MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MassageByRosa | 2025-12-09 18:50:02+00:00
Hi frost_dev,

Thank you so much for taking the time to not only visit the site but to provide such specific, actionable feedback. This is exactly the kind of insight that makes sharing on HN so valuable.

You are 100% right about the mobile responsiveness issues. It’s a known focus for our next sprint. We prioritized getting the core content and video lessons solid on the main breakpoints first, but clearly, the polish on smaller screens needs immediate attention. Your note about the logo placement, image clustering, and text flow on mobile/tablet is incredibly helpful for prioritizing those fixes.

I appreciate the kind words and your perspective from bodybuilding—maintaining physical wellness definitely has common ground across disciplines! The goal is to make the site feel as polished as the service itself.

Thanks again for the excellent critique. It’s genuinely appreciated.
by nerdix | 2025-12-09 18:50:20+00:00
Yes it was!

I just posted a comment about how amazing the warcraft 2 community was on AOL. Couldn't remember if they charged per minute or per hour so you just confirmed it for me. I just remember that some kids were racking up insane bills. I had to play on Zone (and then Battle.net when Battle.net edition came out) but I loved the AOL war2 message boards.
by lanstin | 2025-12-09 18:50:23+00:00
Yeah if the person doing it is smart I would trust they had the reasonable prompt and ruled out flagrant BS answers. Sometimes the key thing is just to know the name of the thing for the answer. It's equally as good/annoying as reporting what Google search gives for the answer. I guess I assume mostly people will do the AI query/search and then decide to share the answer based on how good or useful it seems.
by tzs | 2025-12-09 18:50:45+00:00
Yes, it is feasible. The EU has been working on it for a while as part of the EU Digital Identity Wallet project. Parts of it, including zero knowledge age verification, are undergoing large field trials in several countries.

Briefly, here's how it works.

• Your government can issue you a digital copy of government identity documents. This copy is cryptographically bound to a key that it stores in a hardware security module that you provide.

In the reference implementation and the implementations undergoing field testing the supported hardware security modules are the security modules in Apple mobile devices and in many Android devices. They plan to support more, such as stand alone smart cards and external security keys like YubiKeys.

• There's a zero knowledge protocol that lets you demonstrate to a website that (1) you have a digital copy of a government ID document that is bound to the hardware security module of your device and that you were able to unlock that hardware security module, and (2) that ID document says your birthday is far enough in the past that you meet the site's age requirement.
by delecti | 2025-12-09 18:50:50+00:00
Agreed, with a caveat. If someone is asking for an objective answer which could be easily found with a search, and hasn't indicated why they haven't taken that approach, it really comes across as laziness and offloading their work onto other people. Like, "what are the best restaurants in an area" is a good question for human input; "how do you deserialize a JSON payload" should include some explanation for what they've tried, including searches.
by SolomonLijo | 2025-12-09 18:51:33+00:00
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by TheChaplain | 2025-12-09 18:51:53+00:00
I've had the same idea, but with no property tax on ownership of a single dwelling place.

If the burden is lessened to have your own place, hopefully we could see less homeless on the street or living in cars when times are tough.

However if you have more than one, then you pay significant property tax on all of them. I would hope that could free up more places for more people getting a home.

But of course if you earn more than $180k a year, I guess you could afford some property tax.

I am also thinking foreign ownership of property should be taxed heavily. I know that is not popular, but honestly if you not living full time in the country then you are effectively taking up a spot for someone who needs a place to live.
by sebastiennight | 2025-12-09 18:51:54+00:00
Most comments I've seen are comparing this behavior to "I googled it and..." but I think this misses the point.

Someone once put it as, "sharing your LLM conversations with others is as interesting to them as narrating the details of your dreams", which I find eerily accurate.

We are here in this human space in the pursuit of learning, edification, debate, and (hopefully) truth.

There is a qualitative difference between the unreliability of pseudonymous humans here vs the unreliability of LLM output.

And it is the same qualitative difference that makes it interesting to have some random poster share their (potentially incorrect) factual understanding, and uninteresting if the same person said "look, I have no idea, but in a dream last night it seemed to me that..."
by specialist | 2025-12-09 18:52:00+00:00
Cite cliché about the only intuitive user interface is the nipple; everything else is learned.

Having done my share of UI work, my value system transitioned from esthetics to practicalities. Such as "can you describe it?" Because siloed UI, independent of docs, training and tech supp, is awful.

All validated by usability testing, natch. It's hard to maintain strong opinions UI after users shred your best efforts. Humilitating.

Having said all that... If stock icons work (with target user base), I'm all for using them.

PS I do have one strong opinion: less is more.
by doug_durham | 2025-12-09 18:52:01+00:00
I actually think that they have a good handle on the motivation for programming languages design. Think about C. C has many features that serve programmer ergonomics. The use of "=" for assignment and the use of "++" for incrementing there to serve the developer by reducing keystrokes. Yes there are some languages that are developed to be more formal, but that isn't the mainstream.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-09 18:52:17+00:00
The socialist sense of “private property” refers specifically to ownership of physical (or at least, nonfinancial) means of production, other than by the workers whose labor is applied to it.

It does not refer to all ownership by individuals of real and personal property, restrictions on other personally-held property are separate concerns from the abolition of private property, and socialists regimes, including those in the Soviet bloc, frequently have retained private home ownership, which is not fundamentally inconsistent with socialist theory.
by sophacles | 2025-12-09 18:52:20+00:00
Modern medicine can't prevent or cure all diseases, so you might as well go back to drinking mercury then rubbing dog shit into your wounds.

Modern sewers sometimes back up, so might as well just releive yourself in a bucket and dump it into your sidewalk.

Modern food preservation doesn't prevent all spoilage so you might as well just go back to hoping that meat hasn't been sitting in the sun for too many days.
by orwin | 2025-12-09 18:52:33+00:00
You can't have a free market if supply (or demand) is constrained.

You either go the liberal+regulated free market way, which will get lobbied, then overregulated, or you go the socialized way, where you allow local government and associations/unions to compete in the market... with the exact same rights as the companies, and no weird rules that prevent them to truly compete.

And if you have a natural monopoly (energy distribution is the worst offender), you have to go the central planning way I guess, until we find something better.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-09 18:52:48+00:00
Everyone wants to finger someone to blame rather than (before trying to) fix the fucking problem.

Here’s a novel and brazen idea: if a domicile has been vacant inside a metropolitan area for more than thirty days, it’s up for grabs. Be it an apartment, a condo, a house, whatever, but if someone isn’t living in that space for more than thirty days, let folks claim it as abandoned property.

Watch rents and values plummet real fucking fast as folks seek to claim their “winnings” before their shit gets taken. That’ll at least jumpstart the real discussion of making sure housing is accessible to those who need it rather than constant finger pointing.

Because sometimes you just need a bigger fire to create the necessary action to solve the underlying problems.

EDIT: I am honestly so sick of the current housing crisis and seeing a swath of vacant apartments and condos as “investment properties” here in New England that yes, I am serious, and I’ve got a mental map of about a dozen large starter units that have been vacant for a year or so that I’d rush to claim one of.

Your investment is irrelevant when humans lack basic necessities like shelter, and I’m tired of being civil or polite about this so your ego doesn’t get bruised.
by enriquto | 2025-12-09 18:52:49+00:00
> why not do it in C?

Well, because you can do it in Fortran, of course!

What else do you want? Multidimensional arrays out of the box, fast loops, native cuda support, trivial build and packaging system, zero version churning... all of this just with the bare language. It's the anti-python! The perfect language, you could say! Strings and i/o are a bit cumbersome, agreed, but your llm can take care of these without any trouble, no matter the language.
by immibis | 2025-12-09 18:53:26+00:00
Also stop fucking arresting people for living in unapproved locations or building structures that don't cost enough money, as long as they're not actually in the way of anyone.

Like, don't arrest people for sleeping under bridges unless they are sleeping in the middle of a footpath under a bridge. And don't go building footpaths under all the bridges to prevent them, either. Also tear down all the hostile architecture or at least don't arrest people for taking to it with angle grinders.

The free market is supposed to work by everyone solving all their own problems and then exchanging solutions with each other. If you claim to have a market but then arrest people for solving problems, no wonder you get a dysfunctional society.

Not saying that people living in tents on public land is a good long-term solution, but it's a step up from being completely shelterless, and since price changes happen at the margins, if it's even remotely viable, it may cause a market crash.
by thefaux | 2025-12-09 18:53:37+00:00
I liked the first few paragraphs, but the article took a wrong turn for me when it pivoted to ir. Compiler ir need not be fiendishly complex, though modern compilers, particularly clang and gcc can create this impression.

There are two nice benchmarks that I use to measure the complexity of a compiler: how long is the compiler and how long does it take to self compile. Clang and gcc are abysmal on these benchmarks. In fact, I would argue that they fail the second benchmark entirely because they are not capable of self compilation because their build systems rely on external tooling. In other words, there is no implementation of gcc or clang that does not rely on an additional tool that is external to the compiler itself.

The main pedagogical value of these compilers is not as an exemplar, but rather an antithesis.
by exasperaited | 2025-12-09 18:54:40+00:00
I'd be impressed if a Debian release took less than eight months to develop, that's for sure.

The name was chosen in 2020, which you can find out from a good old fashioned google search.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTrixie

So a much better explanation of this "hallucination" is that Gemini thinks all "future" Debian releases are called Trixie.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-12-09 18:54:44+00:00
I very much doubt the ability of LLMs to provide leak-free, faulty memory management free, C code, because they are trained on loads of bad code in that regard. They will not output code of the quality that maybe 1% of C developers could, if even that many. Fact is, that even well paid and professional C/C++ developers introduce memory management issues in such code bases (see Chromium project statistics about this). So chances to get good C programs from LLMs, which learn from far lower quality code than Chromium, are probably very slim.

Vibe-coding a program that segfaults and you don't know why and you keep burning compute on that? Doesn't seem like a great idea.
by rnhmjoj | 2025-12-09 18:54:49+00:00
This would be very optimistic, essentially the project meeting its main goal, I'm not sure why you're calling it dark comedy. A 20 minutes pulse alone would mean the fuel injection, aux heating, plasma control systems and the divertor are working as designed. Net positive energy also means we got the physics of a burning plasma right.

The most recent timeline I know (from 2024) in fact puts the start of the DT operation at 2035, so I doubt ITER would achieve such a huge result within less than an year.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-09 18:54:55+00:00
The goal was definitely to impede the other researcher's work, and I can imagine a few possible reasons for that. In descending order of probability, interpersonal conflict (in my experience, graduate students in the same lab tend to either become best friends or hate each other, with little in-between), trying to beat the other student to the punch w.r.t publication, or good ol' schizophrenic delusions that the person's work needs to be stopped (mid 20's is a pretty standard age for onset in men).
by somewhereoutth | 2025-12-09 18:54:59+00:00
The AI bubble is causing large scale resource mis-allocation. That means that resources that could and should have been allocated to useful things have instead gone into data centre build outs and the panoply of marketing, executive hot air, forced/frivolous use of LLMs etc etc - the list goes on.

This means that society as a whole is perhaps significantly poorer than if LLMs had been properly valued (i.e. not a bubble), or had simply never happened at all.

Unfortunately it will likely be the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies that will bear the brunt. 'Twas ever thus.
by kouteiheika | 2025-12-09 18:55:12+00:00
> Open source is what it is today because it's built by people with a spine who stand tall for their ideals even if it means less money, less industry recognition, lots of unglorious work and lots of other negatives.

With all due respect, don't you see the irony in saying "people with a spine who stand tall for their ideals", and then arguing that attaching "restrictions" which only affect the richest megacorporations in the world somehow makes the license not permissive anymore?

What ideals are those exactly? So that megacorporations have the right to use the software without restrictions? And why should we care about that?
by skeledrew | 2025-12-09 18:55:22+00:00
Maybe I haven't encountered enough of these discussions, but I can't recall any where such was skipped over. More likely that they thought it obvious that humans would freely provide access, as there's no reason not to. Or because those deprived of access is always orders more than those with access, they'll just help themselves to the means, and the outcome will be the same. Unless those with access try to stubbornly continue the restriction. It's just a very illogical thought in an era of abundance, and so only really worth mentioning for completion.
by martythemaniak | 2025-12-09 18:55:40+00:00
> I think the people telling us that genAI is the future and we must pay it fealty richly deserve their impending financial wipe-out.

I think people need to realize that if the bubble gets bad enough, there will absolutely, positively, 100% be a bailout. Trump doesn't care who you are or what you did, as long as you pay enough (both money and praise) you get whatever you want, and Big Tech has already put many down payments. I mean, they ask him "Why did you pardon CZ after he defrauded people? Why did you pardon Hernandez after he smuggled tons of cocaine in?" and he plainly says he doesn't know who they are. And why should he? They paid, there's no need to know your customers personally, there's too many of them.
by exe34 | 2025-12-09 18:56:49+00:00
I haven't admined windows for 16 years, but I had this conspiracy theory back in the days that when you install an anti virus A, you'd find some viruses, and then you'd install anti virus B, you'd find some more, but then when you went back to anti virus A, you'd find a couple more - that the free versions were installing their own viruses. It might just have been because I was using bootleg copies.
by al_borland | 2025-12-09 18:56:50+00:00
I think it helps having guidelines and not relying on user sentiment alone. When I first joined HN I read the guidelines and it did make me alter my comments a bit. Hoping everyone who joins goes back to review the up/down votes on their comments and then take away the right lesson with limited information as to why those votes were received seems like wishful thinking. For those who do question why they keep getting downvoted, it might lead them to check the guidelines and finding the right supporting information would be useful.

A lot of the guidelines are about avoiding comments that aren’t interesting. A copy/paste from an LLM isn’t interesting.
by 0018akhil | 2025-12-09 18:57:23+00:00
Desktop app that turns Playwright/Puppeteer scripts into node graphs. MIT, no cloud, built for when you’re tired of fixing selectors at 3 a.m. https://github.com/Dyan-Dev/loopi That’s it — clean, zero fluff, headline does the work. People who care will click instantly. Good luck on the front page!
by Jimmc414 | 2025-12-09 18:57:36+00:00
We are getting to the point that its not unreasonable to think that "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" could be included in some training data. It would be a great way to ensure an initial thumbs up from a prominent reviewer. It's a good benchmark but it seems like it would be a good idea to include an additional random or unannounced similar test to catch any benchmaxxing.
by rglover | 2025-12-09 18:57:38+00:00
> I wonder who, after the loss of those tens of millions of high-paid jobs, are going to be the consumers who’ll buy the goods that’ll drive the profits that’ll pay back the investors. But that problem is kind of intrinsic to Late-stage Capitalism.

> Anyhow, there will be a crash and a hangover. I think the people telling us that genAI is the future and we must pay it fealty richly deserve their impending financial wipe-out. But still, I hope the hangover is less terrible than I think it will be.

Yup. We really seem to be at a point where everyone has their guns drawn under the table and we're just waiting for the first shot—like we're living in a real-world, global version of Uncut Gems.
by wilg | 2025-12-09 18:57:55+00:00
If you're vibe coding, I highly recommend TDD. It makes it very easy for a coding agent to iterate on it. You gotta bonk it sometimes when it tries to delete a problematic test etc, but hallucinating a test suite along with your app really helps a lot. (I've been vibe coding a scripting language/compiler for a video game project I'm working on in this way, and it's been fascinating and mostly great.)
by christkv | 2025-12-09 18:58:08+00:00
Its the whole layer of feature companies built on top of the core models what will pop (openai, anthropic, google resellers). Existing services will add AI bit by bit for features and survive. The core owners of models I think will survive (exception might be open ai, maybe). For the hardware there really are not that many TSMC wafers going around so max sales are capped for everyone at the newest nodes.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-09 18:58:10+00:00
I see it as overhead for the base engine. Though yes, even unity has some post processing built in that would affect performance.

But, I will always correct the cardinal sin of "using FPS to measure performance". Especially for an empty scene, this is pretty much snake oil. 200 fps is 5 milliseconds 1800 fps is a little pver half a millisecond. Giving back 4.5 milliseconds doesn't means much if any sense of real work will add it back.
by cgorlla | 2025-12-09 18:58:44+00:00
We had this question come up frequently during our fundraise.

Our customers' risk profile is such that having the model provider also be the source of truth for model performance is objectionable. There's value to having an independent third party that ensures their AI is doing what they intend it to, especially if that software is on-prem.

On the credit point, that's not necessarily what we're after in these deployments. This is a happy alignment of relatively esoteric research that personally excited me and a real business problem around the non-deterministic nature of GenAI. Our customers typically come to us with a need to solve that for one reason or another.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-09 18:58:46+00:00
Also Rahm Emanuel: "Let's take Second Amendment rights away from everybody on the no-fly list." [1,2]

1: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/rahm-emanuel-hey-lets...

2: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/816qf/rahm_eman...
by giancarlostoro | 2025-12-09 18:58:53+00:00
You can have the same problem with Googling things, LLMs usually form conclusions I align with when I do the independent research. Google isn't anywhere near as good as it was 5 years ago. All the years of crippling their search ranking system and suppressing results has caught up to them to the point most LLMs are Google replacements.
by orwin | 2025-12-09 18:59:15+00:00
> private or offshore investment.

I don't have a good solution for private investment, but for offshore public investment, you can have the same principle.

> Sell stock that previously wasn't on the market, you exhibit permanent downward pressure.

Which is a very, very good thing, to be clear. Because it lowers expectations of future returns, and make stock valuations not based on "i predict pension funds will automatically put their contributor money into those stocks", but on actual business information.
by rtkwe | 2025-12-09 18:59:25+00:00
Sycophantic: behaving or done in an obsequious way in order to gain advantage.

Obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

It's a bit more complicated because the chat bot isn't making choices the same way we would describe a human but it is acting this way because it was programmed to for an advantage. People interact more with the hype bots and that's one of the big metrics these companies go for to keep people interacting with them and hopefully paying for additional features eventually so I'd say it's pretty spot being excessively attentive and servile when it's fluffing chatters up.