MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zihaoyu | 2025-12-05 19:31:15+00:00
> I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max.

I don't see why Netflix wants to keep any of HBO Max tech.

Edit: the deck[1] from Netflix webcast mentions:

> Uniting Netflix’s world-class member experience and global reach with Warner Bros.’ renowned franchises and extensive library will…

It seems obvious Netflix is only interested in WB's IP's and content catalog.

[1] https://s22.q4cdn.com/959853165/files/doc_events/2025/Dec/05...
by Maxatar | 2025-12-05 19:31:19+00:00
Profitability is not in any way considered a property of the correctness of an algorithm. An algorithm can be profitable and incorrect, and an algorithm can be correct but not profitable.

Correctness has to do with whether the algorithm performed the intended actions in response to the inputs/events provided to it, nothing more. For the most part correctness of an algorithm can be tested the same way most software is tested, ie. unit tests, but it's also worth testing the algorithm using live data/back testing it since it's not feasible to cover every possible scenario in giant unit tests, but you can get pretty good coverage of a variety of real world scenarios by back testing.
by doublerabbit | 2025-12-05 19:31:40+00:00
I don't anymore but heres mine from 2005 when I was 16

https://web.archive.org/web/20051231031003/http://www.lordse...

My even cooler self php made blog from 2013. Want cringe? Just visit.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130816005929/http://www.paw-fo...

My blog was dead before dead blogs were cool.
by detourdog | 2025-12-05 19:31:52+00:00
I had shingles across my back in 7th grade. I remember at the time being told since I didn’t have chickenpox as a kid that led to my shingles. I was also told that once you have shingles you are immune. I have since learned both are not true. I also will get pain in the same location that my shingles started when under great stress.

I got the shingles vaccine last year.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-05 19:32:22+00:00
My four years at AWS kind of indoctrinated me. As they said, everytime you decide to buy vs build, you have to ask yourself “does it make the beer taste better”?

Don’t spend energy on undifferentiated heavy lifting. If you are Dropbox it makes sense to move away from S3 for instance.
by eirikbakke | 2025-12-05 19:32:58+00:00
"Larry Ellison has been involved with two philanthropic organizations. First he made a $300M donation to Stanford, in exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating scandal. All other philanthropic work is to the Larry Ellison institute for prolonging of life--namely his." -- Bryan Cantrill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
by spudlyo | 2025-12-05 19:33:19+00:00
Carthago delenda est! That's how us noob Latin language students learn the gerundive, with "delenda" being a verbal adjective, meaning "to be deleted (destroyed)". As a bonus it's also useful as a paradigm for remembering how the passive periphrastic conjugation works. It helps that it also implies violence and destruction, making it easier to remember.
by acjohnson55 | 2025-12-05 19:33:34+00:00
Papers like this are designed to fit into the conventions that allow knowledge to compound. Not that the conventions are perfect at doing this.

I would suggest that rather than changing this convention in a big way, there needs to be good pathways for communicating the most important takeaways to the general public. Unfortunately, there's kind of a chasm between academia and popular science.
by bbkane | 2025-12-05 19:33:35+00:00
I totally agree with the "try both", but if part of your motivation to learn one is to use it for a job, Rust is more mature than Zig (Zig is not yet 1.0, and still making exciting breaking changes to the languag), and Rust currently has more adoption than Zig- parts of Firefox, Chrome, Android, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure (and I'm sure thre are more).

Zig is gaining integration into larger projects (Ghostty, TigerBeetle, Roc, Ubers build system come to mind), but it's not yet achieved Rust's success
by orochimaaru | 2025-12-05 19:33:42+00:00
I grew up in India (70,80,90) before coming to the US in 2000. I’m not a vaccine sceptic. But this sort of thing makes me cringe.

I’ve had chicken pox, mumps and measles growing up. Everyone I grew up with had those. No one is experiencing dementia or any sort of neurodegeneration. There was a chicken pox epidemic in my engineering university dorm. I didn’t catch it since I had it earlier as a kid. Either way none of the people who had it are having issues.

I think take the vax to prevent the disease. The neurodegenerative side effects are just advertisement for the vaccine.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-05 19:33:55+00:00
Quick googling tells me that trees move water internally by capillarity, and suction caused by leave evaporation, both processes passive.

This puts limits on how high the column of water can be raised, yet at 1g we can have monstrous trees like sequoias, so maybe many kinds of trees would die, but the survivors would just grow shorter.

Abisal creatures, who knows how much pressure they can adapt to? They have populated our oceans as deep as they can go, the planet has nothing stronger to challenge them.
by belorn | 2025-12-05 19:34:14+00:00
I describe it as a black hole since there is no limited on how much funding it will take in, and once in, there is no reasonable expectation that we will see anything come back out. Fundamental research is useful for humanity as a whole, and rich countries should use some excess money for that purpose, but this technology was sold to the population as already solved and commercial viable.

Sending large amount of subsidizes to a single commercial entity is also very risky. The bankruptcy of Northvolt demonstrated this quite well, including how wages and costs can get inflated when a commercial venture relies a bit too much on subsidies in order to exist. The size of government funding need to be balanced with the need for government oversight in order to verify that citizens money get used correctly. Time will tell if Hybrit will share the same fate, and for now it doesn't look great.

There need to be honest and clear information when the government funds commercial ventures, especially when it involve untested research. The biggest problem with green hydrogen is that it was presented as an already solved problem that was already commercial viable. Every year for the last couple of decades it was just "a few years" before it would be cheaper than natural gas, even as natural gas prices went up in price. Some municipalities even went as far as building hydrogen infrastructure on this promise that everything from heating to transportation to electricity would be operated on green hydrogen. Now most of that is being removed as the maintenance and fuel costs has demonstrated to be way higher than expected. That was not a well use of citizens money.
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 19:34:34+00:00
Right now I'd say maybe don't push changes to your entire global infra all at once and certainty not without testing your change first to make sure it doesn't break anything, but it's really not about a specific failure/fix as much as it is about a single company getting too big to do the job well or just plain doing more than it should in the first place.

Honestly we shouldn't have created a system where any single company's failure is able to impact such a huge percentage of the network. The internet was designed for resilience and we abandoned that ideal to put our trust in a single company that maybe isn't up for the job. Maybe no one company ever could do it well enough, but I suspect that no single company should carry that responsibility in the first place.
by anonymousiam | 2025-12-05 19:34:43+00:00
I would pre-order one, but they don't seem to be willing to sell to US customers.

The last two bullets of their FAQ:

Will the Jolla Phone work outside Europe, can I use it e.g. in the U.S.?

Yes, we will design the cellular band configuration to enable global travelling as much as possible, including e.g. roaming in the U.S. carrier networks.

Can I buy the Jolla Phone if I’m outside Europe, can I use it e.g. in the U.S.?

The initial sales markets are EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas.
by tptacek | 2025-12-05 19:34:49+00:00
It's been awhile since I've done any reading on glyphosate, which I mostly paid attention to because of a wave of bullshit stories about how Monsanto was suing people over seeds that blew onto their land (that basically never happened). Nothing in the intervening years, including this specific retraction, changes what I think about glyphosate, which is that it's probably safer than the herbicides that are used when glyphosate isn't.

I don't know why you think bringing me into this discussion is useful. If you were thinking that some regulatory agency made decisions based on the persuasiveness of my HN comments, probably no.

I'm generally comfortable being on the other side of whatever Mehmet Oz is talking about.
by inopinatus | 2025-12-05 19:34:50+00:00
I recommend having instant recognition of all the powers up to 2^24, this has proven very useful over the years e.g. when skimming quickly through a log searching for anomalies, flag patterns etc. If you recite them in sequence twice a day for a couple of weeks, then they’ll stick in your mind for decades. I can say from experience this method also works for the NATO phonetic alphabet, Hamlet’s soliloquies, ASCII, and mum’s lemon drizzle cake recipe. It fails however for the periodic table, ruined forever by Tom Lehrer.
by stego-tech | 2025-12-05 19:35:03+00:00
The document is paints a super impressive picture, but the core constraint of “network connection to Google required so we can harvest your data” is still a big showstopper for me (and all cloud-based AI tooling, really).

I’d be curious to see how well something like this can be distilled down for isolated acceleration on SBCs or consumer kit, because that’s where the billions to be made reside (factories, remote sites, dangerous or sensitive facilities, etc).
by andrepd | 2025-12-05 19:35:20+00:00
The Parliament can approve the Comissioners that are put before it, not elect them. And you're correct about the council, except the President is also not elected.

Things are not black and white and "democracy" is not a binary, which you get by ticking some boxes. Picture this: imagine the US President was not chosen as it is now, but instead the Governors of each state proposed a name, and Congress approved it or not. Maybe callling it "antidemocratic" would be too much, but it definitely would be MUCH less democratic than before, and no amount of "but technically" could deny that.

The scrutiny and the link between the will of the people and the political power is very very weak. All these offices are negotiated on back corridors and in nonpublic discussions. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for a Commissioner to get sacked because they did a poor job.

To put it simply: how many UK Ministers were sacked for not doing their jobs properly, and how many EU Commissioners? There you have it.
by NoGravitas | 2025-12-05 19:35:24+00:00
> I think this explains at least some of it. In my childhood (1970s) as best I recall, these kids were hidden away.

Depends. My childhood was in the 70s. Autistic kids with low support needs were labeled "gifted" and sent to the "gifted program" classroom one day a week. Autistic kids with high support needs were labeled "retarded" and kept in the special ed classroom all week.
by kingstoned | 2025-12-05 19:35:31+00:00
How easily can one get E1 treaty trader visa and what volume and quantity of trade are recommended? If I have a company registered in my home country (eligible country) and have payouts from a US provider like an advertising network, affiliate provider or some marketplace etc. and my clients are all US companies, can I apply for that visa? Would a low six figure yearly revenue with monthly payout be sufficient for that?
by perching_aix | 2025-12-05 19:35:35+00:00
This made me wonder, why aren't there usually teams whose job is to keep an eye on the coding patterns used in the various codebases? Similarly like how you have an SOC team who keeps monitoring traffic patterns, or an Operations Support team who keeps monitoring health probes, KPIs, and logs, or a QA who keeps writing tests against new code, maybe there would be value to keeping track of what coding patterns develop into over the course of the lifetime of codebases?

Like whenever I read posts like this, they're always fairly anecdotal. Sometimes there will even be posts about how large refactor x unlocked new capability y. But the rationale always reads somewhat retconned (or again, anecdotal*). It seems to me that maybe such continuous meta-analysis of one's own codebases would have great potential utility?

I'd imagine automated code smell checking tools can only cover so much at least.

* I hammer on about anecdotes, but I do recognize that sentiment matters. For example, if you're planning work, if something just sounds like a lot of work, that's already going to be impactful, even if that judgement is incorrect (since that misjudgment may never come to light).
by jfengel | 2025-12-05 19:35:37+00:00
I really wish we'd stop citing early quantum physicists as if they were prophets revealing wisdom from on high. A lot of what they said concerning the interpretation of quantum mechanics was Just Plain Wrong.

That's no shade on them. They had a brand-new territory with jaw-dropping implications. It's no surprise that they didn't get everything right the first time.

But when I read "Try saying that to Niels Bohr’s face!", you're citing century-old ideas as if science stopped in 1927. A lot has happened in the mean time.
by voxleone | 2025-12-05 19:35:47+00:00
Looks like we might be witnessing a textbook cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy in the making. As the article suggests, once large investors and institutions start calling this an “AI bubble,” the narrative alone can drive more capital, inflating valuations further just because everyone expects growth. When price → expectation → price becomes the dominant feedback loop, fundamentals matter less.

That kind of reflexivity has powered past bubbles. George Soros’ reflexivity thesis applies: rising prices attract more investment, which inflates prices further, until reality forces a reset. If many AI-related companies can’t quickly deliver expected growth, the eventual correction could be sharp.

In short: hype begets cash, cash begets price, price begets more hype, and at that point, we’re no longer betting on value, we’re betting on the belief itself.
by gabrielhidasy | 2025-12-05 19:35:55+00:00
That will depend on how you structure your deployments, on some large tech companies, while thousands of changes little are made every hour, and deployments are mande in n-day cycles. A cut-off point in time is made where the first 'green' commit after that is picked for the current deployment, and if that fails in an unexpected way you just deploy the last binary back, fix (and test) whatever broke and either try again or just abandon the release if the next cut is already close-by.
by aw1621107 | 2025-12-05 19:35:59+00:00
> I particularly enjoyed the temporary mutability pattern, very cool and didn't think about it before!

It's not too uncommon in other languages (sometimes under the name "immediately invoked function expression"), though depending on the language you may see lambdas involved. For example, here's one of the examples from the article ported to C++:

auto data = []() { auto data = get_vector(); auto temp = compute_something(); data.insert_range(data.end(), temp); std::ranges::sort(data); return data; }();
by MichaelNolan | 2025-12-05 19:36:11+00:00
I always had the impression that the propellant transfer was the harder question than the heat shield. They have done a transfer demo from one internal tank to another, but they still need to test from one ship to another ship.

I only casually follow the news from r/spacex, but prop transfer is what I see generate the most discussion. It’s a hard requirement for all deep space missions. Where the heat shield could be refurbished between launches.
by bsenftner | 2025-12-05 19:36:34+00:00
Nowhere do I claim that such a "golden past" existed. I am saying that the critical skill of communication to convey information, to gain information, to learn via one-to-one communications is rapidly being lost. It is not respected by education, it is not taught, and it is truly one of humanity's greatest skills: conveying understanding. Which has the side benefit of teaching one one how to identify illogical speech.
by scuff3d | 2025-12-05 19:36:45+00:00
This has been an extremely common tactic for a while. When they can't attack something head on because it's either politically impossible, or because it would actually be illegal, they got at it side ways.

Prior to Roe v Wade getting over turned we saw this all over certain states. They couldn't actually "ban" abortion since it was constitutionally protected, but they could make access nearly impossible. Now it seems like a similar approach is going to be taken with vaccines.
by jodrellblank | 2025-12-05 19:36:50+00:00
> "Microsoft is under stiff competition (they are selling a product, an operating system, that is a commodity competing with free)"

Microsoft's Annual revenue from Azure is $75 billion. Office Server is $40 billion. Office Consumer is $6 billion. LinkedIn is $15Bn. Dynamics is $5Bn. Gaming/XBox is $15Bn. Search/Advertising is $14Bn. Devices at $5Bn. Intelligent Cloud at $87Bn. Windows $21Bn. They are a HUGE company with a lot of multi-billion dollar product streams and a lot of business lockin around basically any company on the planet which isn't a new web app startup.

Oracle sell an RDBMS. Competing with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL and the last 15 years of NoSQL. Oracle is what Amazon Retail made a multi-year move away from ending in 2019, and were very happy about it, popping champagne in their announcement video[1]. Oracle license Java which has seen a mass migration to free OpenJDK and Amazon Corretto and all the other free forks. Oracle make a cloud service that you wouldn't touch unless you had a team of Fortune 100 lawyers pressing enter for you because you know Oracle saleslawyersharks are watching on the other side.

Why does anyone other than the government give them money? What for? Okay yes they're "the best" at something or other for a Fortune 100 with serious needs, nothing else comes close, ... but 4-5x their valuation in the last 5 years??

> "Tesla suffers strong competition. In spite of the above, Musk is currently the top of the Forbes ranking. Amazon is... Actually wildly successful"

Yeah, Tesla is hype-valued and Amazon does a lot of things in a lot of big markets, of course they're valuable. Oracle does some obscure boring IBM style thing that is never hyped and there is never any positive sentiment about it on the tech internet.

[1] https://www.supportrevolution.com/resources/why-amazon-left-...
by boomlinde | 2025-12-05 19:37:08+00:00
> I am talking about the purpose of the law and the way it is written. It's not hard to create a law that only targets the bigger services, just make it apply to entities with a daily user count above N.

Why would they, though, if "no one in charge of implementing this law is going to care whether some Mastodon server implements a special auth solution for Danish users or not"? The EU CSAR proposal (which Denmark seem very much on board with) doesn't make such exceptions, so why should this law?

> A law isn't a headline on Hacker News, it's a carefully written document.

This is a non sequitur, and also pure speculation.
by proberts | 2025-12-05 19:37:51+00:00
If you have been outside the U.S. for 2 years without having obtained a reentry permit, then you could be considered to have abandoned your green card. But all isn't necessarily lost. The ability to keep your green card will depend largely on the reason that you were outside the U.S. for 2 years and likely will require you to apply for a returning resident visa.
by hnlmorg | 2025-12-05 19:38:20+00:00
> That couldn't be more vague.

That’s why I then gave examples ;)

> You have no idea that some parties in Poland, Hungary or Romania would make Donald Trump look left wing.

You’re now talking about nationalist parties.

But yes, I do agree that there are right wing leaning counties in Central Europe as well.

To be honest, it feels like the whole world is heading that way right now.
by ponector | 2025-12-05 19:38:25+00:00
You say people born in other countries do not deserve american pay in America?

It's like saying you are white male and it justifies higher salary.

Also if you struggle to compete with immigrants who usually have no network, English is not their native language, have many other disadvantages - you are doing something wrong or are not competitive in the first place.

The fact is you should not fight against imigration, you should fight for decent payment for it and same rights
by 0manrho | 2025-12-05 19:38:53+00:00
Yes, we've already established your experience is incredibly limited and not indicative of the state of the market. Stop buying bad drives and blaming the industry for your uninformed purchasing decisions.

Hell, as you admitted that your experience is limited to intel, I'd wager at least one of those drives that failed were probably the 660P's, no? Intel was not immune from making trash either, even if they did also make some good stuff (which for their top tier stuff, was technically was mostly Micron's doing).

I've deployed countless thousands of solid state drives - hell well over a thousand all-flash-arrays - that in aggregate probably now exceeds an exabyte of raw capacity since. This is my job. I've deployed individual systems with more SSD's than you've owned in total from the sound of it. And part of why it's hard to kill those old drives is they are literal orders of magnitude slower, meaning it takes literal orders of magnitude more time to write the same amount of data. That doesn't make them good drives, it makes them near-worthless even when they work, especially considering the capacity limitations that come with it.

I'm not claiming bad drives don't exist, they most certainly do, and would consider over 50% of what's available in the consumer market to fit that bill, but I also have vastly higher standards than most, because if I fuck something up, the cost to fix it is often astronomical. Modern SSD's aren't inherently bad, they can be, but not necessarily so. Just like they aren't inherently phenomenal, they can be, but not necessarily so. But they do exist, at a variety of price points and use-cases.

TL;DR Making uninformed purchasing decisions often leads to bad outcomes.
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by minimaxir | 2025-12-05 19:39:11+00:00
Gemini 3 Pro has been playing Pokemon Crystal (which is significantly harder than Red) in a race against Gemini 2.5 Pro: https://www.twitch.tv/gemini_plays_pokemon

Gemini 3 Pro has been making steady progress (12/16 badges) while Gemini 2.5 Pro is stuck (3/16 badges) despite using double the turns and tokens.