MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dzonga | 2025-12-01 18:40:22+00:00
Ruby is a fine language that puts humans over machine.

however the success of rails was also its biggest albatross. Ruby though fine for system tasks (such as system automation etc, chef existed yeah - but we haven't seen new gen tools built after) - people forgot it could do those.

the other is failure of certain sjws to separate say dhh the programmer vs the person. & not being aware to how money (velocity & gravity) move the world e.g shopify involvement in the ruby ecosystem.

failure to understand that beginners are the lifeblood of an ecosystem - till this date don't know if ruby can be effectively used on windows. most people have windows machines not mac's or linux boxes.

it didn't fail cz it was too slow (its fast enough)
by 0003 | 2025-12-01 18:40:31+00:00
You say you don't understand these types & that this is a high conflict subject for you. To offer a perspective, I think it has to do with how individuals cope with their existence. In every moment, we could be doing something more worthy of existence; worse, most of our life is sacrificed to working that definitely does not meet such lofty criteria. So take these small, but irrational acts just as minor self-therapy (vs rebellion) that is constructive to the individual -- hopefully it does not do any serious harm (I trust your judgement you made the right call).

I wager this is going to become more and more common as humanity cries against the hyper-specialization and hyper-inferred MEANING on work that may be trivial in scope when juxtaposed that we really only know that ourselves our conscious (or choose your word for whatever illusion we're experiencing). I imagine there exists at least 1 UBER phd gig worker who did not fully take seriously the annotative training work he or she was doing, if you're familiar with that article that made rounds recently.

People also change with age, and perhaps in 20 years you may find yourself doing these same things. Or, maybe now, coping differently in different ways, but that people find equally incomprehensible -- I know I do.

Just mean the above for good, seriously.
by finaard | 2025-12-01 18:40:31+00:00
While I understand _why_ they did WSL2 it's pretty sad that they at the same time they just dropped any WSL1 development.

We're using a lot of WSL in CI - we're mostly Linux based, but for some stuff toolchains came up which didn't work nicely with wine (like MSVC). So for us we want a Linux system that seamlessly can execute Windows stuff in a Linux based build process. WSL1 can do that, WSL2 can be kicked into working somewhat, but needs quite a few ugly workaround as they're not sharing a process namespace or file descriptors. While the faster IO would be nice that's pretty much the only thing we'd care about - and wouldn't work here, as we need shared access to the files. And while we could access the WSL2 files from Windows side that's even slower than just using WSL1.
by nowittyusername | 2025-12-01 18:40:44+00:00
I realized that ads within context were going to be an issue a while ago so to combat this i started building my own solution for this which spiraled in to a local based agentic system with a different bigger goal then the simple original... Anyways, the issue you are describing is not that difficult to overcome. You simply set a local llm model layer before the cloud based providers. Everything goes in and out through this "firewall". The local layer hears the humans requests, sends it to the cloud based api model, receives the ad tainted reply, processes the reply scrubbing the ad content and replies to the user with the clean information. I've tested exactly this interaction and it works just fine. i think these types of systems will be the future of "ad block" . As people start using agentic systems more and more in their daily lives it will become crucial that they pipe all of the inputs and outputs through a local layer that has that humans best interests in mind. That's why my personal project expanded in to a local agentic orchestrator layer instead of a simple "firewall". i think agentic systems using other agentic systems are the future.
by dtgriscom | 2025-12-01 18:40:44+00:00
Just for fun, I set it up with six bodies, each 1 unit mass and at 1 unit from origin, but along the three different axes (an octahedron). No initial velocities. Start the sim, they fall towards the center, and then BLAMMO they rocket off in opposite directions at high velocity. Clearly, no conservation of energy here (at least when the bodies are arbitrarily close to each other).

Simple pleasures.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 18:40:53+00:00
Non developers using Chatbots and being willing to pay is never going to be as big as the enterprise market or BigTech using AI in the background.

I would think that Gemini (the model) will add profit to Google way before OpenAI ever becomes profitable as they leverage it within their business.

Why would I pay for openrouter.ai and add another dependency? If I’m just using Amazon Bedrock hosted models, I can just use the AWS SDK and change the request format slightly based on the model family and abstract that into my library.
by lamontcg | 2025-12-01 18:41:01+00:00
> that enables a computer to pretty effectively understand natural language

I'd argue that it pretty effectively mimics natural language. I don't think it really understands anything, it is just the best madlibs generator that the world has ever seen.

For many tasks, this is accurate 99+% of the time, and the failure cases may not matter. Most humans don't perform any better, and arguably regurgitate words without understanding as well.

But if the failure cases matter, then there is no actual understanding and the language the model is generating isn't ever getting "marked to market/reality" because there's no mental world model to check against. That isn't going to be usable if there are real-world consequences of the LLM getting things wrong, and they can wind up making very basic mistakes that humans wouldn't make--because we can innately understand how the world works and aren't always just stringing words together that sound good.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 18:41:06+00:00
Not even those dirt cheap bluetooth devices with a trackpad and mini keyboard? Those are great and it just works.

Or what about the Steam Controller? It's UX is similar to some nicer smart TV interfaces.

The real solution is you build an app that is nice for your family to use and just tells the boxes what to play. Sure hope your family doesn't use iPhones!
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-01 18:41:36+00:00
The illustration is misleading because it forces things into three buckets, two of which are colored to indicate "not good". But still, that bottom right corner of the graph is telling.

Also pretty disgusting to me that healthcare is "growing faster than normal" across the board. You'd think it'd be "growing the normal rate" at least somewhere. It's not like population is growing faster than normal across the board. Isn't 20% of the GDP enough for an industry that's fundamentally a cost center of society? Wars have been fought over less.
by eudamoniac | 2025-12-01 18:41:45+00:00
I don't mean this as a judgement; I am genuinely curious: with a career like that, how are you out of money after twelve months? Do you have unusual expenses? I am 31, currently making $180k (the most I've ever made) as a bog standard 'senior SWE', and I have nearly a million dollars. I am not frugal, I don't think; I just bought a $900 pair of sunglasses last week, and that wasn't a huge outlier expense. I have at least twenty years of savings right now. What is eating up your (and any onlookers', if you care to comment) budget?
by msarnoff | 2025-12-01 18:42:09+00:00
Storage tubes are amazing. I once had a Tektronix 464 scope. Unlike the ubiquitous 465, the 464 was an analog storage oscilloscope! The persistence of the storage tube let you capture pulses, visualize signal jitter, etc. And there was a very satisfying erase button that cleared the tube with the characteristic green flash.

You could also just mess with the horizontal/vertical position knobs and use it as a very expensive Etch-a-Sketch.
by SoufianeGfx | 2025-12-01 18:42:13+00:00
The author here. You have various concepts but overall we store the start time and that's it :D the rest are details, clip, tween, easing function, anchor have surviving resizing, stagger to generate the same anim with variations. Or variations of clips, loop. Proper anim of colors in oklab, oklch, linear srgb, hsl, ... Anyway I cannot explain much it's really simple code with a userfriendly front-end.
by strbean | 2025-12-01 18:42:25+00:00
Certainly seems that way if you observed the waves of usability Google search underwent in the first 15 years. There was several distinct cycles where the results were great, then garbage, then great again. They would be flooded with SEO spam, then they would tweak and penalize the SEO spam heavily, then SEO would catch up.

The funny thing is that it seems like when they gave up it wasn't because some new advancement in the arms race. It was well before LLMs hit the scene. The SEO spam was still incredibly obvious to a human reader. Really seems like some data-driven approach demonstrated that surrendering on this front led to increased ad revenue.
by therein | 2025-12-01 18:42:49+00:00
Keygen music will always have a special place in my heart. This is a good one.

I do wonder who was the first cracker that thought of including a keygen music that started the tradition.

I also miss how different groups competed with each other and boasted about theirs while dissing others in readmes.

Readme's would have .NFO suffix and that would try to load in some Windows tool but you had to open them in notepad. Good times.
by jecel | 2025-12-01 18:42:50+00:00
Though a problem, as you point out, it still happened. The 6800 based SWTPC was followed by 6809 machines what need to have all their software reassembled.

On the other side of the cpu wars, all those 8080 machines moving on the Z80s got to keep all their binary software, which happened again for IBM PCs and clones as those evolved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWTPC_6800
by dataviz1000 | 2025-12-01 18:42:56+00:00
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by nosduhz | 2025-12-01 18:43:15+00:00
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by makingstuffs | 2025-12-01 18:43:31+00:00
You’re right in that there is no one place which will solve all of one’s problems. There is an entire continent across the channel which will at least permit you to easily travel through, and settle in, a decent number of countries with very little effort.

While it’s not a silver bullet by any means, being able to freely move between, and experience, multiple cultures outweighs the melancholy we have back in Blighty.

We, in the UK, are constantly told how great we have it in terms of healthcare and welfare. The reality is the opposite. Our healthcare is barely fit for purpose. Our welfare system fails to help those who need it the most.

The one thing I have noticed more than anything else during my travels is that we, in the UK, have resigned our ourselves to a mentality of hopeless acceptance of the status quo. We tend to shrug it off with reductive statements such as ‘well, X has Y problem’ as if that justifies the swathe of issues which should not be present in a country which has tried to position itself on the world stage as a vestibule for decency and morality over the past century.

Nowhere is _perfect_, but many places are _better_.
by palmotea | 2025-12-01 18:43:37+00:00
The article says it will allow "employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices."

I can read that as applying personal phones hooked up to employer services. I think it's pretty common to force employees to consent allowing their employers to manage their device to get access to work email on it. I'd always assume that just mean they could remote wipe it, but maybe it's even worse than that.
by isamuel | 2025-12-01 18:43:43+00:00
There is a great deal of orientalism --- it is genuinely unthinkable to a lot of American tech dullards that the Chinese could be better at anything requiring what they think of as "intelligence." Aren't they Communist? Backward? Don't they eat weird stuff at wet markets?

It reminds me, in an encouraging way, of the way that German military planners regarded the Soviet Union in the lead-up to Operation Barbarossa. The Slavs are an obviously inferior race; their Bolshevism dooms them; we have the will to power; we will succeed. Even now, when you ask questions like what you ask of that era, the answers you get are genuinely not better than "yes, this should have been obvious at the time if you were not completely blinded by ethnic and especially ideological prejudice."
by awkward | 2025-12-01 18:43:51+00:00
So many other good details that get to how impossibly multivariate biology research is, like the need to have several days at the exact temperature.

It's not uncommon for results in biology to have this kind of snag in reproducibility even now. Sometimes it's due to attributing variations to something like "steady hands at the bench", but other times it can even be a deliberate attempt to prevent rivals from duplicating a process before it can be patented and privatized.
by camperegrine | 2025-12-01 18:43:52+00:00
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by matthewkayin | 2025-12-01 18:44:07+00:00
I think it is fair to say that AIs do not yet "understand" what they say or what we ask them.

When I ask it to use a specific MCP to complete a certain task, and it proceeds to not use that MCP, this indicates a clear lack of understanding.

You might say that the fault was mine, that I didn't setup or initialize the MCP tool properly, but wouldn't an understanding AI recognize that it didn't have access to the MCP and tell me that it cannot satisfy my request, rather than blindly carrying on without it?

LLMs consistently prove that they lack the ability to evaluate statements for truth. They lack, as well, an awareness of their unknowing, because they are not trying to understand; their job is to generate (to hallucinate).

It astonishes me that people can be so blind to this weakness of the tool. And when we raise concerns, people always say

"How can you define what 'thinking' is?" "How can you define 'understanding'?"

These philosophical questions are missing the point. When we say it doesn't "understand", we mean that it doesn't do what we ask. It isn't reliable. It isn't as useful to us as perhaps it has been to you.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-01 18:44:26+00:00
China doesn't require pre-installed apps but the Chinese government require all data processing and storage to be conducted within China with complete source code access.

India chose to back off on data sovereignty [0] because it would have had a side effect of making Indian IT Offshoring less competitive plus to help make negotiating a US-India BTA easier [1].

[0] - https://verfassungsblog.de/cross-border-data-flows-and-india...

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-25/us-seeks-...
by sanjayjc | 2025-12-01 18:45:09+00:00
When visiting Bath[1] in UK (mentioned in the article), I learned the Romans used a clever contraption, the "three legged lewis", to lift heavy stones[2].

Referring to the diagram[3] on Wikipedia, a concave hole is first cut into the stone. Parts 1 and 2 of the lewis are inserted, one at a time. Inserting part 3 between 1 and 2 results in all three locking into place. A pin and ring at the top keeps the 3 parts from separating.

[1] https://www.romanbaths.co.uk

[2] https://bathgeolsoc.org.uk/journal/articles/2021/2021_Moving...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_(lifting_appliance)#/med...
by yoyohn | 2025-12-01 18:45:21+00:00
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by GauntletWizard | 2025-12-01 18:45:26+00:00
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by bigyabai | 2025-12-01 18:45:32+00:00
I don't care enough about aliens to have an opinion. I haven't seen one, and the "abundance of testimony" convinces me of alien existence no more than religious gospel.

> the "government authroity" of a "respect country" stating unequivocally that the reality of "alien" contact is true

Stating the existence of aliens is not unequivocal or based in reality, even if a government does it. Don't forget that Russia claimed to cure cancer a few years ago, we've yet to see how unequivocally true that is in reality.
by __rito__ | 2025-12-01 18:45:40+00:00
I wouldn’t venture in the direction that many here will take.

I will point out that India have the highest number of victims of cyber-fraud. I personally know many people who have lost significant sums through social engineering attacks. The money is transferred to multiple mule accounts and physical cash is siphoned off to the fraudsters by the owners of those account. They choose helpless, illiterate, village dwelling account holders for this.

Another huge issue is unregulated loan apps. There are horror stories of people installing apps in order to take high-interest loans and then those apps stealing their private photos and contacts or accessing camera to take photos in private moments, and then sending those photos to contacts via WhatsApp when interest payment is overdue.

Then there are obvious security issues with terrorism and organized crime.

The government wants data. It's clear why. There is huge potential for misuse.
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by profsummergig | 2025-12-01 18:45:54+00:00
ref: "the new tobacco"

this last year i'm seeing very concerning behavior in students in the 14-20 range. complete addiction to their phones. very deep interests in things i was completely unaware that they existed. similar to how when i started noticing anime girlfriends/waifus in 2016.

about 40% are deep in discord communities where i literally cannot figure out a single sentence of what they're talking about.

if society doesn't do something, and soon, say goodbye to the cognitive ability of a large chunk of future generations.
by LMYahooTFY | 2025-12-01 18:45:56+00:00
I agree with you in sentiment and am very nostalgic for the pre-monoculture days, but I also acknowledge that competitive games are a multi-billion dollar industry, and trying to moderate a game with millions of players in a distributed environment is just a non-starter.

You reject the premise that such control is necessary for your idea of fun.

But millions of players enjoy ranked matchmaking enough that without aggressive anti cheat you will wind up with cheaters.

I hate the root kits as well, but if you spend any time playing Valorant vs CS, you will see the difference. If I play CS consistently I'll get cheaters once or twice a week. In Valorant it's almost unheard of by comparison. It sucks, but that's just what's happening.

Do I wish I at least had the option in Valorant or whatever to host a server? Absolutely. Do I think they use the rootkits maliciously? No, generally not. Do I think studios are disincentivized to provide server hosting due to DLC or microtransactions? Definitely. But I also think there's often also a game integrity component. All of these things can be true simultaneously.