MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Nextgrid | 2025-12-26 09:15:12+00:00
Tech skills:

* Building LLM-backed products. I’ve recently had a real use-case for AI (as opposed to slapping a useless chatbot on everything just to claim to use AI) and for now I’ve been calling the APIs directly from Django; which while works, makes me write tons of boilerplate for basic tasks like an UI for testing prompts and so on. It seems like this must be a solved problem so I’d need to look around (LangChain?)

Non-tech:

* Sales - from feedback it seems like I’m not actually that bad of a salesman/people person but I would like to formalize that skill, maybe getting an entry-level technical sales/solutions engineer position and grow from there.

Personal:

* Letting go of projects and prioritizing: I’ve always had a ton of tech projects going at once which leads to my free time being spread thin across all of them and ultimately wasted as no meaningful progress is made. While it’s been an amazing learning experience when I started it’s since stopped paying off on that front once I mastered the tech involved. I need to let go for good and just delete the unfinished code once and for all so I’m never tempted to get back to it.
by qnleigh | 2025-12-26 09:16:04+00:00
I'm not downvoting you, but I think you are probably getting downvoted because "Stock trading can be quite lucrative" is statistically just not true. Even professional financial advisors almost never beat the market [0]. Only hedge funds that pay for huge amounts of priveledged financial information do, and even then not always.

Here's a good video that makes a case for this. Even if you don't agree, you might find some of the points he makes interesting.
But tl;dr, he argues that index funds basically always outperform other methods, so one should primarily invest in things like that.

[0] https://youtu.be/T71ibcZAX3I?si=5kEkLoUhHDkajlyy
by checker659 | 2025-12-26 09:16:17+00:00
A language runtime vibe-coded for a language that people will very likely vibe code in. Something about that makes my head hurt a little.

I guess, it's easier for LLMs to generate dynamic language code than something like Rust (or even assembly). But still, one does wonder, why not just compile down to C or ASM. But I guess the answer is the ease of debugging / maintainability.
by RobotToaster | 2025-12-26 09:16:21+00:00
There have been a growing number of online groups arranging to do group buys of synthesized experimental drugs based on studies...

There's also a good number of cases of people getting exactly what they ordered. There's been a thriving market for Retatrutide, ozempic's more powerful younger brother, for years despite it not being approved yet.

Also, people with Alzheimer's don't have the luxury of being able to wait 20 years for it to be approved.
by basilikum | 2025-12-26 09:16:29+00:00
> In 2024 alone, I spent $1,400 on "micro" transactions.
>
> $10 here for a skin. $5 there for a bundle. $20 for currency.

If you spend money for ingame currency, you are by definition not a free to play player. If you pay money for in game progress in the form of useless currency – that just evaporates away so you have to pay even more – you have already given up. A proper game would never let you do that. You have given in to the pay to win / pay to play garbage.

I know, we shouldn't blame the victims of these scummy dynamics and good for OP to come to the realization. But it's just really hard for me not to blame the people who play all that trash and fill the pockets of these disgusting gambling companies.
by lll-o-lll | 2025-12-26 09:17:47+00:00
The internet is facing an existential threat to its very existence. If it becomes nearly impossible to determine signal in the noise, then there is no internet. Not for normal people, not for anyone.

So we need some mechanism to verify the content is from a human. If no privacy preserving technical solution can be found, then expect the non-privacy preserving to be the only model.
by genuser | 2025-12-26 09:17:49+00:00
In an unprecedented breach, a prototype build of a future iOS version has laid bare Apple’s multi-year hardware strategy. A list of codenames discovered in an internal iOS 26 build, corroborated by industry analysts, outlines an ambitious slate of over 30 unreleased products. This leak provides a rare, structured glimpse into Apple’s plans for 2026 and beyond, confirming long-rumored projects and revealing entirely new ones.
by lesostep | 2025-12-26 09:18:37+00:00
You actually can slow down music. A novel experience in itself.
When you try to learn the song — once you get a grip – everything slows.
That's why people play so much with metronome – once your brain "slows down", you will speed up naturally.
Spent a few months learning how to get around it as a novice drummer. The only way around I found? It's to notice the slowing speed of time and slow the rhythm into it.
Probably related: most drummers play with a click in their ears.

I noticed similar effects when "locking in" in games or sports. Time gets slower.

So when you slow down, you start to pay more attention. But if you pay more attention, the world itself will slow down. And the music would be slowed
by avaer | 2025-12-26 09:19:19+00:00
I would never talk down on Rob Pike.

But I think in the aggregate ChatGPT has solved more problems, and created more things, than Rob Pike (the man) did -- and also created more problems, with a significantly worse ratio for sure, but the point still stands. I still think it counts as "impressive".

Am I wrong on this? Or if this "doesn't count", why?

I can understand visceral and ethically important reactions to any suggestions of AI superiority over people, but I don't understand the denialism I see around this.

I honestly think the only reason you don't see this in the news all the time is because when someone uses ChatGPT to help them synthesize code, do engineering, design systems, get insights, or dare I say invent things -- they're not gonna say "don't thank (read: pay) me, thank ChatGPT!".

Anyone that honest/noble/realistic will find that someone else is happy to take the credit (read: money) instead, while the person crediting the AI won't be able to pay for their internet/ChatGPT bill. You won't hear from them, and conclude that LLMs don't produce anything as impressive as Rob Pike. It's just Darwinian.
by karambahh | 2025-12-26 09:19:19+00:00
Mallorca is a mountainous island in the middle of the med.
Exporting something from Mallorca seems like a logistical challenge to me.
Exporting something refrigerated or frozen, even more so...

Maybe store-shelf product such as gummies or something?

Fresh juice takes 2kg of oranges per ~1l/~1kg. Plus electricity and handling costs...

Still, you'll need a large multiplier on the transformation process: organic EU orange are 1.7€/kg, standard are 1€ wholesale market price (meaning its origin is continental spain or italy I guess).
Frozen orange juice is 3.93€ (Brazil)
by cromka | 2025-12-26 09:19:44+00:00
Qualcomm _does_ upstream all their firmware, but vendors usually require a copy signed with their keys burned into the SoC, so you need the very same firmware as provided by the vendor, otherwise it won't load. This is an actual security feature, believe it or not. Besides, chances are it wasn't even Qualcomm's firmware, but rather Cirrus for sound or display firmware or similar.

I get the hate on Qualcomm, but you're really one LLM question away from understanding why they do this. I should know, I was also getting frustrated before I read up on this.
by ysleepy | 2025-12-26 09:20:47+00:00
Oddly the notification brief in germany specifies false-high glucose readings, which would explain the urgency of the problem much better.

For high glucose you inject insulin, but if you don't really have high glucose you end up with dangerously low levels leading to coma or death.

https://www.bfarm.de/SharedDocs/Kundeninfos/DE/10/2025/42777...
by gste | 2025-12-26 09:20:48+00:00
By coincidence I also finished The Fellowship of the Ring about two weeks ago.

I have always had the intuition about reading speed that it is very easy to be a speed reader if you skim over things. I've always questioned how much of speed reading is just skipping stuff and filtering for the most important word tokens.

You could skip all of Tolkien's scenery descriptions, you could skip Tom Bombadil and Lothlorien and still know basically what happened to Frodo and where he's going. But that's not really the point. When I read a book of that much importance, I've always read every word and understood every sentence. I get easily distracted and often have to reread passages. I am not a fast reader. Tolkien's descriptions are not always that easy. But this is what I find so rewarding about reading in the first place.

However, when I'm reading an article online, the difference is stark. When I read articles, I usually start from the bottom and read backwards. That's my way of finding out the results, and then piecing together how much context I actually need to understand it. Maybe I should slow that down sometimes.
by ChaosOp | 2025-12-26 09:21:05+00:00
You are able to mix gamepads and smart phones! Though there is a limit that you can only connect a maximum of 4 gamepads to a single session due to limitations with the JS gamepad API.

Would you be interested in also beta-testing our upcoming 3rd party game development SDK? If so, please ping me on our Discord (link at the end of the gamingcouch.com web page) so I can take your contact details for the beta-testing list :)
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-26 09:21:08+00:00
> Cooking

For me, what sparked my interest in cooking was two things: (1) getting older (in youth, food was simply fuel, not so much to be enjoyed), (2) wanting to replicate favourites dishes from restaurants (my first first was channa masala). You can learn a lot from middle-aged house wives that have a YouTube cooking channel that show you how to cook classic dishes from various cultures. One thing that has been incredibly liberating is making small tweaks to recipes that will trigger a cultural native to immediately declare: "Oh, that's not authentic." To that I say: "Who cares, it is my food, and I will enjoy it!"
by dogma1138 | 2025-12-26 09:21:56+00:00
500g is like 3 T-shirts worth even if your clothing is 100% synthetic you aren’t loosing 3-4 shirts worth of fabric in washing a year.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a large part of that 500g are due to the use of detergent pods.

If anything that 500g is an astronomically high number even for a family of 4.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-12-26 09:22:00+00:00
IMHO, CCC is completely defanged as a political institution. They went along with contact tracing because the local app was open source and somewhat secure and many of the regulars in local spaces people will cause lots of drama if you don't wear a mask in 2025.

Most local hackerspaces I visited are basically green and leftist queer safe spaces where adults run around with stuffed animals. If that's what you're looking for, great, I'm not judging, it just doesn't click with me. I used to visit hackerpaces during my travels but regardless of how open and kind I approach a new place, once they ask me to mask up or inquire for my pronouns things just don't end well, even if I'm really polite in explaining my position. That's not the tolerance and open mindedness I encountered around 2009 during my first C3.

Still, I wish everyone attending the best of times. There's so many people there that I imagine you'll be able to find the right folks if you're there and look around.

Not looking for a debate or inciting hate towards anyone here.
by beAbU | 2025-12-26 09:22:16+00:00
There is a specific personality type, not sure which type exactly but it overlaps with the CEO/Executive type, who'se brains are completely and utterly short circuted by LLMs. They are completely consumed by it and they struggle to imagine a world without LLMs, or a problem that can be solved by anything other than an LLM.

They got a new hammer, and suddenly everything around them become nails. It's as if they have no immunity against the LLM brain virus or something.

It's the type of personality that thinks it's a good idea to give an agent the ability to harass a bunch of luminaries of our era with empty platitudes.
by lewiscollard | 2025-12-26 09:23:17+00:00
I am going to get good at TIG welding. This is mostly because there's a lot of subprojects of my car that would really benefit from me doing TIG - stainless, aluminium, etc (I already got pretty good at MIG for mild steel).

But also, AI. Previously my worry was "AI is not going to be good enough to replace me, but the people who make the decisions might think it is". After actually using a code assistant myself lately that turned into "AI is going to replace me". No, it's not that good _yet_ (it still needs lots of nudging and shepherding) but I don't think the odds are good of my job title existing in a decade.

LLMs can't wield a TIG torch yet and the work pays well. Being good at it is a good hedge against this industry being eaten by AI.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-26 09:23:52+00:00
Hanspeter Mössenböck created Oberon-2 with feedback from Niklaus Wirth, and later went on to focus on .NET and Java instead, several of his studends have contributed to MaximeVM and later GraalVM research.

Meanwhile the Oberon community diverged into Active Oberon, Zonnon, Component Pascal.

However for Niklaus Wirth those were distractions, and he looked into how to take further features away from Oberon, which was already less feature rich than Modula-2.

There were a few revisions from Oberon-07 between 2008 and 2016, each removing even more language features, before his retirement from computing world.

"Differences between Revised Oberon and Oberon"

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.pdf

"Porting the Oberon Compiler from Oberon to Oberon-07"

The latest revision being,

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon07.Report.pdf

Niklaus Wirth goal became how to remove "needless fluff" out of Oberon, and still get enough features to have a systems programming language with a GC.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-12-26 09:23:53+00:00
China is doing human gene editing and embryo cloning too, we should get right on that. They're harvesting organs from a captive population too, we should do that as well otherwise we might fall behind on transplants & all the money & science involved with that. Lots of countries have drafts and mandatory military service too. This is the zero-morality darwinian view, all is fair in competition. In this view, any stealing that China or anyone does is perfectly fine too because they too need to compete with the US.
by jmpavlec | 2025-12-26 09:24:15+00:00
You can give https://gametje.com a try. I created an Android TV app for it (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gametje). Also works in browsers/remote calls etc. It is slower paced play from smart phones more akin to Jackbox Games (not action games).

(Also free to play with a Guest account)
by gremlinsinc | 2025-12-26 09:25:32+00:00
I'm going to learn to ship things. I can build a full SaaS in 5 days using Claude so there is no excuse for me not to ship.

I've been out of work 2 years, had to do a GoFundMe just to survive the winter, and I raised 5k which gave me a runway to get off Uber and Lyft and focus on finding clients to build for add with chatGPT I think I'm in the verge of figuring this freelance thing out ..

other things to learn: I want to get AWS certified and work on other certifications like Service Now... or sales force...

I'm wanting a digital agency but need to figure out the sales aspect.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2025-12-26 09:26:01+00:00
I don’t know any specific name for it, but it is fairly common reading technique used in literary analysis. If you ready any kind of poetry more refined (say [1] or [2]) in its internal structure, it is an absolute necessity.

It is quite amazing how many people do not know that there is a multitude of reading techniques to be used with various kinds of texts. You need to use a right tool for the job. Tolkien’s passages describing the Middle Earths ecological landscape are particularly rich calling for careful reading and lingual analysis. I believe he uses almost sole old Celtic words in those passages, avoiding any newer latin-based words more familiar to a modern reader, which cannot be a coincidence.

[1] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46452/to-an-athlete-d...
[2] https://poets.org/poem/having-coke-you
by seec | 2025-12-26 09:26:15+00:00
I don't feel like we are in disagreement. I don't advocate to make everything needlesly tedious on mobile.

I'm just saying that you have to do the basics right for the "commoner" but it is not necesseraly needed for the "good stuff".

Look at books layout, there are very clear difference depending on target demographics. If you want to mass market stuff, go ahead, do "mobile first" or whatever.
But if you have high-quality content that require a good layout, it is not worth much to spend time "optimizing" for access patterns that woud barely get used.

The best cookbooks I have are all physical, because reproducing the experience/layout for mobile is impossible, if you want to do a quality product, at some point you have to define a minimum viable standard, otherwise you end up with with infinite scroll and that's not terribly usefull.
by squigz | 2025-12-26 09:28:00+00:00
> If no privacy preserving technical solution can be found, then expect the non-privacy preserving to be the only model.

There is no technical solution, privacy preserving or otherwise, that can stave off this purported threat.

Out of curiosity, what is the timeline here? LLMs have been a thing for a while now, and I've been reading about how they're going to bring about the death of the Internet since day 1.
by brailsafe | 2025-12-26 09:28:01+00:00
The switches are much lighter to the touch, and although I also prefer scissor switches, I've grown to like the mWave switches too. The lighter switch feel causes some typos, and I'm not yet as fast on it as even my MacBook keyboard, but there's always an adjustment period. They're also a little louder than the sculpt, but nothing remotely close to other mechanical switch types, and I think I might even say it's just a different type of sound, since I can type more softly than before.

The palm rest is a more comfortable softer pad than the the o.g sculpt, but I find for me it does get a little sweaty. I take Adhd meds during the day and drink a shit ton of coffee, so tend have very sweaty hands. I can't yet speak to durability, but the sculpt palm rest starts looking tattered around the ~2 year mark, while the Matias palm rest is a replaceable piece of rubber with a fantastic velvety feel (I use it when I'm at the office).

Connectivity is way better than the sculpt, but it's a little finicky when switching between devices on Bluetooth, which I feel I might just be doing wrong and haven't tried to learn about yet.

I find that the keycaps have low quality printed characters on the mac version, and when the backlight is on, some keys are hard to read or don't shine through properly.

My biggest problem with this keyboard is that it has a small right shift key, a normal size left shift key, and arrow keys that I find less preferable to the sculpt. The small right shift key means it's harder to position my shoulders in an ideal way compared to the sculpt for my ridiculously large hands, and I have to contort my wrist a bit more than I'd like. I also just can't feel my way around the board as easily, since I used the shift keys and arrows as anchor points.

As I've gotten used to it a little more, this is becoming less of an issue.

For portability, the overall build feels more solid than the sculpt, which would sometimes get stuck keys if I'd throw it in my backpack and get a piece of dirt in there or something. The better connectivity is a huge relief, since I don't need to worry about a dongle for wireless, and/or can use a usbc cable if the batteries are dead. It seems a bit shorter but chonkier, and maybe weighs less.

So that's my review. 8.5/10, since some of these lean toward preferences rather than quality. I'm not as confident touch typing with it yet, maybe 70% as confident, but I think I'll keep it and refine that skill.

Additionally, although the printed/etched characters on the keycaps are low quality, I'm glad there's mac variant. I did use the sculpt overwhelmingly on my mac, and had to remap keys, which I'll now do if necessary on my windows PC for the minority of time I'm using it there.
by znpy | 2025-12-26 09:29:26+00:00
If you think about economic value, you’re comparing a few large-impact projects (and the impact of plan9 is debatable) versus a multitude of useful but low impact projects (edit: low impact because their scope is often local to some company).

I did code a few internal tools with aid by llms and they are delivering business value. If you account for all the instances of these kind of applications of llms, the value create by AI is at least comparable (if not greater) by the value created by Rob Pike.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-12-26 09:29:29+00:00
This is a great idea. Countryside driving is lovely in many places in Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia. Since you are based in Singapore, you can easily go across the border in JB, rent a car and drive into the countryside. There so much beauty in a slow drive through the Malaysian countryside. I use Google Maps (satellite view) to find interesting nature, then try to drive to it.
by nomilk | 2025-12-26 09:29:43+00:00
I found it interesting because they:

- Made a RAG in ~50 lines of ruby (practical and efficient)

- Perform authorization on chunks in 2 lines of code (!!)

- Offload retrieval to Algolia. Since a RAG is essentially LLM + retriever, the retriever typically ends up being most of the work. So using an existing search tool (rather than setting up a dedicated vector db) could save a lot of time/hassle when building a RAG.
by JohannesGlaser | 2025-12-26 09:30:02+00:00
I think there’s an important distinction here.

What you describe (AGENTS.md, open files, terminals, system prompts) is still context shaping inside the prompt space. It’s about what to load and how much, and yes, that quickly turns into dynamic context engineering.

What I’m experimenting with is one step earlier: treating state as an external artifact, not as an emergent property of the prompt. The files aren’t hints or instructions that compete for relevance, but the assistant’s working state itself. On initialization, the model doesn’t decide what to pull in; it reconstructs orientation from a fixed set of artifacts.

In that sense it’s not prewarming a cache so much as rebuilding a process from disk. Forgetting, correction, and continuity are handled by explicitly changing those artifacts, not by prompt evolution.

I agree there’s a lot of open design space here. My main point was that persistent state tends to be discussed as a prompt or retrieval problem, whereas treating it as first-class state changes the failure modes quite a bit.

Curious how far current agent frameworks really go in that direction in practice.
by dijit | 2025-12-26 09:31:16+00:00
If you’re on a contract that can work.

If it’s a PAYG sim card then you’re out of luck without the PUK code, which, if you’ve lost the sim then you have most assuredly lost (or never had).

PAYG is a lot more common in parts of western Europe than contracts.

People associate contracts with “overly expensive” phone deals.