MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-10 23:24:56+00:00
I feel like it's going to be a long long time before we get a repeat of something like this. And David did such an incredible job on this. Custom designed frame, designed his own water-block! Wildly great effort here.

We'll see how it goes, but what _is_ happening is ram replacement. Nvidia 5090's with 96GB are somewhat a thing now. $4K. YMMV, caveat emptor. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Newest-RTX-5090-96gb-...
by sublinear | 2025-12-10 23:25:08+00:00
I just tried this out, and the need to double-tap was a total deal breaker making words like "success" a failure.

The other problem with the way this double tapping works is that I encountered missed spaces or other weirdness if I type too quickly. It's as if it's having trouble detecting new keydown events when another key is still down for a split second.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-10 23:25:16+00:00
Oh, I think I know this one. Venezuela crude is really heavy and dirty, but a lot of refineries, including ones in Texas and I imagine Iran, are designed to mix it with some lighter crude to derive a decent gasoline yield. These refineries only work like this however, and have basically become dependent on dirty crude sources like Venezuela. The USA I think is dealing via Alberta tar sands, but maybe they decided to just steal the oil from Venezuela directly (Trump is unhinged like that).
by nuggets | 2025-12-10 23:26:06+00:00
There are other papers showing the same sort of pattern elsewhere. For example, you can see one cited in that paper within the introductory paragraphs.

As the commenter upthread noted, the adult demographic is more weighted towards men who want to be women. Why would childhood referrals have become shifted in the opposite direction, much more towards girls who want to be boys?
by lousken | 2025-12-10 23:26:28+00:00
I still find that dumb that you even need to do that. Machines especially for schools should be able to have software policies set directly on them to limit such sites.

I don't know how much chromeOS is configurable and if you can e.g. force it to only use specific network and network interface, or if a student can connect it to a different network somehow, because it would be kinda pointless otherwise.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-10 23:26:32+00:00
> Russian actions here almost certainly have the full backing of what they (probably rightfully) consider to be the legitimate Donestk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic governments

Bullshit that might have worked if Russia didn't proceed to claim de facto sovereignty over the rest of Ukraine.

It's also precisely the same logic the U.S. is using. Maduro is illegitimate. The legitimate, elected goverment in exile wants Maduro toppled. Herego, this shit.
by resonious | 2025-12-10 23:26:39+00:00
I'll be honest Pulumi is pretty cool but I'm a little worried by how high on the stack it is. I wonder if the same thing won't happen to them that's happening to CDKTF here.

Terraform is ugly but it works well enough for me and seems ingrained enough to be durable to this kind of thing (i.e. I bet for sure the community would pick it up (I wish I could say that I'm part of that community but I can't say I use it quite that often))
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-12-10 23:26:49+00:00
I feel you on not wanting to tie anything additional to your Google account. Will I somehow do something “naughty” (say spam an emoji during a livestream) that gets me permanently banned for life from all services?

Google really needs to evaluate separating service bans. I cannot be the only one who would rather go to a competitor than risk angering the black box and destroying my digital life.
by stephen_g | 2025-12-10 23:26:57+00:00
> If you knock the percentage down far enough, you break the network effect to the point where those who don't want to don't feel pressured to.

I've seen this argument a lot, and I don't think it really matches reality - I very much expect that the problem users of social media who are teens will tend to be the ones that will want to get around the ban (and will easily be able to).

Kids who just have an account because they are "pressured" to probably aren't actually really using it much or problematically?

And the other problem is that everyone knows it's a silly law so I don't think there will be any less pressure to have accounts because enough kids will be evading it. The ban will only motivate many kids (if you know much about how teenagers think)
by asdff | 2025-12-10 23:27:17+00:00
Imagine getting the opportunity to sell microsoft office to the entire world again how much money is on the table. It doesn't even matter if it works. If you can get the mindless corporate buyers to purchase it along with all the other useless redundant junk they also purchase you are making money hand over fist.

Fusion power on the other hand has to work as it doesn't make money until it does. You can't sell futures to people on a fusion technology today that you haven't yet built.
by acmj | 2025-12-10 23:27:21+00:00
Going from something like "Go lacks a builtin arena allocation" to "Go risks becoming the COBOL" is a long stretch. First, Go is slower than C/C++/rust without complex memory allocation. Introducing an arena allocator won't fix that. Second, arena allocation often doesn't work for a lot of allocation patterns. Third, plain arena allocator is easy to implement when needed. Surely a builtin one would be better but Go won't fall without it.
by DangitBobby | 2025-12-10 23:28:30+00:00
Yeah I'm sure that felt good to say but it's fucking bullshit. I'm not a software dev because it's my calling, I'm a software dev because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't make any money doing anything else. I only briefly considered teaching as a profession (knowing I'd be functionally poor as a result) despite being quite sure I'd enjoy it (I tutored and instructed all through high school and college) because the desire to make money combined with the current state of schools ultimately won out. Other people who are more passionate about teaching and/or don't have the same skills as me would have gone the other way.

There will always be fucking teachers, pilots, etc, because people WANT to be those things, and it's gonna take more than "nuh uh, Fox News" to dislodge that belief.

That said, I didn't say it isn't a public policy choice, I'm saying the "passion factor" is the reason they are ABLE to offer these jobs at low wages.
by shmerl | 2025-12-10 23:29:00+00:00
I'd assume if they aren't part of HDMI cartel as the above post suggests, they are paying patent fees for this garbage.

And they are in a good position to unblock this situation by increasing adoption of patent free alternatives, therefore I don't see why they wouldn't have an incentive to avoid paying.

So I'd rather see them as somehow complicit then, instead of having no incentive in this case.
by pembrook | 2025-12-10 23:29:17+00:00
But what if we didn't collectively spend $billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of hours battling with money, lobbyists, lawyers, judges and political campaigns over what is largely a moral panic?

What could humanity do instead with all that time and resources?

I know the US is a nation built by lawyers, for lawyers, but this is both its best strength and worst weakness. Sometimes it's in everyones best interest to accept the additional risks individually as opposed to bubble wrapping everything in legislation and expanding the scope of the corrupt lawyer-industrial complex.

Maybe the lawyers could use the extra time fixing something actually important like healthcare or education instead.
by squigz | 2025-12-10 23:29:19+00:00
I'm speaking of violence from other people, yes.

> but comes with the tradeoff of disinformation and societal manipulation we’re currently dealing with.

I'd rather solve those issues in ways that don't eliminate anonymity and privacy on the Internet. Furthermore, as I noted in a previous comment, any such system must be immune to being circumvented by those actors doing those things. Otherwise, they will quickly adapt and we go back to business as usual but with less privacy.
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-12-10 23:29:19+00:00
The value of semver has always been a lie. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426532

Making you distrust updates is absolutely the correct versioning method. Pin your versions in software you care about and establish a maintenance schedule. Trusting that people don't break things unintentionally all the time is extremely naive.

It was dumb and user-hostile to remove an interface for no good reason that just makes it more work for people to update, but everyone not pinning versions needs to acknowledge that they're choosing to live dangerously.
by rlpb | 2025-12-10 23:29:38+00:00
There's no reason to hold the parents culpable. It would be up to the device manufacturer to ensure that this isn't possible on a system that has parental controls enabled. This is already a solved problem - see how MDM solutions do it, and see Apple's ban on alternative browsers.

It's not even necessary to block parents from giving their children Linux desktops or whatever. It'll largely solve the problem if parents are merely expected to enable parental controls on devices that have the capability.
by ThatPlayer | 2025-12-10 23:29:58+00:00
On my computer, I cannot drive my 1440p240hz OLED display with HDR. HDR takes the requirement from 25 Gigabit to 30 Gigabits, just over DP1.4's capabilities: https://linustechtips.com/topic/729232-guide-to-display-cabl...

Like you say, not that much difference, but enough to make DP1.4 not an option
by tigroferoce | 2025-12-10 23:30:37+00:00
> The data on social media harms is mixed at best. We know for a fact fast food, cosmetic ads for girls, are strictly more harmful.

True, but let me remind you that we didn't have conclusive data on smoke harm until the 50s, but this doesn't mean that smoking was not harmful before, nor that we were lacking any clue before coming to a conclusive study.

At the moment we don't have any conclusive study about e-cigarettes, but I'm sure you would never give kids e-cigarettes just because we don't have 30/40 years worth of data.

> This is nothing more than speech control under the guise of "won't someone please think of the children"

This is a bit more complex than this. Kids and adolescents online are targeted with all sort of techniques to leverage their attention in order to make money. I understand the speech control worry, and I agree up to a certain point, but I don't see how ignoring the problem makes it any better. What are the alternatives we have? I'm genuinely asking, not advocating for TINA. I have two kids and I see the effects of social media on them and on their friends.

Keep in mind that this cannot be offloaded to families, for multiple reasons: - many family just don't have enough data or knowledge to make informed decisions - until the network effect is in place, banning your kid from social media while all of their friend are online can be impractical and cruel - parent decisions can affect kids health and overall society outcome; allowing a wrong decision by the parents (because the society doesn't want to handle the problem) would be unfair for the kids and no wise for the society.

As in many aspects of life the best solution is neither white nor black, but a shade of grey, and is far from being perfect. Looking for a perfect solution is a waste of time, resources and unfair for those that are affected in the meanwhile.

I understand the concerns, and probably Australia approach is not the best, but it's also the first. We probably will need a period of adjustments to reach a sound solution.
by credit_guy | 2025-12-10 23:30:39+00:00
It was spelled out in the recently published National Security Strategy [1]:

> We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States; we want a Hemisphere whose governments cooperate with us against narco-terrorists, cartels, and other transnational criminal organizations; we want a Hemisphere that remains free of hostile foreign incursion or ownership of key assets, and that supports critical supply chains; and we want to ensure our continued access to key strategic locations. In other words, we will assert and enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-N...
by jairofloress | 2025-12-10 23:30:42+00:00
I'm trying to build a extremely simple exercise timer app for multiple platforms, and using Gemini and Junie, I Evaluated Rust+Tauri, Cpp+GT, SWIFT+SWIFTUI, Kotlin+MP, and Dart/Flutter, even though I started hating flutter, when started working with Jetpack Compose for KMP, I have to recognize that flutter is the best option for MP. Maturity, Ecosystem, UI+Backend in a single codebase, etc.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-12-10 23:30:48+00:00
China wants oil. Wants to pay in Chinese Yuan.

Venezuela has oil. Wants to sell them in Chinese Yuan, because America bad.

America ensures the world's waters stay safe for commerce as long as all countries continue to do business in dollars.

When they don't, America is forced to remind them.

China in the meantime continues to diversify away from oil and doesn't mind taking risks that could cut supply. Venezuela's leadership has, for reasons well understood, fewer options.

America's number one export, as is every global empire's number one export is its currency. It's a gift and a curse.

Saddam's days were numbered when he began selling oil in Euros.

Gaddafi's days were numbered when he tried to sell oil in "gold dinars".
by steve_taylor | 2025-12-10 23:31:40+00:00
Digital ID is optional by default. Service providers that integrate with the Digital ID can apply for an exemption to make it mandatory. Given the mandatory nature of age verification checks for social media, the fact that social media is typically free to use and ad-supported and the cost of age verification would be prohibitive for smaller apps without significant VC backing, an argument for exemption could be made on the basis that their legal obligation can't otherwise be fulfilled without a prohibitive upfront cost.
by overfeed | 2025-12-10 23:31:46+00:00
> I am the AI-hater's nightmare...

I-know-what-kind-of-man-you-are.jpeg

You come off as a zealot by branding people who disagree as "haters".

Edit: AI excels at following examples, or simple, testable tasks that require persistence, which is intern-level work. Doing this narrow band of work quickly doesn't result in 10x productivity.

I'm yet to find a single person who has shown evidence to go through 10x more tasks in a sprint[1], or match the output of the rest of their 6-10-member team by themselves.

1. Even for junior level work
Ask HN: Why do people trust ChatGPT with their money but not transparent algos?
by mattglossop | 2025-12-10 23:31:59+00:00
I'm building a holistic financial guidance platform and getting mixed signals about how people actually want to interact with AI.

We decided not to use AI to build the custom investment portfolios. We use deterministic algorithms because we need control and predictability. A hallucination in a portfolio allocation is a non-starter for us.

The app shows users our underlying estimates and gives context for the math. We only use GenAI to generate the text explaining why the portfolio fits them.

Here is the weird part.

We're seeing a trust gap. Users find the transparent, logic-based advice interesting, but they hesitate to act. Yet these same users tell us they often ask ChatGPT for financial advice, even while admitting they know they should be skeptical of it.

It feels like people prefer a confident "black box" over a transparent "glass box" that shows its work.

We've tried bridging this by keeping it non-custodial (we don't touch the money) and sticking to blue-chip ETFs, but I'm trying to figure out the psychological block here.

Separately, we're building an agentic system to analyze user accounts and suggest specific financial planning actions like tax loss harvesting, but I'm hesitant to lean too hard into the AI label if it scares people.

My question for this crowd: Are you fine with AI running your money if the UX is good? Or do you genuinely prefer a traditional, transparent algorithmic approach? What would actually get you to pull the trigger on a trade?

(Platform is https://www.FulfilledWealth.co if you want to check the approach)
by immibis | 2025-12-10 23:32:22+00:00
All that a state does is convince people. States don't really exist. They're fictional constructs that sometimes convince a police officer to break into a murderer's home and kidnap him. And most of us agree that's a good thing. However sometimes they convince a police officer to break into a protestor's home and kidnap him. And some of us agree that's a bad thing. Other times they convince bomb makers to make bombs and convince aircraft mechanics to attach them to airplanes and convince pilots to fly over hospitals and press the release button. That's bad too - sadly not everyone agrees on that.
by bigiain | 2025-12-10 23:32:57+00:00
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by observationist | 2025-12-10 23:33:21+00:00
Yes, and we should say "no more making money from stupid things like secret technical standards"

Copyright and patent protection is afforded under the principle that said protections grant concurrent value to the people as is granted to the holder of the rights. Stuff like HDMI specs gatekeeping simply allows a select group of people to exploit licensing and seek rent. It doesn't provide any benefit to the people of the US whatsoever, and the fundamental principle by which the rights were granted is violated.

Copyright and patent protection is intended to incentivize and reward creativity, not to allow conglomerates of IP hoarders and patent trolls to exploit legal gotchas, to allow endless rent seeking, or empower megacorps to mass file endless vague patents so as to provide endless legal challenges to small competitors.

Copyright and patent law as currently implemented and practiced are fundamentally broken and far diverged from any principled, meaningful benefit to the people.

There are what, 2 publishers now? Five nines of commercially viable patents go to megacorps and universities? Seven nines of all music and media belong to conglomerates of one sort or another? Something like that.

I understand the intent of the original implementations of copyright, and maybe the laws even made sense for a few years, but either they were corrupt from the start, or they were so badly written that they never had a shot at achieving any sort of meaningful ROI for the price paid by the public.
Ask HN: Why do people trust ChatGPT with their money but not transparent algos?
by mattglossop | 2025-12-10 23:33:22+00:00
I'm building a holistic financial guidance platform and getting mixed signals about how people actually want to interact with AI.

We decided not to use AI to build the custom investment portfolios. We use deterministic algorithms because we need control and predictability. A hallucination in a portfolio allocation is a non-starter for us.

The app shows users our underlying estimates and gives context for the math. We only use GenAI to generate the text explaining why the portfolio fits them.

Here is the weird part.

We're seeing a trust gap. Users find the transparent, logic-based advice interesting, but they hesitate to act. Yet these same users tell us they often ask ChatGPT for financial advice, even while admitting they know they should be skeptical of it.

It feels like people prefer a confident "black box" over a transparent "glass box" that shows its work.

We've tried bridging this by keeping it non-custodial (we don't touch the money) and sticking to blue-chip ETFs, but I'm trying to figure out the psychological block here.

Separately, we're building an agentic system to analyze user accounts and suggest specific financial planning actions like tax loss harvesting, but I'm hesitant to lean too hard into the AI label if it scares people.

My question for this crowd: Are you fine with AI running your money if the UX is good? Or do you genuinely prefer a traditional, transparent algorithmic approach? What would actually get you to pull the trigger on a trade?

(Platform is https://www.FulfilledWealth.co if you want to check the approach)
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-10 23:34:12+00:00
While seizing oil supplies and using them to corruptly reward cronies of Trump’s is probably part of it, a bigger part of it is just to have a war, both to provide a legal and propaganda cover for domestic repression (a war with Venezuela —due to a completely fictitious invasion by Venezuela—is already part of the pretext for that since Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act on that basis in March) and to provide an electoral rally-around-the-flag effect.
by mtdewcmu | 2025-12-10 23:34:35+00:00
I started learning Common Lisp, but ASDF and Quicklisp threw me off. I couldn't tell if you were supposed to choose one or the other or they were used together. This might revive my interest in Common Lisp if I get around to reading it. But in the meantime I drifted off to Racket, which is relatively well documented and has extensive libraries and really unique features.
by lovich | 2025-12-10 23:34:49+00:00
> I'd rather solve those issues in ways that don't eliminate anonymity and privacy on the Internet.

Then we will have to disagree. I think the anonymity is the source of the problem and there is no workaround for it. I would prefer this problem solved instead of waiting around for someone to possibly figure out an alternative while we suffer under the weight of all discourse being flooded by disinformation so that no one can agree on reality.

If your ideology leads to its own destruction than it’s a failed set of values, and that’s what I believe is happening to people who value free speech without divorcing that from anonymous speech
by johnfn | 2025-12-10 23:34:57+00:00
Did you see the comment that I was responding to? It said "your intuition is a liar" and said they would only believe me if I was compensated 10x a normal engineer. If that's not the comment of a hater, I'm not sure what qualifies.

> I'm yet to find a single person who has shown evidence to go through 10x more tasks in a sprint[1], or match the output of the rest of their 6-10-member team by themselves.

If my website, a real website with real users, doesn't qualify, then I'm not sure what would. A single person with evidence is right in front of you, but you seem to be denying the evidence of your own eyes.