s been a mess and a sham for a while.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-18 11:47:25+00:00
Right. Problem is, the user interface is also the perfect marketing channel, because it stands between the user and some outcome they want.

Due to technical and social limitations, most apps are also limited in what they can do, this naturally shapes and bounds them and their UIs, forming user-facing software products.

Intelligence of the kind supplied by SOTA LLMs, is able to both subsume the UI, by taking much broader context of the user and the use case into account, distilling it down to minimal interaction patterns for a specific user and situation, and also blur the boundaries of products, by connecting and chaining them on the fly. This kills the marketing channel (UI) and trims the organizational structure itself (product), by turning a large SaaS into a bunch of API endpoints for AI runtime to call.

Of course, this is the ideal. I doubt it'll materialize, or if it does, that it'll survive for long, because there's half a software industry's worth of middlemen under risk of being cut out, and thus with a reason to fight it.
by MrSkelter | 2025-12-18 11:48:09+00:00
I work in Hollywood and this is or true. We do not have to pay to have buildings in the background. Nor does TV. How would anything be filmed outside if news crews had to pay fees for filming like that? I have made films in NY, London, Paris, Sydney. We can shoot someone walking through a city as long as we have permits for the space. The skyline is free. As is anything else we capture from space we have rights to.
by csomar | 2025-12-18 11:48:10+00:00
- Major disruptions on the financial markets due to the USD losing value. Commodities go up. Not certain about Bitcoin/Crypto as it is backed mostly by the USD itself.

- US goes on the offensive on tokenization moving bonds, stocks, transfers, etc. to the blockchain. China opens up its eCNY to the grand public.

- AI bubble pops. Companies decide that LLM-coding is not worth it after accounting for the downsides. LLMs for generating photos and videos are still not good enough. OpenAI goes the way of pipedpiper.

- The war in Ukraine remains unresolved. Russia advances but only marginally. Europe still shaking its head about what to do. US lower its involvement.

- The US world cup goes very badly. Like embarrassingly bad. Goes okay in Canada and kinda okay in Mexico though.

- China invades Taiwan in the last month of 2026.
by tomashubelbauer | 2025-12-18 11:48:33+00:00
`gemini update` - error `gemini` and then `/update` - unknown command

I also had similar issues with Claude Code in the past. Everyone should take a page out of Bun's playbook. I never had `bun update` fail.

Edit: Also, I wish NPM wasn't the distribution mechanism for these TUIs. I suspect NPM's interplay with global packages and macOS permissions is what's causing the issue.
by pdpi | 2025-12-18 11:48:49+00:00
If you count names and causes of death as separate puzzles, Return of the Obra Dinn is around 100 puzzles long. The two Portal games are less than 100 puzzles put together. Blue Prince is what? 50ish elaborate, intricate puzzles? (darts and parlour notwithstanding). Chants of Senaar, Opus Magnum, Space Chem are all in that same ballpark too. Puzzle games with a lot of levels, like Patrick's Parabox or Baba Is You, clock in at 250ish puzzles.

So... why would I want a game with 1400 puzzles? At one puzzle a minute, that's 24 hours of gameplay. There's no reasonable scenario where each individual puzzle is something you can savour while having the game be completable in a vaguely timely fashion. How many of those puzzles are going to be even remotely memorable?
by jstimpfle | 2025-12-18 11:49:05+00:00
That's the same thing as happened to James Damore, who is, in my view, a harmless guy (even nice) and whoever cancelled him or is unable to acknowledge he had a point is much closer to fascism. I don't like throwing that term but just to return it.

It _boggles_ my mind that someone might find it controversial that there are on average differences between the sexes in terms of behaviour and interests. And to throw extremely strong accusations like "fascist" for a totally reasonable assumption or observation like that, I don't have words for that, I think those people have been smoking too much pot.
by bialpio | 2025-12-18 11:49:43+00:00
Yes, this is how I make decisions, but it also depends on the category of decision. E.g. in entertainment, there's too much content available to care about one specific author / creator / etc (this also applies to "console exclusive" games and platform-exclusive TV shows). In this particular case, I vaguely recall Blow making some comments (pre-COVID era IIRC) that sounded too asshole-y / high-horse-y that I no longer seek his opinions on things and try to stay away from his content. I still have bazillion technical articles available to read and plenty of video games to play.
by dizhn | 2025-12-18 11:50:25+00:00
The reason is convenience. There would be a lot more friction if they didn't do it like this for everything other than local development.

Docker also has more traps and not quite as obvious as this. For example, it can change the private IP block its using without telling you. I got hit by this once due to a clash with a private block I was using for some other purpose. There's a way to fix it in the config but it won't affect already created containers.

By the way. While we're here. A public service announcement. You probably do NOT need the userland-proxy and can disable it.

/etc/docker/daemon.json

{ "userland-proxy": false }
by willswire | 2025-12-18 11:50:29+00:00
Back when I was in the Air Force, I hated the UX for referencing Air Force publications on mobile. So I created an iOS app called AFI Explorer [0] which has continued to get hundreds of downloads every month for the past 5 years.

Since I’ve been shifting more towards platform engineering work in my career, the best reward abut this side hustle isn’t the financial benefit, but is the opportunity to stay grounded in software dev. I love seeing the changing APIs each year with the new iOS updates. And the seasonal approach to doing updates is always fun too.

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/afi-explorer/id1564964107
by cons0le | 2025-12-18 11:52:24+00:00
It's impossible for people to get how bad it is until they see it. My old house had a grocery store 1.2 miles away. To walk there, you have to cross a 6 lane highway. Entire neighborhoods here have no sidewalks. And the roads are so torn up they're unusable. My friend had to get rid of his road bike and get a fat tire suspension bike. None of the intersections have any lights or visibility. And you can't run off the road because the ditches have broken glass and garbage in them!. Trash that hasn't been cleaned up in years. Add to that there's a general culture of hostility towards bicycles.

A pedestrian got hit by a pickup truck and the trucks made a "caravan" to roll coal at the memorial spot where they hit her.

There's no consistency in america. I moved 15 minutes away to "the good" part of town, and every street is new and perfectly smooth. There are marked bike lanes everywhere and they're all connected. I didn't understand at the time, but moving to where the bike lanes are completely changed my life and opened up the entire city for exploring in a way that I didn't expect.

Aside from getting my adorable cats on craigslist, no other 1 decision has changed my life for the better so drastically. I sold my car. I bike to new food places on my lunch break. I met tons of amazing new friends. My fitness is way up.

People aren't good at visualizing what being in a car all the time is taking from them. In terms of happiness, I honestly feel like I got a 50k raise at my job or something. Car centric design is robbing people of the chance to disscover thier own cities
by Aromasin | 2025-12-18 11:52:25+00:00
It's common in the UK to work from the age of 13 or 14, depending where you live. I worked in the Post Office across my road at 13, every Wednesday evening and Sunday afternoon, in 2009. Most of my friends had part time jobs working in retail while at school. I was behind the pub bar at 16 slinging pints.

The (possibly completely incorrect) impression I get from speaking with Americans I know who have moved here, or I work with, is that nobody really works until they get to college unless it's a paper round or it's at your parents business. It almost goes without saying then that most people would be pretty infantile if they don't start work until they're almost mid-20s.
by latexr | 2025-12-18 11:52:44+00:00
> these are not fringe opinions

Neither was slavery. Was that OK too? And to clarify (though it’s worrying this point needs to be made), I mean morally.

> throwing around certain bad words like fascist

Fascism has a very clear definition. It describes a particular set of behaviours and actions, all of which you can compare to reality and determine if it’s happening or not. It’s an objective word. If anyone is trying to “dismiss” anything, it’s the people pretending it’s subjective because they support its outcome.
by pera | 2025-12-18 11:52:48+00:00
Meanwhile MI6 offers an onion service for secure communications:

mi6govukbfxe5pzxqw3otzd2t4nhi7v6x4dljwba3jmsczozcolx2vqd.onion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYB129pGq0k
by noodlebird | 2025-12-18 11:53:40+00:00
like the idea of the article. however, it gave me bad vibes. this “virtues” only use is to have moral high ground over other “virtues” instead of deconstructing intelligence as a whole.

why is it bad that the person with the highest IQ does puzzle columns? are all people with IQ supposed to be doing groundbreaking research? can you only do groundbreaking research if you’re intelligent?

i think the real virtue here is not “slowness” but rather persistence. what do you think?
by jsiepkes | 2025-12-18 11:54:02+00:00
I don't get why this is noteworthy? It's literally a piece of code in a Rust "unsafe" block. If you put something in an "unsafe" block the compiler isn't going to help you, you are on your own. That's why it's called "unsafe".

Now what is kinda interesting is that instead of getting rid of the "unsafe" block the developers put in some extra check. I guess you can take the developer out of C but you can't take the C out of the developer?
by hilbert42 | 2025-12-18 11:54:17+00:00
"Kunrei-shiki romanisation for つなみ is 'tunami' "

I selected tsunami because of its very common usage and rapid rise in English (I'm old enough to watch it happen), and that most English speakers pronounce it differently to its accepted English spelling.

I've actually discussed the pronunciation with native Japanese speakers and several have told me that the correct pronunciation is somewhere between tsu and tu, the tsu is too hard and the tu too soft. That's another debate for linguists and language experts which I am not.

My post and follow-up reply are principally aimed at English and English speakers and language training in anglophone countries. As I mentioned, pronunciation matters because for many people upon hearing a word mispronounced it takes additional time to mentally process it which distracts from what is being said.

The real issue here is not whether that some linguist translated the word with tsu or tu but rather that once the romanisation was agreed upon then there ought to be an agreed pronunciation based on that spelling. That's principally my point.

No doubt tsu is uncommon in other English spellings but the usage of the word tsunami is very common so it ought to be incumbent on public speakers to pronounce it correctly. I believe this comes down to poor language training. Why training matters can be inferred from my other imported word zeitgeist, pronouncing it is never a problem because English is a Germanic language, thus it has common roots with German. Again I'd stress I'm not a linguist and my objection is purely practical, I find bad pronouncation very distracting.

I think your use of (ph)thalic acid, (p)terodactyl, etc. is stretching it a bit. These scientific and technical words are not as in as common useage (on the say the daily news) as tsunami is but I concede their usage is growing. It's unfair to criticize people who cannot pronounce strange and or uncommon words at least without some practice. I spent years studying organic chemistry and I still have difficulty in pronouncing some of the rarer functional groups. Take a look at the official IUPAC list of chemical names, I defy most experienced chemists to pronounce many of those names upon first sight.

Re your point about the strangeness of English spelling and pronunciation, (k)nife, (g)nome, etc., that's a whole new subject which I've not time to discuss here execpt to say if you don't already watch the YouTube channels Robwords and Words Unravelled then you ought to do so. Anyone interested in words and language would find them most interesting.

Edit: I forgot to mention the meaning of the expression 'tital wave' was taught to us at a very eary age and it had the same meaning and connotation as tsunami. We learned about tidal waves in social studies in primary school. I'm surprised this was even raised as knowledge about the term across the population was so well known that querying it would have been considered strange. It seems tsunami has done more damage to our language that I'd have thought.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-18 11:54:28+00:00
Not only is that wrong, it’s not relevant to the topic of a regime doing dumb things and then trying to scapegoat.

I think the extent to which it’s effective may be a proxy for an electorate’s intellectual health. So while we see failures to take responsibility (what role models the world has for leaders…), that scapegoating doesn’t always work. And if so, not for long.

What got me thinking about this is the Conservative guy up here in Canada has been trying this playbook and it’s just not working. Worse, it’s actually eroding his party’s power in a very measurable way.

Tehran becoming intolerably difficult to live in because of basic resource mismanagement will be a very hard one to spin. But I suspect we will see an attempt at scapegoating.
by a2tech | 2025-12-18 11:55:04+00:00
In 10 years there won’t be a regime in Iran because Iran won’t exist as it does today. With the collapsing water table people are going to be forced into either death or migration.

I don’t want to be a doom and gloom guy, but the climate change collapse is starting to happen in front of our eyes—and not just in a far off ‘eventually this will be a problem’ way.
by jorvi | 2025-12-18 11:56:13+00:00
Considering it was a LEA that put them in court, yes, I don't think they were playing word games. Otherwise the LEA would have just forced them in court to intercept.

However, I also think threat model comes into play here. If you don't want advertisers to track you or to download some torrents, a VPN provider works great. If you want to hack into NORAD, probably do that from a secondhand laptop on Tor over a public wifi.
by jfjfrjtjtitjmi | 2025-12-18 11:58:16+00:00
> Today, legal protections for minors are more expansive than they ever have been.

I would disagree. There now far less legal protections from dog attack. 20 years ago aggressive behaviour and attack was very clearly defined!

I refuse to allow my children to park, it is full of aggresive dogs and their shit. Animal parks are too dangerous (bcos of dogs). Support animal fraudsters invaded every "safe" niche.

They are free to molest, maul and attack children. Victim blaming and gaslighting (dog is not "reactive", just agressive). If kid gets mauled, it has to go through painful rabies shots, instead of just testing the predator!

And there is not a chance to get any compensation, since dog owner had no way to know dog could attack anyone (first bite is free).
by latexr | 2025-12-18 11:58:21+00:00
That is a claim I neither made nor defended, I merely pointed the asker to the information they requested in the article to let them decide for themselves.

I even explicitly said I never encountered that claim before. As such, I’m not going to do very stupid armchair expert thing I’m criticising and comment on it. The points I made are on the things I know and reflected on, not on superficial information received three minutes ago.
by squigz | 2025-12-18 11:58:25+00:00
> Yesterday the top comment on two stories I went to discuss had deep and meaningful content, before the last line which was a "and I talk about this stuff all the time on my newsletter [link]", and I was conflicted. Same poster each time.

In my opinion, if they put thought into a deep and meaningful answer, then I think that's fine. If they say "Oh yeah I talked about this in my blog [link]" that's totally different.
by daynthelife | 2025-12-18 11:58:40+00:00
I find a lot of motivation from topology. If you plot a smooth degree d curve over the complex numbers, it forms a surface of degree g=(d-1)(d-2)/2. In the case of a cubic, we get genus 1, i.e. a torus. Now tori admit a very natural group action, namely addition in (R/Z)^2. And sure enough, if you pick the right homeomorphism, this corresponds to the group action given by the elliptical curve.

Of course, the homeomorphism to (R/Z)^2 does not respect the geometry (it is not conformal). If we want the map to preserve angles, we need our fundamental domain to be a parallelogram instead of a rigid square. The shape of the parallelogram depends on the coefficients of the cubic, and the isomorphism is uniquely defined up to choice of a base point O (mapping to the identity element; for elliptic curves, this is normally taken to be the point at infinity). You still get a group law on the parallelogram from vector addition in the same way, and this pulls back to the precise group action on the elliptic curve.

The real magic is that the resulting group law is algebraic, meaning that a*b can be written as an algebraic function of a and b. This means you can do the same arithmetic over any field, not just the complex numbers, and still get a group action.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-12-18 11:58:46+00:00
AI = Transformer

There is a nuanced understanding lost here.

I feel this kind of wordings will harm post-transformer AI in the future as investors will look at past articles like this to try to decide if an AI investment is worth it. Founders will need to explain why their AI is different and the usage of AI for different technologies will greatly affect their funding.
by voidstranger | 2025-12-18 11:58:59+00:00
If you haven't already, and want to scratch a puzzle game itch (sokoban style) check out Void Stranger.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2121980/Void_Stranger/

For all that is holy, please don't read anything about it. And I really mean that! Just trust and go in blind. You will have an amazing time. It is truly one of the most unique gaming experiences and it is the kind of game you can only play once.
by bostik | 2025-12-18 11:59:06+00:00
> On the other hand, removing exec permissions to /tmp, /var/tmp and /dev/shm is also useful.

Sadly that's more of a duck tape or plaster, because any serious malware will launch their scripts with the proper '/bin/bash /path/to/dropped/payload' invocation. A non-exec mount works reasonably well only against actual binaries dropped into the paths, because it's much less common to launch them with the less known '/bin/ld.so /path/to/my/binary' stanza.

I've also at one time suggested that Debian installer should support configuring a read-only mount for /tmp, but got rejected. Too many packaging scripts depend on being able to run their various steps from /tmp (or more correctly, $TMPDIR).
by ygouzerh | 2025-12-18 11:59:27+00:00
I feel the majority of junior job-hopping is due to the fact that they are often hired for really low, and then proposed just an incremental raise after two years. Instead, if they change company, then they got a big jump.

At least, that's what I saw happening here in Hong Kong for juniors I worked with, not sure for other areas.
by a2tech | 2025-12-18 11:59:35+00:00
They’re already straining to truck in enough water for survival now WITH some of the wells still working. If the ability to source water locally stops the people of Tehran will either need to move or die. With aquifers running dry from iran to Afghanistan they’ll have to migrate even further. I think we could see the entire region plunge further into chaos as the water crisis worsens.
by cons0le | 2025-12-18 11:59:42+00:00
Please stop thinking about laws, and think about enforcement. If the cops don't care about something, it's defecto legal. We have all sorts of fancy laws on the books that aren't enforced. Environmental regs, animal welfare regs, anti trust laws, white collar anti fraud laws. Data laws fall into this bucket. Nobody that would actually enforce those laws gives a dam. We won't be able to solve any of our problems with new laws, until we can actually enforce the laws already on the books
by ablation | 2025-12-18 11:59:53+00:00
The UK is just saying the quiet part out loud. If you look at the EARN IT Act in the US or the "Chat Control" proposals in the EU, then the trajectory is identical. The UK is providing the "democratic" precedent that the rest of the Five Eyes will use as leverage. If you think the US isn't eyeing the Online Safety Act as a convenient trial run for overt or covert domestic policy, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

EDIT: You added a lot more after I replied to your post.
by bialpio | 2025-12-18 12:00:34+00:00
> He has very strong opinions on a lot of things he knows little about (and belittles those who disagree with his uninformed opinion) (...)

I'm impressed with how well you summarized my thoughts about him. I vaguely recall having this impression about him after I read his technical article (can't remember the topic) and decided that I don't think I need to read more from someone that comes through as an asshole. This was around the time The Witness came out, I'm quite happy that I didn't have to witness (hah!) what sounds like his further slide into the madness.
by Nevermark | 2025-12-18 12:00:41+00:00
I find that roughly regular breaks, where you have a good sense of what the next couple might involve helps.

It isn’t the frequency so much as always knowing you have a specific break coming, so when things drag it doesn’t subconsciously feel endless. More a race or push to get what you can done before the break.

Which is much healthier self-generated time-limited “pressure”.
by tecleandor | 2025-12-18 12:01:25+00:00
Just a small comment, as I don't know if you're planning to wrap up or keep maintaining the product...

I can't find the pricing of the product on the site, I only find that I get '10 free credits', but I don't know how much a credit is and what can I do with it.

Home page says it's one credit per diagram, but then the docs say it's a certain amount of credits per modification (that could be correct or not, I guess...)

I usually skip if I can't find the price, but it could also happen that people create the trial account, spends quickly the credits, then they find the price and it doesn't fit them. Of course, there's always people coming just for the free credits.

I don't know if this is helpful to you or not, but I hope so :)
by masto | 2025-12-18 12:01:43+00:00
I enjoy reading about other people’s approaches to motivation and creativity.

But I very much dislike when they phase it as “you need to” or “this is how it works”. Thinking everyone else’s brain operates the way yours does seems to be a frequent bias among bloggers. And managers.

I encourage those who write about their experiences to keep it in the first person.