MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bonesss | 2025-12-22 21:56:57+00:00
> LLMs is just a synthetic human

1) ‘human’ encompasses behaviours that include revenge cannibalism and recurrent sexual violence —- wish carefully.

2) not even a little bit, and if you want to pretend then pretend they’re a deranged delusional psych patient who will look you in the eye and say genuinely “oops, I guess I was lying, it won’t ever happen again” and then lie to you again, while making sure happens again.

3) don’t anthropomorphize LLMs, they don’t like it.
by mythoughtsexact | 2025-12-22 21:57:17+00:00
I'm so confused, is HN now littered with nothing but Supported Bots and Crappy AI Generating supposedly a small developer Bots?

Nothing about this app is unique or cool, just one peek at the source code reveals OP or the Bot literally wrote Jack Shit. Everything on the App is powered by Cloudflare's AI tools. In fact, every other App listed on the page is exactly the same.

So with all those thoughts out there, if OP is a real human, then the best we could do is shame them for not having a single drop of creativity and for relying on AI to do all the work. Or are we still pretending this AI is actually useful? Because from the point of an actual engineer with decades of experience and several successful startups that went public, this is seriously concerning, and tells me that the next generation is going to be F'd when they wake up one morning and everything is falling to pieces and they realize that they have no real skills beyond asking a computer to do their work for them.
by fasterik | 2025-12-22 21:58:01+00:00
This comment is also misleading. First, $/watt is not how levelized cost of electricity is measured, you need to use $/watt-hour (or more commonly, $/MWh) over the lifetime of the project. By definition, levelized cost of electricity does not include storage.

The cost is also affected by the percent of energy coming from wind+solar+batteries vs. from natural gas. Wind+solar+batteries are cheap when they are used to supplement natural gas. If they were supplying 95% of generation (Levelized Full System Cost of Electricity 95%, LFSCOE-95), then the price of wind+solar+batteries would be $97/MWh compared to $37/MWh for gas, and $96/MWh for nuclear. For LFSCOE-100, the price of wind+solar+batteries increases to $225/MWh, compared to $122/MWh for nuclear and $40/MWh for natural gas.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

So yes, natural gas is much cheaper than nuclear. But that doesn't mean that nuclear shouldn't play a large role going forward. The moral of the story is that the price of energy is complicated. It's likely that a combination of nuclear, wind, solar, and battery backup would be the best option in terms of price and carbon emissions.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-22 21:58:02+00:00
> The US was quite influential in ending colonialism by Britain and France across much of the world after WWII for example.

The colonized people were a lot more influential there, though the US did exert some force in that direction (as well as plenty in the other direction) depending on its perception of the value of the particular colonial arrangement on its own geopolitical interests.
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-22 21:58:10+00:00
I think it's because what tech people do is objectively verifiable.

Did the thing the agent made do what it was supposed to do? Yes/No. There's no "mayyyybe" or feelings or opinions. If the sort algorithm doesn't sort it doesn't work.

But a secretary-agent for a non-techie is more about The Feels. It can summarize emails, "punch up" writing etc. But you can't measure whatever it outputs by anything except feels and opinions.
by grumbelbart | 2025-12-22 21:58:16+00:00
Lightning detection. You have a couple of ground stations with known positions that wait for certain electromagnetic puses, and which record the timestamps of such pulses. With enough stations you can triangulate the location of the source of each pulse. Also a great way to detect nuclear detonations.

There is a german club that builds and distrubutes such stations (using GPS for location and timing), with a quite impressive global coverage by now:

https://www.blitzortung.org
by abcd_f | 2025-12-22 21:58:37+00:00
It's basically a blog post to plug links to author's (presumably) struggling projects.

The majority of established ISVs are perfectly fine and have long adapted to new realities, be that the existence of AI coding tools, subscription licensing or what have you.

The fundamental - making something to solve users' pain points - is still there and it's now easier than ever to go from identifying a niche to shipping a solution. If anything, the golden age is now.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-12-22 21:58:49+00:00
If adding a datacenter to a locale is not a net gain for the locale, you're failing to charge appropriately for things you should be charging for.

I'm sure there have been some datacenters that have tried to use "brings in jobs" incentives, and that could certainly go wrong if the incentives aren't designed correctly (e.g. proportional to the actual number of jobs), but as long as there aren't incentives being abused, a datacenter should be a net win.
by ch4s3 | 2025-12-22 21:59:00+00:00
> No they do not. The flow there is already balanced, and lake levels are lower than usual.

You aren't going to meaningfully drain the lakes to cool chip fabs when the vast majority of that water will simply go back into the lake either directly or via the water cycle. It's not going to run off the land and into a river like with flood irrigation or similarly irresponsible water uses. The entire global chip industry today uses less water than the city of Hong Kong.
by rpdillon | 2025-12-22 21:59:34+00:00
This is genuinely great! Like others, it did overindex on a few comments, and I think that's a great way to display LLMs weaknesses. But overall, really loved the roasts, predictions, and all the rest. Nice job!

> For someone who claims to never use AI to write comments, you sure do love spending three paragraphs explain-testing why a specific LLM hallucination was a moral failure of the Google Docs UI team rather than just using a search bar like a normal person.

> You have a literal fetish for the Linux filesystem and treat the ability to 'drag a photo into a folder' like it's a human right on par with the Geneva Convention while acting like the New York Times lawyers are the final bosses of a dystopian RPG.

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/rpdillon
by conradfr | 2025-12-22 22:00:05+00:00
Jetbrains seems a bit lost these days. Look at that very recent screw up [0].

I thought about moving after 10+ years when they abandoned the commit modal, and jacked up the plan prices, but I barely understand how to commit things in Vscode anyway. Let's see in 2026.

[0] https://blog.jetbrains.com/datagrip/2025/12/18/query-console...
by the_af | 2025-12-22 22:00:22+00:00
> As I said - barring some violent circumstances, having a child, or at least the actions leading up to it, is a decision one makes.

This is simply a falsehood you believe.

Or rather, it's a very constrained, mostly unfree "choice", with a lot of pressure from society telling them it's the wrong choice to make, barring them from access to abortion, contraception, and in many cases decent access to health and education. In many cases they are not even aware the choice existed, because it was concealed from them. I'm not sure if you are even aware a lot of people are not sure how babies come to be.

It's easy to claim everyone has access to these choices when you are, well, privileged.

> Sure, poor education and lack of abortion play a role, but none of that negates the fact that the person had a choice.

It absolutely negates it.

> It's exceptionally insulting to those who made different choices that led to positive outcomes to be told that people just like them in the same circumstances didn't have a choice.

Statistically, very few do. The odds are stacked against them. So it's not insulting at all; what's insulting is claiming from a privileged position that they "had a choice".

> Sorry, but your stance is very much coming across as privileged

Nope.

> It's a very different perspective when you actually come from the background you're claiming didn't have a choice.

Let me guess: your family was starving and dirt poor, your siblings were all addicts, but you managed to overcome this, educate yourself, and raise yourself to entrepreneurship. Is this where this is going?
by holg | 2025-12-22 22:00:45+00:00
Thanks! For gaming: the Bevy demo shows how to calculate real lighting using exact technical parameters from actual products.
for sure it is technical, but the point is it doesn't have to be a big Windows-only app – an installer can estimate what to put where using real data, just in the browser. These files tell much more than a product picture.
Lighting engineers and manufacturers can use it too, though they'd likely want consulting or custom integration, or at least would need some kind of customizable reporting (For Mac there's also a QuickLook extension to browse files visually.)
by burkaman | 2025-12-22 22:00:55+00:00
I believe this is a complaint about the content of this feed: https://bearblog.dev/discover/

My best guess is that someone saw a recent front page post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330726) that is hosted on bearblog.dev, clicked on Discover which brought them to that trending list, and then saw this "Hacker News slop" post on that list and decided to post it here.
by DFHippie | 2025-12-22 22:01:10+00:00
He will die pretty soon. He's just the first stage of the rocket. He thinks he's a pharaoh letting a thousand pyramids bloom, but he's expendable. He'll be gone. People will chisel his name off the monuments he's vandalized. But the people who granted him power like what he's doing. He's somebody's monkey. The hollowing out of the US and the world order that produced western prosperity and security will continue. The people who call the tune to which he dances will call tunes for the next monkey.
by mjr00 | 2025-12-22 22:01:14+00:00
Yeah I think we're pretty much in agreement. I guess my perspective is that we should consider LLMs closer to a command line interface, where terseness and macros and shortcuts are broadly seen as a good thing, than a work email, where you pay close attention to your phrasing and politeness and formality.

> No caps and no punctuation can work in text chat if you're being judicious (keyword), or if you know everyone in the group prefers it. Not to belabor my point, but a recent fad is to write "articles" (if you can call them those) in all lower-case and barely any punctuation, making them a bloody eye-sore.

Yeah it's very cultural. The renaissance in lowercase, punctuation-less, often profanity-laden blogs is at least partly a symbolic response to the overly formal and bland AI writing style. But those articles can definitely still be written in an intelligent, comprehensible way.
by jakemontero24 | 2025-12-22 22:01:44+00:00
Technical details from the report:

The Split: Alphabet is acquiring only the future development pipeline and employees; existing assets remain with original investors.

The Infrastructure: Includes a Texas data center co-located with a solar farm and 1.3 gigawatt-hours of battery storage to bypass public utility bottlenecks.

The Goal: 'Unlock abundant, reliable, affordable energy supply' for AI data centers without passing costs to grid customers.
by dang | 2025-12-22 22:01:53+00:00
No, it's the other way around. This post is ranked higher on the frontpage than it would be if it weren't YC-related. (In fact, it probably wouldn't be on the frontpage at all in that case.)

A core principle is that we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC-funded startup is part of the story. Many past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
by mstank | 2025-12-22 22:01:57+00:00
In my experience, the golden age of indie software is about to begin. LLMs and coding agents will make building vertical and niche software much more cost effective.

In the last 3 months, I’ve built and launched a SaaS app to help my sister manage her florist business, and already have other paying customers. Without LLMs, this would have never been feasible because of dev time and/or costs.
by weinzierl | 2025-12-22 22:02:10+00:00
Thanks for the clarification. C has an easy to demonstrate example and languages like Java, JavaScript and C# are (deliberately in my opinion) closer to a true context-free grammar but they all have counter-examples and so are not context-free in the computer science sense.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/898489/what-programming-...

(See also the answer by Dave with currently only the second most votes. If that is what you mean, I agree.)
by loph | 2025-12-22 22:02:26+00:00
Only Boulder servers lost sync.

To say NIST was off is clickbait hyperbole.

This page: https://tf.nist.gov/tf-cgi/servers.cgi shows that NIST has > 16 NTP servers on IPv4, of those, 5 are in Boulder and were affected by the power failure. The rest were fine.

However, most entities should not be using these top-level servers anyway, so this should have been a problem for exactly nobody.

IMHO, most applications should use pool.ntp.org
by scoofy | 2025-12-22 22:02:38+00:00
The problem is that we have a Congress that cares more about in-group loyalty than they do about idiocy.

Meanwhile, we even have Michael Burry pointing out the obvious: we're losing to China because we're not building up every bit of energy capacity that we can. But, sure, why not just ban windfarms in a location perfectly suited to them:

https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/2002285483158569147
by dang | 2025-12-22 22:02:41+00:00
alpr.watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290916 - Dec 2025 (444 comments)

That post was literally the #1 story on HN for the entire day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-12-16.

It was on the frontpage for 25 hours. That's about as much attention as any thread gets - well above the 99th percentile.
by nextaccountic | 2025-12-22 22:03:18+00:00
Hi, I just looked up and two weeks ago someone made this suggestion in Cursor forum

https://forum.cursor.com/t/support-of-lsp-language-server-pr...

> Feature request for product/service

>

> Cursor IDE

>

> Describe the request

>

> It would be a huge step up if agent could interact with LSP (Language Server Protocol).

>

> It would offer :

>

> renaming all instances of a symbol over all files in one action

> quick navigation through code : fast find of all references to a property or method

> organize imports, format code, etc…

And last Friday a Cursor engineer replied "Thanks for the idea!"

So how does the AI agent in Cursor currently have access to LSP?

(I am most interested in having the agent use LSP for type checking, documentation of a method call, etc. rather than running slower commands)

(note, there is an open PR for Zed to pull LSP diagnostics into an AI agent thread https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/42270 but it would be better if agents could make arbitrary LSP queries or something like that)
by watwut | 2025-12-22 22:03:39+00:00
Basically, the school was protecting the bullies and took issue with the victim not being submissive toward the bullies. The victim took all correct steps until there were no more correct steps. The school continued to protect bullies and sent the message that victims must stay docile.

The cops made different decision. It might have been better for everyone, including the perpetrators, if the school focused on raising the boys not be bullies rather then focusing on enabling them.
by bell-cot | 2025-12-22 22:04:07+00:00
Not to say much good about the school district's actions here - but schools are facing de facto impossible situations on stuff like this.

If I was a superintendent, I'd try to ban all student smart phones & such from school property and events - just on the basis that I had nothing remotely resembling the staffing, skill set, or jurisdiction to possibly deal with such things.
by exceptione | 2025-12-22 22:04:15+00:00
There is a lot to say about these things, but this forum is a hard place to lay them down. I have to keep it short.

The problem is that the "US" is not seated at the table, just a bunch of kleptocrats and some zealots. The mutual benefits are real for the US, as in the populace, but the problem is that if the string-pulling group has to choose between their own interest or the US interest, they pick the first option.

I can absolutely understand you will reject the following instinctively, but let me tell you that for some fractions in the current movement, the idea of "burning" it all down is something they don't see as a bad thing. Turning the clock back in time, back to the gilded age, doing away with modernity, equal rights, secularism and non-whites--they dream about it. It is something horribly detrimental for the 99.9999%, sure, but they shouldn't have a say anyway.

And instinctively, a EU that "becomes a shining light on the hill" in absence of the USA, is a threat to the USA. The recently released foreign policy isn't shy about it. The same dynamic as Putin has with a thriving open democracy next to its border. Can't exist, dangerous, needs to be dismantled.

The trouble isn't EU <-> US. It is the US as the representation of the American People does not exist anymore. However flawed it might have been in the past, this is something else entirely. There is not even a notion of normalcy anymore. As such, the EU can't deal with the American People anymore via the regular diplomatic channels to reach a common ground for win-wins. So these very modest public comments from officials you will read now and then in the press are nothing less than an alarm to the American people itself. If you ask me, I don't think this message will successfully cross the information space in the US, but what options do they have? If you look at HN, anything that might be interpreted as a criticism quickly becomes an identitarian battle. Which, given the binary political system in the USA and the general human trait of tribalism is quite understandable, but nonetheless self-defeating and unfortunate for both sides.
by andy99 | 2025-12-22 22:04:22+00:00
Thank you, I didn’t understand this either.

So am I right to take away from this that the blog is complaining about Bear Blog (about which I know nothing, is it just hosting, a framework, or does it have a front page like HN somewhere?) hosting too many posts that are optimized for HN? It’s not a complain about HN itself, which by implication cannot be saved?

Edit: as pointed out in another post, they actually do have an aggregation page which is pretty cool: https://bearblog.dev/discover/
TBD how correlated it is with HN
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-22 22:04:46+00:00
There is quite a few AI discussions overall which include both AI is so over and AI is so back with the occasional models drop release.

Overall I feel like Hackernews does have a lot of tangentially AI related posts but we all know the reason why and so there exactly isn't something we can do about it per se

Maybe we need to use AI to remove AI related posts :) (on a serious note, there surely must be an extension where it can block hackernews posts from appearing with specific keywords on it so they can ban AI, LLM basically to get a more peaceful mind away from AI both good and bad posts overall since that's the sentiment I got from them and its understandable)
by baobun | 2025-12-22 22:04:48+00:00
> WAIT we think this might not be a real video

> a reverse image search shows that 4chan and youtube had similar videos 5 years ago

> we also found a .pdf with the investigators mentioning a fake video: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA000299...

https://xcancel.com/notawizard/status/2003226464192463132

---

Original post:

> Warning: extremely disturbing. The DOJ uploaded a 12 second video showing what appears to be Epstein attempting to kill himself. The camera timestamp is the day his body was discovered.

> The DOJ quietly released the footage, but didn't link to the video yet from their main Epstein Files page. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA000299...

https://xcancel.com/rtwlz/status/2003211685650374823

https://www.jmail.world/drive/EFTA00029924

https://web.archive.org/web/20251222211740/https://www.justi...
by gardncl | 2025-12-22 22:05:07+00:00
My comment is not misleading, you're just using outdated data from 2022.

Sure, happy to quibble over units.

The most recent mid-2025 data is from lazard here, it echos exactly what I'm saying.

Website: https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...

PDF of report: https://www.lazard.com/media/5tlbhyla/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...

Go to page 8 of that PDF and you will see these ranges for LCOE:

* Solar $38-$78/MWh

* Solar + battery $50-131/MWh

* Gas combined cycle (cheapest fossil fuel) $48-107/MWh

Yes, we are finally at price parity for the technologies.
by mschuster91 | 2025-12-22 22:05:12+00:00
> How does the data center "eat resources"?

Money is a resource. Someone has to deal with the utility rate hikes that tend to follow large new consumers - even when the AI bubble bursts in a few years, the electricity prices will stay high (or in the worst case, get even higher) because the utility needs to recoup its investments.

> How do they not bring tax revenue? Do you not have property taxes? Maybe go lobby for those then.

Forgot the /s? Seriously, property taxes are a joke because the "wealth" generated by the datacenters is absurdly high compared to their property lot size. If you were to extract the appropriate amount of taxes to cover for the costs, you'd have to raise them so high that you'd strangle the entire rest of your local economy. And stuff like we have here in Europe, taxing corporate profits, is not applicable as well because the profit is officially being made at some Delaware site (or Ireland in our case), not at some random datacenter.
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-22 22:05:40+00:00
Europe just doesn't have the "move fast and break things" mentality because we don't want things like privacy broken. At least not without the user's unpressured choice which is what GDPR is all about.

If we allowed the same kind of unrestricted development we'd have more money and growth but we'd be just like the US. Which I personally don't want for sure. I'm glad to be living here. It's not all about money and economy.
by callan101 | 2025-12-22 22:05:49+00:00
He is talking about Bearblog, the blogging platform that he hosts his website with. Bearblog has it's own discover page and ranking system and every once in a while a post on Bear about AI/tech/whatever will be posted on Hackernews and all of those new people will "upvote" the Bear post and send it to the top of the Bear discover page.
by hodgesrm | 2025-12-22 22:05:50+00:00
At the University of Michigan many moons ago CTA stood for Central Tripping Authority, a largely imaginary collective devoted to taking hallucinogens. (Regularly.) There was CTA graffiti all over East Quadrangle dormitory when I lived there. The meaning was well-understood.

Moral: A good TLA can be surprisingly memorable.

(edited)
by mullingitover | 2025-12-22 22:06:20+00:00
Based on the math in this paper[1] there's enough uranium floating around to keep the planet running on the order of hundreds of millions of years at modern energy consumption levels. The price of the material would go up compared to what it costs currently, but the raw material costs are a small fraction of bottom line anyway.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/...
by benjiro | 2025-12-22 22:06:35+00:00
> $10k gets you a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM

Because Apple has not adjusted their pricing yet for the new ram pricing reality. The moment they do, its not going to be a $10k system anymore but in the $15k+...

The amount of wafers going to AI is insane and will influence not just memory prices. Do not forget, the only reason why Apple is currently immunity to this, is because they tend to make long term contracts but the moment those expire ... then will push the costs down consumers.