MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by etothepii | 2025-12-04 13:47:56+00:00
An observation here that wasn't quite made but in my opinion is supported by the narrative.

If you raise enough capital (whether social or financial) to run for 3 years then you can run for 3 years. If your bets are paying off 2 years in you can stick with the plan - no one will care how you used the capital in year 1 and 2 if there is a payoff in year 3.

The risk comes from being wrong.
by Gormo | 2025-12-04 13:48:26+00:00
A "company" is just an organizational model employed by people to pursue the intentions that those people have. It goes without saying that large endeavors involving many people will have a mixture of good and bad intentions.

Opposing all organized endeavors simply because they have the potential to pursue bad intentions essentially resolves to being against anything anyone is ever doing, which is more than a little bit pointless.
by nirui | 2025-12-04 13:49:27+00:00
> presume the best of actual people and the worst of our corporations and governments

Off-topic and not an American, but I never see how this would work. Corporations and governments are made of people too, you know? So it's not logical that you can presume the "best of actual people" at the same time you presume the "worst of our corporations and governments". You're putting too much trust on individual people, that's IMO as bad as putting too much trust on corp/gov.

The Americans vote their president as individual people, they even got to vote in a small booth all by themselves. And yet, they voted Mr. Trump, twice. That should already tell you something about people and their nature.

And if that's not enough, then I recommend you to watch some police integration videos (many are available on YouTube), and see the lies and acts people put out just to cover their asses. All and all, people are untrustworthy.

Only punching up is never enough. The people on the top never cared if they got punched, as long as they can still find enough money, they'll just corrode their way down again and again. And the people on the down will just keep take in the shit.

So how about, we say, punch wrong?
by dvgrn | 2025-12-04 13:51:06+00:00
Would you be satisfied with a Lisp implementation?

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Lisp_in_Life

That shares the impressive inefficiencies of the Quest for Tetris project, though. For something that's much more practical to run, and can be programmed to do things like print out the digits of pi in-universe, see

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/APGsembly
by kllrnohj | 2025-12-04 13:51:26+00:00
> How does Apple do it?

Apple uses off the shelf LPDDR modules. They have nothing whatsoever special about them.

Apple gets high bandwidth out of these modules not with high bus speeds, but with a very, very wide bus. This is expensive on the SoC side (requires a large die, which is why others don't necessarily do this), but allows for commodity memory modules.
by emacdona | 2025-12-04 13:51:28+00:00
I love Microcenter. Built my current gaming rig with all parts purchased there. It's been about 8 years, so not sure if they still operate this way... but when I built my PC, I:

- Went online, ordered everything for pickup (didn't pay yet)

- Drove there, they had it all bagged and ready

- I showed them online prices for some of the parts

- For the ones they could verify (I think it was all of them) by going to the website and checking, they matched the prices

- Then I paid and took my stuff home

I also got my M1 MBP there (it was 25% off when the M2 models came out).

Please, if you have a Microcenter near you, give them your business. I don't want them to go away. Once all this memory madness dies down, I'm going to go there to build a new gaming rig.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-04 13:51:31+00:00
Orwell did not. He modeled the state after his experience as an officer of the British Empire and the Soviets.

The state, particularly police states, that control information, require process and consistency, not intelligence. They don’t require grand plans, just control. I’ve spent most of my career in or adjacent to government. I’ve witnessed remarkable feats of stupidity and incompetence — yet these organizations are materially successful at performing their core functions.

The issue with AI is that it can churn out necessary bullshit and allow the competence challenged to function more effectively.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-12-04 13:51:56+00:00
>> you have a price ceiling by definition

Price ceiling definition: a government-imposed legal maximum price

My original comment: First come first served is a better <snipped for brevity>

This is not a legal maximum price, this is a legal maximum in the derivative of price.

> I didn't mention or allude to supply at all

>> get what I need with 100% chance than get what I need cheaply with 5% chance

How do you square these two statements? One claims 100% supply certainty when no such thing exists in this context. Without making certain assumptions (unstated, but ludicrous, assumptions are rife in economics discourse), you can't state much of value about which buyer will get the goods in the surge pricing model, you especially cannot say that the buyer with the larger wallet will always win. Think for a second what assumptions you've made to this point in the conversation - you're still down the rabbit hole of price ceilings in the comment chain thus far.

>> The empirical history of price ceilings is there

Not disputed but as per your call out of definition above, not relevant.

To make the point further - the name for a limit on rate of change of price is not a price ceiling, anymore than the 0-60 time of a car is its top speed limit.

>> you thought that I was talking about supply instead of resource allocation

My challenge to you is to name the assumptions you've identified in your reasoning around resource allocation. I'm confident i can point out the deficiencies in your model because that is the nature of models.

>> you should study elementary economics

That's a great idea, a really good follow on from that is to identify logical fallacies you discover i. that process, especially those so accepted that it's not a stretch to say they are underpinning the discipline. A good example of that would be the conjectural origin theory of money but i digress.
by whizzter | 2025-12-04 13:52:00+00:00
It was competitive before ChatGPT existed, and IMHO that gives them a special insight that people miss to consider in this context.

They know what revenue streams existed and how damn hard it was to sell it, considering IBM Watson probably had the option of 100% on-prem services for healthcare, if they failed to sell that will a privacy violation system like ChatGPT,etc have a chance to penetrate the field?

Because however good ChatGPT, Claude,etc are, the _insane_ amounts of money they're given to play with implies that they will then emerge as winners in a future with revenue streams to match the spending that has been happening.
by phantasmish | 2025-12-04 13:52:50+00:00
> The NSA is no longer listening because there is TLS everywhere? Sure, and the earth is flat.

I’d be very surprised if they haven’t had several of the root trust entities compromised from day one. I wouldn’t rely on TLS with any of the typical widely-deployed trust chains for any secrecy at all if your opponent is US intelligence.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-04 13:53:18+00:00
An interesting Reddit r/AskHistorians thread on the question """Does the aphorism "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times", accurately reflect the evolution of civilizations through history and across different cultures?"""

copying only the conclusion for a tl;dr: "The only way that the aphorism explains history is by reinforcing confirmation bias - by seeming to confirm what we already believe about the state of the world and the causes behind it. Only those worried about a perceived crisis in masculinity are likely to care about the notion of "weak men" and what trouble they might cause. Only those who wish to see themselves or specific others as "strong men" are likely to believe that the mere existence of such men will bring about a better world. This has nothing to do with history and everything with stereotypes, prejudice and bias. It started as a baseless morality tale, and that is what it still is."

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/hd78tv/does_...
by filleduchaos | 2025-12-04 13:53:21+00:00
...do you imagine a nice, orderly, milquetoast system of voting on suitably agreeable topics only has existed for all of human history?

"History and politics" is very much the domain of people trying to do the impossible - to rewrite society as they will it. It would take a lot of either ignorance or disingenuity to claim that this has never gone well.
by LinuxAmbulance | 2025-12-04 13:53:55+00:00
I get the sense that Lalit wants to do the work and get paid while avoiding the career meta game. The appeal of that is understandable, but having been in this situation in the past, it's not all its cracked up to be.

The number of tech companies where you can stay employed for a solid decade without falling victim to layoffs or re-orgs are very rare in my experience, even more so ones that offer competitive pay.

If you find yourself looking for a new job and want to move up in title and pay, doing the same sort of unglamorous work for years can be a detriment to that.
by nilkn | 2025-12-04 13:54:03+00:00
I did suggest all code has bugs (up to some limit -- while I wasn't careful to specify this, as discussed above, there does exist an extraordinary level of caution and review that if used can approximate perfect bug-free code, as in your malloc example and in the example of NASA, but that standard is not currently applied to 99.9% of human-generated and human-reviewed code, and it doesn't need to be). I did not suggest anything else you said I suggested, so I'm not sure why you made those parts up.

"Not all software needs meticulous careful human review" is exactly the point. The question of exactly what software needs that kind of review is one whose answer I expect to change over the next 5-10 years. We are already at the point where it's so easy to produce small but highly non-trivial one-off applications that one needn't examine the code at all -- I completely agree with the above poster that we're rapidly discovering new examples of software development where output-verification is all you need, just like right now you don't hand-inspect the machine code generated by your compiler. The question is how far that will be able to go, and I don't think anybody really knows right now, except that we are not yet at the threshold. You keep bringing up examples where the stakes are "existential", but you're underestimating how much software development does not have anything close to existential stakes.
by anon98356 | 2025-12-04 13:54:13+00:00
I'm not sure it is objectively marginal. At Circuit of the Americas where they have both raced recently the difference in lap time is about 10 seconds. That doesn't sound like a lot but is close to 10% of the lap. The F1 race is 56 laps so by the end an Indycar is going to be 5 or 6 laps down. Throw in the fact an Indycar can't do 56 laps without refueling and it might be closer to 7 laps. In motorsport that is extreme
by kop316 | 2025-12-04 13:54:14+00:00
> How is it having a Linux phone? Do you use it as your main Phone?

Yes, I use it as my main phone. I like it, it reminds me a lot of the early Android days when I felt like I had complete control of the device, and I can customize it how I want to. If you want to tinker with it, I recommend a Oneplus 6/6T. They are sub $100 and its very well supported (that's what I am now using as my daily phone, with Mobian installed). I used to use a Librem 5, but it's battery life isn't great. The Oneplus 6 has no problem with a whole day's battery life with medium usage.

> How well do android apps work? what about banking apps?

I don't know, I tend not to use Android apps. Waydroid exists if you want to use them, and I have done that in the past.

> any issues that would make u NOT recommend it to other people?

Many of the devices have their own paper cuts to get it to work, and each model has their own quirks. For the Oneplus 6, calls have an audio problem with VoLTE that isn't fixed.

> Are there many apps that are made for linux phones (or have a UI that works good with phones) so that you are not missing anything?

For my use cases, it works. That includes SMS/MMS, voicemails, calls (sometimes, but I don't get many calls), email, car/bicycle/walking navigation, Signal, internet (Firefox), Matrix. Others have different use cases, so YMMV.
by Waterluvian | 2025-12-04 13:54:37+00:00
I love the visualization, which gave me an idea: what if we numbered every "Looking at" step in the visualization? Then it's obvious just how many search steps it takes.

And then maybe even juxtapose that with a linear search example, which also numbers every step. I bet this would make it really click for some people. And for free the user can also play with how a linear search can sometimes be faster when they just want the first element!

As a bonus: allow the user to change the cell count so they can really feel just how each method scales!
by leobg | 2025-12-04 13:54:48+00:00
80% there. The next step would be to generate many more versions of that picture. Even if you go back into the 80s, the hairstyle should change. If you go back into the 1800s, you probably don’t have the bright colors in the shirt. If you go back earlier, it might not be cotton but hemp. Etc. I think with generative AI it should be possible to slowly morph the one person from today in today’s clothing all the way back to Lucy, one picture at a time. Then, the effort of scrolling would actually be worth it!
by timcobb | 2025-12-04 13:54:55+00:00
I don't get it, I am sincerely sorry :(.

Why do we need Windows 11 to support old software when we can use an older version of Windows, in an emulator at that. Playing Quake doesn't require a secure, patched box, and if a secure environment is the point of extreme backwards compat, then it seems like endless backwards compatibility is not the best way to achieve that goal (sandboxing an old, emulated OS, for example, comes to mind as more reasonable).

Letting Microsoft play this backwards compatibility card feels not healthy for the evolution of software or the diversification of the industry.
by mingus88 | 2025-12-04 13:55:29+00:00
You don’t have to look very hard to see an enormous number of people expressing discontent at the latter.

To speak to your examples, the right to repair, farmers vs John Deere, the exodus from X to Bluesky, the rise of alternative messaging platforms, the outright murder of CEOs on the street and the beatification of the primary suspect on social media…just to scratch the surface

These are all headlines straight from HN and the fact that you even know about them is the difference.

The fundamental difference is while we both lack any real power to change this, under an actual dictatorship people get jailed or worse for that expression.

Let’s touch base on this again when Dictatorship from big capital means Disney puts me in prison for dissent against the mouse and then offers me clemency if I go to the front lines in their next special military operation.
by pless | 2025-12-04 13:56:32+00:00
Hey HN! I built this for myself and wanted to share the process.

The Problem: I'm training for my first half-marathon in Ireland. Irish weather is unpredictable - sunny mornings turn into horizontal rain by afternoon. I kept making reactive decisions: skip today's long run because of rain, then realize tomorrow was perfect but I'd already mentally rescheduled. My training consistency was suffering.

The Solution: RainCheck pulls 7-day weather forecasts and knows my 27-week training plan. It suggests the best days to run based on weather conditions, run type (long runs need better weather than easy recovery runs), and training consistency (no 4+ day gaps). Each day gets a 0-100 score with reasoning.

What I Built:

- 7-day weather forecasts with intelligent run suggestions

- Drag-and-drop training calendar (tap-to-move on mobile)

- Weather-reactive UI (background changes with conditions)

- Live weather effects (rain, snow, fog animations)

- Progress tracking and stats dashboard

- Public read-only access (doubles as a portfolio piece)

Tech Stack: Next.js 16, React 19, tRPC, Prisma + PostgreSQL, Tailwind CSS v4, Open-Meteo API for weather.

The Build Process: I built this in about 5 days using Claude Code with a workflow I've been developing called Session-Driven Development (I posted about the framework here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45899952 if anyone's curious).

The short version: every session started with Claude getting a full briefing (current work item, previous commits, learnings). Every session ended with automated quality gates (tests, linting, type-checking). This let me move fast without cutting corners.

43 work items completed. 39 development sessions. 52 pull requests merged. Full test coverage.

The app is live and completely public - you can see my actual training data. I'm using it to train for a May 2026 race, goal sub-2 hours.

Try it: https://raincheck.ankushdixit.com

Happy to answer questions about the build process, the planning algorithm, or the weather integration!
by bokohut | 2025-12-04 13:57:36+00:00
A standing applause for those undertaking this effort as I look forward to losing even more of my future time given how much I lost to it in the past.

Many moons ago I worked with an individual whose wife was employed in marketing by a large well known video game company involved around UT. One day he came into the office and brought a load of leftover UT swag and it was a feeding frenzy. I still have and wear my long sleeve black UT embroidered tee and as a point of fact I just wore it again last week. Looking forward to the progress on this effort as an old head UT fan still.
by psviderski | 2025-12-04 13:57:45+00:00
Fair points on the career and onboarding angle. It’s hard to argue against "everyone knows it". But with that mentality, we'd never challenge anything. COBOL was the industry standard once. So were bare metal servers or fat VMs without containers. Someone had to say "this is more painful than it needs to be and I want to try something different because I can".

I know how to use k8s but I really don't enjoy it. It feels so distasteful to me that it triggered me to make an attempt at designing a nicer experience, because why not. I remember how much fun I had trying Docker when it first came out. That inspires me to at least try. It doesn't seem like the k8s community is even trying unfortunately.
by thiago_fm | 2025-12-04 13:58:04+00:00
It's easy to write that blogpost when you are in a position of a lot of privilege, in arguably the best software engineering company in the world, and got where you are surely for your competence, but also a high degree of luck.

Some other people has to grind harder and even be better than you to get half of your success, that doesn't mean that they are wrong, or that the book is wrong.

I believe a lot, if not all advice there in the book is necessary. Other people might not work at Google, but as I've said before, might need to grind different gears in order to be successful, if you don't -- good for you!

A lot of your suggestions would get you fired very quickly on many companies, it's good that it all works for you.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-04 13:58:19+00:00
I was both siding in an effort to be as objective as possible. The truth is that i'm pretty dismayed at the current state of the Democrat party. Socialists like Mamdani and Sanders and the squad are way too powerful. People who are obsessed with tearing down cultural and social institutions and replacing them with performative identity politics and fabricated narratives are given platforms way bigger then they deserve. The worries of average Americans are dismissed. All those are issues that are tearing up the Democrat party from the inside. I can continue for hours but i don't want to start a flamewar of biblical proportions. So all i did was present the most balanced view i can muster and you still can't acknowledge that there might be truth in what i'm saying.

The pendulum swings both ways. MSM has fallen victim to partisan politics. Something which Trump recognised and exploited back in 2015. Fox news is on the right, CNN, ABC et al is on the left.
by muvlon | 2025-12-04 13:58:24+00:00
I'm a huge fan of statically typed languages, but shipping statically typed code as an artifact seems like it loses all of the advantages.

What does it matter to the user whether they get a runtime or a "compile time" error in their invisible devtools console? To them, the page simply doesn't work.

Static languages make sense when compilation happens at dev-time, where the actual devs can respond to the diagnostics. So it's far better to develop in a statically typed language, compile it ahead of time and ship that to the user. Which is exactly what people do now with wasm.
by tadaima | 2025-12-04 13:58:25+00:00
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by t43562 | 2025-12-04 13:58:33+00:00
The internet has turned into a machine for influencing people already through adverts. Businesses know it works. IMO this is the primary money making mode of the internet and everything else rests on it.

A political or social objective is just another advertising campaign.

Why invest billions in AI if it doesn't assist in the primary moneymaking mode of the internet? i.e. influencing people.

Tiktok - banned because people really believe that influence works.
by parpfish | 2025-12-04 13:59:49+00:00
I didn’t think can-am cars were homologated?

It’s easy for a manufacturer to make a couple hand crafted cars with insane specs. But by requiring homologous, it adds a unique kind of restriction where it’s a car that they have to be able and willing to make at scale. That requires buy-in from industrial engineers as well as business/marketing folks

Edited to add: just learned that homologation doesn’t mean exactly what I thought it did. So my parent thread should have been about “sec-style homologation” specifically and not just “homologation” generally. The idea is that you need to have a car built in production in order to be homologated