MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CerryuDu | 2025-12-26 20:02:55+00:00
... not to mention that most of the time, what AI produces is unmitigated slop and factual mistakes, deliberately coated in dopamine-infusing brown-nosing. I refuse for my position, even profession, to be debased to AI slop reviewer.

I use AI sparingly, extremely distrustfully, and only as a (sometimes) more effective web search engine (it turns out that associating human-written documents with human-asked questions is an area where modeling human language well can make a difference).

(In no small part, Google has brought this tendency on themselves, by eviscerating Google Search.)
by dcminter | 2025-12-26 20:03:11+00:00
This is very clever. I've often needed to figure out what some running process was actually for (e.g. because it just started consuming a lot of some limited resource) but it never occurred to me that one could have a tool to answer that question. Well done.

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Edit: Ah, ok, I slightly misunderstood - skimmed the README too quickly. I thought it was also explaining what the process did :D Still a clever tool, but thought it went a step further.

Perhaps you should add that though - combine Man page output with a database of known processes that run on various Linux systems and a mechanism for contributing PRs to extend that database...? Unlesss it's just me that often wants to know "what the fsck does /tmp/hax0r/deeploysketchyd actually do?" :P
by gessha | 2025-12-26 20:03:26+00:00
The same companies that can’t make a proper website to sell their products? Please. Framework’s got it in the bag.

I don’t remember the number of times I typed dell.com or Lenovo.com, looked for a replacement for my 10-year old XPS, and came out extremely frustrated with the experience. Not to mention the recent copy-paste nonsense from Dell with their Pro/Pro Max laptop offerings.

Good display, decent CPU, a battery that lasts a day, and Linux support - that’s all that I ask for. Outside of Apple(bar Linux support) are there any manufacturers that offer that?
by cons0le | 2025-12-26 20:03:27+00:00
Absolutely. This feels raw, human, and authentic.

I notice people often use the "aesthetic of intelligence" to mask bad arguments. Just because we have good formatting, spelling, and grammar with citations and sources -doesnt mean the argument is correct.

Sometimes people get mad, sometimes they crash out. I would rather live in the world with a bunch of emotional humans, than in some AI powered skynet world.
by moregrist | 2025-12-26 20:04:04+00:00
> I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the repeated quote about how Amazon loses $X million for every Y milliseconds of page loading time, as an example.

This is true for sites that are trying to make sales. You can quantify how much a delay affects closing a sale.

For other apps, it’s less clear. During its high-growth years, MS Office had an abysmally long startup time.

Maybe this was due to MS having a locked-in base of enterprise users. But given that OpenOffice and LibreOffice effectively duplicated long startup times, I don’t think it’s just that.

You also see the Adobe suite (and also tools like GIMP) with some excruciatingly long startup times.

I think it’s very likely that startup times of office apps have very little impact on whether users will buy the software.
by hallole | 2025-12-26 20:04:22+00:00
LOL I didn't think it needed to be said! So I didn't include it in my reply to you. I am here replying to someone else, not to you.

I think, generally, it is due to a lack of will, yes. Of course, eliminating the bad options altogether -- I mean, restricting what products can appear in stores -- would be more effective than relying on the willpower of individuals. Although, that would require some serious market intervention...
by ItsHarper | 2025-12-26 20:04:22+00:00
I'm a Pocket Casts user, and see that it was one you tried.

Pocket Casts lets you select the episode order (as well as do things like group by season). I think it's pretty common to be able to add RSS feeds by putting them in the directory search field, and PC does this as well.

I've had absolutely zero problems using Pocket Casts to add custom Patreon feeds, and to listen to episodes in the other they came out.
by comprev | 2025-12-26 20:04:31+00:00
For many people Christmas is an annual holiday with a strong emphasis on family with virtually no religious aspect, thanks partly to the commercialisation of 25th December. Hollywood has no doubt played a big part in this too.

I appreciate it must be frustrating for Christians to see society forgetting what they consider should be the primary focus but surely there is some joy in seeing people caring for each other?
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-26 20:04:36+00:00
As the piece says:

> Another way to square ‘vibes’ with Scott’s optimism is that life looks great if you’ve already “made it”: your pricey HCOL home is surging, and your high-paying white-collar job is funding your large nest egg. Your monthly student loan payments are tiny relative to your large monthly income. But getting to that point requires clearing many hurdles and most will never get there.

We know what the problems are, we are simply unwilling to put meaningful effort and resources into rectifying them.
by olivierestsage | 2025-12-26 20:05:11+00:00
I can only speculate, but people can feel resentful toward a technology while still using it. "I need this shitty tool for work but I'm increasingly uncomfortable with its social/environmental/economic/etc. implications."

I think that most of the people who react negatively to AI (myself included) aren't claiming that it's simply a useless slop machine that can't accomplish anything, but rather that its "success" in certain problem spaces is going to create problems for our society
by ineedasername | 2025-12-26 20:05:14+00:00
To expand on my comment wrt "promising for overall advancement": My daughter, in her math class: Her teacher- I'll reserve overall judgement on their teaching: she may be perfectly adequate as a teach for other students, which is part of my point- simply doesn't teach in the same sense other teachers do: present topic, leave details of "figuring out how to apply methods" to the students. Doesn't work for my daughter, who has never done less than excellent in math previously. She realized she ChatGPT (we monitor usage) for any way of explaining things that "simply worked" for how she can engage with explanations. Math has never been as easy for her, even more so than before, and her internalization of the material is achieving a near-intuitive understanding.

Now consider: the above process is available and cheap to every person in the world with a web browser (we don't need to pay for her to have a plus account). If/when ChatGPT starts doing ridiculous intrusive ads, a simple Gemma 3 1b model will do nearly as good a job) This is faster and easier and available in more languages than anything else, ever, with respect to individual-user tailored customization simply by talking to the model.

I don't care how many pointless messages get sent. This is more valuable than any single thing Google has done before, and I am grateful to Rob Pike for the part his work has played in bring it about.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-12-26 20:05:38+00:00
One would like to point out that the set {Gormenghast, Book of the New Sun, and The Second Apocalypse} is not a subset of {fantasy books I have come across}. I would not dare to claim that LoTR is the end all of all fantasy writing. Perhaps the word ”complex” was a bad choice here, since I’m sure there is books with more complex structure (which is not necessarily a good thing…)

I think what I tried to say is that the language Tolkien uses is as much or more part of the middle earth as are the characters, maps and whatnot. The obvious point is that he created whole new languages and writing systems for the book, basing the two Elvish languages on Finnish and Welsh etc. Other is that he changes his vocabulary depending on what he is describing. I am not a linguistic scholar, but I’m fairly vertain that at least in Two Towers the parts describing nature, forrests and whatnot use solely words that are celtic in origin, ie. no Latin influence and very old. There’s also structural techniques of interwoven plots that I can’t even start to unwind.

Point being, you can very much read the book on surface level as Frodo and the Ring and Swords and lah-di-daa and that is all fine. That’s how I read it when I was 12-13. But there is so much more, mastery of English language comparable only to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce… Here Tolkien is very much a singular writer, escaping the limits of genre he very much was essential in creating.

So no wonder it is perhaps the most influential book of the 20th century.
by teddyh | 2025-12-26 20:06:12+00:00
> I then decided to contact Insulet to get the kernel source code for it, being GPLv2 licensed, they're obligated to provide it.

This is technically not true. It is an oversimplification of the common case, but what actually normally should happen is that:

1. The GPL requires the company to send the user a written offer of source code.

2. The user uses this offer to request the source code from the company.

3. If the user does not recieve the source code, the user can sue the company for not honoring its promises, i.e. the offer of source code. This is not a GPL violation; it is a straight contract violation; the contract in this case being the explicit offer of source code, and not the GPL.

Note that all this is completely off the rails if the user does not recieve a written offer of source code in the first place. In this case, the user has no right to source code, since the user did not recieve an offer for source code.

However, the copyright holders can immediately sue the company for violating the GPL, since the company did not send a written offer of source code to the user. It does not matter if the company does or does not send the source code; the fact that the company did not send a written offer is in itself a GPL violation.

(IANAL)
by cons0le | 2025-12-26 20:06:44+00:00
Thank you for at least acknowledging that we may eventually feel differently about AI.

I'm so tired of being called a luddite just for voicing reservations. My company is all in on AI. My CEO has informed us that if we're not "100% all in on AI", then we should seek employment elsewhere. I use it all day at work, and it doesn't seem to be nearly enough for them.
by tavavex | 2025-12-26 20:07:02+00:00
This is a tangent, but ads have become a genuine cancer on our world, and it's sad to see how few people really think about it. While Rob Pike's involvement in this seems to be very minimal, the fact that Google is an advertising company through-and-through does weaken the words of such a powerful figure, at least a little bit.

If I had a choice between deleting all advertising in the world, or deleting all genAI that the author hates, I would go for advertising every single time. Our entire world is owned by ads now, with digital and physical garbage polluting the internet and every open space in the real world around us. The marketing is mind-numbing, yet persuasive and well-calculated, a result of psychologists coming up with the best ways to abuse a mind into just buying the product over the course of a century. A total ban on commercial advertising would undo some of the damage done to the internet, reduce pointless waste, lengthen product lifecycles, improve competition, temper unsustainable hype, cripple FOMO, make deceptive strategies nonviable. And all of that is why it will never be done.
by mckinnonr | 2025-12-26 20:07:18+00:00
I keep a few vector DBs in sync withs scraped data for a few projects, and it always takes me a few hours to fire up the scrapers, embed everything, and re-sync the database. Usually, my vector DB has stale info.

I built this to create "strategies" which find the correct selectors in the HTML for scraping jobs, and then you can re-use that strategy for different URLs on that site. You can also create schedules to check if data has changed, and if so, it will send to your webhook.

Here's a good example use case:
Scraping forum data - trying to keep up to date with new responses, etc. You can configure a strategy, then a job will use that strategy on any interval and deliver webhooks to your API if the content changes and you can either re-embed or do something with the changed data.

This is a side project, so I'd love to get some feedback. It's free for now, so give it a try and give me some constructive feedback if you're open to it!
by outlore | 2025-12-26 20:07:25+00:00
Looking at that email, I felt it was a bit of an overreaction. I don't want to delve into whataboutism here but there are many other sloppified things to be mad about.

I was following the first half of the post where he discusses the environmental consequences of generative AI, but I didn't think the "thank you" aspect should be the straw that breaks the camel's back. It seems a bit ego driven.
by pks016 | 2025-12-26 20:07:40+00:00
Cool game. Harder for me. I have background in most of the undergrad and some grad molecular biology. Still, the hints didn't help much. The most useful hints were on function of the gene and cellular components. Also, I have been out of touch with gene names from the last few years. I tried searching using a gene's function but didn't work as much. At the end I got 81% close but far from the answer.

You could start with popular gene names.
by overgard | 2025-12-26 20:09:28+00:00
If you're going to work for a large corporation, there are always things they will do that you're not going to agree with. Philosophically, the only options are: leave to join a more focused company you can align with, or, stay but focus on keeping your own contributions positive and leave the negative as not-my-problem. I don't think working for google but also disagreeing with some of the things they do is some sort of terrible hypocrisy.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-12-26 20:11:07+00:00
From the perspective on somebody who lived it:

- the first and MAIN reason is excellent windows support. Nobody wants to say this, but it was the first unix friendly community for a good scriting language to not shit on windows users.

- batteries included is frawn uppon today, but it was a BIG deal back then

- python had the best c integration system after lua and got the Numric lib because if that. It became numpy.

- it was dynamically typed, but strongly typed. No ===.

- optional parenthesis for ruby and symbols from perls were a repellant to many C and java users.

- the error messages were better than the competition.

- lisp shell without lisp

- docstrings and help()

- the packaging ecosystem that everybody craps on today was actually the best at the time. Ruby's was AWFUL at the time.

- one of the first scripting language with good namespace. Ruby could have been that but killef it with monkey patching for years.

- python found ground outside of the web unlike php, js and ruby very early

- python devs were willing to work with os devs to improve integration, and so linux and mac got system tools written in python

- django and twisted were amazing at the time. The dev server without apache was a killer feature

- google advertised they used python for the search engine and youtube. Then HN successes like reddit znd dropbox. It became so famous.

It was not inevitable at all. Just a collection of random stuff.
by giantrobot | 2025-12-26 20:11:13+00:00
Mining tracking data is a megaFLOP and gigaFLOP scale problem while just a simple LLM response is a teraFLOP scale problem. It also tends towards embarrassingly parallel because tracks of multiple users aren't usually interdependent. The tracking data processing also doesn't need to be calculated fresh for every single user with every interaction.

LLMs need to burn significant amounts of power for every inference. They're exponentially more power hungry than searches, database lookups, or even loads from disk.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-26 20:11:53+00:00
I think your head would have to be extremely deeply in the sand to think that. Gamer's Nexus has been doing extensive and well researched videos on the results of ram prices skyrocketing and other computing parts becoming inaccessibly expensive

And it isn't a $300 surcharge on DDR5. The ram I bought in August (2x16gb DDR5) cost me $90. That same product crept up to around 200+ when I last checked a month or two ago, and is now either out of stock or $400+.
by pants2 | 2025-12-26 20:12:01+00:00
I have been asking myself the question of how useful an LLM would be that has perfect intelligence. Meaning that for any question you give it that can possibly be answered with the given information, you will get the right answer.

Obviously, it would be very useful, but still limited by it's context and prompt. For many tasks, coding models are getting close. It will do everything I ask generally correctly the first time. Around half the re-dos are because I under-specified the prompt. Soon that will be 100% of re-dos, and the programming aspect of my job will be mostly focused on writing good prompts, yet I will still be here identifying and translating real-world requirements into prompts.

We are quickly approaching a situation where LLMs can ace all benchmarks, and yet still not see the insane ROI that the frontier labs are predicting because humans are a bottleneck, and so is experiment.

For example that perfect LLM may be able to find the cure to cancer, but all the research in the world isn't enough information to answer that question, so we need to conduct experiments and learn more. Maybe that can speed up humanity's cancer discoveries by 10X, but not 1000X, purely because of the experiment bottleneck.
by aapoalas | 2025-12-26 20:12:31+00:00
I'm a little sad to see YJIT go down in favour of a traditional design. (Yes, YJIT isn't "deprecated" but the people working on it are now mainly working on something else. That's hardly a great place to be in.)

I'm personally quite interested in trying out an LBBV JIT for JavaScript, following in Chevalier-Boisvert's Higgs engine's footsteps. The note about a traditional method JIT giving more code for the compiler to work with does ring very true, but I'd just like to see more variety in the compiler and JIT world.

Like: perhaps it would be possible to conjoin (say) an LBBV with a SoN compiler such that LBBV takes care of the quick, basic compilation and leaves behind enough data such that a SoN compiler can be put to use on the whole-method result once the whole method has been deemed hot enough? This is perhaps a totally ridiculous idea, but it's the kind of idea that will never get explored in a world with only traditional method JITs.
by Towaway69 | 2025-12-26 20:13:01+00:00
Vonnegut is good but I think (Aldous) Huxley had more to say, at least that resonated more with me.

I recently discovered this 1958 interview of Huxley[1]:

> This is the force which in general terms can be called overpopulation, the mounting pressure of population pressing upon existing resources. …This, of course, is an extraordinary thing; something is happening which has never happened in the world's history before. I mean, let's just take a simple fact that between the time of birth of Christ and the landing of the Mayflower, the population of the earth doubled. It rose from two hundred and fifty million to probably five hundred million. Today, the population of the earth is rising at such a rate that it will double in half a century.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-26 20:13:04+00:00
Nascent AI emotions is a dystopian nightmare jeez.

> There are no emotions here, it's just maths.

100%, its an autocorrector on steroids which is trained to give you an answer based on how it was rewarded during its train phase. In the end, its all linear alegbra.

I remember prime saying, its all linear algebra and I like to reference it and technically its true but people in the AI community get remarkably angry sometimes when you point it out.

I mean no offense in saying this but at the end of the day It is maths and there is no denying around it. Please, the grand parent comment should stop creating terms like nascent AI emotions.
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-12-26 20:13:09+00:00
Did you even click the link. It's a rant so profane I would get banned for repeating it here. Actually even the title here says "nuclear".

So yes. Vicious.

Your problem is actually with my point, which you didn't address, not really, and instead resort to petty remarks that tries to discredit what's being said.

It's often the last resort.
by underlipton | 2025-12-26 20:13:17+00:00
buzzer sound

Zero incorporation of externalities. Food is less nutritious and raises healthcare costs. Clothing is less durable and has to be re-bought more often, and also sheds microplastics, which raises healthcare costs. Decent TVs are still big-ticket items, and you have to buy a separate sound system to meet the same sonic fidelity as old CRT TVs, and you HAVE to pay for internet (if not for content, often just to set up the device), AND everything you do on the device is sent to the manufacturer to sell (this is the actual subsidy driving down prices), which contributes to tech/social media engagement-driven, addiction-oriented, psychology-destroying panopticon, which... raises healthcare costs.

>Prices for LLM tokens has also dramatically dropped.

Energy bill.
by minimaxir | 2025-12-26 20:13:38+00:00
As noted in the article, Sage sent emails to hundreds of people with this gimmick:

> In the span of two weeks, the Claude agents in the AI Village (Claude Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 3.7, Opus 4.1, and Haiku 4.5) sent about 300 emails to NGOs and game journalists.

That's definitely "multiple" and "unsolicited", and most would say "large".
by oasisbob | 2025-12-26 20:13:50+00:00
> America has gone through 1-2 generations of English language teachers drilling their students to simplify, simplify, simplify

I think so. Strunk & White is distinctly American. You see simplicity encouraged by others, including Virgina Tufte (_Syntax as Style_), and her well-known son Edward Tufte.

When I was learning to write, em dashes were not even touched on. The idea that exotic punctuation could be required to express cogent thoughts in academia would get laughed out of the room.
Show HN: AceIQ360 – First AI memory system to achieve 100% on LongMemEval
by maheshvaikri99 | 2025-12-26 20:14:12+00:00
I built AceIQ360, a deterministic agentic memory system.

Results:
- LongMemEval: 100% (500/500) - first ever
- LoCoMo: 75.32% J-Score (vs Mem0 68.44%)
- 80x cheaper per turn
- 13x faster

Built on RudraDB, my relationship-aware vector database with automatic relationship detection.

No LLM extraction calls. Pure embedding-based.

Solo developer. Looking for feedback.
by ReflectedImage | 2025-12-26 20:14:18+00:00
Never heard anything about what you are talking about. There isn't a charge for using tropes, plot points, character designs, etc. from other people's works if they are sufficently changed.

If an LLM reads a free wikipedia article on Aladdin and adds a genie to it's story, what copyright law do you think has been broken?