MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DennisP | 2025-12-10 02:49:34+00:00
That's why I said "mitigate" rather than "completely solve." Incentives are aligned better with two entities who check each other and earn ongoing fees, instead of giving a lump sum to a single entity.

And the Nobels might not be awarded exactly as originally intended, but they are still awarded every year. Nobody has swiped the funds for executive bonuses, as the commenter above suggested.
by genuser | 2025-12-10 02:50:10+00:00
Samsung has officially confirmed the launch of the revolutionary Galaxy Z TriFold, a triple-screen foldable smartphone scheduled to arrive in the United States in the first quarter of 2026. The innovative device, featuring a main screen with two hinges that folds into three sections. Represents Samsung’s most ambitious attempt to redefine mobile device form factors. Following its initial release in Korea on December 12, the Z TriFold will expand to key markets including China, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates before reaching American consumers.
by 6510 | 2025-12-10 02:50:17+00:00
I'm not all that familiar with running things locally.

If I understood queries are uploaded to ByteDance Doubao assistant which in turn instructs the local ZTE’s 7B Nebula-GUI, a model trained to use (chinese) websites that can apparently control the entire phone.

Doubao has more users than Deepseek, the reference is probably for us oblivious westerners.
by rgmerk | 2025-12-10 02:51:18+00:00
It's not clear (yet) what a 100% clean energy powered world would use to cover the last couple of percent of demand when loads peak and/or variable generation troughs for extended periods.

It'll be some combination of demand management (which isn't nearly as horrifying as people make it out to be), pumped hydro, long-duration batteries like iron-air, but also possibly burning hydrogen or hydrogen-derived synthetic fuels (produced by electrolysis when hydrogen is abundant) and/or biofuels in turbines.
by friendly_deer | 2025-12-10 02:52:24+00:00
> But startups run on belief. Once you stop believing, the company is dead, even if the bank account isn’t. We had tried everything we set out to test. The data was clear: people weren’t switching. Grinding for another year hoping for a miracle wasn’t persistence; it was denial.

Big kudos to you for being honest with yourself. That kind of groundedness and self awareness is rare quality, and one I’d want in a leader of my company.
by vunderba | 2025-12-10 02:52:34+00:00
From the article:

> The next time a teacher complains about AI cheating, ask: If a machine can do this assignment perfectly, why are you giving it to this student? And then we can replace it with education and work that actually matters.

While this might be more true of "factoid based classes" (such as geography) - it completely misses the point of subjects where students actively benefit from struggling through the act of the craft itself. (writing, music, foreign languages, etc.)
by mbreese | 2025-12-10 02:52:36+00:00
For what it's worth, I don't write MCP servers that are shell scripts. I have ones that are http servers that load data from a database. It's nothing really all that more exciting than a REST API with an MCP front end thrown on top.

Many people only use local MCP resources, which is fine... it provides access to your specific environment.

For me however, it's been great to be able to have a remote MCP HTTP server that responds to requests from more than just me. Or to make the entire chat server (with pre-configured remote MCP servers) accessible to a wider (company internal) audience.
by maddmann | 2025-12-10 02:52:55+00:00
I think there is going to be 2-3 year lag in understanding how llms actually impact developer productivity. There are way too many balls in the air, and anyone claiming specific numbers on productivity increase is likely very very wrong.

For example citing staff engineers as an example will have a bias: they have years of traditional training and are obviously not representative of software engineers in general.
by sgarland | 2025-12-10 02:53:13+00:00
First of all, the entire post reads like it was written by AI.

Secondly, the author / prompter misses the point entirely with this closing paragraph:

> The next time a teacher complains about AI cheating, ask: If a machine can do this assignment perfectly, why are you giving it to this student?And then we can replace it with education and work that actually matters.

You learn fundamentals because they are necessary for you to understand how the magic works, and because that’s how the human brain works.

Is it important for you to be able to write a binary search algorithm perfectly from scratch? Not especially, no. Is it important for you to be able to describe what it’s doing, and why? Yes, very much so, because otherwise you won’t know when to use it.

If your rebuttal to this is “we can feed the problem to AI and let it figure that out,” I don’t want to live in that world; where curiosity and thought are cast aside in favor of faster results.
by kbolino | 2025-12-10 02:53:19+00:00
There were two main issues.

1) A lot of these businesses have customers outside the U.S. Those customers, including some foreign governments, did not want their data to be snooped by the U.S. government. The business risk here is loss of customers.

2) There is no such thing as a private backdoor. If one entity (admittedly a very well resourced one) can snoop, so can others. The publicity also entices new players to enter the game. The business risk here is loss of reputation.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-10 02:55:25+00:00
They're trying... They finally released a native iPad version of the app this year (after so many years), and its default pane is not the one that includes people you actually follow (like the phone app) - it's just reels, and you have to go looking for the right page in the menu to see anything from people you care about.

It's very revealing about where they wish they could have taken the app already, where you don't follow anyone, just trust the algorithm to force-feed you content. Doing that too quickly would instantly kill it, so it's been years of boiling the frog.

The 'Snooze suggested content in feed for 30 days' thing is already bad enough, if they stopped letting you do that Instagram would be insufferable to use.
by estearum | 2025-12-10 02:55:35+00:00
The reality is that sound bites have an intrinsic advantage over real solutions. Real solutions to complex problems are by their nature complex and uncertain (else the problem would've been solved already).

"Immigrants are the problem" or "I will bring prices down on day one" have a fundamental memetic advantage that, in a lazy and unengaged populace, will win in 100% of scenarios.

The real issue here is the GOP not holding themselves accountable to something better than suicidal demagoguery. The opposing party cannot prevent this from being successful. That's why it's a known, fundamental flaw of democracy.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-10 02:57:10+00:00
Oracle did the same cheap dirty trick for profits, when it is bundled adware/spyware (Ask toolbar) by default on its JRE (Java Runtime Installer) used on millions of corporate and student/home PCs, because it knew Java/JRE would already be whitelisted on those machines (Java gets updates, so IT admins tend to whitelist its EXEcutable and its installer (JRE installer), since it is necessary for corporate work (many legacy software depend on Java)).

Suddenly, many IT admins were in a tough spot explaining to many internal customers (including senior management; even CxO's have Java on their office laptops) why their PCs were suddenly flooded with popup ads and even ads on intranet sites (because Ask toolbar integrated into the browser)).

Google used to have a motto/policy of "Do Not Evil", but it silently dropped that approach. It had to do so, because its biggest rivals had already adopted and profited from the evil attitudes, so it too simply followed the evil tide.

The world has always been ruled by the oligarchs (the richest and most powerful people), but in modern era, it is the biggest corporates (especially trillion dollar valuation companies) that call the shots. And they continue do as they please, bending even powerful nations to their will.
by freakynit | 2025-12-10 02:57:50+00:00
So I tested the bigger model with my typical standard test queries which are not so tough, not so easy. They are also some that you wouldn't find extensive training data for. Finally, I already have used them to get answers from gpt-5.1, sonnet 4.5 and gemini 3 ....

Here is what I think about the bigger model: It sits between sonnet 4 and sonnet 4.5. Something like "sonnet 4.3". The response sped was pretty good.

Overall, I can see myself shifting to this for reguar day-to-day coding if they can offer this for copetitive pricing.

I'll still use sonnet 4.5 or gemini 3 for complex queries, but, for everything else code related, this seems to be pretty good.

Congrats Mistral. You most probably have caught up to the big guys. Not there yet exactly, but, not far now.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-10 02:58:01+00:00
I shove 1080p mp4s onto a very cheap server and I get 2 seconds of load time there versus somewhere between 1 and 2 seconds on youtube. And looking at network requests, the first chunk of the file loads in well under a second so I'd expect something with the metadata preloaded could start playing at that point. So if peertube takes 5 seconds, I really wonder why.

Is it inconvenient to transcode before/during upload?
by mrandish | 2025-12-10 02:58:37+00:00
> Altman said to FT that his job was the "most important job maybe in history"

The lack of self-awareness in some experienced senior execs (who should know better) continues to stun me. Even if I suspected that sentiment about the importance of the job I was doing might be correct, I'd never say it - especially in an on-the-record media interview. Two reasons: 1. Any statement like that has a high probability of coming across very poorly, 2. It's a proposition that can only be judged in retrospect by people external to the context.

Frankly, I think the odds are at least 50/50 that Open AI will someday be considered the Pets.com (or even Enron) of early AI.
by em-bee | 2025-12-10 02:58:58+00:00
actually, the primary reason to go to conferences is networking. meeting people, make connections. you go to talks that interest you so you can meet people that share your interest.

same for giving presentations. you give presentations to promote an idea or work, to share something you have learned, to contribute to the community, and again, for networking.

fomo? not at all. personal development? that's a bonus, but not the motivation.
by accrual | 2025-12-10 02:59:27+00:00
> Of course, I still use the mouse. I’m not a zealot.

Just wanted to add a fun anecdote. I had a coworker who seemed allergic to the keyboard. Bound almost every job function to a mouse macro. I joked that I'd come to work one day and all they'd have is a monitor and mouse on their desk, nothing else. They laughed but I got the feeling they'd do it if they could.
by ethbr1 | 2025-12-10 03:00:17+00:00
The reason LLMs are viable for use cases that Watson wasn't is their natural language and universal parsing strengths.

In the Watson era, all the front- and back-ends had to be custom engineered per use case. Read, huge IBM services implementation projects that the company bungled more often than not.

Which is where the Palantir comparison is apt (and differs). Palantir understood their product was the product, and implementation was a necessary evil, to be engineered away ASAP.

To IBM, implementation revenue was the only reason to have a product.
by saltwatercowboy | 2025-12-10 03:00:47+00:00
> You seem very confused about what I'm saying so I will try again, despite your insult.

I'd call it an observation, but I'm willing to add that you are exhausting. Confusion (or, more likely a vested interest) certainly reigns.

> It is extremely clear [...] Otherwise what did you mean by epistemology?

We are talking about both because he makes both points. A) Stallman states it possesses inherently unreliable knowledge and judgment (hence gambling) and B) When someone is being imperious there is a need to state the obvious to clarify their point. You understood correctly and seem more concerned with quibbling than discussion. Much in the same way as your persnickety condescension I now wonder if you know and understand things in real terms or are simply more motivated by dunking on Stallman for some obscure reason.

> They are AI systems by long standing use of the term within the field.

No. ChatGPT is not. It is marketed (being the operative term) as a wide solution; yet is not one in the same manner as the purposeful gearing (whatever the technique) of an LLM towards a specific and defined task. Now we reach the wall of discussing a closed-source LLM, which was my point. What I said previously does not elide their abstract usefulness and obvious flaws. Clearly you're someone familiar, so none of this should be controversial unless you're pawing at a discussion of the importance of free will.

> Yes, I quoted it to you already.

I'm aware. Your point?

> That is not a test.

The world wonders. Is this some sort of divine test of patience? Please provide an objective rubric for the proving the existence of the mind. Until then, I'll stick with Descartes.

> I'm also not sure why you included the words "to exceptionally simpler systems" after snipping out another part, that doesn't make a sentence that works at all and doesn't represent what I said there.

Must I really explain the purpose of an ellipsis to you? We both know what you said.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-10 03:01:28+00:00
Huh?

Not every culture or community is built so centrally around atomization and transactionality as the prevailing one is. But those things represent the essence of what capitalism is, and are central to what it aspires to acheive. It works its magic when people can negotiate their relationships through currency and through accounts measured against it, and so a society that means to participate in it is one that tends to engender payment, quantified barter, and unburdened individuality over alternatives like filial concern or community enrichment.

It's not really a controversial thing to suggest, and wasn't there to be accusatory or something. It's the world we live in.
by kgeist | 2025-12-10 03:01:33+00:00
If we take the most popular programming languages and look at what their reference (or most popular) implementations are written in, then we get:

C++: JavaScript (V8), Java, C# C: Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby Self-hosted: Go, Rust

Far from archaic indeed. We're still living in the C/C++ world.
by kemotep | 2025-12-10 03:02:22+00:00
> To be clear, I’m not advocating for AI in real learning. AI is only useful right now as a stress test as it reveals how hollow adolescent work has become. If it pushes schools toward offering work with relevance, impact, and agency and away from hopeless busywork (“When will I ever use this?”), that is a win.

But how will they ever know that if they don’t go through the process? I am not saying the current way of teaching is perfect but you can’t tell what is and isn’t bullshit without some experience at some point.

We had a mandatory home economics class that taught how to balance a check book, cook, do laundry, and even how taxes worked. Yet people still thought that class was bullshit and a waste of time. Many classes such as health, gym, shop, a/v, typing, all had people blowing it off as useless stuff they will never need to know. ChatGPT turning every class into that is a nightmare future for the youth of the world. People will grow up entirely unable to think.
by kbolino | 2025-12-10 03:03:23+00:00
There are Extended Validation (EV) certificates, and for a couple of years browsers gave them special treatment (typically, a green lock indicator instead of gray, sometimes accompanied by the validated business name). However, they were eventually demoted to the same appearance as ordinary Domain Validation (DV) certificates for a couple reasons:

1) This is not as useful as it sounds. Business names are not unique, and the legal entity behind a legitimate business may have a different name that no one has ever heard of.

2) Validation gets dicier as the world gets opened up and as laws and customs change. The higher tier confers greater prestige and legitimacy, but the only discriminator really backing it is money.
by ChadNauseam | 2025-12-10 03:03:27+00:00
Unity can't really be said to have less or more features than Unreal IMO. Each has features lacked by the other, and neither lacks anything really major. But if I had to pick one for being the most featureful, I'd pick Unreal. Unreal has a built-in visual programming language* and some very advanced rendering tech you might have heard about. Unity has tons of features for 2D games lacking in Unreal and supports WebGL as a build target.

(Though imo unity is the better engine. Unreal has so many bugs and so much jank that to make a real game with it you basically need a large enough team that you can have a dedicated unreal-bug-fixer employee.)

*Technically Unity has a visual scripting language too but IIUC it's tacked on and I've never heard of anyone actually using it.
by sroerick | 2025-12-10 03:03:42+00:00
Does anybody else feel that vibe coding only works in Python JavaScript, and maybe Go? It seems like once you get more esoteric than that everything goes out the window. Zig code is laughable. I can't get LLMs to write a single cogent function in OCAML, things break catastrophically at 10 LOC. I haven't seen anybody else describe this experience.
by chii | 2025-12-10 03:03:48+00:00
> back in the day...

teachers still do this today. It's just that kids are less disciplined, and more prone to attention deficits. Not to mention that punishment for failure has been dulled down to almost non-existent. "No child left behind" had noble intentions, but the way it was implemented leaves much to be desired.

To me, the fix is to cure the lack of consequences in the outcome of cheating. If you're allowed to cheat in an exam (or not enforced), then obviously it's seen as an encouragement to cheat.

Bring back in-person, closed room, no calculator/phone exams, and these score determines your grade(s), rather than the teachers from the school.
Understanding how to take things forward
by hharshitarora | 2025-12-10 03:04:52+00:00
I keep coming up with ideas, trying to build products here and there, but nothing happens. I'll build iOS apps, I'll build Chrome extensions or websites, but I'm not able to get the users. I'm certainly not someone who has a bunch of followers and who can easily just market something and have people use it or become viral overnight or something like that.

But I'm just confused. I want to build something, I want to build a company, and I want to be an entrepreneur, but somehow I just feel very, very clueless. I feel like I keep building and having these new ideas, but when I build them and the product is ready, it just feels like a dead end, and I just don't know how to go forward with it.

Have any of you ever felt like this? If so, what do you guys normally do in these situations?
by ewoodrich | 2025-12-10 03:05:21+00:00
I use OpenCode as my main CLI tool at this point, falling back to Claude Code and Codex as needed. It's really solid these days, highly recommend.

I use Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and GPT 5/5-mini with great results on OC. I initially tried it so I could decouple from VS Code extensions while still using my Github Copilot plan like I had been with Roo Code/Kilo Code, but have branched out to also using it with the Claude Code backend and their free models as they come and go.

Definitely worth trying if you haven't picked it up recently.
by german_dong | 2025-12-10 03:06:48+00:00
Computational linguistics was the subfield of computer science that all the smart kids gravitated towards in the 80s and 90s (RMS came up in CSAIL during this time). While proving various results about formalisms and contrived grammars wasn't bringing in venture capital, most of the guys who would eventually bring linear algebra and stochastic methods to the field would at least have had to familiarize themselves with Chomsky's work.
by protocolture | 2025-12-10 03:07:13+00:00
While I am definitely in favor of the US causing itself more damage, its actually quite sickening to see people spruiking this legislation.

First of all, Australia has proven nothing, kids are stepping politely over this barrier without issue.

Second we are already hearing from disabled teens losing their only social lifeline.

Congratulations, you have isolated and disenfranchised a bunch of kids.
by gyomu | 2025-12-10 03:07:21+00:00
Most western countries have somehow decided over the last couple decades that small negative actions should mostly be free of negative consequences.

You can cheat on tests, shoplift in stores, and pretty much nothing will happen to you.

When teachers can’t give failing grades to students or kick them out of their class for blatantly breaking the rules, this is what happens.

Meanwhile I took a language exam in Japan last weekend where a bunch of people got kicked out of the room - instant fail - for using their phone during the break when it was expressly disallowed (we had to put it in a sealed envelope that we couldn’t open until the exam was over, break included). Given reports I’ve heard, I suspect at least a single digit percent of test takers failed the test this session simply for breaking this rule.

From the test takers who got kicked out of the room and tried to negotiate (unsuccessfully) with the proctors, it was instantly obvious who came from cultures where the consequences of rules are carried out and who didn’t.
by tptacek | 2025-12-10 03:08:21+00:00
I'm never going to use a tiling window manager, but I also never touch Mission Control (or Spotlight). I use Alfred.app to call things up; before Alfred.app, all the way back into the early aughts, I was using Quicksilver.app, which does the same thing. CMD-Space, type a couple letters, blam.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-12-10 03:08:22+00:00
Airpods are a joke. Apple killed the headphone jack for no reason, then sold the "solution", and people ate it up. Great business strategy for them to screw their customers for cash, but an abjectly terrible product. They are worse than wired headphones in every way except "they are wireless", which isn't actually a benefit.
by duskwuff | 2025-12-10 03:08:59+00:00
The alternative would have been to have the CA use human judgement when approving EV certificates and reject applications from organizations whose names shadowed better-known firms, or to only accept applications from a select set of organizations (like, say, banks). But either of those possibilities would have increased the cost of the program and limited the pool of applicants, so CAs chose the cheap, easy path which led to EV certificates becoming meaningless.
by vee-kay | 2025-12-10 03:11:00+00:00
Agreed.

Naive people in corporations think Linux and other FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) can save them from Microsoft, Oracle, etc. woes.

But the reality is that corporates have very less incentive to migrate to open-source alternatives. Because it would mean negligible/no support, less work and hence less staffing (senior management have to justify the staffing headcount somehow).

FOSS solutions typically don't get proper (or in some cases, not even any) support from the solution makers (developer company/persons).

Corporates thrive internally on liability (they always want to blame someone, easiest target are their IT staff), and thrive externally by trying to avoid liability.

e.g., Big Pharma (Pfizer, sold hundreds of millions of COVID vaccines worldwide, after ensuring those target countries (including their own country) first gave them complete indemnity from any liability for the negative effects or lack of efficacy of the vaccines.