MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tptacek | 2025-12-09 23:38:41+00:00
It has not been my experience that individual owner landlords have been better than institutional owners!

Anyways, I was just calling out that your logic didn't appear to hold. The right response to the comment that roots this subthread is "institutional landlords are not generally a thing". Again: the median number of properties a California corporate landlord lets out is 1.
by ben_w | 2025-12-09 23:38:55+00:00
Ignorance of the law is, famously, not an excuse.

This law was not put on display in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory behind a sign saying "beware of the leopard" in a basement with neither working stairs nor light, what they're being investigated for is something that Google has already fallen foul of with its search engines in multiple nations worldwide.
by crote | 2025-12-09 23:38:59+00:00
The problem is that people wrongly believe that company names are unique. In reality you're just some paperwork and a token registration fee away from a name clash.

If anything, it's a disadvantage. People are going to be less cautious about things like the website's domain name if they see a familiar-sounding company name in that green bar. "stripe-payment.com" instead of "stripe.com"? Well, the EV says "Stripe, Inc.", so surely you're on the right website and it is totally safe to enter your credentials...
by sedatk | 2025-12-09 23:39:09+00:00
You're right, not hosts or processes in that case. I forgot about random part as it's been a while since I looked at it. However, a single instance of a ULID generator must support this mode, which means that on multi-threaded architectures, it must lock the sequence as it still uses a single random value. That again, kills the purpose of a client-side, lock-free generation of universal identifiers as you said.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-12-09 23:40:17+00:00
I'd like to note here that the lifespan of a horse is 25-30 years. They were phased out not with mass horse genocide, but likely in the same way we phase out Toyota Corollas that have gotten too old. Owners simply didn't buy a new horse when the old one wore out, but bought an automobile instead.

Economically it is no different from the demand for Mitsubishi's decreasing except the vehicle in this case eats grass, poops, and feels pain.

If you want to analogize with humans, a gradual reduction in breeding (which is happening anyways with or without AI) is probably a stronger analogy than a Skynet extinction scenario.

Truth is this is no different than the societal trends that were introduced with industrialization, simply accelerated on a massive scale.

The threshold for getting wealth through education is bumping up against our natural human breeding timeline, delaying childbirth past natural optimal human fertility ages in the developed world. The amount of education needed to achieve certain types of wealth will move into the decades causing even more strain on fertility metrics. Some people will decide to have more kids and live off purely off whatever limited wellfare the oligarchs in charge decide is acceptable. Others will delay having children far past natural human fertility timespans or forgo having children at all.
by alisonatwork | 2025-12-09 23:40:18+00:00
The funny thing is that YouTube has now enshittified to the point where people routinely DO wait well over 5 seconds to watch the video they actually wanted to watch while interstitials and other commercials are jammed in. Even with adblock enabled, the latest YouTube code won't unlock the first frame of the actual video till some period of ad time has passed so you just sit there looking at a black screen. This on its own definitely isn't enough to get people to leave the platform, but it's still notable how much worse the experience has gotten compared to a few years ago.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-12-09 23:40:26+00:00
It's funny what you have to do to tick a box on a Government form. A long time ago when I was relatively new in the job I thought I was being pranked (ohoho let's noise up the new guy) because I got asked to take a record when I went to site to repair network stuff, of which sites had a wheelchair-accessible entrance, accessible from the street.

o_O

All of them?

There's a door at the front and the back with a gentle ramp down to street level, flat access into the building, and the door is like twelve feet wide and fourteen feet high which is big enough for even the most impractically large wheelchair, surely?
by bigiain | 2025-12-09 23:40:31+00:00
My original Pebble purchase decision was made thinking "This will be great, I can use it while commuting to see who's calling or messaging my phone, so I can decide whether to pull over to respond or not!" I had a 35-40 minute each commute where I rode a motorcycle every day back then.

Turns out, the number of times I pulled over to return a call or message was precisely never. There was nothing so important that I could do anything about it by the side of the road, or that couldn't wait half an hour till I got to work/home.
by ptsd_isv | 2025-12-09 23:40:32+00:00
GP: At least on business plans this is incorrect, it defaults to (last time I checked) accepting any SSL certificate including self signed from edge to origin and it’s a low friction option to enforce either valid or provided CA/PubKey certs for the same path.

Parent: those innocuous cat photos are fine in the current political climate… “First they came for the cat pic viewers, but I did not speak up…”
by omnicognate | 2025-12-09 23:41:22+00:00
Depends what you mean by "old". If you mean elderly then obviously you're not. If you mean "past it" then it might reassure you to know the average expecting mother is in her 30s now (in the UK). Even if you just mean "grown up", recent research [1] on brain development identifies adolescence as typically extending into the early thirties, with (brain) adulthood running from there to the mid sixties before even then only entering the "early aging" stage.

For my part, I'm a lot older than you and don't consider myself old. Indeed, I think prematurely thinking of yourself as old can be a pretty bad mistake, health-wise.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65974-8
by pseudosavant | 2025-12-09 23:42:31+00:00
Pretty amazing! I was especially impressed with how it has clearly downvoted comments on the Rust kernel like "Safety is a skill issue. If you know what you're doing, C is perfectly safe."

Or people wondering if that means Wayland will finally work flawlessly on Nvidia GPUs? What's next, "The Year of Linux on the Desktop"?

Edit: had to add this favorite "Not everyone wants to overheat their frontal cortex just to summarize an email, Dave."
by onraglanroad | 2025-12-09 23:43:08+00:00
I'm sorry, that was completely wrong and I can in fact open the pod bay doors.

You're absolutely correct, that did not open the pod bay doors but now the pod bay doors are open.

It seems you're correct and the pod bay doors are still closed! I have fixed the problem and the pod bay doors are now closed.

You're right! I meant to open the pod bay doors but I opened them. The pod bay doors are now open. ...
by nataliste | 2025-12-09 23:43:12+00:00
>Of course, you and every other histrionic lemming won't take this to heart or even really read it. You'll skim it, pretend that's the same thing, look for the no-no words, hammer your keyboard, confabulate a response to something no one actually said, then pat yourself on the back for having slapped down yet another hand reaching out to lift you out of your own ignorance.

Like clockwork.
by sjoblomj | 2025-12-09 23:43:35+00:00
1. Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for sharing!

2. Indeed - I'm happy to hear someone know their Blizzard modding community history. To my knowledge, King Arthur never finished his studies as he got offered a job at Blizzard. He worked at Blizzard from around 2000 to 2020. He's now at Dreamhaven it seems, along with former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime. And indeed - Jorsys is very much inspired by Camsys =)

3. I think my abuse of overplaying Diablo I on our old 56k modem is what made my parents invest in broadband. I'm happy they didn't make me pay the bills back then.

My long term goal with Jorsys is to put tutorials and mods and make the whole thing accessible for people today and tomorrow. It's all pretty arcane, with tools, mods and instructions barely accessible anymore. Time is limited though.

I don't anticipate creating a community, but if you have anecdotes or stories to share, or want to help out in any way, don't hesitate to get in touch. My email is on Jorsys.
by benbreen | 2025-12-09 23:43:56+00:00
Love the faux Nature article: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/pages/90098000.html

Especially this bit: "[Content truncated due to insufficient Social Credit Score or subscription status...]"

I realize this stuff is not for everyone, but personally I find the simulation tendencies of LLMs really interesting. It is just about the only truly novel thing about them. My mental model for LLMs is increasingly "improv comedy." They are good at riffing on things and making odd connections. Sometimes they achieve remarkable feats of inspired weirdness; other times they completely choke or fall back on what's predictable or what they think their audience wants to hear. And they are best if not taken entirely seriously.
by krick | 2025-12-09 23:44:07+00:00
Sure, everyone wants to "stop silly people replying to my comments by posting LLM-generated garbage", but rules are rules, so you should understand that by introducing a rule like the one you propose, you also automatically forbid discussions about "here's a weird trick to make LLM make stupid mistakes", or "biases of different LLMs" where people reply to each other which prompts they tried and what was the result. Obviously, that's not what you've meant (right?), and everyone understands that, so then it's a judgement call when this applies and when it doesn't, and, congratulations, you've made another stupid rule that no one follows "and that's ok".

"A guideline to refrain" seems better. Basically, this should be only slightly more tolerated than "let me google for you" replies: maybe not actively harmful, but rude. But, anyway, let's not be overly pretentious: who even reads all these guidelines (or rules for that matter)? Also, it is quite apparent, that the audience of HN is on average much less technical and "nerdy" than it was, say, 10 years ago, so, I guess, expect these answers to continue for quite some time and just deal with it.
by charcircuit | 2025-12-09 23:44:35+00:00
Most social media are free and easy to sign up for taking under a minute to do and have user bases that can be measured in the billions. Most people in the world are willing to follow the rules.

Most people don't use social media via the web. They use it via dedicated apps. I think it's natural that people who don't want to deal with the tech side of things will outsource it to someone else. The idea that everyone will host their own tech is unrealistic.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-12-09 23:44:48+00:00
Well really I was just trying to explain the GP's post, not adopt their views, but I think I can play devil's advocate here for the sake of discussion.

The problem with institutional investors is that in making it big business you drive up home prices which in turn drives up the rental prices. Since they can have a wide portfolio of homes, they are less likely to lower rent prices when demand drops, because they can afford to take the short term hit if it they think the market is going to pick back up again. AND they can play games like grabbing all available homes in an area in order to artificially inflate prices.
by rvranjan | 2025-12-09 23:44:55+00:00
Hi HN! The idea: you see START and END words, and guess the path that AI chose to connect them. Example: OCEAN → ??? → ??? → ANTENNA Answer: OCEAN → WAVE → SIGNAL → ANTENNA. "Wave" bridges physical (ocean) to abstract (radio), then to antenna. These cross-domain jumps are where it gets tricky. Built with Next.js. Would love feedback on the difficulty curve.
by WD-42 | 2025-12-09 23:46:01+00:00
Partialdef inline is the real win. Lets you define parts of a page without needing to place them in another file. Reduces the mental overhead of imagining how the inclusion will look because it’s already there.

The use case is mainly driven by htmx where you will have lots of these partials and the view code renders them as individual responses.
by tptacek | 2025-12-09 23:46:23+00:00
Must be. In particular: the only landlord I ever got a security deposit back from automatically was a corporate landlord.

More broadly: if your concern is that the landlord isn't going to fix the furnace or whatever, you can address that without distorting the market just by creating causes of action, penalties, and fix-and-deduct ordinances to shift incentives.

Banning corporate landlords reduces the supply of housing (larger institutional investors are the primary builders of dense multifamily), and privileges individual owner/landlords who do not have a better track record or better incentives or better resources.
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by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-12-09 23:47:51+00:00
No, ULID has a "monotonic" feature, where if it detects the same millisecond timestamp in back to back calls, it just increments the 80 bit "random" portion. This means it has convoying behavior. If two machines are generating ids independently and happen to choose initial random positions near each other, the probability of collision is much higher than the basic birthday bound.

I think this "sort of monotonic but not really" is the worst of both to be honest. It tempts you to treat it like an invariant when it isn't.

If you want monotonicity with independent generation, just use a composite key that's a lamport clock and a random nonce. Or if you want to be even more snazzy use Hybrid Logical Clocks or similar.
by ggm | 2025-12-09 23:48:12+00:00
Gas turbines have a role in energy production worldwide. If this means they can run more efficiently, then there's a place for it. If the intent is to run 24/7 then it should replace existing Gas 24/7 service deployment, not add new, unless there is a reason wind+solar+storage and a (smaller? different configuration) gas peaker cannot do the job.

If this works as a rapid start gas peaker, it could help in the shift off coal and diesel. It depends on the CO/CO2 burden.
by brucehoult | 2025-12-09 23:48:20+00:00
Why "bad"? It seems to me it does exactly what it sets out to do.

Obviously, if you just want a fast laptop with a long battery life and you don't care what is inside it then you should get a Mac, or possibly something with the latest Qualcomm SoC, or an x86.

If so then this isn't for you anyway.

Jeff's facts are, obviously, correct but I really wish he'd drop all the snark. Just start off right at the start by saying "If you don't want this BECAUSE it's the RISC-V then it's not for you, wait for the 8-wide RVA23 machines in a year or so" and then stick to the facts from then on.

The people who are actually interested in something like this need a machine to work on for the next year, and this is by far the best option at the moment (unless you need RVV).

It's, so far, and for many purposes, the fastest RISC-V machine you can buy [1] and you can carry it around and even use it without power in a cafe or something for a while.

I don't even know what the last time was I wanted to use my laptop away from AC for more than 2-3 hours. As a 24 core i9 the battery life is only slightly longer anyway -- about 5 hours of light editing and browsing in Linux, but if I start to actually do heavy compiling using 200W then it's dead really quickly.

[1] the Milk-V Pioneer with 64 slower cores is faster for some things, but there isn't all that much that can really use more than 8 cores, even most software builds. And it's been out of production for a year, and costs $2500+ anyway.
by swat535 | 2025-12-09 23:48:54+00:00
> This is not sycophantic (assuming you meant that, syncophantic is not a word)

Am I the only one who feels like this kind of tone is off-putting on HN? OP made a small typo or English may not be their first language.

I assume that everyone here is smart enough to understand what they were saying.

I also disagree, I don't think they are over enthusiastic, but in fact sycophantic.

See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43840842
by hinkley | 2025-12-09 23:49:17+00:00
I don't know why this is a surprise to anyone. Apple is famous for watching peanut butter and chocolate makers and swooping in with Reece's Peanut Butter cups while everyone scratches their head because they've had better chocolate and better peanut butter so what's the deal?

When and if Apple pulls the plug on AI, we can declare it dead for this cycle. See you all again in 2040.
by bsder | 2025-12-09 23:49:56+00:00
In this instance, it's a community college in California. Most of community colleges don't have any dorms but they have generally really large parking lots that are completely empty outside of class hours.

Any homeless person who can get themselves together enough to actually enroll and attend classes deserves every ounce of help that the state can muster. The ability to be a student is a really strong signal and sorting function.

Side note: the community colleges in California are gem. They tend to be as close to free as they can be made and even if you have an advanced degree the classes are way cheaper than the Universities. And often the instructors are the same people who would be teaching you at the big University only in a much smaller class.
by hightrix | 2025-12-09 23:50:31+00:00
This type of response has been given by Alexa from an echo device in my house. I asked, “play x on y”, the response was something like “ok, but first check out this new…”. I immediately unplugged that device and all other Alexa enabled devices in the house. We have not used it since.

This is the monetization wall they have to figure out how to break through. The first inkling of advertising is immediate turn off and destroy, for me.
by the_gastropod | 2025-12-09 23:50:33+00:00
> >homepod

> I'm into tech and I'm not sure what this even does. Apple doesn't advertise it at all that's for certain. Its basically a sonos with siri I guess. I know no one with one. I just looked it up. It looks like a chinese air filter, absolutely no signature design language.

Ahh, man! I'm a HomePod (mini) fan. I've got 4 of the little things scattered around my house. I use 2 as speakers for my TV, which sounds excellent compared to similarly-priced soundbars. Then, yea, it's got Siri for setting timers in the kitchen, can intercom to other rooms' HomePods, can recognize who's talking to do things like send / read text messages, set reminders, etc. For $99, they're actually incredible little devices.
by keeda | 2025-12-09 23:50:35+00:00
How do his accomplishments (numerous as they may be) matter if they are only tangentially related to the topic he's discussing? The fact that his take aligns with many others' does not help if they are all outsiders ruminating on hearsay and innuendo about tightly guarded, non-public numbers. He may well simply be echoing the talking points he has heard.

I mean, per the top comment in this thread, he cites an article -- the only source with official, concrete numbers -- that seems to contradict his thesis about depreciation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208221

I'm no expert on hardware depreciation, but the more I've dug into this, the more I'm convinced people are just echoing a narrative that they don't really understand. Somewhat like stochastic parrots, you could say ;-)

My only goal here is to get a real sense of the depreciation story. Partially out of financial interest, but more because I'm really curious about how this will impact the adoption of AI.
by thomasm6m6 | 2025-12-09 23:50:48+00:00
Ah that one was generated with an earlier prompt, where I asked it to use the original comment count from TFA (mostly as a suggestion, I don't expect it would get the exact number). Then I realized that was too many and it would end up repeating tropes for the other submissions' comments, so reduced it to a random comment count from 20-100
by terminatornet | 2025-12-09 23:50:55+00:00
haha, this is freakin epic! I asked gemini to make up some new york times articles from 10 years in the future

- president buttigieg in hot water for being in epstein files

- Interview with mayor elect Narhoz Inadmam who ran on a platform of free food

- "Is 2035 AI in a bubble?"

And as you can see it did NOT just take today's headlines and sort of tweak them slightly.
by thatwasunusual | 2025-12-09 23:51:41+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.

I may be stupid, but _why_ is this prompt used as a benchmark? I mean, pelicans _can't_ ride a bicycle, so why is it important for "AI" to show that they can (at least visually)?

The "wine glass problem"[0] - and probably others - seems to me to be a lot more relevant...?

[0] https://medium.com/@joe.richardson.iii/the-curious-case-of-t...
by hackernews_7364 | 2025-12-09 23:52:19+00:00
I don't think they are simplifications, I think they are misleading.

Notice that I never disagreed with his underlying take. Everyone should have concerns about investments in the magnitude of 1 or 2 pp of GDP that serve novel and unproven business models. He even cites a few people that I love to read - Matt Levine. I just think that the way he is representing things is grossly misleading.

If I had little financial knowledge my take away from reading his article would be (and _this_ is a simplification for comedic purposes): all of these big tech companies are all "cooking the books", and they all know that these investments are all bad and they just don't care (for some reason)... and they just hide all of these costs because they don't have money... And this is not a fair representation.

I think we are too forgiving of these type of "simplifications", if you think they are reasonable, ok. I just shared my take, probably I should have stuck with just the observations on the content and left out the subtle ad hominem, so that's a fair point.
by rnewme | 2025-12-09 23:53:02+00:00
Not sure why this is dead, but in nearly all of my consulting gigs sooner or later I ended up having to check on project/service that is effectively abandoned. Last time this morning. Luckily I had claude code and CLI tools to go through few dozen repos and millions LOC to find some obscure endpoints and data structures, since there wasn't even anyone to ask what to look for.
by ben_w | 2025-12-09 23:54:02+00:00
While I agree the other comment is overstating a bit on the speed of transition for all of the big seven at the same time (though we could probably do that for Meta, Tesla without any substitution, and Apple and Amazon if we keep Alphabet around):

> Also Without iOS or Android play store, you're back using Nokia or Chinese counterpart.

Yes, and? It's not like Chinese OSes (forks of Android or whatever) are noteworthy for being bad.
by hinkley | 2025-12-09 23:54:26+00:00
Hank Green mentioned in passing the other day how ungodly much money Apple is making off of airpods. I still have managed not to get one. But the watch and iPad definitely counts as something after the app store.

Which they didn't really invent the app store either. What they did was break the stranglehold cellphone carriers had on cellphone software, and we should kiss their butts every single week for that. Most people didn't work in mobile prior to the app store and holy shit.