MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YZF | 2025-12-04 02:42:26+00:00
I keep getting blown away by AI (specifically Claude Code with the latest models). What it does is literally science fiction. If you told someone 5 years ago that AI can find and fix a bug in some complex code with almost zero human intervention nobody would believe you, but this is the reality today. It can find bugs, it can fix bugs, it can refactor code, it can write code. Yes, not perfect, but with a well organized code base, and with careful prompting, it rivals humans in many tasks (certainly outperforms them in some aspects).

As you're also saying this is the worst it will ever be. There is only one direction, the question is the acceleration/velocity.

Where I'm not sure I agree is with the perception this automatically means we're all going to be out of a job. It's possible there would be more software engineering jobs. It's not clear. Someone still has to catch the bad approaches, the big mistakes, etc. There is going to be a lot more software produced with these tools than ever.
by gregjor | 2025-12-04 02:42:30+00:00
In the USA at least a few problems jump out.

- Poor transportation infrastructure and long travel distances outside of dense cities. Given the choice of driving 30+ minutes to a remote work center or staying home most people will probably choose to stay home and invest in a home office.

- Poor internet infrastructure outside of urban areas. US suburban/rural fiber and 5G deployment lags behind even poor countries such as Thailand and Vietnam.

- Cost. Remote work centers, aka co-working spaces, must make money. As WeWork demonstrated, without engaging in fraud and speculation making money with such facilities proves difficult. Most co-working spaces rely on memberships, similar to gyms, probably a hard sell unless people can easily walk or take mass transit in under 30 minutes. Coffee shops and cafes fill the gap since they have another source of revenue. Starbucks have turned into the def facto remote work centers in the USA.
by mainde | 2025-12-04 02:42:49+00:00
When I upgraded my PC to the same CPU, I had the same problem of crackling/buzzing speakers on my USB DAC (externally powered, but from the same strip/outlet) when the system was under load.

I had a hunch it was power related because my PSU was nearly 10 years old and probably with just barely enough wattage. I bought a new one and all the buzzing went away.

IIRC when I was researching possible causes, beefy Ryzen CPUs were the most commonly mentioned in various forums and reddit threads.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-12-04 02:43:01+00:00
Yeah. Also, software written for a wide gamut of hardware configs, even those under the same CPU ISA, will always be slower than software written for a unique hardware stack and only shipped for that hardware. Does it follow that all software should be written for specific hardware? I think not, because the performance overhead you take on allows saving on massive economic costs. It just isn't realistic to use development resources in that way. Even if devs are better at making ports for their games than fex, that takes precious time and money away from making the game, adding features, polishing, etc. It is much more realistic and sensible to focus on the comparative advantage than the absolute advantage [1].

[1] https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativead...
by next_xibalba | 2025-12-04 02:43:24+00:00
Again, I think you're interpreting a lot of figurative language through the least charitable lens.

> "Competition is for losers"

He didn't actually originate this. The NYT did, in a review of his book. It was so catchy he ran with it. Of course, beyond the provocative headline is the idea that startups should seek green fields, not enter hyper competitive areas where margins are competed away.

> He's said there are "Satanic" components to AI.

Metaphor.

> "fate of our world may depend..."

Keyword here is "may". Clearly a conjecture on his part. And like most things he says, part of a larger narrative he is weaving via symbolism.

> "Monopolies are good"

Bad faith interpretation. A VC/founder achieves a monopoly insofar as they invent or revolutionize a market, typically via breakthrough technology. Facebook and Google rose to dominance bc their products were 10x better than the alternatives.

> He's said the country should be lead by a monarch or "monarch-like figure".

No, he didn't. If you can find a legitimate source for this, I will eat crow.

You may not like his ideas. But I encourage you to not rely on the interpretations of others (i.e. media headlines from left leaning outlets, etc.) and to steelman his arguments when you seek to criticize them.
by kalterdev | 2025-12-04 02:44:55+00:00
Nice article, never seen that.

I’ve always thought it’s good practice for a system to declare its limits upfront. That feels more honest than promising ”infinity” but then failing to scale in practice. Prematurely designing for infinity can also cause over-engineering—like using quicksort on an array of four elements.

Scale isn’t a binary choice between “off” and “infinity.” It’s a continuum we navigate with small, deliberate, and often painful steps—not a single, massive, upfront investment.

That said, I agree the ZOI is a valuable guideline for abstraction, though less so for implementation.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-12-04 02:45:14+00:00
I basically agree. OK: Small focused models for specific use cases, small models like the new mistral-3-3B that I found today to be good at tool use I and thus for building narrow ranged applications.

I have been mostly been paid to work on AI projects since 1982, but I want to pull my hair out and scream over the big push in the USA to develop super-AGI. Such a waste of resources and such a hit on society that needs resources used for better purposes.
by throw234234234 | 2025-12-04 02:45:30+00:00
I think whether you are right or wrong it makes sense to hedge your bets. I suspect many people here are feeling some sense of fear (career, future implications, etc); I certainly do on some of these points and I think that's a rational response to be aware of the risk of the future unknown.

In general I think -> if I was not personally invested in this situation (i.e. another man on the street) what would be my immediate reaction to this? Would I still become a software engineer as an example? Even if it is doesn't come to past, given what I know now, would I take that bet with my life/career?

I think if people were honest with themselves sadly the answer for many would probably be "no". Most other professions wouldn't do this to themselves either; SWE is quite unique in this regard.
by shagie | 2025-12-04 02:46:50+00:00
From a more complete article... https://www.universetoday.com/articles/one-extremophile-eats...

> But that’s not all Chroo can do - it can live on Lunar and Martian soil, and produce oxygen using only them and photosynthesis. It can even survive the high level of perchlorates found in the Martian soil, a tricky proposition for many Earth-based life forms, but “up-regulating” its DNA repair genes that counter the damage the perchlorates do.

From Acta Astronautica Volume 238, January 2026 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.09.022

> Indeed, cyanobacterial productivity can be augmented by increasing regolith concentrations, however, the growth with Martian regolith might be harmed by the presence of perchlorates [54] that being chaotropic agents, destabilize macromolecules and trigger oxidative stress [55]. A first investigation showed that Chroococcidiopsis sp. CCMEE 029 copes with perchlorates by over-expressing genes involved in the antioxidant defense and DNA damage repair [56]. On-going proteomics and genomics investigation in the context of the Space It Up project, will better elucidate how this cyanobacterium overcomes perchlorate-induced stress and contribute to fill the gaps to develop cyanobacterial-based life support systems.

For more on CCMEE 029 Algal Research from October 2025 : Uncovering the enhanced antioxidant defense of the desert cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis sp. CCMEE 029: A step forward to its use in space life support https://doi.org/10.1016/j.algal.2025.104287
by energy123 | 2025-12-04 02:47:12+00:00
I don't see it as an "approach", I see it as a description. If the FSR upscaler becomes better than DLSS, then my description leads to the prediction that AMD will make FSR closed source. The prevailing camp that says AMD are exercising their moral compass will predict that AMD will keep FSR open source. We'll see who has a description that aligns with reality if that day comes.
by blakeguo | 2025-12-04 02:47:34+00:00
We're curious how accurate hype matches real investor valuations. And we built this to see people put their money where their mouth is, and make predictions on companies in the exact same way that VCs do.

This isn't a gambling site; everyone participating has free reign to do due diligence themselves before investing, or to just...not invest in any of them.

We will set a deadline of a month before the market automatically ends. If the company has not raised, we will just refund all the money back to you. If the company has raised, we will re-weight all the investments by how close they are to the final valuation; the closer you are, the more of the total you get.

We want to be clear that this isn't an attempt to make money on our part, or to even create a profitable business. This will probably never raise money or even become a real business. We're just really interested in if the public can give an actual sense of how well companies will do.

'Wait! We can't withdraw our money? What if you just take the money and run?!' Well see that's the point. We literally aren't allowed to do that because the MOMENT we do that, Stripe will call us a gambling site. We're working on finding a way to return money to you right now, but since we have no idea if this actually will have traction we just don't have time to get paybacks working (i promise we're working on it!)

(and if you see this, Stripe, pls don't ban us we're literally going to lose money for this experiment already)
by Esophagus4 | 2025-12-04 02:47:53+00:00
> I feel like there is an absurd amount of negative rhetoric about how AI doesn't have any real world use cases in this comment thread

Yep.

I feel like actually, being negative on AI is the common view now, even though every other HN commenter thinks they’re the only contrarian in the world to see the light and surely the masses must be misguided for not seeing it their way.

The same way people love to think they’re cooler than the masses by hating [famous pop artist]. “But that’s not real music!” they cry.

And that’s fine. Frankly, most of my AI skeptic friends are missing out on a skill that’s helped me a fair bit in my day to day at work and casually. Their loss.

Like it or not, LLMs are here to stay. The same way social media boomed and was here to stay, the same way e-commerce boomed and was here to stay… there’s now a whole new vertical that didn’t exist before.

Of course there will be washouts over time as the hype subsides, but who cares? LLMs are still wicked cool to me.

I don’t even work in AI, I just think they’re fascinating. The same way it was fascinating to me when I made a computer say “Hello, world!” for the first time.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 02:48:10+00:00
Oh you're talking about trading card games? I thought we were comparing to the gacha/lootbox market.

I think the simplest fact is that most people online don't think about offline product. Out of sight, out of mind. It's also an interesting market where WotC and Co. Actively try to avoid the resellers market. They don't want any risk in valuing individual cards themselves, so they stick to boosters.

For digital stuff, you are inherently the market itself. So it's hard divorce yourself when you are the one who implemented trading and controlling rarities and drops.
by syndacks | 2025-12-04 02:48:59+00:00
This is pretty cool!

Since we’re sharing related work, I’ve been building something at a very different layer of the stack. Shameless plug warning!

Where Phind gives you an interactive answer right now, I built SageNet for the opposite problem: when you want to go from zero → actually good at something over weeks/months, not just get a one-shot result.

SageNet:

- builds a personalized learning plan

- adapts as you progress

- generates short audio lessons

- gives real projects

- has a daily voice check-in agent

- lets you share a public progress dashboard

If anyone wants to try it: https://www.sagenet.club
by DevX101 | 2025-12-04 02:49:08+00:00
Software has been moving in the right direction. Tons of open source projects for every application imaginable. But hardware has gotten more closed. You can't replace batteries in phones, they get pre-loaded with state level spyware, laptops today have about the same hard drive space as 10 years ago to drive cloud usage, and GPUs and now memory seem to be becoming increasingly cost prohibitive for consumers.
by wat10000 | 2025-12-04 02:49:15+00:00
My link was not the argument. My argument was the text I wrote describing how Congress is full of rich people and this indicates that it’s full of types 3 and 4. The link is just a source for the numbers.

> Or you made that money through insider trading which is the topic at hand.

Right, that would be the thing I mentioned where people leverage the position for money beyond the salary. I’m not sure you’re actually understanding what you’re replying to.
by xethos | 2025-12-04 02:49:33+00:00
This isn't even about straight pride, save a rational for the manainer to hide behind. It's "Gnome allows customization catered to the LGBT crowd, I'd like different customizatoin that's less in-your-face" - which seems pretty reasonable.

If anything, Gnome allowing customization in the first place is what I'm surprised by, not so much that they won't allow more (though the given reason is... questionable... at best)
by queenkjuul | 2025-12-04 02:50:12+00:00
My boss has been passing off Claude generated code and documentation to me all year. It is consistently garbage. It consistently hallucinates. I consistently have to rewrite most, if not all, of what I'm handed.

I do also try and use Claude Code for certain tasks. More often than not, i regret it, but I've started to zero in on tasks it's helpful with (configuration and debugging, not so much coding).

But it's very easy then for me to hear people saying that AI gives them so much useful code, and for me to assume that they are like my boss: not examining that code carefully, or not holding their output to particularly high standards, or aren't responsible for the maintenance and thus don't need to care. That doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean they're right.
by frankhsu | 2025-12-04 02:50:18+00:00
I've been working on UI/UX design since 2012, and have witnessed several major shifts in design styles.

I clearly remember the release of iOS7 (or maybe I'm mistaken) with its flat design in the summer of 2013. Users accustomed to the skeuomorphic style for years initially felt this change was terrible. However, within two months, people adapted to the change, and other companies' design teams were quickly following suit.

But this time is different. Even though Liquid Glass has been around for quite some time, looking at the screen on my Mac still makes me feeling unacceptable.
by rk38 | 2025-12-04 02:51:23+00:00
I think many people don't appreciate that large MPVs/minivans are almost exactly the same size as mid-size SUVs like the Lexus RX450h mentioned in the article. The dimensions tell the story:

Ford Galaxy (large MPV, 2015): 4,853mm × 1,916mm × 1,811mm Ford S-Max (mid-size MPV, 2015): 4,796mm × 1,916mm × 1,655mm Renault Espace (2015): 4,878mm × 1,888mm × 1,675mm Lexus RX (2015): 4,890mm × 1,895mm × 1,685mm

The Galaxy and S-Max are actually wider than the Lexus, while the Espace is only 7mm narrower. Length differences are minimal, the S-Max is 94mm shorter, the Galaxy 37mm shorter, and the Espace 12mm shorter than the RX.

Beside both the Galaxy and S-Max have been discontinued, and the Renault Espace, the vehicle that essentially created the MPV segment has rebranded itself as a "mid-size crossover SUV" for its sixth generation and follow on generation. The distinction between MPVs and crossover SUVs has largely collapsed.
by x______________ | 2025-12-04 02:52:25+00:00
>The researchers propose a compelling reason for this. They suggest that because male caregivers tend to talk less to their cats and are generally less attentive, the cats adjust their communication to get their attention.

This is a very wild theory.

Anecdotally, I used to get many meows' worth of greetings arriving home from a 6 month old male kitten after only a few days with them when the rest of the household did not after weeks.

The secret: Paying attention to the kitten and being present for them. No one else did and the result was a 2 syllable meow (meow-meow) as my name contained every time I walked through the door.

From what I read, none of the study focuses on the caregivers, their habits or anything in-between.

From the paper's conclusion:

>We believe that our pilot study provides a valuable foundation for future research, in which larger sample sizes and the inclusion of additional variables (e.g., caregiver behavior and other demographic factors) measured through direct behavioral observations may reveal further subtleties in feline behavioral patterns and offer deeper insights into the social lives of domestic cats.

Oh. (Original paper[1])

1: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.70033
by ben1040 | 2025-12-04 02:52:47+00:00
It's me, I'm too lazy to modify a keyboard.

I came upon a spare Touch ID keyboard. I just got Command strips and adhered the whole keyboard to the underside of my desk. USB cable is clipped to the desk and goes to my dock. I've got the fingerprint reader right next to my standing desk controls so it's really convenient, and I still get to use my Keychron as my keyboard. The low profile of the Apple keyboard means it doesn't get in the way.

Also every time I need to unlock my Mac or sudo I get to feel like I'm tripping the silent alarm at the bank.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-04 02:53:10+00:00
Maybe, but from a platform and brand development perspective, there may be smarter strategies.

Their interest isn't necessarily in squeezing out the most margin on each unit. If unexpected market conditions let them more or less hit their original margin targets but get far more units installed in homes, that could be much better for them in the long term.

There's a lot we can't know as outsiders, at the moment.
by samtheDamned | 2025-12-04 02:55:09+00:00
I use firefox mostly because it's not blink based, and because I've used it all my life, but I also really love the userChrome system even if its hidden behind a flag. Since I use mostly vanilla gnome I use a firefox libadwaita skin [0] that makes it blend in nicely. I used to be jealous of chrome based browsers for their performance but I tried to switch to brave a couple years ago and honestly it doesn't look or feel very nice.

Most chromium-based browsers feel the same and its disappointing. If I wasn't as happy with the gnome skin for firefox I'd probably be using Zen [1] because its nice to see a firefox based browser that tries to introduce new features and create an identity of its own instead of joining a size measuring contest on how hard(ened) they are (I respect them, but it's a very saturated market at this point).

Editing to add that like @WarOnPrivacy said, containers are also a huge feature that I don't think I've seen any chromium-based browsers replicate.

[1]: https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme [2]: https://zen-browser.app/
by carlCarlCarlCar | 2025-12-04 02:55:40+00:00
Applied math is little more than semantics compression.

This fundamental truth is embedded in the common symbols of arithmetic...

+ ... one line combined with another ...linear...line wee

- ...opposite of + one line removed

x ...eXponential addition, combining groups

•/• ... exponential breaking into groups ...also hints at inherent ratio

From there it's symbols that describe different objects and how to apply the fundamental arithmetic operations; like playing over a chord in music

The interesting work is in physical science not the notation. Math is used to capture physics that would be too verbose to describe in English or some other "human" language. Which IMO should be reserved for capturing emotional context anyway as that's where they originate from.

Programming languages have senselessly obscured the simple and elegant reality of computation, which is really just a subset of math; the term computer originated to describe humans that manually computed. Typescript, Python, etc don't exist[1]. They are leaky abstractions that waste a lot of resources to run some electromagnetic geometry state changes.

Whether it's politics, religion or engineering, "blue" language, humans seem obsessed with notation fetishes. Imo it's all rather prosaic and boring

[1] at best they exist as ethno objects of momentary social value to those who discuss them
by petesergeant | 2025-12-04 02:55:55+00:00
Bimodal here suggests either/or which I don’t think is correct for either chefs or code enjoyers. I think experts tend to eschew snobbery more and can see the value in comfort food, quick and dirty AI prototypes or boilerplate, or say cheap and drinkable wine, while also being able to appreciate what the truly high-end looks like.

It’s the mid-range with pretensions that gets squeezed out. I absolutely do not need a $40 bottle of wine to accompany my takeout curry, I definitely don’t need truffle slices added to my carbonara, and I don’t need to hand-roll conceptually simple code.
by PlunderBunny | 2025-12-04 02:56:15+00:00
Yeah - I’ve heard people say that the laptop lid (screen) is too thin for the sensors required to do proper FaceID (as opposed to just using the existing optical camera, which is easily fooled). But I don’t understand why the notch part of the screen just couldn’t be a bit deeper (and have a corresponding cutout on the bottom part of the laptop to accomodate it when the lid is closed). Then again, given how often the FaceID on my iPhone fails to recognise me…
by throw234234234 | 2025-12-04 02:56:35+00:00
Would agree with this and think it is more than just your reasons, especially if you venture outside the US at least from what I've experienced. I've seen it at least personally more so where AI tech hubs aren't around and there is no way to "get in on the action". I see blue collar workers who are less threatened ask me directly with less to lose - why would anyone want to invent this? One of the reasons the average person on the street doesn't relate well to tech workers in general; there is a perceived lack of "street smarts" and self preservation.

Anecdotally its almost like they see them like mad scientists who are happy blowing up themselves and the world if they get to play with the new toy; almost childlike usually thinking they are doing "good" in the process. Which is seen as a sign of a lack of a type of intelligence/maturity by most people.
by protocolture | 2025-12-04 02:57:58+00:00
I remember a friend of mine, gloating about how he could play Unreal Tournament on Mac, and I looked at it, and man did it ever run natively. But I could see a lot rendering wrong and a lot of stutters.

I think the pentium compatibility stuff in the powermac was also supposed to attract gamers, but I recall not being able to progress past the installer for Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries, which would have been the game that made me change my mind. Ran the installer tho, which was something.