MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by iambateman | 2025-12-03 21:59:13+00:00
Sam Altman says that he thinks scientific research is a huge opportunity for AI to contribute as it more fully develops and I think he’s right.

Since I’m not a scientific researcher, I have no idea if he’s just blowing smoke but I think it’s reasonable to think of a purpose-built system which has an LLM component being used by a team to do something useful.
by jofzar | 2025-12-03 21:59:17+00:00
> October 27, 2025 disclosure and November 4, 2025 email confirmation seems like a long time to have their entire client file system exposed

There is always the simple answer, these are lawyers so they are probably scrambling internally to write a response that covers themselves legaly also trying to figure out how fucked they are.

1 week is surprisingly not that slow.
by gjulianm | 2025-12-03 21:59:43+00:00
Well, obviously they will be confused because you jumped from a square of numbers to a bunch of operations. They’d be equally confused if you presented those operations numerically. I am not sure what it is you want to prove with that example. I am also not sure that a child can actually understand what a matrix is if you just show them some numbers (i.e., will they actually understand that a matrix is a linear transformer of vectors and the properties it has just by showing them some numbers?)
by gnosis67 | 2025-12-03 22:00:15+00:00
America has a child sex problem. Too many Americans who have had sex with their own children are among the root corruptions of our present day.

It affects everything, and is endused by “thought control.” All people’s are having this problem, it is American Thought Control making it endemic. It is a thought control strategy next comes extortion, and of course eternal devotion. Who else would take their “thought control” seriously?

This is only the start of America’s problems.
by advisedwang | 2025-12-03 22:00:23+00:00
PCs are one of the few things we build ourselves because it's one of the few goods that have standardized and commoditized parts.

If there was a large degree of interchangeability between engines, transmissions, bodies, dashboards (etc) the auto enthusiast community would for sure be building cars from scratch out of parts. But realistically the pieces are tightly coupled and you can't pick and chose.

It's the same with coffee machines - if there were interchangable pumps and boilers and group heads etc, I bet building your own coffee machine would be the norm in a certain crowed.

And to be clear there's good technical, aesthetic, regulatory and business why most large machine's are made of interchangeable parts. I'm not saying car and espresso machine manufacturers have done something nefarious. Just that PCs happen to be free of a major constraint.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-12-03 22:00:24+00:00
They're good questions! The problem is that I've tried to talk to the people who are getting real value from it, and often the answer ends up being that the value is not as real as they think. One guy gave an excited presentation about how AI let him write 7k LOC per day, expounded for an entire session about how the rest of us should follow in his shoes, and then clarified only in Q&A that reviewers couldn't keep up so he exempted himself from code review.
by bgro | 2025-12-03 22:00:24+00:00
This is yet another thing I’ve been saying is technically feasible in a large variety of games immediately since it started happening to game sizes around 2015.

I’ve had nothing except people screaming at me that I’m wrong and that this is just how modern games have to be. There’s always some gaslight argument about how I’m wrong and actually the devs are in fact geniuses because of some genius trick about a variety of systems significantly bloating the size.

Rather than try to look at the problem, I get continuously attacked with retconned reasons trying to justify every decision going into this bloat. This is exactly the same dev retcon trend train we saw with Cloud (“No, wrong, it’s not computers. It’s servers. Totally different. And it’s not even servers, it’s cloud.”) and MicroServices (“There’s literally no reason to ever not use microservices unless you’re a legacy dev. Especially on The Cloud, which is different and not comparable in any way to a a self hosted server.”)

I’m 3/3 so far. Waiting for you guys to still figure out leetcode and how this actually captures the inverse of the thing you’re trying to account for. But I already know you’re going to retcon that argument too and say ackshully leetcode DOES work to hire developers because we want to hire people who are wealthy enough to have time to memorize questions and answers. We always knew developers would have AI (lol) and this paper that retroactively applies a matching hypothesis that trends with leetcode is actually what smart developers like me knew all along.”
by tomlockwood | 2025-12-03 22:00:42+00:00
I don't know if anyone has been reading cover letters recently but it seems that people are prompting the LLMs with the same shit, dusting their hands and thinking "done" and what the reader then sees is the same repetitive, uncreative and instantly recognizable boilerplate.

The people prompting don't seem to realize what's coming out the other end is boilerplate dreck, and you've got to think - if you're replaceable with boilerplate dreck maybe your skills weren't all that, anyway?

The hate is justified. The hype, is not.
by bluGill | 2025-12-03 22:00:47+00:00
I use AI all the time, but the only gain they have is better spelling and grammar than me. Spelling and grammar has long been my weak point. I can write the same code they write just as fast without - typing has never been the bottleneck in writing code. The bottleneck is thinking and I still need to understand the code AI writes since it is incorrect rather often so it isn't saving any effort, other than the time to look up the middle word of some long variable name.
by frozenlettuce | 2025-12-03 22:01:09+00:00
Location: Brazil Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Golang, Typescript, React, Python, FP languages Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11QB_Gr_UV3r8nHOb-wXUmamZ... Email: leonardo.farroco at gmail.com

e2e web dev (frontend, backend, cloud, devops, you name it). I've been working on the PST timezone since 2019, so I'm used to that already : )
by debesyla | 2025-12-03 22:01:39+00:00
It's just another business/service niche that is solved until the current Big Provider becomes Evil or goes under.

Similar to "made for everyone" social networks and video upload platforms.

But there are niches that are trip planning + there are no one solving the pain! For example Geocaching. I always dreamed about an easy way to plan Geocaching routes to travel and find interesting caches on the way. Currently you gotta filter them out and then eyeball the map what seems to be nearby, despite there, maybe, not being any real roads there, or the cache is probably maybe actually lost or has to be accessed at specific time of day.

So... No one wants apps that are already solved + boring.
by strbean | 2025-12-03 22:01:43+00:00
> Any player responding to ingame events (enemy appeared) with sub 80ms reaction times consistently should be an automatic ban.

It's really much more nuanced than that. Counter-Strike 2 has already implemented this type of feature, and it immediately got some clear false positives. There are many situations where high level players play in a predictive, rather than reactive, manner. Pre-firing is a common strategy that will always look indistinguishable from an inhuman reaction time. So is tap-firing at an angle that you anticipate a an opponent may peek you from.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-03 22:01:51+00:00
> simply because the market has never really punished people for being less efficient at their jobs

In fact, it tends to be the opposite. You being more efficient just means you get "rewarded" with more work, typically without an appropriate increase in pay to match the additional work either.

Especially true in large, non-tech companies/bureaucratic enterprises where you are much better off not making waves, and being deliberately mediocre (assuming you're not a ladder climber and aren't trying to get promoted out of an IC role).

In a big team/org, your personal efficiency is irrelevant. The work can only move as fast as the slowest part of the system.
by keeda | 2025-12-03 22:02:08+00:00
As I've said before: AI mandates, like RTO mandates, are just another way to "quiet fire" people, or at least "quiet renegotiate" their employment.

That said, AI resistance is real too. We see it on this forum. It's understandable because the hype is all about replacing people, which will naturally make them defensive, whereas the narrative should be about amplifying them.

A well-intentioned AI mandate would either come with a) training and/or b) dedicated time to experiment and figuring out what works well for you. Instead what we're seeing across the industry is "You MUST use AI to do MORE with LESS while we layoff even more people and move jobs overseas."

My cynical take is, this is an intentional strategy to continue culling headcount, except overindexing on people seen as unaligned with the AI future of the company.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-12-03 22:02:29+00:00
You're missing the point. You shouldn't take it personally.

> Assuming everyone is an idiot who a) doesn't know something common and b) isn't able to figure out how to google it and c) isn't able to figure out how to say "where's that from?" in a reply

These things were neither assumed nor implied.
by nradov | 2025-12-03 22:02:52+00:00
Vanilla is the best flavor. The decision makers at large health systems often waste fortunes customizing EHR configurations based on the mistaken belief that they know better than the vendor. But often it would be better to stick with the software defaults and retrain the users. Of course this is politically difficult when experienced physicians who bring in a lot of revenue threaten to leave if they don't get their way.
by burkaman | 2025-12-03 22:03:11+00:00
> people with titles of nobility were forbidden from participating in business at the risk of losing their titles

I had never heard of this so I tried to look into it, here's a starting point for anyone else curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9rogeance. It seems like this was true in some countries, like France, but not all, and where they did exist these restrictions were beginning to fall in the 18th century.

Projecting to the modern era, it seems obvious that a societal ruling class would not voluntarily block themselves from the center of power and make themselves irrelevant. Commercial restrictions made sense to them when the main mechanism of gaining power was acquiring and holding land, but they stopped restricting themselves once commercial activities became more important.

> it was a useful tool to avoid conflict of interest

I couldn't find any evidence for this and I find it pretty hard to believe. I don't even think the concept of "avoiding conflicts of interest" would make sense to historic nobility. Their interest was ruling over others, what would be the conflict in amassing wealth to expand their rule?

Edit: For a literal example, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitrose_Duchy_Organic. This is a fairly successful company created by King Charles when he was the Duke of Cornwall, and is still owned by the current Duke. And obviously modern British royalty do own stocks, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_royal_..., and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_royal_.... These are immense conflicts of interest that nobody seems to be in a hurry to resolve.
by a1exyz | 2025-12-03 22:03:27+00:00
There are a few clashing forces. One is the power of startups - what people love is what will prevail. It made macs and iphones grab marketshare back from "corporate" options like windows and palm pilot. Its what keeps tiktok running.

An opposing force is corporate momentum. Its unfortunately true that people are beholden to what companies create. If there are only a few phones available, you will have to pick. If there are only so many shows streaming, you'll probably end up watching the less disgusting of the options.

They are clashing. The ppl's sentiment is AI bad. But if tech keeps making it and pushing it long enough, ppl will get older, corporate initiatives will get sticky, and it will become ingrained. And once its ingrained, its gonna be here forever.
by _sinelaw_ | 2025-12-03 22:03:49+00:00
Didn't know about vlf!

It loads instantly, and memory usage is minimal <80 MB.

It does seem like vlf requires configuration and adjustment, e.g. navigation with the normal keys works differently (jumps to beginning/end of current chunk instead of the whole file). Basically it exposes the chunk concept to the user.

In Fresh it's designed into the core and should be more transparent (although there are still limitations).
by Herring | 2025-12-03 22:03:58+00:00
You're not thinking at a systems level. Check this out - https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart. The US is increasingly a miserable place to live in - in large part because of pay not keeping up with housing/school/medical/etc.

Correct systems-level answer to your question "how much do I pay you" is "as much as it takes to stabilize the US curve". Happiness correlates with financial security, which we won't get if the rich get richer from those capital investments then buy up all the housing.

Fun fact: Fit 2 lines on that data and you can extrapolate by ~2030 China will be a better place to live. That's really not that far off. Set a reminder on your phone.
by tombert | 2025-12-03 22:04:02+00:00
I just wonder if it's an inherent symptom of massive success. I'm not talking Valve level of success, but more like Google and Apple and Microsoft levels. Eventually every company has downturns in the market, and whether or not it's fair the investors/board of directors will think it's because of the current strategy, and they'll engage in terrible rent-seeking behavior.

I just worry that if we keep rewarding them, as they get bigger (and especially if they ever go public), they'll be able to strangle the market more and more because everyone loves them, and then when most of the serious competition has been squelched, they'll change strategies.

To be clear, I like Valve in their current state. Steam is great, the Tenfoot/SteamOS software is great at converting a PC into a game console, Linux gaming is arguably better than on Windows now, and all of this is in no small part due to funding and effort from Valve. I'm not naive to this, that's objectively cool stuff. I hope they continue to be the same company.
by blargey | 2025-12-03 22:04:09+00:00
If you want to be specific that general idea could be elaborated as "private ownership by people that only need the C-suite salary, instead of needing a C-suite plus a fat % RoI on the company's entire valuation because that's how much they just put down as a sunk cost."

In that regard "bought by PE firm" (or most any prospective buyer, really) is functionally equivalent to an IPO. Selling out is, in fact, selling out.
by fallinditch | 2025-12-03 22:04:23+00:00
I got downvoted, so maybe that means someone thinks un-minifying code is not advised for dealing with security issues? But on reflection surely you can just use the 'format code' command in the ide? I am no expert but surely it's ok to use AI to help track down and identify security issues with the usual caveats of 'don't believe it blindly, do your double checking and risk assessing.'
by 20after4 | 2025-12-03 22:04:23+00:00
Installed it and out of the box this is the best new TUI editor I've tried, probably ever. There are so many great editors out there but I've never been a fan of modal editing, despite recognizing it's incredible power. My brain just doesn't work that way, yet I'm highly keyboard focused and prefer terminal over gui for most things, especially text.

Great work on this! Very good performance but also a very good UX and you really nailed the discoverability / accessibility - basically everything works intuitively and needs very little explanation - this is something that I can't say about really any other editor I've tried.

This may finally replace nano as my default utility editor, if not my main IDE.
by coliveira | 2025-12-03 22:04:23+00:00
The problem with AI is that the media and the tech hype machine wants everyone to believe that it is more than a glorified randomized text generator. Yes, for many problems this is just what you need, but not to create reliable software. Somehow, they want everyone to go into a state of disbelief and agree that it is a superior intelligence or at least the clear sign of something of this sorts, and that we should stop everything we're doing right now to give more money and attention to this endeavor.
by afavour | 2025-12-03 22:04:54+00:00
> that kind of shallow dismissal indicates a closed mind, or perhaps a fear-based reaction

Or, and stay with me on this, it’s a reaction to the actual experience they had.

I’ve experimented with AI a bunch. When I’m doing something utterly formulaic it delivers (straightforward CRUD type stuff, or making a web page to display some data). But when I try to use it with the core parts of my job that actually require my specialist knowledge they fall apart. I spend more time correcting them than if I just write it myself.

Maybe you haven’t had that experience with work you do. But I have, and others have. So please don’t dismiss our reaction as “fear based” or whatever.
by iambateman | 2025-12-03 22:04:58+00:00
My claim is that there will exist some company which pharma is willing to trust for AI research…they presumably trust Microsoft with their email today.

But my bigger claim is that ~half the Fortune 500 will be able to profitably deploy AI with spends in the tens or hundreds of millions per year quite soon. Not that pharma itself is a major contributor to that effect.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-12-03 22:05:07+00:00
Back then (even in Reagan's 1980s) the Michael Douglas character types were despised by society. Now they are emulated and mainstreamed. We are set to have more private equity than McDonalds. American Capitalism is all about capital extraction now, not value creation.

https://www.thedailyupside.com/advisor/investing-strategies/...
by officeplant | 2025-12-03 22:05:27+00:00
Seattle sounds kinda nice now. AI fatigue is real. I just had to swap eye doctors because they changed their medical records to some AI powered bullshit and wanted me to re-enter all my info into the new system in order to check-in for my appointment. A website that when I looked at their EULA page redirected to an empty page, no clear mention of HIPAA anywhere on the website's other pages. The eye doctor seemed confused why I wanted to stop using them after ten years as a patient even after I pointed out the flaws. It's madness.
by jofzar | 2025-12-03 22:05:56+00:00
> I had a fairly decent CPU, a 3090RTX card, 32GB RAM

The answer might be more simple, OP when have you updated your chipset/mobo drivers?

This was a known issue (which I was also effected by) for amd chips that would fuck with the USB driver when the PCIE lane pulled was in pcie 4 (my memory is a bit rough in this)

https://au.pcmag.com/motherboards/85999/amd-offers-tips-to-m...

Here's an article about it at the time but tldr update your chipset+motherboard drivers.
by ElijahLynn | 2025-12-03 22:06:28+00:00
Umm, it ain't ever gonna be over, it is a new era.

We need to adapt to new ways of thinking and ways of working with new tooling. It is a learning curve of sorts. What we want is to solve problems, the new tooling enables us to solve problems better by letting us free up our thinking by reducing blockers and toil tasks, giving us more time to think about higher level problems.
by droopybuns | 2025-12-03 22:07:02+00:00
Hey man- hang in there.

FWIW: I realized this year that there are whole cohorts of management people who have absolutely zero relationship with the words that they speak. Literal tabula rasas who convert their thoughts to new words with no attachment to past statements/goals.

Put another way: Liars exist and operate all around you in the top tier of the FAANGS rn.
by zamadatix | 2025-12-03 22:07:05+00:00
There are a plethora of ways to control whether the browser uses its own DoH or the system DNS. Some inside the browser itself, some in the machine's OS, and some from the local network.

You can also configure the browser to use your chosen DoH server directly, but this is often as much work as just telling the browser to use the system DNS server and setting that up as DoH anyways.
by rfw300 | 2025-12-03 22:07:27+00:00
I'd like others' input on this: increasingly, I see Cursor, Jetbrains, etc. moving towards a model of having you manage many agents working on different tasks simultaneously. But in real, production codebases, I've found that even a single agent is faster at generating code than I am at evaluating its fitness and providing design guidance. Adding more agents working on different things would not speed anything up. But perhaps I am just much slower or a poorer multi-tasker than most. Do others find these features more useful?
by ElijahLynn | 2025-12-03 22:08:18+00:00
Umm, it ain't ever gonna be over, it is a new era.

We need to adapt to new ways of thinking and ways of working with new tooling. It is a learning curve of sorts. What we want is to solve problems, the new tooling enables us to solve problems better by letting us free up our thinking by reducing blockers and toil tasks, giving us more time to think about higher level problems.

I remember this same sentiment towards AI when I was growing up, but towards cell phones...
by fransje26 | 2025-12-03 22:08:49+00:00
Yep. Reminds me of the arguments in favour of leaded petrol.

Thomas Midgley even organised an event for reporters where he poured pure tetraethyl lead on his hands and inhale its fumes for around a minute to show how safe it was. "I could do this every day without getting any health problems", he claimed. Once the reporters left, he needed a lay-down to recover.
by bluescrn | 2025-12-03 22:09:03+00:00
Might almost be a good thing, if it means abandoning overhyped/underperforming high-end game rendering tech, and taking things in a different direction.

The push for 4K with raytracing hasn't been a good thing, as it's pushed hardware costs way up and led to the attempts to fake it with AI upscaling and 'fake frames'. And even before that, the increased reliance on temporal antialiasing was becoming problematic.

The last decade or so of hardware/tech advances haven't really improved the games.
by handstitched | 2025-12-03 22:09:24+00:00
> To me, any software engineer who tries an LLM, shrugs and says “huh, that’s interesting” and then “gets back to work” is completely failing at their actual job, which is using technology to solve problems.

I would argue that the "actual job" is simply to solve problems. The client / customer ultimately do not care what technology you use. Hell, they don't really care if there's technology at all.

And a lot of software engineers have found that using an LLM doesn't actually help solve problems, or the problems it does solve are offset by the new problems it creates.
by sershe | 2025-12-03 22:09:42+00:00
Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG? As far as I can tell, even indie games require steam to run.

DRM is also kind of orthogonal to their terms. Ubisoft has their own DRM; let's say I am ok with Ubisoft's since at least they made the game, would I be able to play Anno that I "purchased" on Steam if Valve suspends my Steam account for some random reason?
by bigyabai | 2025-12-03 22:09:50+00:00
You know, I thought the same thing reading this but I bit my tongue and avoided posting anything. The author appears to be someone from a relatively privileged background who framed their worldview around material success and is now upset when the tables have turned. Their "commie" mindset is solely rooted in exploiting capitalism, which is really the opposite of what Marxism teaches.